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I normally read one or a few books in between, but timewise I don't want to wait too long before starting the next one, or it's hard to remember what happened. Not just that, but I don't like to be reading more than several series at any one time.

About 100 pages are left in George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire 2: A Clash of Kings. I'm really enjoying it for the most part.

I have The Graveyard and Good Omens on my TBR, several other books by him are on my wishlist (Stardust, American Gods, The Ocean at the End of the Lane..) I'm glad to hear good things about his books !

Sounds good ! I'm glad to hear you liked it.

I'm not a horsey person either, tests proved I'm very allergic to them so I've actually never been near them very much. I think I'd be too afraid to ride though. My mum likes horses and rode them when she was younger. She stopped after the father of her best friend had a riding accident. I hope the book is fun! I also enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada, sorry to hear you didn't enjoy her other books though. I hope the second book in the series will be good! I've read I Heart Vegas and liked it enough to buy the first in the series when I saw it for cheap. I do agree that they are a bit young, when I read it at the time I liked it but it wasn't brilliant. I plan to wait with reading the All Souls Trilogy until all three (I presume it will be three books?) will be out and on my shelves. That's what I usually do with series, because otherwise I forget a bit what it's about. I don't want to be reading too many series at once. I'm glad you liked the first book though, I hope you like the second book if you read it. I might start the series sooner than when the third book is out, will have to see how I feel . Thanks, I hope to enjoy the Cassandra Clare books! I've heard many good things about them. Book five doesn't seem to be out in paperback in the same size as the other ones, so I'm waiting a bit until it's out. I found out there's a sixth book on the way, or that's what GoodReads says, so will keep an eye out for that too. Cassandra Clare has also written another series, I'm also thinking of buying those books sometime. I've downloaded a Kindle free ebook: Nancy Radke - The Sisters of Spirit #1-4, Boxed Set with 2 bonus short stories (Sisters of Spirit 1-4) I'm not really sure what it's about but wanted to have a few books to pick from for the holidays etc. I'll probably not read this but XD. I also downloaded this free Kindle book a few days ago: Edith Warton - Summer In case I want to read it for the Reading Circle in August.

My favourite food would be 'gourmet', you use a hot plate to heat the food, underneath it you can put things in a little pan, such as eggs, union, spekjes (bacon bits) and mushrooms. This is my favourite food. We eat it with stickbread (with herb butter and other things for on top of it). We use several different types of meat, such as steak, pork, burgers, spekjes, chicken, sausages. Eggs come from our own chicken. We eat lettuce and various kinds of vegetables with it, such as tomato, cucumber, mushrooms, carrots, and more. We only have this dinner on special occasions. If that's not allowed, then it'd be steak in peppersauce, stickbread with herb butter and lettuce with other cold vegetables (see above). I do like pizza a lot, it's very nice. What's your favourite kind of pizza?

A few days ago I downloaded a Kindle free ebook: Amanda Hocking - The Hollows 1: Hollowland I bought some books: Anna Sewell - Black Beauty Terry Pratchet & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth 1: The Long Earth Santa Montefiore - The Summer House Veronica Henry - A Night on the Orient Express Abby Clements - Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop Jill Mansell - Don't Want to Miss a Thing Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada 2: Revenge Wears Prada - The Devil Returns Julia Williams - Midsummer Magic Lindsey Kelk - I Heart 1: I Heart New York John Green - Paper Towns Michael Grant - Gone 1: Gone Deborah Harkness - All Souls Trilogy 2: Shadow of Night Cassandra Clare - The Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones Cassandra Clare - The Mortal Instruments 3: City of Glass

John B. Arden - Improving Your Memory for Dummies Genre: Information Format: Kindle Pages: 336 Synopsis (GoodReads): Practical tips and techniques make remembering a snap Jog your memory with exercises to help you at home, at work, anywhere! Whether you are cramming for an exam, have trouble remembering names, or you just want to give your overall memory power a boost, this plain-English guide offers clever tricks to help you remember what you want to remember. You'll discover how your memory works and how to enhance it in all types of situations. My thoughts: After the previous Kindle read, Training Your Brain for Dummies, that I considered average, I was very pleased to find out this book was a lot better! It contains many useful tips for improving your memory, as well as explanations of how things work in your brain. I really liked it. Admittedly, my memory is usually pretty good (when I'm not too stressed at least), so maybe this book isn't really necessary XD, but it was interesting to read none-the-less. The language was easy to follow, the writing was very good. I quite enjoyed reading this book. Rating: ***** (9/10) 200 more pages to go in A Clash of Kings! I'm really enjoying it.

I hope you have a great trip, Devi!!

That sounds excellent ! They're on my shelf too, will get around to them someday.

Nice reviews ! I'm glad you liked The Andromeda Strain. I have a Dutch copy, might look into buying it in English sometime.

Nice review ! The book's on my wishlist I believe . I own Kafka on the Shore but haven't read it yet.

In terms of comedic writing, it has to be Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett for me. In terms of comics, I haven't read much of them (I've read mainly kids' ones, and Donald Duck). They aren't as available here as in for example an American comic shop. Would love to try certain comics some day, though I prefer books (novels).

In the Reading Circle topics there will be spoilers, in any other topics people have to put [ spoiler ] tags around their spoilers, so the spoiler can only be seen when clicked on.

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Welcome here !

Welcome here !

Welcome here !

Yesterday we watched Jurassic Park. I hadn't actually seen this film until yesterday! Shame on me. It was brilliant, I really enjoyed it.

I loved this book, the surprise blew me away too. I didn't see it coming. Nicholas Sparks is a great writer and I hope to eventually own and read all of his books.

I've just bought the first book, The Long Earth, since I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett and I have a few of Stephen Baxter's books on my shelf.

I love StarGate! Ahem.. Well there are the StarGate books. I own the Stargate series by Bill McCay (Rebellion is the first book). I've only read the first book of the series so far and quite liked it. There are also other StarGate books but I haven't read them nor do I own them so I don't know if they're good or what they're about (I might be interested though if I were to come across them in a shop or something). Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine is about a man who accidentally invents a time machine and then uses it. I liked it. Tad Williams's Otherland series (starting with City of Golden Shadow) is a cross of fantasy and science-fiction and contains travelling to many worlds (inside a game). You already mentioned H. G. Wells - The Time Machine, though I prefered the film (though I believe there are multiple films) over the book. Those are the ones I remember on top of my head. When you say planet travel I presume you mean like in StarGate and not by ship? Because I know more science-fiction books or series where they go to planets by ship. I might own some books on the subjects you mentioned, but I haven't read them yet so I can't recommend them, they may be quite good but I don't know until I've read them. Something more might come to me at a later time.

Welcome here ! Good luck with your reading, I wish you lots of fun . Gone Girl is on my bookshelf, I haven't read it yet, the same for The Great Gatsby. I hope you like them! Hopefully you can find some nice recommendations here. What kind of subjects are you interested in, for non-fiction?

Sounds like you're both making great progress! I might do some jogging myself after my holidays, once I'm rested enough.

x I'm glad to hear it . x Ah, I might have to look into it then, thanks .