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To be fair, Amy's Diary has a big font, but maybe I have, I'm not sure. I'll have to see how much reading I get done in total, hopefully I should be able to read a bit tomorrow and Sunday too. I do enjoy it a lot. Have fun with your book !

Sorry to hear that, Janet . @ dex Nice progress! I'm only half participating and not recording any time or anything, but so far I've read: Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (last ~40 pages or something?) Maureen Lee - Amy's Diary (~119 pages) Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (not finished yet) I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and liked Amy's Diary. So far Breakfast at Tiffany's is allright but I'm confused as to what's going on. There are a lot of references and metaphors I don't understand. I do love the descriptions (when they don't contain things I don't understand). I haven't seen the film yet though I did buy it so maybe that'll help me understand it better. Maybe it'll get better as the book progresses but so far it's confusing me. I feel like I'm getting the general gist of it but I'm missing some of what's happening.

Could a mod pin this topic and unpin the June one? We're going to have a BBQ soon, I'm looking forward to it. Two days ago I spend several hours in the kitchen making several salads and preparing dinner. It was delicious! My presentation is in a few days now, I'm quite stressed but gladly it'll all be over soon! I feel insecure so am going to practise some more in the weekend.

x Thanks !

I don't mind at all! I haven't explained it anywhere . First I was doing a 5 star rating system, like on GoodReads. I never rated books before I made my database and joined GoodReads, I never thought of doing so. A while later I found and purchased a program that does ratings out of 10 (like we do in our schools in the Netherlands). So now I usually rate it as a 5 star system (because of GoodReads), and most of the time that's sufficient. However now and then there's a rating that's ie. 3.5 / 5, so 7/10. In that case I rate it 4 stars on GoodReads, because you can't do halves, but in my program I do rate it 7/10. Would it be easier if I just wrote the out of 10 rating down rather than both? I don't mind doing that instead . I'm sorry for confusing you! Generally a 5/5 or 9/10-10/10 book I really enjoyed, they're awesome books in my opinion and I'd recommend them to all who like the genre. Books that are rated 4/5 or 7/10-8/10 were quite enjoyable and I'd recommend these to people who like the genre. Ratings of 3/5 or 5/10-6/10 mean I didn't think the book was so enjoyable, but it was still allright to read it. I enjoyed it somewhat but there were several things in the book I didn't like. Ratings of 2/5 or lower means I didn't enjoy the book, I may or may not have finished reading it. There aren't many books which get this rating as I tend to know pretty well what I like and what I don't like, but it happens now and then. Generally most of my books are rated 7/10 or higher, maybe I'm not so strict or maybe I know well what I like. I feel if I enjoyed a book then it should get at least a 6/10 rating. Even if the book isn't brilliant, my enjoyment is what matters most, to me. I tend to enjoy most books I read. Did this help you in any way?

Maureen Lee - Amy's Diary Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Paperback Pages: 105 Synopsis (GoodReads): On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning starts to write a diary. It is Amy's 18th birthday and Great Britain goes to war with Germany. Amy's fears grow for her brother, fighting in France, and her boyfriend Ian, in the RAF. My thoughts: This is part of the QuickReads series. I bought this book because I liked Maureen Lee's other QuickReads book, A Dream Come True. I decided to read it because of the read-a-thon that's going on at the moment, even though I'm not 100% participating, I thought I should get a bit of reading done. This book takes place in World War II. I quite enjoyed reading about the experiences of the people. There were some plot twists I didn't expect. Sometimes I felt the time passed in the book a bit quickly, I presume to quicken the plot, however I would've liked more details of the time in between two chapters. It was a short and sweet read. Rating: **** (4/5, 7/10)

I think there is a go to menu but it doesn't work for all books, sometimes I can only fill in a location. In other books you can choose a chapter. Also that makes me lose my current position in the book, I don't know how to save it unless I connect to the wireless and sync progress (there are places in the house where the signal is too weak). Well, it's not that important or anything. Thanks, though. I'll have to have a browse on the Kindle and see what I can find in the menu.

No, that's not what I mean (thanks though!). I'd like it if there was a button that I could view the cover of one book full-screen. I've seen people do this with other ereaders but I'm not sure how to do this on the Kindle, unless I scroll all the way to the beginning of the book (unhandy) but then I lose where I was reading (and it will affect my time of how long it will take me to read the book).

George R. R. Martin takes some time to write the books too, so it might be another while until it ends.

On a sidenote: before the first of July I've read 58 books in half a year (1rst of January until end of June), now 59 books. That means I might be able to read 100+ books in one year, perhaps more depending on how much / how often I read.

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Genre: Contemporary Fiction (I suppose it might also be 'mystery', however I don't have a seperate shelf (on GoodReads) for mystery so that's why I classed it as contemporary fiction) Format: Paperback Pages: 272 Synopsis (GoodReads): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. My thoughts: I bought this book based upon a recommendation from this forum. I'm pleased I did! It's such an awesome book. I really did enjoy reading it. The whole book is well written, though I liked certain paragraphs particularly (I would've highlighted them if I was reading it on the Kindle; I prefer paperbacks however and the cover is very pretty). I love the illustrations of situations and puzzles etc. in the book. It breaks up the text nicely and they illustrate the point the author is making, well. There are some plot twists in this book, I wasn't expecting at all. I don't want to spoil it, but wow! I took my time reading this book, because it was so good I didn't want it to end! (also I was busy with other things etc). I highly recommend this book and it's gone onto my favourites shelf on GoodReads. This book blew me away.. it was really good . Rating: ***** (5/5, 10/10)

I just finished reading Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and would like to add this book to my list of best books so far in 2013. Currently writing a review for it. It was amazing!

Awwwww!! So cute .

^ I agree. Shame you didn't love the book (though you did like it), I'm glad to hear though you liked his other books. I have many Asher books on my TBR.

I haven't read it yet either! Some of Dan Brown's books are on my TBR. I hope you enjoy it when you read it .

I don't know if it's me but I don't know of an easy way to display the cover of a book on the Kindle (Paperwhite) . I have to admit, the cover means a lot to me too!

Wow julie.. that all sounds very tough! I hope things work out for you for the best .

I missed your post with the picture somehow! Really nice shelves .

Good luck with getting a job, I hope things work out for the best for you, in love, life, etc. Have fun at your sister's wedding!

I'm glad to hear it! I've heard so many good things about them, I've been collecting them over the past year / two years. I don't have all of them yet, I was quite pleased to find it in the shop! Today I bought one Kindle Daily Deal: Arthur C. Clarke - The Songs of Distant Earth I might still get it in paperback if I like it, I have a few other books by him in paperback, and another few on the Kindle. And there is a new Humble Ebook Bundle (II) (HumbleIndie . com), they provide DRM-free books and I wanted to support them, so I bought the books (it's pay what you want, pay above average you get extra books, some of the money goes to charity). More books will be added to it next week. Since I have already paid for it, I will get them for free, I'll post again when I know what they are. I bought books from the first HumbleIndie bundle too, I believe supporting them (and charity) is a good idea (also I like DRM-free). Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn: The Deluxe Edition Wil Wheaton - Just a Geek Cory Doctorow - Little Brother 1: Little Brother Cherie Priest - The Clockwork Century 1: Boneshaker Robert Charles Wilson - Spin Saga 1: Spin Lois McMaster Bujold - Vorkosigan Saga 1: Shards Of Honor I don't really know much about these books, though I've seen Wil Wheaton in Star Trek and The Big Bang Theory. Therefore, his autobiography is the one I'm looking forward to the most, at this point in time. I didn't really plan on buying more books! On the plus side, the past year barely any games were added to my games TBR (I did play some), so overall not too bad I'd say. In the past year I did buy some DVDs/Blu-rays. One thing at a time.. Only a few days left, then I have to give my presentation, after that.. I'll be done with uni! I look forward to relax a bit. I'm planning to do some more reading too, I should have more time now that I don't need to be spending it on uni stuff, though we'll have to see what I'll do in that time. I do plan on doing some puzzles / braintraining type things now and then, to keep my mind and memory a bit fresh. I spend one year at home when my energy was very low and I could hardly do anything (it was pretty bad), and during that time my mind and memory deteriorated a bit (not by choice, though, I simply didn't have any energy to do anything, I couldn't handle much input). So this time I plan to do some puzzles, mathematical, logical, with words, several things. Anyway.. sorry for rambling. I'm still reading Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time which is really good so far. I'm further than half way through and think I'll give it 5 out of 5 stars. On the Kindle I'm reading a For Dummies book, which is good too so far.

x That's exciting! I don't own any signed books.. *envies* Here's my comments to some of your titles: The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton - Absolutely loved this series (5 out of 5 stars), I recommend getting the other two too if you like this one, so that you can continue the story. The Complete Chronicles of the Crystal Singers of Ballybran - Anne McCaffrey - I have the book on my shelf but haven't read it yet. Line of Polity - Neal Asher - I have the book on my shelf but not read any of the series yet. The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl - I believe this may be on my wishlist but I could be wrong. The Redemption of Althalus - David and Leigh Eddings - I liked this book and gave it 4 out of 5 stars.

Welcome here !

I'm glad to hear that! I saw on GoodReads it has some good reviews, so that's promising!

Awww, I hope you don't have too many seizures in the future ! I'd love to see a photo .

That's great to hear! I bought the Wool omnibus (1-5) on the Kindle when it was on sale.