Cafe Muse May 8th at 7pm

Hello

We are getting weady for the next meeting of iwead. It will be at Cafe Muse at Summer Hill in the back room as before. At 7pm. 8th May If you are late you may have to be prepared to eat whats ordered as last time we were all starvin. We may have to start to become a little more organised with the choice of books - maybe we shall have a designated driver whose job it will be to pick the book for the next meet.

Anyway - bring your book and lets eat

Jo

p.s. I hope that we haven't started a trend for blogging embaressing photos - cause I have one of donkey and I'm not afraid to use it!

Next weeeeead!

Hi Everyone.
Next wead is Friday 8th May. Can I ask please that everyone send their emails addresses to this site? I had them to set this up but would like to flag when a new post is posted (is that right expression?).
I am all in favour of orange penguin classics for a bit. They are cheap, look tops on the book shelf and someone else has made the decision already! Next book is Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. I think you'll find it rather interesting.
I have included a photo of two members of the Iwead Club. I don't know any recipes!
The iWead email address is: donkeyhop@gmail.com

PS - Muse seems like a winner - so let's stick with that?

Hop
x

oops some corrections to recipe

Ingredients
125g (4oz) butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup plain flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
1/4 cup chopped almonds, optional
1/2 cup dark cooking chocolate, cut into chunks (we use most of a 200g block cut into chunks for extra chocolate chips)
**Made mistakes because i was trying to blog and talk on mobile at the same time** I hope they turn out - i will buy some at the fare.

Oaty Chocolate chip Cookies

Ingredients
125g (4oz) butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/4 cup plain flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
1/4 cup chopped almonds, optional
1/2 cup dark cooking chocolate, cut into chunks(we use most of a 200g block cut into chunks for extra choc-chips)
Method
* Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F)
* Place the butter and sugar in a bowl - beat with electric mixer until light and creamy.
* Add the egg and beat well.
*Add the oats, flour, baking powder, almonds and chocolate - mix with wooden spoon to combine.
* Spoon tablespoons of the mixture onto a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper and flatten slightly.
* Bake for 10 minutes or until golden. Makes about 40 cookies.

MY FIRST BLOG POST

Hello

My first blog post ever... thats why I chose red

I have been to two IWEAD's so I have two stickers in my book!

I saw Comfort Farm on the list from Susie which I read not long ago and I really enjoyed that book " I saw something nasty in the coal shed..." very funny.

I think that we are proposing that the next book be " Handful of dust " by Evelyn Waugh who(m) wrote Brideshead Revisted it is another orange penguin classic - and I like the collection of orange books on the bookshelf...

It is a little book so if anyone has a hankering for another book then go ahead and suggest away.

Cafe Muse was very good - Mauritius duo and all - and gets my vote for the next dinner too.

6 weeks from the last will be 8th May... already some cannot make it - maybe we have to accept this as part of the pattern of how this IWEAD will be - it will be like a jellyfish that will blog blog around big and small, drifting around, shedding tantacles here and there, a little bit scary, a little bit fascinating, a bit squishy but very relaxed and gooey. What an image.

I think thats all... have a good week and see you all at the fARE

Classic Book List

Last night at dinner (which was delicious) I talked about this list I'd seen online and said I'd post it on the blog. I think this list comes originally from the BBC. There are quite a few I haven't read like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. Has anyone seen any other good lists?
Leichhardt Library have this page on their site too with recent prize winners:
http://www.lmc.nsw.gov.au/Novels-to-Read.html

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo