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I've not heard of this award, I'll have to take a look into the nominees and see if anything grabs me. Have you read When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, or The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?

I loved The Light Between Oceans, it was so beautifully written. I must watch the film, apparently it does the book justice, which doesn't happen too often! A lovely review as always, Kay.

Hopefully they won't ALL be there in August! I agree re the accommodation, I have a complex diet and whilst I don't have severe reactions if I 'cheat' I do feel amazingly better if I stick to it. We have an apartment so we can self cater when we want to, but we will eat out a lot, I just stick to salads and meat and 2 veg type meals while away. Can you recommend a guide book, June? We are staying in the Split area.

I thought I'd replied to this, not sure where I put it if so! Thanks Gaia, everyone I know that has been to Croatia has loved it and we have been keen to go for a while. We really don't know much about Amsterdam, we want to go to the Anne Frank museum, there is a walking WWII tour I would like to do but Maddie isn't so keen! Obviously a river cruise and maybe hire bicycles. I need a good guide book! Recommendations welcome!

I'm glad the sunshine is making you feel better Gaia, I hate it when things don't go to plan because of other people not doing what they said they would, it must be so frustrating. You should treat yourself to a new book as compensation. We have finally managed to book our family summer holiday, it took us ages to find accommodation we liked in the area we wanted! We are off to Croatia for 10 days in August, it is somewhere we have wanted to go for a while so we are all very excited! Maddie finishes her GCSE's in June so we are hoping to spend a few days in Amsterdam to celebrate, just need to figure out dates with work first as I don't currently have holiday booked for then, I'm hopefully they'll be accommodating though.

The last episode, probably ever, of Broadchurch, fantastic!

Now that's dedication, I obviously didn't get that far!

You are definitely not a loser, Janet, thank you for your help, I have ordered The Impossible Knife of Memory, should be here in a couple of days! Can I ask though, how did you find them?

I've met a fair few people that have met their partners on dating websites, I think it is just a modern way of meeting new people..look at all of us on here, ok, not many of us have met up but I'm sure we would if we lived closer. I'm glad you are happy and enjoying spending time with him, relationships always come with a degree of anxiousness, Steve and I have been together 20 years this years and we stil have our moments - all his fault of course!

Maddie and I want to watch this asap, it's on Sky to rent now so we just need to find the time. Last night I watched Arrival with Robbie, it wasn't what I expected but still good, maybe a 7/10?

No rain here so had a nice long walk with Jojo, the rest of the day has been very lazy though, bit of cooking, but of tidying and a bit of looking for recipes that I can eat and that all the kids will eat, a bit like searching for the holy grail!!

Sent Have managed to post in two sections as per Gaia's advice.

A book published in the 20th Century A book set in your hometown/region A book with someone’s name in the title A book with a number in the title A book with a character with your first name A book someone else recommended to you A book with over 500 pages - Our Song by Dani Atkins A book you can finish in a day A previously banned book A book with a one-word title - Mischling by Affinity Konar A book translated from another language A book that will improve a specific area of your life A memoir or journal A book written by someone younger than you A book set somewhere you’ll be visiting this year An award-winning book A self-published book

Splitting into two posts, as I was getting a server error with the post before (Admin aware): Bit of an update; how is your challenge going Diane, @Inver? I may need some help with some of the characters, particularly in finding a book with a character with my first name, it would have to be spelt correctly too, I couldn't read a whole book with a Hailey or a Haley! Maybe I should use my middle name instead! Plenty of Elizabeths in literature! A book you read in school A book from your childhood A book published over 100 years ago A book published in the last year - It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover A non-fiction book A book written by a male author - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave A book written by a female author A book by someone who isn’t a writer - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi A book that became/is becoming a film A book published in the 20th Century

Brilliant book, enjoy!

I'll send it to your email shortly, Michelle, silly me just tried to BCF message you and of course got the error message!

A nice glass of white wine while watching the football, it is needed, Chelsea are not playing well!

Horses for courses then!!

I remember giving his Notes from an Exhibition a resounding 1 star review!

@Michelle @Athena I can't seem to post on my thread (I have posted on others today), I keep getting an internal server error message. I am on safari if that makes a difference.

I'm sure he's just busy, maybe caught up with family Easter commitments? Hopefully you'll have a little time to read/cross stitch and you can catch up with him soon. How did you meet him?

Enjoy it Kell, I may have a go but I'm generally rubbish at challenges, I prefer to just pick up what I fancy.

I enjoyed Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi last year, another coming of age novel which certainly couldn't be described as a happy read but definitely a worthwhile one.

Is it very wordy? I found that a bit with Time And Time Again. As long as you're enjoying it, that's the important thing.

Happy Easter to everyone too. Quiet day for us here, just me and my two boys and they are more interested in their PlayStations so I'm having a lazy afternoon with a spot of non-fiction.