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Post by Scrubb on Aug 31, 2012 17:20:07 GMT 2
Hmph - why do they call it "self-cleaning" if you have to tell it to do it??
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Post by lumi on Aug 31, 2012 18:19:09 GMT 2
50 Shades Darker, after having read the 1st one. Sad I know but fun, Mrs H reading too so there are 2 bookmarks as we tend to read at different times. But I have another book on the go too. Funny that you two both have your bookmarks in there at the same time! Who's enjoying the book the most?! And is anyone else annoyed by the use of the word 'sex' to refer to her privates? Every time I read it I think how there are a thousand other words that could have been used and they chose that one! And I've not heard it used in such a way before.
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Post by crazyrabbit on Aug 31, 2012 20:30:30 GMT 2
Hmph - why do they call it "self-cleaning" if you have to tell it to do it?? I do ponder. I always thought they were supposed to clean as they go but nope. There's a button but I'm scared to just push it.
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 31, 2012 22:01:36 GMT 2
They should be voice-reactant. THen you'd just have to say: "Oven, self-clean yourself".
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Post by crazyrabbit on Aug 31, 2012 22:02:34 GMT 2
Like an iOven.
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Post by trentt on Sept 1, 2012 0:37:44 GMT 2
Except then you'd be buying a newer version every 8 months. Only people like Mitt Romney can afford that ... "Ann and I don't really know how many iOvens we have."
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Post by lumi on Sept 1, 2012 8:16:34 GMT 2
Just google to figure out how to use that button, rabbit. The internet is a wealth of free information and your stove will sparkle in no time!
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 1, 2012 9:10:21 GMT 2
We had a cooker with a self-cleaning oven a few years back. As instructed we took out the racks, closed the door and pressed the button. It used a lot of electricity to heat up to 500C and stay there for some time. I don't remember whether the oven got really clean but I do remember the very high temperature fused the light inside the oven.
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Post by crazyrabbit on Sept 1, 2012 21:14:12 GMT 2
Just google to figure out how to use that button, rabbit. The internet is a wealth of free information and your stove will sparkle in no time! But that would take work and also mean I would have to do something about the oven. I think I'll keep lamenting the missing manual. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by lumi on Sept 2, 2012 15:07:29 GMT 2
I bought a new book while I was out today - Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea. It's a novel written by a Saudi woman about the hidden lives of the young upper class and how it often conflicts with cultural tradition. I haven't read enough to make a fair judgement yet. I've really been enjoying alot of books this year which are true accounts of life in the Middle East, particularly Saudi. I saw a few other books that looked interesting as well but decided not to buy them until I finish at least another one that I have sitting on the shelf waiting for me
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Post by Tilly Star on Sept 14, 2012 8:29:40 GMT 2
I'm listening to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, it's certainly moved me pretty quick from a 'wishy washy' agnostic to an atheist.
Most importantly I am really enjoying listening to it. I used to read a few books a week and recently it takes me a few months to read a book and this was making me miserable. Rediscovering audiobooks is great as I can listen as I do stuff and as I get fro A to B. excellent.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 14, 2012 11:46:00 GMT 2
ah, I have relatively recently discovered the delight of podcasts... gives me the illusion of studying whilst procrastinating or doing the washing up.
I know I'll be able to read again when I get back to civilised life.
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Post by Big Iain on Sept 14, 2012 13:41:20 GMT 2
Just started the latest Ian Rankin novel this morning, it is called The Impossible Dead. Seems good so far. Also on the go I have "How I Won The Yellow Jumper" by sports journalist Ned Boulting and Hells Corner by Baldacci. I'm not quite sure when I started this fad for having a couple of books going at one time.
On my phone I am still getting through the autobiography of Slash, the guitar maestro. The phone is great for impromptu reading opportunities and lunch breaks.
On iPad I am getting to grips with Game of Thrones, the first novel in that series.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 14, 2012 14:26:18 GMT 2
Iain, I got through that series (A Song of Ice and Fire) until book 4, A Feast for Crows, and then dropped it. I wasn't prepared to put as much time into it as was needed especially when 'nothing happens' seems to be the general complaint of book 4. In the Amazon US reviews, this book (not the one you are reading), there are as many people give it three stars or less as give it a reasonable rating. I agree with the one and two star reviews.
All I'm saying is I felt somewhat cheated after reading thousands of pages comprising the previous books that the author seemed to be just waffling about, losing the thread (or what thread I could follow) and then knowing I'd still got another three books after the fourth one to go. That's if the author decided to end it there, it appears he likes to just keep the story going on and on with no end or resolution - quote from the Wiki article - "Martin gradually extended the originally planned trilogy into four, six and eventually seven volumes."
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Post by Voy on Sept 14, 2012 14:58:20 GMT 2
Just finished Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential - very funny and I will never eat fish in a restaurant on Monday or Tuesday again! ( unless it's in Maine and a fish rest.)
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Post by Tilly Star on Sept 14, 2012 15:20:38 GMT 2
Funny, After writing about Audiobooks I saw the 2nd book if Game of Thrones winking at me in the station and bought it. I've not read the first but was desperate to know what happened after the first series. I instantly regretted that I might not know what's going on as havent read first book, but two 30 min train journeys later I am well sucked in.
I felt like Mark did about GoT by the end of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and had to drag myself to the end.
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 14, 2012 20:14:34 GMT 2
Mark, I really agree with you on GoT - I did read all of them, but the 4th one just annoyed and bored me, and it bugs me that after thousands and thousands of pages, everyone is still saying "Winter is coming"... Bleah. Doubt I'll bother to read the next one when it comes out.
I'm reading The Jewel in the Crown right now, the first book of the Raj quartet. I wasn't sure when I started it if I was going to like it - it felt very dated in style - but I'm really loving it now. Especially appropriate since I'm going to India this fall.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 14, 2012 20:29:03 GMT 2
I'm glad it's not just me then scrubb.
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Post by rikita on Sept 14, 2012 22:09:50 GMT 2
done with the baby book i was reading, just reading my monthly newspaper for now... when i finished that i will decide what to read next...
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Post by Voy on Sept 14, 2012 23:35:28 GMT 2
just got a book from the library loan - about a guy who spent a year doing various kinds of re-enacting -- and during the Rev War phase he was with buddies of mine. can't wait to dive in after dinner!
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Post by lumi on Sept 15, 2012 13:16:03 GMT 2
I just discovered that I have one of the Harry Potter books in German as an audio book when my itunes was playing randomly. I've never been interested in reading those books but I'm quite excited to listen to it now as the German should be at an easy level for me and will be good practice!
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 18, 2012 19:59:46 GMT 2
I'm reading a collection of letters between Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, who was involved in publishing in the US. I've read Julia's memoirs ("My Life in France") and also the book Julie/Julia, and I really like her. Her voice in the letters is great, and she talks about cooking and how to make some dishes, and I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 18, 2012 22:50:55 GMT 2
Someone sent me 3 Romanian crime novels (in English). Seriously weird. I have started on Anatomical Clues by Oana Stoic-Mujea. It has a lot of footnotes so I am being educated as I go about life there. I am not sure I'll ever understand the book. The female detective has agoraphobia so she never leaves her apartment. The main male character is a real life publisher and author, in fact has published some of Oana's fiction. The murder victim is a fictional creation of the real life publisher and novelist.
Are you keeping up? I'm not. But the author has 130,000 mentions on Google.
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Post by rikita on Sept 19, 2012 7:54:04 GMT 2
in my experience, a lot of romanian novels are a bit weird and cryptic...
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 19, 2012 9:01:21 GMT 2
A footnote informs me that "watching the gas cylinder" is a colloquial expression in Romania that means being aware of what is going on round you. Weird book.
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Post by sunshine on Sept 19, 2012 18:27:43 GMT 2
started the book "Homs". A french journalist who went in to that city at the begin of this year, sort of a diary written stil. It's definitely not a funny book.
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Post by wikki on Sept 19, 2012 20:42:56 GMT 2
I am reading Henning Mankell "the dirty Angel" - if this is the title in english. I like his books about Africa.
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Post by lumi on Sept 20, 2012 13:57:15 GMT 2
I am still on the 2 books that I mentioned earlier as I don't seem to have time to read these days. I can't wait until I can post about a new book that I've started.
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Post by pepecura on Sept 20, 2012 14:23:14 GMT 2
Wilhelm Reich - The Function of The Orgasm.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 20, 2012 17:06:55 GMT 2
I haven't got anything to read right now. How sad.
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