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Turtleboy's entry in the 2011 Shack Out Back Christmas Collection, "A Very Brady Christmas" featuring characters from the completed story "The Ghastly Obscenities Of Brady Jeston" is now available in Turtle Cove.  Please post your comments in TurtleBoy's Forum.

"The Vampire Diaries: Bringing Out The Dead" is now on the CSTV Schedule. (RM)

Poet7's review of the newly released film "The Lady In Black" is available in CHAT SHACK Film Reviews.

TurtleBoy's re-edited "The Obdurate Avidity" Chapter Twenty has been added to Turtle Cove.  Comments are welcome in TurtleBoy's Forum.

Latest Episode: "Glee: Michael"  featuring the music of Michael Jackson. (RM)

Chapter Four of Pete's "The Umbrella Incident" is up in Pete's Pub.  Please leave him your thoughts in Pete's Forum.

New in Comedy Cupboard: Dad Meets Son's "Special Friend."  (Thanks to Derros Bloodmoon.)

Tune in to "Skins" (UK) Series Six Episode Two: "Rich" on CSTV. (RM)

RemiJay has posted "The Innocence Of Night" Chapter Six in Remi's Refuge.  Be sure to let him know your thoughts in his Forum.

LemonFresh's "Derailed" Chapter Eleven: "War Drums" is up in The Lemon Tree. Please leave your feedback in LemonFresh's Forum.

A short story by RemiJay, "One Unforgettable Day" , has been posted in Remi's Refuge.  Feel free to leave your feedback in his Forum.

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 "Les Amitiés Particulières" ("This Special Friendship") tells of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit run school.  Click the title for more information. (In French with a choice of subtitles) (AV)

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party in the ground-breaking film "The Boys In The Band" (1970).  Click the title for further details. (AV)

"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (2011): Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. (RM) (Details) 

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011): In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons. (RM) (Details)

Gay Romantic Comedy Drama "Holding Trevor" is available for viewing.  Click the title for more information. (AV)

"Dorian Blues": A refreshing and witty reinvention of the coming-of-age comedy, "Dorian Blues" is a bright story about a small-town young man who realizes why he's such a misfit... he's gay.  Click the title for more information. (AV) 

"Toast": Nigel Slater loves cooking while his mother prefers to warm canned food in a water pot for dinner.  After Nigel's mother dies, his father begins to spend his evenings with newly divorced cleaner Mrs Potter, whose signature lemon meringue pie is a hit with Mr Slater. The two embark on a relationship, and soon move to the country with Nigel, who finds solace in home economics classes at school (and discovers his attraction to men), and uses his improved culinary skills to gain his father's affections, thus becoming Mrs. Potter's rival.  With Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore. (AV)

 "White Coats" (aka "Intern Academy"): Canadian Hospital comedy starring Dave Thomas, Dan Aykroyd, and Dave Foley.  Click the title for more info. Recommended by Derros Bloodmoon (AV)

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The best-selling mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown "Angels & Demons" which introduces the character Robert Langdon, also featured in Brown's subsequent novels "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Lost Symbol" (both soon to be available in The CHAT SHACK LIBRARY, also) is now available to be read by our Registered Members.  Brought to our attention by Derros Bloodmoon. (Details)

The third novel in the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" has been added to the two previous novels in the series in The CHAT SHACK Library. (RM)

"Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close", a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.  Oskar Schell is a precocious preteen, who has been left depressed and traumatized.  His father died in the September 11 attacks, leaving behind a mysterious key in an envelope with the word "Black" on it.  So with the loyalty and passion that only a kid can muster, he begins to explore New York in search of that lock. (RM)

"Death In Venice" (Novella by Thomas Mann): A writer, Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.  Suggested by Uncle Jim. (RM) 

The concluding chapters of "All That Lives Must Die" by Eric Nylund have been posted for your reading pleasure. (RM)

"All That Lives Must Die"  (2010) by Eric Nylund, the Prologue through Chapter Forty-Five (the first half of the book) has been posted.  The Immortals and the Infernals are still at it in this sequel to "Mortal Coils" (2009), and twins Eliot and Fiona, children of Lucifer and a goddess, are still caught in the middle as both sides vie to claim the half-Immortal, half-Infernal teens as their own. This and "Mortal Coils" suggested to us by Turtleboy. (Registered Members)