Posts by Ngaire BookieMonster
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I definitely want "Anyone Can Be Cool... But Awesome Takes Practice".
Oh, and "Fart Proudly"! -
Oh The Graveyard Book is such a great read! And totally agree - would be a very easy recommendation to make to a young person. I was really disappointed I couldn't get to Wellington to see Neil Gaiman - just bad timing.
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No, that wasn't me. :) That's the Snow White and Rose Red story, isn't it?
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I've finally got around to reading The Gathering by Anne Enright.
I'm finding it a strange combination of sentences that are so lyrically amazing they make me go "ZOMG that's beautiful and haunting and my life is changed" and sentences that are so pompously overblown they make me go "ZOMG teh many large words they hurtz mah brain". Many of the second kind have involved ...um... peenage. Peenage and pompous don't go together.
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Speaking of Harris, you know they retire jersey numbers of great players? Can we do the same thing with surnames? Because this is just bloody confusing.
Haha, agreed, at one point they said something about "Harris coming on to bowl" and I had a split second moment of "Jesus, will that man ever give up?" before I realised they were talking about Australian Harris.
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Incidentally, I got a bit annoyed (enough to tweet it) at Ian Smith calling Bond an 'unlikely hero'. Aside from the, you know, bowling he has done that with the bat before.
Agreed, he was talking like he's a total bunny with the bat, which he isn't. Bond's no Martin, for goodness sakes.
careful, I'll fight you for him.
Plenty of Bond to go around, I'm sure. :D
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I'm with Megan, I loved last night's game too. Bond hitting two boundaries at the end just meant poor Mr Monster has to put up with me fawning over him even more.
I've disliked Johnson since watching him throwing down bouncers at the West Indian tail enders in one of the tests before Christmas. So it was nice to see him make a prat of himself and fire Styris up even more.
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On the young adult note the other YA novel I read recently was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - so good, not quite as scary as Coraline but a lot of the same thrills.
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Had to tell people to leave me alone for a few hours so I could finish it.
Haha, I almost did that too. Was definitely a "can't stop till finished" book for me.
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But leaves out that the original has numerous errors, and displays sub-standard achievement in numeracy and literacy.
That's unpossible.