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Have ade a stteady start into my reading for this year. Have now finished 'The Shaping of Things to Come'. Got better as it went on. I think the authors ran out of long words to use and the whole thing retreated from up its own butt. Probably a good read for anyone considering emerging church.

Am now reading 'the BFG'. Will start on 'Long Walk to Freedom' later. Its a book that I can't quite believe I haven't read yet.

Have also seen two films already: we rewatched 'The Notebook' on Monday. It really is the saddest film. Its out on DVD next month. Watch with tissues. And I watched 'Garden State' yesterday. Think I liked it but not sure. Quite sweet.. Maybe I wasn't in the best mood for it.

Back to books. We're working on developing a site to review all the books. Watch this space.

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Liz said…
Hey - if you want a copy of North and South - please buy it from the Waterestones in the middle of Birmingham! Since it was on tv, they have piles and piles of it that they can't get rid of ;o)
12:27 pm
Matt Adcock said…
HI Jude,

I've just finished WORMWOOD - by G.P. Taylor (that vicar who self published, got a major book and now film deal and now has more than $6million in his bank account)...

It's quite a freaky read - I'd recommend it - here's a link to my review of it in case you are interested:

http://darkmatt.blogspot.com/2005/01/book-review-wormwood-g-p-taylor.html
2:09 pm
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