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The Hunger Games Movie

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!! We bought the DVD yesterday and – of course – had to see it immediately. I have to admit, I was a bit reluctant, as I saw some snippets and wasn’t too happy with some of the characters. One of the joys of reading is that you see the characters in your [...]

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Google doodle

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

115th Birthday Amelia Earhart  

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The Hunger Games *****

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

How I managed to ignore the success of the Hunger Games series, I’m not sure, but I did. Until the movie came out and I saw book #1 on a prominent spot in the bookstore (and at a discount, so that’s always a good thing ). I could hit myself for not reading the book [...]

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Leroy Anderson

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Let me apologize for not knowing this composer before. I found out today that I sure did know some of his work, though never knew his name. I will never forget it now For years and years one of the programs on a Dutch Radio Station started the show by playing a piece of music [...]

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Pinterest Pet Peeve

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Although it’s hard to imagine I suppose there are people who don’t know Pinterest yet *gasp* Basically, it’s nothing more than an online pinboard (but very addictive!). My ‘bookmark’ list is long, very long, too long to keep track of all the great sites I found, eventhough I created folders and tried to put some [...]

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