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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Joel's Christmas Program We actually behaved very respectably  at the concert/performance.  I could not understand a word the kindergartners were saying, but they were certainly enthusiastic!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8139856/1/The_Box Books - now call me obsessed but have a look at this list: To the Ends of the Earth - William Golding Stuart a Life Backwards - Alexander Masters Parades End - Ford Madox Brown Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon Sherlock Holmes collection - Arthur Conan Doyle Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northrup Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory Atonement - Ian McEwan Small Island - Andrea Levy The Hobbit - JR Tolkien War Horse - Michael Morpurgo The Resurrectionist - James Bradley Guernica - Dave Boling Mystery Man - Colin Bateman Mr Toppit - Charles Elton New York Trilogy - Paul Auster See if you can find the connection! I've read three quarters of them, and not a duff one so far, although The Resurrectionist is a bit graphic for me. TTSS is FAB and parades en

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Key Themes     ▪      "The Rules of Personal Space", "Many Different Hats", "The Beautiful People", "Lullaby Lost" from the album Extra: in the Background of a Dream by Bobby Johnston    ▪     "Catalog and Classify" from the album Tiger Banana by Mark Robinson    ▪     "Talisman" from the album Moon Safari by Air    ▪     "Highschool Lover", "Dirty Trip" and "Ghost Song" from the album Virgin Suicides: Original Soundtrack by Air    ▪     "kt" from the album Haralambos by Bexar Bexar    ▪     "Whipping the Horse's Eyes" from the album Feast of Wire by Calexico    ▪     "So What" from the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis    ▪     "Carpathian Ridge" and "Did You Know Him" from the album Donnie Darko: Original Soundtrack by Michael Andrews    ▪     "Midnight in a Perfect World" and "Stem/Long Stem"

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - ( Tint in au pays des Soviets) (1 929–1930) Tint in in the Congo - (Tint in a u Congo) (1930– 1931) Tintin i n America - (Tintin e n Am érique) (1931–1932 ) Cigars of th e Pharaoh - (Les Cigares du P haraon) (1932–1934) Th e Blue Lotus - (Le Lotus bleu) ( 1934 –1935) The Br oken Ear - (L' Oreille cassée) (1 935– 1937) The Black Island - (L'Il e noire) (1937–1938) Kin g Ottokar's Sceptre - (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) (1938– 1939 ) The Crab with the Golden Claws - (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) (1940– 1941 ) The Shooting Star - (L 'Etoile mystér ieuse) (1941–1942) The Sec ret of the Unicorn - (Le Secret de la Licorne) (1942–1943) Red R ackh am's Treasure - (Le Tré sor de Rackam le Rouge) (1943–1944) The S even Crystal Balls - (Les Sept b oules de crist al) (1943–1948) Prisoners of the Sun - (Le Temple du solei l) (1946–1949) Land of Black Gold - (Ti ntin au pays de l'or no ir) (1948–1950 1) Destinati

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