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I'd never heard of the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, and thanks to Kate I won't ever buy it for anyone on my gift list. We also find out that Prizes aren't always worth winning..

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Gasbags, Tagged and Campaign 2008

I know its Monday but I'm blowing the Sunday Trumpet and hope to steer you clear of reading 'The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets' by Eva Rice. That's right, St Jude tells us that the book wasn't a real page turner and despite the title the plot was pretty transparent..read the rest of her review HERE

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Dannete, tagged me with the burden of revealing 6 weird things about myself, now I sure everyone who knows me probably thinks that its going to be easy, but your wrong...This 6 weird tag thing started at Tish's blog so I really blame her for starting the chain....so here goes:

I like to have sauerkraut with turkey gravy on it for Thanksgiving dinner

I like genuine dill pickles in my potato salad

I cut my own hair

I have no natural rhythm so when I dance it's WEIRD

I love the movie Buckaroo Bonzai

I 'm going to run for President of The United States 2008

Now I am supposed to tag 6 other defenseless bloggers..........

My 1st Gasbag Review

When I start reading a book I like to stick to it, finish no matter how bad....sometimes I'm surprised and the story comes together and sometimes the book just stinks!

Nemesis :A book by Bill Napier

In Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of divine justice and vengeance. This makes me wonder "What did I do so wrong that the Gods led me to this Horrible book?"

I know what it was, I've read Dan Browns novels ,The Davinci Code , Angels and Demons and Deception Point and when I read the back cover of Napier's Nemesis it appealed to me in a Dan Brownesque sort of way. Wrong!!

The book suggests radical Russians have somehow diverted a yet to be identified asteroid on to a collision course with North America. The US Government puts an international team of scientists together to identify the Asteroid and a plan to stop it. If we can't stop it then when do we launch our missles on Russia?

The worst part of reading this book was that I felt I was trapped back in my Trigonometry Class.: If D=R then S means I'm falling asleep.

The only part of the book that was of any interest was the historical perspective. One of the Phd's becomes convinced there is a 400 year old manuscript that was written by a monk but it was siezed by the church and hidden away because it called into question the christian doctrines of the day. Back then the church maintained that the earth was the center of the universe and if you didn't believe that you were gonna spend time on the torture table.

Whenever the book went back in time and Napier wrote about the monk's trials and tribulations...the story was very good. But too often he return to...."M to the Power of 3 multiplied by 6 and divided by L(2.5N)"blah blah blah...

The end was predictable.

If you have trouble sleeping, put Nemesis on your night table.

P.S. Go New England Patriots

Beat the Colts in today's AFC Championship Match