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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:18:26 GMT
Lisa did you notice that Cecelia mentioned the EURO when she was about 32. Now how is that possible when Rosie gets to be 50 in the book!!!!!!!!!!! H E L L O ? !
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Post by catherine daly on Nov 25, 2004 20:19:37 GMT
maybe I'm showing my age here, but I know people who still write letters ? ?
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:21:37 GMT
Seriously Catherine - would you write your mother a 6 page letter when she's living in the same country as you?!
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Post by catherine daly on Nov 25, 2004 20:22:53 GMT
I wouldn't, but I know people who do. They just like writing and sending letters!!
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:23:20 GMT
I don't think it was the fact that it was a letter, but that it was 6 pages long. Ihave apen pal since I was 17 and it's only in the last couple of years that we've started to e-mail
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Post by Joan on Nov 25, 2004 20:23:34 GMT
Have to love you and leave you, ladies. Need to renew my driver licence and want to get in early before it gets too busy. Worried I won't be able to read the bottom line of the eyetest - too much use of the computer. Maybe I'll come back with glasses. Anyway, have fun! I'll come back in when I get back and have a look see what happened - you'll probably all be sound asleep by then.
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:27:27 GMT
I have to slow down on the beer here, my tying is getting worse!
Well Judi you've managed to finish 3 novels,I believe. I think coming up with an idea is a lot easier than putting on paper and trying to make it sound interesting.
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Post by Nic on Nov 25, 2004 20:29:08 GMT
I agree I have heaps of story ideas but no way could I make them into a book.
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:30:28 GMT
Joan at least you have a licence, I never passed my test so if hubby can't take me I bus it or cycle.At least it keeps me in shape!
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Post by Judi Curtin on Nov 25, 2004 20:32:26 GMT
Yes, Claire, you're right. Sometimes what seems great in my head, turns out to be fairly awful when typed out. Beer? I've just realised what's wrong. My real-life book-club, involves lots of alcohol (my husband calls it 'the wine club). And here I am drinking a cup of tea. No wonder I keep straying from the subject. Bye, Joan. Hope you pass the test.
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Post by Nic on Nov 25, 2004 20:33:27 GMT
yay i just realised I have another star! I don't have my licence either Claire. I did have my learners years ago but never got any further than that. Maybe I'll shock everyone one day and go and get it.
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:33:31 GMT
I agree it's still lovely to receive a letter, but I just find it very rare that people at that young age write such a long letter (yep Claire, it was really about the length) to their own mam when she's not even abroad.
I was sorely disappointed in the book - I really liked the cover and couldn't wait to get stuck into it, but it dragged and dragged and dragged and I felt no sympathy at all for Rosie's character - as I said, she never seemed to enter womanhood - Alex was more likeable in that he seemed more mature - perhaps only beacause he became a top heart surgeon!!
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Post by Nic on Nov 25, 2004 20:37:08 GMT
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Post by Judi Curtin on Nov 25, 2004 20:37:52 GMT
At least you can keep letters. I still have ones my Mum sent me when I was in Germany as a student. Full of snippets of local news. Even though I used to phone home every week, I really looked forward to getting the letters. I plan to write to my kiddies so (if they want) they'll have something more tangible than a saved e-mail to remember me by.
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Post by Judi Curtin on Nov 25, 2004 20:38:43 GMT
very funny Nic. That's how we know it's fiction!
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Post by catherine daly on Nov 25, 2004 20:39:33 GMT
I really liked the cover and couldn't wait to get stuck into it, On that note, I'm going to have to love you and leave you (to work on my own cover- joking!). I'll check in tomorrow to see what's been said and if anyone wants to add anymore comments at any stage- feel free- Even if you weren't here tonight and are reading this later!! Night Night Girls, ( or G'day Sheilas!) xx catherine
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:39:40 GMT
Rosie's mam and dad were cute characters - they took off on a world tour and kept sending funny postcards to Rosie and her daughter Katie (who incidentally grew up to do the exact same things as her mother - having a male best friend and getting in trouble at the school for the exact same things. And the same teacher was writing the same teacher-parent notes home about her behaviour)
Rosie writes to her sister Stephanie who lives in France, and only through that really and her mails to Ruby, do we get to hear what's really going on in her head and about events that have happened.
Alex is Rosie's best man for her wedding and Rosie is Alex's best man for his.
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:41:16 GMT
In Holland you can only drive with a learning school and it costs a bomb. You also have to sit and pass a written exam before you can take a driving test. After we moved house I had no job so couldn't pay for lessons. I thought if i get a job I'll try again, but it's been ten years now, imagine I haven't had a paid job in ten years I became a mother instead! Judi it's just as well it's not wine I'm drinking, one glass and I'm anyones
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Post by lisa on Nov 25, 2004 20:43:06 GMT
Night Catherine and Joan...... And I write letters girls! God if you could see my 'letter drawer' at home, when me and stephen first met, we wrote a lot of letters to each other, we were only looking over them the other night and i had written him one that was actually ELEVEN pages!!! my God! He wrote me one that was17 pages!!!!
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:45:22 GMT
On the subject of men in books, how do you get in to their heads It hard enough to know what my fella is thinking half the time, I just couldn't imagine writting up a male personage, I can't spell the other word any more
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:46:04 GMT
Lisa where have you disappeared to?? I feel like the big horrible girl here who has nothing good to say about the book! IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO LIKED IT?
I think all of you aussie chicks are great to have gotten up so early to say hi - Nic and Joan, fair play!
Claire I feel we're the only ones left and my eyes are getting droopy - I haven't been well lately and I summoned up all my strength to get my rear online for tonight, so I think I'm going to say g'nite now too.
By the way I found that hilarious that you talk to your children in Dutch and to Hein in English!!! I would have thought it would be the other way around!!! Dimi and I speak a weird mixture of both English and German - people think we're spacers!!!
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Post by Judi Curtin on Nov 25, 2004 20:47:18 GMT
Eleven pages of a letter? You were right to hold on to him. I too have to leave now. I need an early night. My parents are visiting tomorrow, so I have to get up early and scrub the house. They live sixty miles away, and never drop in unannounced. As a result, despite what I was like as a child, I'm still trying to kid them into thinking I've turned into housewife of the year. Good night everyone. Gute nacht. Schlaft Gut. Judi
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:47:46 GMT
Now Lisa that's love for ya. I still have all of the letters from Hein in the attic, and he has the ones from me. I don't think I could bear to read them again, a bit too embarressing please forgive the spelling!!!
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:49:12 GMT
OH JUDI!! You can speak German!! Excellent!!
Machst gut - ich freue mich dein buch zu lesen!!!
Auf Wiedersehen!
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Post by Judi Curtin on Nov 25, 2004 20:53:37 GMT
Leider ist mein buch noch nich auf Deutsch zu lesen. Nur Englisch , Croatian (!) und Indonesian(!) Now, it's definitely good night. Bye everyone.
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Post by Nic on Nov 25, 2004 20:53:50 GMT
That is so sweet. Andrew has never written me a proper letter. He's not the romantic type. But he did occasionally leave a little I love you note on the kitchen bench for me to find when I came home from work. Hasn't done it in ages though.
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Post by claire on Nov 25, 2004 20:55:16 GMT
Well that's all from me too, I check out everything tomorrow. It's bedtime. Night everyone,must do this again sometime Claire
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Post by lisa on Nov 25, 2004 20:56:47 GMT
I dont believe it! i just ran out to the shop for a coke and some pop corn and now the very nice Romanian lady in this bloody internet shop tellsl me shes CLOSING!!!
agghhhhh!! just when i was getting going!
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Post by Nic on Nov 25, 2004 20:57:51 GMT
Judi I usually make sure the house is sparkling when the in laws visit. Luckily they don't come very often. Not that I don't like them or anything, but I always want to have everything looking perfect when they come. And I always worry about what to cook for dinner and stuff like that.
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Post by Leah on Nov 25, 2004 20:58:16 GMT
I feel like I was the only one online about the book! Hope that others who have read it will really write their views here over the next few days.
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