Aaaah Autumn...BESH style. Join the MAD and may your loins be fruitful.

[Ariesgirl]

Aaaah Autumn...

Season of jizz and menkul WOOFLing,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing ovaries;
Conspiring with him how to SWI and bless
With baybees the hags that round the thatch eves drink gin run.

Join with us in making this MAD season very fruitful indeed.

:o HB

Where is Milano?

Should I read Anna Karenina? I never have before - in fact I have never read a single Russian novel and I am ashamed. Though I have watched Doctor Zhivago - does this count?

Neither have I Rie. Maybe we should start a sideline BESH bookclub thread...

I keep starting AK, loving it, then not continuing. No good reason for this. I think maybe knowing the end doesn't help...

All Russian novel-reading should begin with Crime & Punishment. I have spoken .

Ok. What's the easiest Russian novel? Please no one say War and Peace . I've seen it and it's about a metre thick.

Drom we need your suggestions.

Will def read C&P at some point but think that I may need some sort of book stand to read it on bed without spraining my wrists.

Anna Karenina is very long. I'm not sure it was worth the effort, but it was less confusing than some other Russian stuff I've read. They all always seem to have about 3 names and I can never keep track. Although this one's quite fun and not confusing.

Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' isn't a slog. Neither is C&P: pliz not to be put off by its reputation: it is in fact vay vay exciting.

Start with The Death of Ivan Ilych - 'tis only a short story but if you brag about it to others they'll probably not realise

Come on Drom, set us straight

Ah, cross posts. Who's that then? Tolstoy? I actually did a module in my second year called Russian Life and Thought in the 19th Century. How I managed to not read a single Russian novel is beyond me. I studied the language for one awful year too - I can remember nothing except the word for "comrade" (tavareeshch) and "life" (zheezn). I remembered that because it sounded like jisom.

C&P isn't that long! It's just sort-of book length...Oooo I was thinking of reading that Kurkov - is it worth the pennies spent on abebooks.com?

We have that book upstairs Ocky and I did consider reading it only yesterday. I decided to read a book written by friend of a friend instead but will read that next on your recommendation.

HB I think I was geting it mixed up with War and Peace.

It's one we read at book group ages ago, and is utterly bizarre but quite fun. How many pennies would you be spending? Actually, I have no idea if I've still got my copy, if I have you can have that and spend no pennies! But it might have gone to the charity shop when we moved house.

Well it's a similar style title innit Booooo. It honestly is a cracker of a read - I was reading it on the Tube at a Crucial Moment and I gasped, clamped my hand to my mouth and went OH NO!!!! really loudly .

(Shortly afterwards, I was reading Kafka's In The Penal Colony and almost fainted. People, never EVER read that short story. It is available online for the truly prurient but pliz not to put yourselves through it. Someone is currently staging an opera based on it - I feel faint just thinking about it )

Right I am going to the library tomorrow to demand an easy Russian novel. Though I may have to look for myself as the librarian is now a machine. And it's a shit library so their Russian selection may well be a bit limited.

Oh Ocarina you are MOST kind, and if you do find it and ever make your way to the post office I'll post you something back!

But not to worry if not: books on abebooks are so cheap they practically pay you to take 'em off your hands.

Aries tell us what you choose!

Right. Off to bed. Luffs you all. TROOF! XX

Me too. All this talk of books is making me want to go to bed with mine.

Will dream of all of you, bonfires, and various versions of Mr Darcy. Night all.

Sleep well you luscious wenches. X

Found it! Message me your address HB and it's all yours.

Night all.

Sorry, I got distracted and sloped off to bed last night and forgot to say g'night. Fanks for the concern boo

I am about to say something which will make you all hate me.
I POAS this morning because of the case of the disappearing droid. BFP. Have had a bit of spotting so not getting too excited but am kakking myself.
It doesn't seem right though, I just got here Don't hate me.

Wooooooooo!!!! Thats got to be a noob record! Thats ace milano massive congrates. Don't worry about the spotting , I had that for the first week as long as its only a bit of braaaaan?

Congratzzzzzz Milano pliz to see earlier on (this or previous fred I cannot recall) about no 'turns' and all that shiz. Am vey vey plized for you and your new BOC

I also have news of my own, 3 high temps in a row mean FF has given me a gold star for laying an egg at the weekend and shagging ourselves silly at exactly (Accrington Stanley?) the right time this month.

On the negativo this clearly means I am setting myself up for one hell of a big fall coz clearly I must now be en route to diffedsville non? If not, I will certainly be pitting for a while. Can't really test for another week so WOOFLmania shall now commence.

P.S I'm at a wedding tomorrow but as technically implantation wouldn't happen until Sundayish if I was diffed (which I'm not - going for double bluff) so I can have a wee drinky at a wedding tomorrow without feeling like evil alcohol addiction forming scum parent??

P.S again. Enjoyed late nite chatathon catch up but I quite fancy Alan Rickman. Especially in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

truffs get paralytic and have drunken implantation secs, is the BESH way.

truffs get paralytic and have drunken implantation secs, is the BESH way.