Athena

Frankie, I'm glad you finished two books, well done!! Eleonora, I'm glad your library is open again, have fun reading .

I thought The Hunger Games book was better than the movie too.. the movie was allright but I felt the book did a better job of portraying certain emotions and thoughts of the characters.

Suzannah Gardner and Shane Birley - Blogging for Dummies Genre: Information Format: Kindle Pages: 411 Synopsis (GoodReads) (shortened): This proven bestseller is fully updated and better than ever!Now in its fourth edition, "Blogging For Dummies" is fully updated and more practical than ever for today's bloggers. Whether you're just beginning or are already a full-tilt blogging maven, you'll find the up-to-date information you need in these friendly pages. Want to integrate your blog with social media? Jump into the fast-moving world of microblogging on Twitter or Tumblr? Choose which blogging software to use? Optimize your current blog for search? This detailed book guide covers it all, and then some. Buy the book, build a better blog, and blog about it! My thoughts: I started to read this book because it's one of the last For Dummies books left to read on the Kindle (until I buy more, at least). My Kindle has a light and so it's easy to read when it's a bit dark. I thought the book might inspire me to do some blogging (of some kind). I would like to write more. The book was good, though some things were a bit straight-forward. I suppose those things should help less tech-savvy people or people who don't know a lot about blogging and the internet yet. In any case, there were some helpful tips in the book that may be of use to me too (if I decide to blog again), or that I can tell others about (bloggers I know). The book was well written and easy to follow. Rating: **** (8/10)

x I'm glad to hear you liked it a lot!! x x lol, nice to read your thoughts on some of the books I bought .

x I'm glad to hear it, if you decide to buy/read it, I look forward to hear/read your thoughts!!

I bought some books at the charity shop: Theodore H. White - In Search of History William Boyd - A Good Man in Afrika Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk Margaret Drabble - The Millstone Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One Sandra Glover - Don't Tell Jan Page - Juggling Lessons Jane Smiley - Good Faith Note: I can't seem to add to my book list at the beginning of the topic so these aren't on there yet, posted about it in the Using the Board section.

I bought On Chesil Beach for a cheap price a while ago, nice review , though I'm sorry to hear you didn't like it that much.

John Green - The Fault in Our Stars Genre: Contemporary fiction, Young-Adult Format: Paperback Pages: 316 Synopsis (GoodReads): Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. My thoughts: I've been meaning to read this book for a while. I've heard a lot of good things about it, from quite a few people. While initially I felt the book was very good but not worth the hype, the second half pulled me in more. It's a sad book, in the sense that it's about cancer, life, death, love, and other things. It's really well written. I quite liked most of the characters. There was one character I didn't really like. The main character is quite strong, mentally. Books that deal with difficult issues such as this book, make me think about how happy I am with what I have and how lucky I am to have the people I love, in my life, without health issues (other than our disabilities). I love my boyfriend and my family and friends. It's hard to talk about this book without telling you anything about the plot twists. So (only read if you've read the book or if you really don't mind being spoiled about the plot or the ending): I'd recommend this book to anyone (unless perhaps you've in one way or another dealt with cancer in your life and it's too difficult to read a fictional story about it). Rating: ***** (9/10) Next I might read Stop What You're Doing And Read This!, written by various authors (including Mark Haddon). But I haven't fully decided yet. I've got quite some books lined up on the TBR-soon (to-be-read-soon), there's a couple of piles.

I don't like extreme violence or nudity either, so most of my choices below don't have much of it. My favourite anime films (in order of how much I like them): All Studio Ghibli films Millennium Actress Welcome to the Space Show! 5 Centimetres per Second Summer Wars Tokyo Godfathers Voices of a Distant Star The Girl Who Leapt Through Time My favourite anime TV series (in order of how much I like them): Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances Love Hina Fruits Basket Haruhi Suzumiya Eden of the East Haibane Renmei Azumanga Daioh Neon Genesis Evangelion That's all I can think of atm. My boyfriend has a lot of anime on DVDs (and a few on Blu-rays), I haven't watched them all yet that I'm interested in. He really likes Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor (other than the ones I've already mentioned. I haven't watched these two yet). If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have known about these films and series.

Here are the books I received today: Diane Chamberlain - Necessary Lies Penny Vincenzi - Love In The Afternoon And Other Delights Heather Vogel Frederick - The Mother-Daughter Book Club 2: Much Ado About Anne Janey Fraser - Happy Families Terry Brooks - The Dark Legacy Of Shannara 2: Bloodfire Quest Peter F. Hamilton - Great North Road Various Authors - Stop What You're Doing And Read This! Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark - Read This Next Nancy Pearl - Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason (Lust) Nancy Pearl - More Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason Nancy Pearl - Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers Thomas C. Foster - How To Read Literature Like A Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Julia Eccleshare - 1001 Children's Books Waiting for these ones, most should be here not too long from now (one has been delayed, so that may take another few weeks): Nicholas Sparks - Message In A Bottle Heather Vogel Frederick - The Mother-Daughter Book Club 3: Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick - The Mother-Daughter Book Club 4: Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick - The Mother-Daughter Book Club 5: Home For The Holidays Nancy Pearl - Book Crush: For Kids And Teens Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment And Interest Hallie Ephron - 1001 Books For Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide To Unwinding, Misbehaving, Forgiving, Celebrating, Commiserating Francine Prose - Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Rob Kaplan - A Passion For Books (note: I won't be writing down again when I've got them.) The Fault in Our Stars is quite good so far, though because of other things I've been doing I haven't been reading a lot. It's not a very long book, normally I could read it pretty quickly if I spend some time reading, however I've been doing other things.

The Secret Keeper is on my TBR, I'm glad to hear you liked it a lot!

One of my friends really likes that one, bobblybear, so I hope you do too! (it's on my TBR)

I haven't read the book, but my boyfriend has an early English edition. He hasn't got around to reading it yet.

x At the moment we have Boris and Pamuk. Boris is the pup, though he should be an adult in a little while I think? Tomorrow we've had him for a year. Pamuk is a few years older. I have to be honest though, and say that Boris doesn't listen as good as Yossi (whom I referred to above, and Maya) did (and Pamuk does). He's a Komondor, they're known for making their own decisions and taking a while to learn your rules. Once they know them they won't violate them, it's just that he doesn't seem to accept some of them yet (maybe it takes more time). Gladly though he's not peeing inside or anything, it's mainly that he's so big and doesn't understand that he can't fit in certain spaces, or that sometimes we want to have him in a different room because he could otherwise, for example, eat the cake off visitor's plates (if there is a birthday), but then he opens the door. He often runs into us (and believe me, he weighs ~60 kg so that isn't pleasant). Anyway maybe with time he'll learn better how things work. I haven't managed to really teach him to lie down to be honest.. I tried for a while but when it took longer than with the other three (with whom it didn't take that long at all), I kind of stopped trying it myself. He can do it on command and sometimes does it, but other times he doesn't. I think he knows what it means but sometimes doesn't feel like it. I'm sorry for rambling in your thread . So.. in more bookishness, any interesting finds? Are you reading anything at the moment?

A while ago I downloaded a free Kindle book: Nancy Radke - The Sisters of Spirit 1-4 Boxset I bought some books during my holidays (nearly all of them on sale): Tony DiTerlizzi - The Spiderwick Chronicles 2: The Seeing Stone Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles 4: The Ironwood Tree M. C. Beaton - The Travelling Matchmaker 1: Emily goes to Exeter M. C. Beaton - The Travelling Matchmaker 2: Berlinda goes to Bath Joseph Delaney - The Wardstone Chronicles 4: The Spook's Battle Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse Collection: A Touch of Dead D. J. MacHale - Pendragon 8: The Pilgrims of Rayne Jim Butcher - Codex Alera 4: Captain's Fury Michael Ashley - The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic Paula Guran - The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons Maureen Lee - The Old House on the Corner Cassandra Clare - The Mortal Instruments 5: City of Lost Souls Erica James - The Hidden Cottage Peter Boxall - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die I've ordered a couple of other books, mainly books about books, some books of authors I love that have been released in paperback in the past while and some books from a series that involves a book club. I'll post a list of them when I have them (or most of them). I'm currently reading John Green - The Fault in Our Stars, it's quite good so far, though I'm not that far into the book yet.

My copy is a Wordsworth one, I haven't read it yet though so I can't comment on the contents XD. It's a paperback and it's mainly blue with a picture. Those editions look beautiful, Kylie!

Our first dog actually could eliminate on command (I'd say the word and if he had to go he'd do so), he was such a sweetie. Interesting list, Julie!

Nice review, Brian ! It sounds like a good book. I'm not sure if it's my thing to read, as for me it's more about energy management than time management, but if I were to read a book on time management the one you read sounds pretty good.

Awesome! Which episodes or season? I like both of those .

Would a Dutch/Belgian film count as foreign, or does it not because I'm Dutch? In any case.. Ben X is a film about a boy with autism and about bullying. You have to be in the right mood to watch it, but I liked it a lot. Other than that, I like Shaolin Soccer and some other ones.. my boyfriend has quite a few foreign films on DVD / Blu-ray but I don't remember all of the names (I've not watched all of them, as well, but some were quite good).

Nice!! P. S. How do you get the forum to post eleven images? When I try to post more than three it tells me I've posted too many, in one post.

Your bunnies are really cute! Below are some photos of our new zijdehoender little chicken. Unfortunately the littlest one (who was in a seperate area because his mother kept pecking his bum) passed away last night . The others are doing well, though. There's one brown one, one orange, one yellow, one yellow with orange stripes and two yellows with orange spots.

It's really sweet of Alan to get you those books ! They look awesome. I bought Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop a little while ago, I haven't read it yet though. Scarlet Feather is going on my wishlist. I own Silver Bay but haven't read it yet, I hope you like it! The Red House is on my wishlist, I look forward to hear what you think of it.

x Oh dear! I'll have to put off reading that one, for a while, then. I really don't like it when books are being too preachy.

I think you should! I really liked it, at least. It's also not terribly long so it should take you less time to read than some other, bigger books. It's very good, though .