I can eat egg fried sandwiches at any time of the day so I would choose that as my first primary favourite.

Chips (french fries) would be quite another snacky thing I could eat at any time of the day/year. The healthier option would be some carrots.

Thirdly, tomato soup (preferably with bread). Soups are wonderful things in that they are on the right side of fulfilling and healthy.

I would probably substitute one of the last two for some dessert actually. Something like yummy vanilla cheese cake or a Victorian sponge cake. YUM!

Of course I'd end up HUGE, but I know I could never get sick of them.

And You? :p

I feel too embarrassed to answer knowing I have at least 40+ and I wear not more than 5 on a regular basis. I'm sure I wore at least 20 different pairs last year mind. There's about a dozen that I haven't even worn once, despite that rainy/sunny day arriving and all. But I know if I was to see an interesting pair of shoes on the morrow, I would be the first to buy it without a second thought. It's a terrible terrible spending habit really.

Egads!

I hope I'm not the only one with this shoe problem. Right? Right?!!

These are 10 things I expect my friends to know about me.
Tick them off as you please and do note the rest away as I might quiz you on this!

That:
1. I am from London. That's in the blog title, ja? :p
2. I graduated with a BSc Computer Science with Management at the age of 20.
3. That the first book that inspired me to be something in life was actually Nancy Drew and I wanted to be a PI. I was 11 at the time.
4. For all my friends and family, my babbling and rambling, I'm a private person at heart.
5. I dislike bananas, pork, beef, alcohol and anything that one can smoke. These things make me physically ill.
6. I am passionate about knowledge, humanity, international relations, diplomatic efforts and hold a deep contempt for a lot of politicians and powerful figures that shape our society.
7. I am generally a happy, bouncy individual. Emphasis on the bounce.
8. That I have a sort of phobia of all things bees, spiders, quite a few creepy crawly insect and height.
9.  I LOVE books, particularly fantasy and Liverpool FC (the football club).
10.  I am deeply loyal.

Iterating things you already know, of course.

What 10 things must I know about you?

I can't believe the City of London. I just don't get it. HOW COULD THEY?! How could they vote for someone as clueless with the general public of London as Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson? Have they not seen in him in Have I got News for You?! We did not laugh WITH him when he was on there, we laughed AT HIM during his popularity on that show. It makes me cringe inside just thinking about how we as the general public have CHOSEN him to represent us. What does it say? That we're a city of buffoons? For surely leaders are figureheads and representatives of the population that have elected them. And I haven't even gotten onto his policies.

I'm furious with Londoners. You disappoint me greatly.

I had Ken as my first choice and Paddick from the Lib Dems as my second. I could trust them to be shrewd at the very least. Now we're stuck with this colossal mistake and a gaffe waiting to happen.

Bah.

I think I'm going to pressure myself to finish reading these new books that have been piling up for a while now; it's most unlike me. What better way to do this, than to mention them publicly and put myself under pressure as a result, eh? Lets hope the pressure to finish them mounts and that I finish these books with aplomb; books that have been accumulating as a result of this smaller matter of work, heh. :p

The list:

1. The Red Wolf Conspiracy - Robert V. S. Redick (and I was soooo looking forward to this book and all)
2. Empress - Karen Miller (as above, I just jumped and bought it because I loved her previous offerings)
3. Darkness that comes before - R. Scott Bakker
4. Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

The plan is to finish them over the coming week alone. I want to update my 50 book challenge! However, I expect disruptions in the form of new book distractions.

What's on your to-read asap list?

I have only just got to doing this post, woops my bad. Here is the official "add me" and "lets be friends" post. For those that have stumbled on here by accident, do post here to let me know.

:)

Book lover that I am, [oh how I love to read], I was looking through the various LJ book communities on this very topic, when I happened upon one that interested me; the 50bookchallenge.  The rules on there were simple; read 50 books within a year. That got me thinking a little. I wondered how many I had already read within this year as I mentally counted the various book covers that have passed before me during this time period of 2008, and it's fair to say that there's been quite a few that's for sure.

Here are the books I remember reading in the year 2008 (not including my re-reads of the same book within the year 2008):

1. Poison Study - Maria V Snyder (Study series)
2. Magic Study - Maria V Snyder (Study series)
3. Fire Study - Maria V Snyder (Study series)
4. Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels series)
5. Magic Burns - Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniel series)
6. The High King's Tomb - Kristen Britain (Green Rider series :p)
7. The Name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicles)
8. Cast in Shadows - Michelle Segara West
9. Cast in Courtlight - Michelle Segara West
10. Cast in Secret - Michelle Segara West
11. Magic lost, Trouble Found - Lisa Shearin
12. The Awakened Mage - Karen Miller
13. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
14. The Blood King - Gail Martinez (Chronicles of a Necromancer)
15. Voice of the Gods - Trudi Canavan (Age of the Five)
16. Changer of Days - Alma Alexander
17. Blood Engines - T. A. Pratt
18. Poison Sleep - T. A. Pratt
19. Dark Lover - JR Ward (don't ask! - I saw a review on this fun blog, alas the infectious review didn't quite mean a great book in the making)

I probably have read other things but I don't remember.

I think I'm going to see how quickly I can reach that 50 book mark. I don't doubt that I would reach it sooner rather than later, bearing in mind how I used to read about 35+ in a month once upon a  time. Ha. But I would be disappointed if I don't get there by mid year, regardless of the things on my plate, both work and family wise.

How many have you read this year? Come on, take up the challenge with me, even if your reading stack screams "Fantasy" like mine.