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Thanks everyone! I saw Wool in Asda yesterday and made myself put it back on the shelf as I bought three books last week I'll put it on my TBR list though. I've seen all the others on dystopia lists on Goodreads but some of the reviews on there can be quite conflicting! I'm actually waiting for The Road to come back into the library so fingers crossed I can read that in a few weeks. Picked up one called Outpost by Adam Baker from the library today so hopefully it'll be a good read.

Hi, Haven't posted on this forum for a few years but have completely gotten my reading bug back over the past few weeks and I seem to be swaying towards the dystopia genre quite a bit. It started with The Hunger Games trilogy, but all the series I've looked up seem to be YA novels, which is fine, but since I'm not a YA anymore, I feel I should be reading something more age appropriate. I've recently read The Silent Land by Graham Joyce which I quite enjoyed, and I've just finished America Pacifica by Anna North which was ok. I also read Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland a few years ago and loved it. I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations along those lines? I'd like to read another series of books, but it doesn't necessarily have to be one. Thanks

My three childrens Spanish/English books arrived this weekend, yay!!

Wow that's really cool! I love the colours!

Interesting!

I have the very basic package with Virgin Media which includes the phone line. I haven't really had much to do with them so far as I've only been with them 3 months, however the installer came when he was meant to, was very good at showing me what was what, and when I initially had a small problem with connecting the internet to my laptop, the customer service centre knew exactly what the problem was and sorted it straight away, so I have no complaints about them so far!

I went to visit my friend this weekend, and they're renovating the house at the moment, they've put this "roof" in, which I actually slept under last night. It's fabulous!

That's a bit of a random uni choice isn't it??

I finished Random Acts of Heroic Love last night and started Small Island by Andrea Levy today.

For some very unknown reason I nearly said Happy Birthday then Anyway, welcome to the forum

Thanks guys! Next time I'm over the park, I'll take some more

I've got a Christmas trilogy by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark. I read them a few years ago now, they're basically mystery stories based around Christmas. I quite enjoyed them. The book is called The Christmas Collection and the individual stories are called Decks the Halls, The Christmas Thief and He Sees You When You're Sleeping.

Yeah the whole park is beautiful. Oh and I meant to say that I took the pic on my mobile, not my camera!

This is a pic I took yesterday of the back of Cardiff Castle, it's so pretty around there. It's not a bad picture considering I took it on my camera and I couldn't see since the sun was in my eyes

The will to live is so strong that given the choice of two deaths one will alays choose the one that buys more time even if it is a matter of seconds. People will jump to their death from a burning building rather than burn with it. For in those few seconds of accelerating flight the god that refused to save them from the fire might still reach down from heaven and bring them to earth alive. Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann

I was strangely excited to have been captured; my letters to Lotte at the time were full of hope. Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann

I have to like him, I'm welsh, haha!! I really don't understand the music choices, I was expecting some spanish "Buena Vista Social Club" type music tonight. Is it normally so random?

Well I've just ordered some of my favourite children's books in Spanish! I tried hunting for some in the Spanish language in Waterstones earlier but they didn't have them. I've just bought Thumbelina, Little Red Riding Hood and The Princess and the Pea. I used to absolutely LOVE Thumbelina when I was small, in fact, I think it's the main reason why I'm so scared of bugs!

I bought Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten for

I read quite a bit of Random Acts of Heroic Love tonight as I was dog sitting at my Mum's. I think it's going to make me cry at some point, which is pretty amazing since I very very rarely even get a lump in my throat when reading!

I do this too!! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've worked out that in general I only read about 40 pages an hour. I wish I could read quicker, means I would get through a lot more books. Other than that, I'm not sure I have any other reading habits. I generally just read whenever and wherever I can, like tonight, I was dog sitting, so instead of watching tv all night, I read my book.

Poor Joe! He was so stiff it was hilarious! I don't normally watch this programme but I was over my mums and we caught the end of it. I don't think Joe will have much problem staying in, the Welsh will all vote for him

Welcome to the forum!! It sounds like you're going to fit in just fine, and don't worry, we never get bored of talking about books

I found out tonight that my pocket Spanish dictionary isn't going to be good enough. She's recommended the big Collins Gem one, which is

Haha! We're clearly like minded in our evil ways!