Lucy Gordon is 24 years of age who lives in Burr Cottage in Berkshire with her two friends Bella and Jane. Her friend Mo also lived there however she moved out to see the world. Lucy keeps in touch through e-mail most days although she has never replied to one throughout the whole book. Which will become apparent why at the end.
Lucy works for a company called Widgetex Computers, in the Marketing department. She regularly tries to impress her boss Slave Driver by being talked into doing charity parachute jumps etc. She really wants the promotion of being his right hand man or should I say women, but unfortunately he went outside the company and employed Gabriella Peartree better known as Fruitbat by both her and colleagues. Before long Fruitbat has picked up on Lucy’s vulnerability and gets Lucy doing all the work and Fruitbat takes the credit when really spends most of her time on long business meetings with Slave Driver, do I need to say any more!!
Lucy is a very kind and innocent girl but incredibly naïve. Firstly she is dating a Pilot called Greg and it soon becomes clear that he only rings her when it suits and quite obvious that he is dating his neighbour Peach. However Lucy is blissfully unaware. Eventually Peach has to tell her of the affair, so Greg is finally off the scene.
After sometime she dates Alex who is a gorgeous and she thinks he is the perfect man. That is until she finally goes out on a date with him alone and finds that personality is an important factor after all.
Big Mike the Vet who is the next door neighbour is obviously smitten with her and is always there for her when needed. Yet Lucy has it in her head that he is the village womaniser and has several women on the go, which could not be further from the truth. He spends all his time talking to these women about Lucy, even the women have hinted how lovely he is but she just thinks that they are having an affair with him.
Her family are a right bunch, the Mother is desperate to be on Masterchef and has the most outrageous menus such as Deep-fried artichoke hearts with Vermouth and lime sauce and other strange concoctions. Her Father spends the whole of his time in the garden shed mending his tools. Her Sister Alice is dating Scrumpy who spends most of his time down tunnels on one protest after another. Her Granny lives with them and is constantly drunk, and not forgetting her Big Brother who had the sense to emigrate to New Zealand.
Throughout the whole book she is constantly writing messages to her Big Brother in New Zealand and Mo where ever she is, detailing the days events.
This book is well worth a read, it had me giggling in places and sometimes I found Lucy incredibly frustrating, which was the Author's intentions.
Der Goldene Kompass
Der Goldene Kompass ist ein spannendes Fantasy-Abenteuer, das in einer Parallelwelt spielt, in der sich menschliche Seelen als Tiere manifestieren, sprechende Bären in Kriegen kämpfen und Kinder auf mysteriöse Weise verschwinden. Im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte steht Lyra, ein 12-jähriges Mädchen, das sich auf den Weg macht, um Roger, ihren besten Freund, zu befreien. Ihre Reise wird zu einer Mission, von der nicht nur die Rettung von Lyras Welt, sondern ebenso die unserer eigenen Welt abhängt.
200 Pounds Beauty
Die Sängerin Han-na Kang (Ah-jung Kim) wiegt rund 100 Kilo und ist trotz einer Hammerstimme dazu verdammt, hinter der Bühne zu singen - als Stimme für Superstar Ammy. Tag für Tag schwärmt sie dabei für den Produzenten Sang-jun Han (Jin-mo Ju), der für sie aber unerreichbar bleibt. Als sie eines Tages ihn und Ammy dabei zuhört, wie sie über sie lästern, fasst Han-na den Entschluss, sich komplett zu verändern: Sie sucht den plastischen Chirurgen Dr. Lee auf, den sie von ihrer Arbeit als Telefonsex-Anbieterin kennt, und zwingt ihn dazu, sie von Kopf bis Fuss zu verschönern. Nach einem Jahr ist aus Han-na die superschlanke und superschöne Jenny geworden, die prompt bei Sang-jun landet und als Sängerin Karriere macht.
Witch Yoo Hee
Ma Yoo-hee is the executive of an advertising company. She would never be caught dead wearing make-up and only ever wears black. Her hairstyle and glasses are severe, her only enjoyment in life appears to be the times when she's criticizing everything and anyone. All of her employees and co-workers fear her and she is constantly talked about when shes not around. Her stern and harsh nature has earned her the nickname 'witch' When it comes to romance she is hopeless. No matter how many blind dates she has, not one has ever led to a second. The reason for this is her negativity and her inability to loosen up and express herself. She however is completely oblivious of her faults and cannot comprehend why she is so bad when it comes to love.
Choi Mu-ryong is an aspiring chef with a passion for French cuisine. He has an innate ability when it comes to taste and perfection. Every piece of food and every plate he prepares must be perfect. However this tends to get him into a lot of trouble as when working in a kitchen every moment counts and there is not possibly enough time to take so much care in preparation and decoration of meals. His criticism of a head chefs cooking causes him to lose his job. His parents have never really approved of his aspirations and dreams to be a famous chef and insist he return to medical school. He decides to enroll back into medical school but changes his mind at the last minute and decides not to.
Mu-ryong discusses everything with his best friend and ends up going on a blind date to pretend to be someone else who backed out at the last minute. He declines at first since he already has a girlfriend, but his friend offers him money, and warns him however that the woman he will be meeting is rather different.
The woman he meets is Yoo-hee, and while under normal circumstances she would be rude, brash and boring, she tries to be nice and happy in an attempt to succeed on the date. However, her pretending is not very convincing and Mu-ryong figures that it would be a matter of time before she loses it. The date ends when Mu-ryong falls asleep for a moment, resulting in Yoo-hee throwing a glass of water at his face and calling him rude. He retorts back to her also, telling her to take care of her appearance the next time she goes on a blind date. The two then leave on bad terms.
While delivering food from his father's Chinese restaurant, Mu-ryong becomes involved in an car accident, coincidentally with Yoo-hee. They exchange insurance information and Yoo-hee learns that he lied to her on their date, realizing that his name is different, he is a year younger than her, and that he met her only as a favor to a friend.
Yoo-hee demands the money for the damage to her car to be paid within a week. However, Mu-ryong doesn't have any money, and yet Yoo-hee is unwilling to compromise with him. He decides to use his school tuition, which was given to him by his parents, to pay for her car. However, he loses the money after being mugged on the way to pay her.
Mu-ryong tells Yoo-hee he doesn't have the money but is willing to work it off, no matter how long it takes or what he must do for her to pay her back. Yoo-hee decides that Mu-ryong could repay her by working as her house keeper, since she continuously looses her previous keepers.
Meanwhile, Mu-ryong's girlfriend Seung-mi, who works at her father's restaurant, is expecting a new head chef: Johnny Kruger, a world renowned chef, who also happens to be Mu-ryong's idol and an acquaintance of Yoo-hee as well.
Choi Mu-ryong is an aspiring chef with a passion for French cuisine. He has an innate ability when it comes to taste and perfection. Every piece of food and every plate he prepares must be perfect. However this tends to get him into a lot of trouble as when working in a kitchen every moment counts and there is not possibly enough time to take so much care in preparation and decoration of meals. His criticism of a head chefs cooking causes him to lose his job. His parents have never really approved of his aspirations and dreams to be a famous chef and insist he return to medical school. He decides to enroll back into medical school but changes his mind at the last minute and decides not to.
Mu-ryong discusses everything with his best friend and ends up going on a blind date to pretend to be someone else who backed out at the last minute. He declines at first since he already has a girlfriend, but his friend offers him money, and warns him however that the woman he will be meeting is rather different.
The woman he meets is Yoo-hee, and while under normal circumstances she would be rude, brash and boring, she tries to be nice and happy in an attempt to succeed on the date. However, her pretending is not very convincing and Mu-ryong figures that it would be a matter of time before she loses it. The date ends when Mu-ryong falls asleep for a moment, resulting in Yoo-hee throwing a glass of water at his face and calling him rude. He retorts back to her also, telling her to take care of her appearance the next time she goes on a blind date. The two then leave on bad terms.
While delivering food from his father's Chinese restaurant, Mu-ryong becomes involved in an car accident, coincidentally with Yoo-hee. They exchange insurance information and Yoo-hee learns that he lied to her on their date, realizing that his name is different, he is a year younger than her, and that he met her only as a favor to a friend.
Yoo-hee demands the money for the damage to her car to be paid within a week. However, Mu-ryong doesn't have any money, and yet Yoo-hee is unwilling to compromise with him. He decides to use his school tuition, which was given to him by his parents, to pay for her car. However, he loses the money after being mugged on the way to pay her.
Mu-ryong tells Yoo-hee he doesn't have the money but is willing to work it off, no matter how long it takes or what he must do for her to pay her back. Yoo-hee decides that Mu-ryong could repay her by working as her house keeper, since she continuously looses her previous keepers.
Meanwhile, Mu-ryong's girlfriend Seung-mi, who works at her father's restaurant, is expecting a new head chef: Johnny Kruger, a world renowned chef, who also happens to be Mu-ryong's idol and an acquaintance of Yoo-hee as well.
Beowulf
This adaptation of Beowulf tells the story of how the warrior Beowulf helps King Hrothgar protect Heorot from the powerful Grendel. After defeating Grendel, Beowulf incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother, who seduces him in order to conceive a son. Beowulf leaves with Grendel's head to secure his reputation and claims to have also killed the mother. Fifty years after these encounters, Beowulf discovers that he has a third antagonist to battle with: a ferocious dragon that turns out to be his son. After a fierce battle that ends in the death of both warriors, Grendel's mother is once again left childless.
Tom und Jerry - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Jerry's magic Nutcracker Christmas Kingdom brutally taken over by the stray cats. Jerry and 2 toy characters (pixy and horsey) blown trough several world decors, trying to make their way to the Toy Maker, by following the northern star, hindered by Tom and his soldier cats. Finally arrived at the Toy Maker's workplace, Jerry builds an army of toy soldiers to regain his magical kingdom, which he should have accomplished before the sun has fully risen above the horizon ...
Der Sternwanderer
Sprechende Tiere, magische Bäume, unwiderstehliche Gnome und hinterhältige Kobolde in einer Welt jenseits der unseren. Vorlage für den märchenhaften Streifzug war Neil Gaimans „Stardust", dessen Romane schon mehrfach Türen in betörende Fantasiereiche geöffnet haben. „Der Sternwanderer" nimmt einen mit in das magische Land Faerie, das durch eine Mauer von dem kleinen englischen Dorf Wall getrennt ist und zum Hauptschauplatz eines atemberaubenden Abenteuers wird. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht verspricht der junge Tristran (Charlie Cox) seiner großen Liebe Victoria, ihr als Beweis seiner Liebe den Stern zu bringen, der hinter der Mauer ins Reich der Feen, Hexen und Zauberer gestürzt ist. Gefahren, Wunder und Geheimnisse erwarten ihn auf der anderen Seite und sein gefallener Stern entpuppt sich als wunderschöne Yvaine (Claire Danes), die sich beim Aufprall das Bein gebrochen hat.