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The next Harry Potter book

4 Comments / Harry Potter /

If you want to know the title of the next Harry Potter book, go to Rowling’s site – click eraser on her desk

1. Click doorway in mirror to see Christmas tree.

2. Click on the top half of the door to get the wreath.

3. Click on the top of the mirror to get the garland.

4. Click on the spider web right next to the door to make them go away.

5. Click the 4th chime in the window and get the key for the door.

6. Drag key to unlock the door.

7. Door opens to show a desk with a package.

8. Click the bow on the package and it will open.

9. Click the inside of the package and a game of Hangman is shown where you can play a game to guess the name of the seventh book.

10. You can keep playing till you get it right and when you do a check mark will appear.


Interesting and fun.


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No Reservations Required

2006, Books in Bed, Mystery /

I was right, I do like the Sophie Greenway mysteries better than the Jane Lawless mysteries. I like Sophie better than Jane, which is too darn bad. Jane is so darn wishy washy compared to Sophie.

No Reservations Required is a culinary mystery in more than just name only and that’s what I like about Ellen Hart – her mysteries are never just one mystery, there’s always a secondary mystery to solve along with the main crime. They’re rarely complicated but they’re always interesting and amusing. And for you gay folk who would stick with Jane just for some GLBT principles, Sophie’s son is gay and many of the characters are gay and Jane’s father occasionally makes an appearance as a lawyer for some troubled soul. So don’t feel bad if you switch allegiance to Sophie.

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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction /

I finally read The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. I was beginning to think I was never going to get to read it. Thank goodness I made the time, it was terrific. Sad and frustrating, but really good.

I think the only troubling bit was the timing seemed a little too convenient in places. Death and accidents – the timing, just too nifty and nicely managed in order to create the proper ending. Other than that, I have no complaints at all. Good characters, nice solid plot, not too rambling and not too short. Just about perfect.

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Black Swan Green

1 Comment / 2006, Books in Bed, Fiction /

Goodness it took me a long time to finish Black Swan Green and it really shouldn’t have. I liked it. Jason Taylor and his family, his friends and his enemies – all good characters. A British book set during the Falklands and no Thatcher-bashing (except for a brief bit by the gypsies) – my kind of book. No idea why it took so long to read – maybe it was just the whole 12 days of Christmas thing got in the way of my reading?

I never read Cloud Atlas last year when everyone else did. Black Swan Green makes me think maybe I should grab it from the library and give it a go.

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Tanglewreck

2006, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Favorites, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy /

Who knew Jeanette Winterson could write such a great young adult fantasy book, and it’s not gay at all! There’s not even any gender confusion. Weird, eh?

Tanglewreck is the story of the Timekeeper. The Timekeeper is important because time is totally screwed up. We never have enough of it, time is always flying, stuff like that. I mean it’s REALLY flying and we REALLY don’t have enough. That’s the problem and the Timekeeper is the solution.

Really a good book, your fantasy loving kids will enjoy it.

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The Iron Girl

2006, Books in Bed, Fiction, GLBT, Mystery /

I guess it isn’t all Jane Lawless, after all. I didn’t love The Iron Girl but I sure liked it more than Stage Fright. How many women has Jane Lawless been through? She has bedded more women than, errrr, well a lot of women.

I think I like the Sophie Greenway mysteries better than the Jane Lawless mysteries – which is too bad since Sophie isn’t a dyke and it’s odd too because all of the food is just not “me”. But there you have it, I’m a contradiction.

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A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

2 Comments / 2006, Books in Bed, Young Adult /

Well I guess A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl, maybe. If you learn your lesson and don’t keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. Tough lessons to learn and it drives me insane to think that girls (and young women and old women) keep having these same types of issues with men. You’d think, by now, the female species would have evolved and created some better defense mechanisms or something. But no, we keep letting boys (and men) do these things.

It’s the patriarchy.

Nice book, the notes inside of “Forever” were a really nice touch. And as sassymonkey says, if it hasn’t been challenged yet, it’s only a matter of time. So if you like banned/challenged books, beat the rush and read this one now.

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