And second, how brilliant is it to watch two Irish leads kick ass in an English program. That's my little bit of patriotism jumping for joy at every M/M scene.
The thing that struck me most about this episode was how conflicted I was about how I wanted it to end. The larger-than-life forboding made me want the little kid (with big freaky blue eyes none-the-less) to be locked up in jail or just disappear and leave my dhaoine bochta to have little adventures and save the day in time for the wide-shot of Camlot at night and all being well. But oh no that little kid forboded (is that even a word) the entire time. And I wanted to save him cause he was really cute and afraid, but I didn't want Merlin to save him cos Arthur will die! (cue gasp).
Another thing that struck me: Morgana's vision - where was it and what did she see? Leaving that aside, her magic is getting stronger, yay! She's now having premonitions and that telepathy is coming on. And that bond between her and Merlin is getting greater. I know he just ran to her room cos it was the closest but he also knew he could trust her to keep the child safe.
Someone somewhere mentioned that maybe Morgana was being manipulated by Mordred. I'm not so sure. I think it was the fact that a little magic child was being hunted down and her recent discovery that maybe she is magic herself contributed to that bond. Also I don't think she has had to take care of anything in her life before and it made her feel useful. As Arthur says, brushing her hair all day, she feels like she doesn't contribute.
How amazing was Uther in this episode. I hope nothing happens to him for a long while yet because I love the boo!hiss! villain/misunderstood/magic-fearing king that he is. And he does scary!angry very well. I was terrified when he grabbed Morgana by the throat. I do think that his magic fear blinds him so the attachment that he does have for her will be in peril if anything magic related happens again.
The part of me that ships Arthur/Morgana jumped for joy when Morgana said 'if you can't save the boy for his sake, do it for mine, or something to that shippy effect. And he smiled too, which makes me think he really does care for her (hopefully sometime in a romantic way because that would be fantastic). Arthur really needs the influence of people like Morgana so he doesn't become as blinded by fear as his father.
I was both screaming at Merlin to stay where he was and screaming at him to move and save Mordred and Arthur. I didn't want Arthur to be caught and in trouble with his father, but I also didn't want him to save the boy who will grow up and kill him. How conflicted was Merlin about that? And I thought it was fantastic acting by Colin Morgan to convey how difficult it would be to choose to let someone die just because the dragon said so.
I can't wait for next week! Dead knight!
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This was a really gripping thriller. Set in 1964, it is based on the premise that Hitler never lost the war and in this alternate universe Nazi Germany is apparently as alive and well as it ever was. Great book with great twists.
#8 Wicked
I started this book thinking it was going to be similar to the musical based on it. How wrong I was. The time leaps, the random plots scattered across this 500 page novel, meant that while in parts it was a page turner, other times I was perplexed. It reads like a book that was well planned at the beginning and then the author realised that he didn't have enough time to give equal attention to the rest of Elphaba's life and skipped all the boring bits, leaving us with a 'best of'. I have to admit it wasn't my cup of tea.
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ETA: Their IT dept has kicked in finally and sorted the problem. But I couldn't apply for my optional modules. Do I have to? Is this a big issue? ... Hope not.
#2 ETA: And my email's not working either. What have I gotten myself into?
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"Anthony Lynch the Cork corner back will be the last person to let you down - his people are undertakers"
"... and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, i'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times' Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand and I said 'I suppose ye wouldn't have the Kerryman would ye?' To which, the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me and he said 'do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?'... he had both...so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet..."
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This is friends-locked because I don't want the wrong people getting their hands on it and using it against anyone.
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- borrowed from andreat1981
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ
1 . Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible –
7.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy –
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia –
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding –
69.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flauberti
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton .
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Wow I got swept up in the 'I love Amy Adams' madness again. She is so different from Giselle it is unreal. And it made me remember how fantastic an actress she is. I ♥ her! Basically she's an actress with 3 guys on the go and Miss Pettigrew is her new 'social secretary' - much to both of their surprise. ^^ And it basically kicks ass - until the end when the sugary sweetness of the ending was a bit too much. Call me world-weary and cynical but up til the end, they had a really great film going. Singing scene=best scene ever!
Followed up by a great evening of hooting at pigeons and watching art exhibits. :)
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The Other Boleyn Girl - This historical fiction is Mary Boleyn's account of the most personally interesting period in English history. I couldn't put this book down and spent many a 2am wishing I could stop time. I do think that it being told by Mary made it seem a bit too convenient when she just happened on every major event of the period. A bit too convenient, but once you just accept that, this book flows. Mary is the sympathetic heroine but I think some of the people in the book are a bit caricatured, Anne Boleyn is a right evil wagon in this.
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Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
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In a thinly veiled attempt to make Eriu smile, I present this:
Robin Hood's answer to its insane, slash-loving, OTP bashing fandom. Oh how I love you!
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The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
1984 - George Orwell
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The hardest part of my challenge is going to be August because I'm slipping into that lethargic, sleepy state that plagues every summer holidays. Willpower just plummets, lol. But I will try to persevere. *sings some inspiring songs*
#3 The Ghost
This book was recommended to me by mam because it was a 'really good read'. Well it was. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but a page turner none the less. I nearly gave up on it because the ghostwriter was a bit too eager to comment on anything and everything with his 'wit'. *eyeroll* But once you get past that, and try to enjoy it, it really flows. There're no car chases or shoot outs, which I was expecting as things started to kick off, but the twist at the end was so spectacular as to forgive everything. Definitely a good, light read.
#4 The Bookseller of Kabul
I have heard some criticism of this book before, because the author was recounting tales from a language she couldn't understand. If you just forget all the kerfuffle like that, and sit down with it, it is a fascinating portrayal of life in a family at war with itself and its surroundings. The author clearly identified best with the women in the Khan family and she spends a lot of the book on them and seems to demonise Sultan Khan, the patriarch, at times. A real eye opener to a middle class Afghan family.
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Plus it's run by Irish ex-google employees. Got to do my bit for the boys in green. ;)
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A lot is made about China and its civil and human rights issues, but I do not think that that represents the majority of the people and the true beauty of the language and culture. I am all for freedom or autonomy for Tibet and I do not think that attempting to learn a few Mandarin phrases compromises that at all.
I will be home in a few days and able to access iTunes and will probably learn only aural Chinese rather than the complicated writing style and obviously because it is very lax approach, I have no expectations of becoming fluent, but it should be fun.
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I knew this would be a tough customer judging by the amount of times I have tried and failed to read it. I was really interested until about page 80 or so, when I lost all interest and it took starting this challenge to get me to finish. Once I did that I flew through it. I understand completely why they left Tom Bombadil out of the films. Never before have I wanted to skip pages so much. The rest of it was really good and I'd recommend it to anyone. It becomes a real page turner after Weathertop. Having already seen the films, it was interesting to see what was left out and what was changed. I'd side with the book any day. A worthwhile read as long as you can persevere.
#2 A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
A really interesting book recommended to me by my dad. It alternates always between poignant descriptions of the family's struggle before Peace baby and her attempts to come to terms with that, and also some ludicrous and funny stories. I loved this book apart from the end, where I think it ended a bit to conveniently happy. It was written mostly in the first person of Nadia, the Peace baby born to Ukrainian parents. The clues given throughout the novel to the family history opened up by her father's recent marriage are never too much and always leave you wanting more. I was surprised to find I enjoyed this and I couldn't put it down.
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