The complex zombie, alien, Godzilla etc survival thread.

[Abcinthia]

I know. For the most part we agree on books but this is just not one of these times.

She also lent me Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. I'm really looking forward to that but I'm going to wait till next week to read it.

 

[Niamh]

The only vampire books I've read are the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, I loved them that was years ago though when i was a teenager. I'm reading Shantaram atm it's really good, best book I've read in a long time

 

[Abcinthia]

I'm reading The Hound of the Baskervilles. I love the movie so I'm hoping the book is as good.

Then I'm going to read Memoirs of a Geisha then maybe Great Expectations. I want a longish book to read on the 2 hour bus journey on Monday and Tuesday

 

[Niamh]

Great expectations is a brilliant story, i haven't read the book but the film was excellent

 

[Abcinthia]

I've tried to start it several times when I was younger (I think the last time I tried to read it was when I was 13ish) but I just gave up. Not sure why. I've always said it was the type of language used but I read Wuthering Heights at a similar age and loved it.

I'm older now so I think I'd appreciate it more.

 

[Niamh]

wow, I had no interest in those types of books when I was 13

 

[Abcinthia]

I liked reading Classics - thought it was a lot better than most of the teen lit crap.

I still do love them though sometimes I need to be in the mood for them.

 

[Niamh]

I've only gotten back into reading again in the last year or so, I used to read so much when I was younger, then when I had my daughter I never seemed to have the time or when I did I was too tired to read.

 

[Abcinthia]

Yeah after having Immy I stopped reading for about a year. Then I picked Literature and English Language at college so I had to start reading again.


Reading tons in the past year or so because I haven't been working but if things go to plan and I move in with Zorak later this year, then I'll have to get a job and so cut down my reading a bit.

 

[Niamh]

What's the job situation like over there? Do you notice the recession?

 

[Abcinthia]

It's not good. Whereas before the jobs pages in the local newspaper would be at least 3-4 pages, now it's normally about half a page with the ads REALLY big. And most of the time it's just for teaching jobs at local schools, dental nurses, trained nursery staff or trained cooks.

Zorak and I should be moving to Surrey (he already lives there really as he's at Uni there) and because of the high number of students who work just for term time, I hope I'll be able to get something. If not, it's closer to London and there simply HAS to be something there.

 

[Niamh]

Yeah, things are pretty bad here too, you here of businesses and factories closing down far too often :/ Hopefully things will start to turn around soon.

 

[Abcinthia]

I'd definitely like to start working. I've just been so bored since I finished college and I'm undecided about uni at the moment

 

[Niamh]

How old is Imogen?

 

[Abcinthia]

She's 3. 4 at the beginning of September.

 

[Niamh]

awww, she'll be starting school soon so will she?

 

[Abcinthia]

Start year 1 next year.

I'm hoping to start nursery this September. Been looking at nurseries in the area Zorak and I want to move but I think it'll be wise till we know for sure where exactly we're moving to and I can check them out.