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I saw that Poppy. Incredible heat down there where they often don't get any higher than about 15. We got into the 30s again today. We have a fan at home, but that isn't really doing much in this heat.

HOT!!! 34C yesterday, and about the same today. We've been getting days of 27-30C since November. Our usual summer weather is maybe 5 days of 25+ in February, and the rest of summer about 22-23ish. Getting high temps like this is very unusual for us. Even overnight it's nearly always 18C, again for over three months. And what is normally the hottest part of summer for us is still to come. I know some of the Americans on here are used to summers hotter than this, but we aren't. We've also been getting huge thunderstorms every afternoon/evening because of the heat. Saturday the thunder started at 1pm and didn't stop until after 7pm.

Death on a Longship sounds good Madeleine. I'm reading Ann Cleeves Shetland series and would like to read more books set in that part of Scotland.

i finished The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie and All I love and Know by Judith Frank last night. The Agatha Christie was not as good as her others and I'm still trying to decide what I thought of the Judith Frank book. The first half was quite good, but the second half let it down a lot.

Another website that is good for series books is fictfact.com. You can mark off the books as you read them. I find it helpful otherwise I'll get ones I've already read when I go to the library.

Currently reading Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie. Sent my daughter to the library for me last week when I was sick and she came back with this (and a few others). She chose well.

That's great he won the award. I think cleaners are very important in any organisation. I always make sure to thank the cleaners when I see them at work and often if I'm at the mall or somewhere like that. I don't know what it's like in other countries, but here in New Zealand they usually get minimum wage, and I think they really should get a lot more than that.

I've added The Summer Queen to my list. I've just got into reading historical fiction, so I'm always looking for suggestions.

No, they were in English, just not grammatically correct.

I think we use AUS. I don't go on Amazon much. Their shipping down here is horrendous. I have the kindle app on my phone, but hardly use it.

Only available in the UK. I like Peter May's books.

Thanks for that Michelle. I've just about finished Red Dragon and am in two minds whether to read Hannibal. I can't decide at this point if I liked Red Dragon or not.

Thanks Ian and Madeleine. It really does read as if there should be another before it. I'll finish it and then decide if I'm going to read the others. I watched the TV programme a few years ago, so I keep picturing the actors off that. I haven't seen the movie, I was 8 or 9 when it came out.

Has anyone read the Hannibal Lecter books by Robert Harris. I thought it would make sense to read them in chronological order, but I started reading Red Dragon last night and it seems that I should have read Hannibal first. I may be wrong, but it really reads like the second in the series and has a lot of references to Lecter which make it confusing, even though Red Dragon was written 7 years before Hannibal.

Walk of Life - Dire Straits

40 so far. I've never counted how many books I read before, so I don't know how it compares.

Finished The Princeling by Cynthia Harrold-Eagles and now re-reading Exit Music by Ian Rankin.

The last time I got new glasses I had problems with them. The optician said they were the correct prescription. I insisted they recheck and when they did they found the optician and written two numbers on the prescription backwards. I've had glasses since I was 3, so I knew the problems I had weren't just adjusting to a new prescription. It might be worth getting the prescription checked. Good lighting when reading as shirley mentioned really helps too.

Dan Brown is bad for this. I gave up reading his books because as soon as a woman was introduced you knew the main character was going to end up in bed with her.

Finished Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier this morning. Definitely a 6 star read. Off to the library later to see if they've got anymore of he

I'm reading a library book at the moment where someone has corrected the grammar/spelling in places. The writing in the book is bad enough, but also, so far, the corrections are unnecessary as the grammar is not incorrect!!!

I love organising my books. You make me want to redo mine, even though I only moved a few months ago, so they definitely don't need it.

I'm always on the lookout for new crime series'. I'm adding this to my list.

Noll, I'm a medical secretary, just started in March. I mainly do transcribing, but also fill in for admins when needed. I work in the mental health area of our hospital. I love it. I meet lots of interesting people and it's quite varied, so you don't have a chance to get bored.

I had a friend in high school who was adamant she didn't want kids. A lot of people told her she'd change her mind or regret it later. In her mid 20s she fell pregnant accidentally (was married to a guy who also didn't want kids). People started tell her she'd see how much she did really want kids when the baby was born. I saw her when her daughter was about 8 and she told me having a child hadn't changed her mind. She loves her daughter, but still wishes she'd never had kids, and knows for certain that's what she would have preferred.