Do you like reading?

[Hayden]

Re: Do you like reading?

I think I read that you've been with your BF for a very long time. I assume that making passes at boys, for statistical analysis is not really on your agenda.

I don't think it would be an issue too much either way.

I think most women would get dumped for wearing the wrong shoes, or men for a t-shirt with the wrong logo.
Which as reasons, also like the glasses or no glasses, are total rubbish. Sorry.

And also

Women don't make passes at boys who wear glasses.

Discuss.

[Hayden]

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I've read none of Kobo Abe. Is he good?

[Alexa]

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I think I read that you've been with your BF for a very long time. I assume that making passes at boys, for statistical analysis is not really on your agenda.

I don't think it would be an issue too much either way.

I think most women would get dumped for wearing the wrong shoes, or men for a t-shirt with the wrong logo.
Which as reasons, also like the glasses or no glasses, are total rubbish. Sorry.

No, not on my agenda 7 1/2 years not so long - well maybe a bit at 25.

I put 'Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses' because it's always struck me as a very annoying and crap phrase designed to make women who wear glasses (inc me) feel like hideous book-learnin' spinster types. I also put it the other way around just to even up the debate.

I think some kinds of men and women would not find someone attractive because of their glasses, or for that matter their shoes or T-shirts. That's really their problem though, in the long run.

My BF wears glasses and looks very fine in them

[Alexa]

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I've read none of Kobo Abe. Is he good?

I've only read one. It was good in a worthy way, and interesting but it made me feel actually physically uncomfortable. I wouldn't be all keen to read another, but I'm glad I've had the experience. I guess that's what book groups are for, in some ways - they get you out of your usual zone.

[Aya]

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Hey ALexa,

I can see that I missed the boat on this thread but was thinking of starting a thread about what people have read myself so am just going to crash yours and get it off my chest.

Right now I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and enjoying it heaps. My best best is Sarah Waters - everyting by her but haven't read her latest called Night Watch. She's brilliant. Then in an interview she said her fav author was Zadie Smith so read White Teeth, also brilliant. And she'd published it by age 24, does your mind in! At Home in The World by Joyce Maynard - unbelieveable. Non-fiction, she had a long affair with JD Salinger, who wrote to her after she got an essay published in the NYT mag. I could go on for ages but we all could.
You liked Nelson Mandela's biog huh? I'm with you on that, he's my hero. I actually took some pics of him when I worked for a newspaper in SA, prized possessions.

Hayden, so envious that you're in Japan! I lived there for four years and am in withdrawal. My parents-in-law are there so we go once a year. Don't you find it annoying that nutritional info is so often not included on groceries there? Oh, ito fiction, my worst ever author is Yoshimoto Banana - hated every word.
Night guys!

[sallyseachange]

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Too many favs to list, but fairly recently read favs are: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (book, not film), Dolores Claibourne (King), Silas Marner. Also recently read Leith's The Hungry Years, which was enjoyable.

Just finished Stephen King's "Cell", which I thought was awful... until I got about a third of the way into it, then it became very fascinating indeed.

[Hayden]

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Hello Aya, were you born in Japan? Where abouts?

I can read Japanese, so I can read the labels, but I don't like that the information is inconsistent. Often I think that they just lie about the nutritional info.

When are you next in Japan?

What food do you miss the most?

Hey ALexa,

I can see that I missed the boat on this thread but was thinking of starting a thread about what people have read myself so am just going to crash yours and get it off my chest.

Right now I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and enjoying it heaps. My best best is Sarah Waters - everyting by her but haven't read her latest called Night Watch. She's brilliant. Then in an interview she said her fav author was Zadie Smith so read White Teeth, also brilliant. And she'd published it by age 24, does your mind in! At Home in The World by Joyce Maynard - unbelieveable. Non-fiction, she had a long affair with JD Salinger, who wrote to her after she got an essay published in the NYT mag. I could go on for ages but we all could.
You liked Nelson Mandela's biog huh? I'm with you on that, he's my hero. I actually took some pics of him when I worked for a newspaper in SA, prized possessions.

Hayden, so envious that you're in Japan! I lived there for four years and am in withdrawal. My parents-in-law are there so we go once a year. Don't you find it annoying that nutritional info is so often not included on groceries there? Oh, ito fiction, my worst ever author is Yoshimoto Banana - hated every word.
Night guys!

[dream]

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Right now I'm reading The Good Guy by Dean Koontz.

I love the Stephanie Plum books too. I just finished Lean Mean Thirteen. I seem to go back and forth between Morelli and Ranger, but there's just something about that Ranger that makes me swoon! hehe!

[dream]

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Just finished Stephen King's "Cell", which I thought was awful... until I got about a third of the way into it, then it became very fascinating indeed.

I loved that too, Sally. I really like most of his books even though some are very bizarre.

[Aya]

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Hello Aya, were you born in Japan? Where abouts?

I can read Japanese, so I can read the labels, but I don't like that the information is inconsistent. Often I think that they just lie about the nutritional info.

When are you next in Japan?

What food do you miss the most?

Hi Hayden,

No, I'm not Japanese - South African actually. Just lived there. With the nutritional info, I don't mean the reading of it I just mean so often on products it's not even included! And you're right, often seems suspicious, like on gomadoufu products that I love, carbs are listed as 0. I wish!

We're next in Japan in January. Do you come back home often? WHen are you there until? Do you love it?

My parents-in-law (in Saitama-ken, 50 mins from Ikebukuro) send us packages quite often so we eat Japanese food every day mostly but I miss wagashi so much!! I did tea ceremony all the time I was there, got my licence and stuff. Loved it. We try to get to California as much as possible and go to all the Japanese markets and restaurants which are pretty good actually! My best food is sashimi (luckily) and there's a really great sushi-ya-san nearish to us called Yoshizushi, the chef is Japanese and worked at Nagoya Castle for ages.
How about you? What do you miss that you can't eat because of low-carbing? Ramen and tempura must be hard to resist?
Have a great day!
Aya

[Alexa]

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Hey ALexa,

I can see that I missed the boat on this thread but was thinking of starting a thread about what people have read myself so am just going to crash yours and get it off my chest.

Right now I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and enjoying it heaps. My best best is Sarah Waters - everyting by her but haven't read her latest called Night Watch. She's brilliant. Then in an interview she said her fav author was Zadie Smith so read White Teeth, also brilliant. And she'd published it by age 24, does your mind in! At Home in The World by Joyce Maynard - unbelieveable. Non-fiction, she had a long affair with JD Salinger, who wrote to her after she got an essay published in the NYT mag. I could go on for ages but we all could.
You liked Nelson Mandela's biog huh? I'm with you on that, he's my hero. I actually took some pics of him when I worked for a newspaper in SA, prized possessions.

Hayden, so envious that you're in Japan! I lived there for four years and am in withdrawal. My parents-in-law are there so we go once a year. Don't you find it annoying that nutritional info is so often not included on groceries there? Oh, ito fiction, my worst ever author is Yoshimoto Banana - hated every word.
Night guys!

Hey Aya

I really like Sarah Waters too - I didn't like Fingersmith so much, but Tipping the Velvet was fab, and I enjoyed Nightwatch too - worth a look.

I think Zadie Smith is good to. I preferred The Autograph Man to White Teeth though. My sister, who writes, is always ranting about how young she is! You might like The God of Small Things by A. Roy (can't remember her first name off the top of my head).

That is so cool about Nelson Mandela!

[Alexa]

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Too many favs to list, but fairly recently read favs are: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (book, not film), Dolores Claibourne (King), Silas Marner. Also recently read Leith's The Hungry Years, which was enjoyable.

Just finished Stephen King's "Cell", which I thought was awful... until I got about a third of the way into it, then it became very fascinating indeed.

Lo, yes definately not the film! I couldn't get through the book. I had the 1st chpater as my A level unseen exam piece and found it quite good, but then the tone of the book really changes. Maybe I should try again.

I used to read Stephen King a lot, but find his endings a bit disappointing.

Yay! Someone else has read The Hungry Years - as I've said about a million times on here, that's what got me onto Atkins

[Hayden]

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Often I goto Yamaya, which is an Atkins food friendly supermarket. They put Japanese nutritional info stickers over the English nutritional info that is written on the can, jar, whatever. The Japanese label often has much less information than the English label, salts and sugar for example. I often stand in the shop and peel these Japanese labels off, to read the English label. Then I don't always buy the product. Then shop must love me, the secret label tearer.

I live in OMORI, which is near KAWASAKI. So not so far away from your family.

[Aya]

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Hey Aya

You might like The God of Small Things by A. Roy (can't remember her first name off the top of my head).

ADORED that book, A. Roy Arundhati I think her name is. You have me pegged already.

[TitianWasp]

Re: Do you like reading?

Alexa, Diana Gabaldon's series begins in the 18th century, starting near the time of the Scottish "Rising" of 1745. There's a fascinating element of time travel to make it even better, though. Sounds hoaky, but it's extremely well-written.

Soooo not hokey. My #1 fave of all time is Pride and Prejudice (I relate to Elizabeth and I have a wild crush on Mr. Darcy) but my #2 which I end up reading every other year or so is Outlander. I have read all the books in the series, and still prefer the first one the most. Gave me a lifelong thing for redheaded men (well, the goodlooking ones at least). Actually Claire and Elizabeth have some elements in common. Hmmmmm....

Oh sorry - least favorite? Easy one. My Organic Chemistry II text. Hands down.

I am not reading anything at the moment. Sad but true.