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  1. My 2009 Reading List

    Ok I have succumbed to Peer Pressure.

    Here goes my list for the past year with a 1-5 star rating.

    1. The Three Musketeers by Dumas *****
    2. Feed by M.T. Anderson *****
    3. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier ****
    4. Light in August by Faulkner ***
    5. Sold by Patricia McCorMick *****
    6. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ***
    7. Peter Pan by J.M Barrie ****
    8. The Owl Service by Alan Garner ****
    9. Monster by
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  2. 2009 Reads

    2009 Reads

    The Death of Virgil, a novel by Hermann Broch.
    The Last Lecture, an autobiographical memoir by Randy Pausch.
    The New York Trilogy: “City of Glass,” “Ghosts,” and “The Locked Room,” three novellas by Paul Auster.
    My Sister—Life, a collection of poetry by Boris Pasternak.
    Exodus from the Old Testament, KJV.
    Style and Statement, a non-fiction work on writing by Edward P.J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors.
    “Richard II” a play by William ...

    Updated 01-03-2010 at 02:03 PM by Virgil

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  3. Welcome to the world, Freya Grace

    by , 01-01-2010 at 02:59 PM (Reflections on the puddle of life)
    On 31st December at 12:50pm, Freya Grace entered the world. She's my granddaughter, and she's beautiful.

    Will post some pictures when I can make my PC behave.

    Happy New Year everyone.
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  4. Meatatarians

    by , 01-01-2010 at 01:20 AM (Nostalgia)
    This is again, one of those blogs that's gonna step on a few peoples' toes. It may be slightly intentional, but that's why it's here on my personal blog and not in the main conglomeration of public posts. This is not an attack on your views. It is an expression of mine, based on absolutely no research or statistics of any kind.

    The object of vegetarianism vs not is quite obviously a long standing issue. It is obviously a quite controversial one as well. I am not here to argue ...
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  5. 15 minuets 'till 2010

    by , 12-31-2009 at 08:03 PM (day in a life)
    it's 23:45 and so far it has been a rather bad evening. to start the evening off I burned my nut steak so it was not as good as it should have been, then when we were cleaning the dishes after dinner a pipe got a bit loose and the kitchen flooded with water. after cleaning it up my son got a stomach ache and did his number 2 in his good pants and I hate to clean him up and find other clothes for him and now I'm sitting in my living room cause my dogs go crazy if I go outside to check out the fireworks, ...
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