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If you like medieval mysteries, i like Susanna Gregory'sMatthew Bartholomew series, Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidlema series, Candace Robb's Owen Archer series.. just a few i have enjoyed. and thanks, i will keep an eye out for those books you talked about.. i have enjoyed Bernard Knight's books too.. Cadfael is another good series of course..

if you like scifi or fantasy, try Baen books.. they have a free library online and a there's a blurb there telling why. totally legal. no mess no fuss. different formats available.

Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennet

White Fang - Jack London

oh yes.. definite eye candy! there's a third series!! fantastic! loved the first, bought the box set... loved the second series, but haven't seen it to buy it yet.. will surely do the same for the third..

well.. i am stubbornly refusing to read Twilight! good grief, everyone is reading it.. people who normally wouldn't touch anything with a vampire in it are reading it, in fact i can remember a couple who laughed at my reading Anne Rice (vampires? you have to be kidding!) are reading it.. people who normally wouldn't read a romance are reading it with pleasure.. mature age women are reading it, isn't it written for young adults? each time i pick it up, i am put off by the words 'teen' and 'romance' ! (nothing wrong with either of course, it's just not for me) and the bits i have skimmed in the shop are either sheer lust, or teen angst.. i think i can avoid it..

just give me a voucher for Borders! then i can have all the fun of wondering the aisles there, choosing my books! i have given this as a rather large, can't be missed, do it or die, hint for a present already...

i remember really liking Pillars of the Earth all those years ago, i read it not long after release here in Australia.. i have World without end in my TBR pile, sorry to hear it may not be as good.. i'll get to it soon! i'm about half way through Scarlet..

i watch a lot of cooking shows on our Food channel here in Australia, there's a lot of shows featuring british chefs.. but i find a lot of them are not to my liking at all, Jamie Oliver seems so up himself these days, i didn't mind him in the past.. really don't like Gordon Ramsey. i like Nigella.. love watching any show with Heston Blumenthal! our favourite shows are Great British Menu, Masterchef and the River Cottage series.. i quite like watching Market Kitchen too.. i don't buy cook books, i do look at recipes online, altho i am a rotten cook, unless it's really simple. my husband watches some cooking shows with me, and he is a good cook, he gets a lot of good ideas from watching cooking shows, altho he rarely follows a recipe..

my husband came home with the first episode of Merlin last night - not asking where he got it from - he knew i'd love it! i always like anything to do with Merlin and Arthur.. i thought it was good! amusing... a bit far from the legends we all know and love perhaps, and Uther was a bit stiff? i liked the dragon too..

i'm all for sat nav devices myself! i'd much rather have a voice telling me where to turn etc, then have to pull over a few times to read the map again.. who knows, electronic readers and other devices may well be regarded as the 'real thing' eventually.. especially if paper becomes scarce somewhere in the future.. bring it on!!!

A Song of Ice and Fire (4 books out so far, one book is in two parts) by George R R Martin. it's not finished yet, but there's a lot of words to read in the meantime.. this is one of the very best series in fantasy today. IMHO.

House would win.

i liked one of the interviews i saw about casting for the House character.. he had them totally fooled with his american accent, they were amazed he was actually British!

thank you for the welcomes.. it's never too late! Poppy - north island?

oh yes! i've been a House fan since the first episode.. always liked Hugh Laurie tho, from Jeeves and Wooster days.. he and Stephen Fry were so good in that! so pleased season 5 has started...

no, you are not alone.. I don't even know why i looked at this thread.. curiosity can be embarrassing at times..

it really depends on how it is handled for me... i would call myself an atheist, as in having no belief in the existence of gods, so i do not willingly subject myself to most religious matter... i did read Da Vinci Code, (altho i preferred Angels and Demons), and i have enjoyed books in fantasy realms, or in ancient history settings, where various gods have their place, also books like Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, or the likes of the Cadfael, or the Matthew Bartholomew series, where religion is part of the background.. that's as far as i'll go.

classics.... I do remember a time when the classics appealed to me, a time when I had not read very many at all.. but now? i am finding it very hard to get into Persuasion for the discussion group here, even though I know I have read this a long long time ago.. I have caught myself wondering if watching the movie might have a better chance of holding my interest...

i'd like to join in on this too.. i have read this one before of course, but not for a while now! i have it in .lit form as well, so i've just dropped a copy onto my desktop so i don't forget to read it! sorry.. just editing to add this: i cannot get into this book at all. i guess i am just over reading Jane Austen now, my attention wanders as soon as i look at it, and i find myself up and looking at the TBR pile instead..

by the looks of the poll results, i may as well just say i am older than dirt.. altho there are at least 4 beating me!

i've been having fun! thanks...

To sleep is to die. first book of Troy - Lord of the Silver Bow, by David Gemmell

i was hesitant too.. but i was so glad when i finally took this book home, and read it from cover to cover without putting it down very much at all.. enjoyed it a lot, and looking forward to reading it again one day.

waste of time? pontalba - I know that look well.. altho, I usually point out my new books as the ones I have not read yet, and then they look at the rest of the room with a bemused expression.. that's the non readers though, anyone else looks like a kid in a candy store, until I tell them I do not lend books any more.