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A little while ago I read this book called Living Dolls by Natasha Walter, which was sent to me by Virago for me to review as part of their first look review deal. How it works is this: they send me a free book and I review it and because I review it they send me another free book to review and so on. And I get my review posted on their forum and their blog and website. Virago is a publishing house I very much admire so I’m happy to do it, and the free books are good too.

Anywho, ...

If you are still alive
Alone, burdened with debts
Then come here my friend
Away from your Great Britain
Away from love affairs and women
(You had been wasting too much time on these)
Come over to the East
(The east that is much farther than Greece
And the east that Alexander dreamed of but failed to conquer
And the east that made Tamer turning over in his grave
I am willing to be your sacred Augusta
(Pure, chaste and ...

Generally speaking I am not given to be a curmendingly sort (about some things) I can tend to have a pretty laissez-faire, libertine attitude so even though all forms of fireworks and firecrackers are illegal in the area where I live, if people want to do it on the 4th of July I don't really have a problem with it, I say do your thing have fun knock yourself out (and if you do so literally well than your a moron and its no skin off my back).

But the one thing that does annoy me is ...

OK, this is a hanky alert. This video clip brought tears to my eyes. I have never heard of Reckless until this morning. Semper fi Sgt. Reckless. What a soldier. What a heroine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIo3ZfA9da0

And to all you Americans, Happy Fourth of July!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOvA-Hn4_ZM

I have had the great fortune to travel across quite a bit of this vast country, from most of her ...

Well my son went to his dads house last weekend and won't be home until the 16. I am trying to find a lot to do while he is gone so I won't go crazy. I have never been away from him for so long. I am slowly figuring out how slow indeed I am! I need a long time to consider things before I am ready to do them, and it can be simple things like buying something or trying something. Most often if it something that I use like a certain type of clothes or stuff like that.

I am starting ...