Arukiyomi

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c'mon guys... it's chick-lit. That genre needs all the help it can get!

Now THAT I agree with!

yep a waterslide in the Papuan sun... great fun!

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good review... However, I know people like Nathan Price so I believed the character. have you read Things Fall Apart by Achebe?

yeah I think the prize-winner's list is probably an appendix or maybe they also marked the actual book entries too. apparently I didn't study that too carefully. Somone elsewhere mentioned how 3 of them have been removed before. Does their inclusion mean they're back on? Aesop’s Fables - was removed in 2008. Little Women - core book (has always been on) The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - core book Wuthering Heights - core book Jane Eyre - core book Breakfast at Tiffany’s - core book Bleak House - core book Crime and Punishment - core book Arcadia - core book Foucault’s Pendulum - core book On the Road - core book The Cider House Rules- core book The Good Soldier- core book The Water-Babies- core book Brighton Rock- core book A Room with a View- core book American Psycho- core book A Clockwork Orange- core book Kidnapped- removed in 2008 Uncle Tom’s Cabin- core book The Invisible Sons - must be a typo. No books on the existing lists of this name. The only book I can find that resembles this title I read a preview of 4 pages of. It was published in 2011 but was so badly written to include it would simply be a joke. The Passion - was removed in 2008 Sexing the Cherry - core book La Bete Humaine - core book Cloud Altas - core book nope, no plays AFAIK true and it's on our to do list. We were working hard recently to release the movies app. Now that we have both out in the market, we can turn our focus into improving them both and so this is in the pipeline. nope. This won't happen because we are talking about coding issues with cross-platform stuff. Hopefully keeping the list up to date is as fun as actually reading the books. Maybe more so in the case of some of them! app or spreadsheet? The app will always keep your data when we issue updates. The spreadsheet will have an import feature much like v4 has where users who had v3.3 could import their data using cut and paste. I will be looking into VBA code which would automate this but because running macros on spreadsheets raises heightened security issues which not everyone is happy with, I probably won't implement it if it requires macros.

there's a new edition going to be published in October. Check out http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?p=3711 for more info.

for those that may be aware of our 1001 Books App, I wanted to let you know that yesterday we launched our 1001 Movies App which helps you track your progress with the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. It's at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1001-movies/id533680876?ls=1&mt=8 if anyone fancies it.

Blue Like Jazz

sacred diary + some time = does not compute. You should read that through in one go. It's absolutely hiliarious. Has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read.

ah...no I didn't. I thought the language in places wasn't something I'd be comfortable reading out loud to her so made the decision not to on that basis. I didn't really understand why he had the characters swearing as they did. I didn't see a need for it. It's not like Trainspotting where it's an integral part of the characters' personalities and where the book would be a lesser novel if it was removed. I may buy it for her in years to come if she doesn't discover it for herself.

Well, let me buck the trend. It's good but definitely not amazing. He took what could have been an extremely powerful story told if with simplicity and just overcomplicated it for me. Maybe that's what young adults need nowadays though. I wouldn't know.

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Welcome! What's the best book you've ever read Ash?