lea thinks aloud: Now THIS is a fashion show I can appreciate!

My 2011 reading list

Girl Most LIkely, Rebecca Sparrow 6.5/10
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 8.5/10
Remember Me, Sophie Kinsella 6.5/10
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann 8.10
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz (re-read)
The Last Anniversary, Liane Moriarty 7.5/10
Emma, Jane Austen 9/10
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, Deborah Rodriguez, 6/10
The Story of Us, Lisa Jewell, 7.5/10
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, 8.5/10
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen 8/10
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 8/10
No Strings Attached, Clare Dowling 4/10
Four Play, Fiona Walker 3/10
40 Love, Madeleine Wickham 6.5/10
The Half Life of Stars, Louise Wener 8/10
The Lonely Polygamist, Bradley Udall 7.5/10
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes, Jaclyn Moriarty 7/10
Palace Pier, Keith Waterhouse 7/10
Pillow Talk, Freya North 5.5/10
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 9/10
Persuasion, Jane Austen 9/10
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 10/10
The Yorkshire Pudding Club, Milly Johnson 6/10
Rosie, Alan Titchmarsh 5.5/10
TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Herge 8/10
Curable Romantic, Helen Townsend 6/10
The Gunslinger, Stephen King 6/10
Husbands, Adele Parks 6/10
Hope in a Jar, Beth Harbison 6/10
One Day, David Nicholls 9/10
The Brightest Star, Marion Keyes 7/10
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella 6.5/10
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey 9/10
The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis 6.8/10
The Case of the Missing Books, Ian Samson 6.5/10
After The Party, Lisa Jewell 6/10
Mr Vertigo, Paul Aster 7/10
The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith 7/10
The Game, Neil Strauss 3/10
Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith 9/10
Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn 6/7
Sex a Murder Mystery, Fiona Quirina 6/10
Murder at the Academy Awards, Joan Rivers 5/10
Dog On It, Spencer Quinn 8/10
My Favourite Wife, Bill Parsons 5.5/10
City of Tiny Lights, Patrick Neate 6.5/10
For Esmè With Love & Squalor and other short stories, J.D. Salinger 7/10
I am Legend, Richard Matheson (graphic novel) 6/10
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen 10/10
The Baby of Belleville 7.5/10 (extra .5 for humour)
The Three Incestuous Sisters, Audrey Niffenegger 6.8/10
The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do 10/10

My 2010 reading list (books read)

A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Dawn French
Air Kisses, Zoe Foster 4.5/10
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 7.5/10
Light Boxes, Shane Jones 10/10
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 7.5/10, Sophic Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella 7/10
The Family Man, Elinor Lipman 9/10
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris 6/10
Asterix and the Black Gold, Goscinny and Uderzo
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 9/10
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella 7/10
Squirrel Meets Chipmunk, David Sedaris 7.5/10
Sleep No More, Greg Iles 7/10
The Radleys, Matt Haig 8.5/10
The Third Twin, Ken Follett 6/10
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert 8/10
GTO volume 23, Tohru Fujisawa 6/10
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde 7.5/10
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco 8/10
Ramona's World, Beverly Cleary 8/10
The Sandman (Endless Nights), Neil Gaiman 8.5/10
Becoming Strangers, Louise Dean 6.5/10
The News Where You Are, Catherine Flynn 6/10
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote 7.5/10
Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell 8.5/10
Turkish Gambit, Boris Akunin 8/10
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 1/10
East of Eden, John Steinbeck 8.5/10
The Bride Stripped Bare, Nikki Gemmell 6.5/10
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, MA Shaffer & A Burrows 6/10
Daddy Long Legs, Jean Webster 8/10
The Diary of Anne Frank 9/10
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery 8.5/10
Spellmans Strike Again, Lisa Lutz 6.10
Chart Throb, Ben Elton 7/10
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 9/10
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday 7/10
You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here But it Helps, Tom Holt 6.5/10
Eric, Shaun Tan 8.5/10
Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka 7.25/10
The Truth About Melody Browne, Lisa Jewell 7/10
Thanks for the Memories, Cecelia Ahern 4/10
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith 8.5/10
The Monday Night Cooking Club, Erica Bauermeister 4/10
A Friend of the Family, Lisa Jewell 6/10
31 Dream Street, Lisa Jewell 8/10
Just Courage, Gary Haugen
The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne-Jones, 6.5/10
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones 7.5/10
Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman 7/10
Les Miserables (volume 1), Victor Hugo 8/10
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot 7.5/10
My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman 8/10
The Girl who Stirred the Hornet's Nest 9/10
Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett 8/10
The Girl Who Played with Fire 8.5/10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8.75/10
The Road, Cormac McCarthy 8.5/10
Revenge of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz 8/10
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 8.5/10
This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper 5.5/10
The Case of the Imaginery Detective, Karen Joy Fowler 5/10
Fly Me to the Moon, Alyson Noel 1/10
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas 8/5
The Glorious Nosebleed, Edward Gorey (unratable)
Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich 5.5/10
The Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale 5/10
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks 8/5
Stardust, Neil Gaiman (re-read) 8/5

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Now THIS is a fashion show I can appreciate!

Posted by lea at 4:36 PM

I've never been a freak for fashion - it moves too fast and covers too little.

So imagine my surprise to discover the Salon du Chocolat, a magical celebration of all things chocolate, including a chocolate fashion show. Who woulda thunk it?

Check it out: