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Wow Stewart! You need more Irving, though. ;) And Nabokov. And only Joyce.

As a child: Enid Blyton. As a teenager: Charles Dickens, possibly. As an adult: Vladimir Nabokov or Margaret Atwood or Bill Bryson. Possibly 5 or 6 of each.

I'll second The Hotel New Hampshire, because it's the only on this list I haven't read. A Widow for One Year is good, too. Surprised nobody has nominated that.

I was beginning to have palpitations at not seeing her name. Surely the best by a long, long way, non? Also love Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell and Sinead O Connor. Jewel, Shivaree, Deborah Harry (Blondie), Diana Ross, Jenny Lewis. There will be many more.

Received from Amazon today: Italian for Beginners, recommended by someone here) Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, because it was mentioned on the Italian for Beginners page, and because I remember someone here (Stewart, most likely, purchasing it) Simon Birch, because it's my favourite film...

Scary? Possibly, a little. Hardly the "scariest book ever" though, I wouldn't say.

Hehe, I knew too. Was the cyber equivalent of 28 bumps ;) Do we get to see pics of you in your gi, Stewie? ;)

A gi? Oh. Quick google suggests G.I. Joe, glycaemic index and Giant Inds Inc. I'm assuming it's neither of the latter too, so a G.I. Joe? Have fun with that then. ;)

Happy Birthday Stewie, hope you have a wonderful day and received plenty nice things. :D

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It's just as well I'm "playing" this game as I just checked my 'paste' at work and it's contents of an earlier PM, that I'd copied because I'd been signed out for taking too long to respond, and which I desperately would not want my employers to see :o New 'paste'...

Ooh, I've read this. Didn't realise it had been even nominated else I'd have reread it for the occasion. But anyway... I think Oskar was not only a believable narrator but a fantastic one! Admittedly, parts of the novel were far-fetched, such as Oskar's grandfather being unable to speak...

1. Yellow Dog, Martin Amis 2. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk 3. Mercy, Jodi Picoult 4. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami 5. Cosmopolis, Don Delillo 6. Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant 7. South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami Favourite by far this month was Norwegian Wood, but...

Better late than never, huh, but I adore his latest album. 45 albums? Wow, I agree with beer good, he really is a genius!

Bob Dylan - Modern Times.

Winter by Tori Amos. I think I might be a tad obsessed with Tori Amos. If it must literally be a band, rather than an artist, then Von by Sigur Ros or Sanctis by Libera, though I probably have a ratio of 20:1 of solo artists to bands among my favourites.

I begun reading this last night, by chance, having forgotten it was this month's BOTM, so shall look forward to discussing it. :)

I haven't read it, so not sure if it's exactly what you're after, but Andrea Levy's Small Island is about slavery.

I use Opera now as my main browser, because it's so much faster than Firefox and has the same features, and I like the transfers appearing in a separate tab rather than a small window (though you can maybe do that with Firefox too). Have had lots of problems with firefox recently, hence the...

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