Athena

I'm glad you had a lot of fun, it sounds like it was a special experience . It's cool you got your book signed, those fishies are nice too. I'm a little envious .

My list is: HUSBAND, ASSASSIN, WIFE, LOVER, BOATMAN. It's interesting to think about.

I hope you feel better soon it doesn't sound nice at all. It snowed yesterday and unfortunately this morning it was quite slippery outside. Just before our house, on the road, someone crashed their car upside down in the ditch across the street. I hope no one died or was badly injured.

I'm assuming that's for the UK website, as for me on Amazon.com it's also more than 8$. I hope you enjoy it though! I did buy Jodi Picoult's Kindle single just now (Leaving Home), that was relatively cheap (3.62$) and I own nearly all her other books. Now I just have to wait for my Kindle to arrive, before I can read it comfortably XD.

It sounds interesting, unfortunately on the US website (where I have to order from, with increased prices for Europe) it's more than 8$ ><. Can I ask, does anyone know how often there are Kindle Daily Deals (on the US website)? I haven't been able to figure out a pattern yet, some days they are there, some days they aren't (it's hard to even get to the normal Kindle shop page, rather than getting a list of all that's available.). It seems to be different from the UK website I think. Congrats on your purchase anyway .

In Dutch we call a backpack a 'rugzak' ('rug' meaning back (of a person or animal) and 'zak' meaning bag).

That's very strong of you! Well done . Thanks . I'm really happy with him.

The second one! I encourage people to post their own statistics, would love to see them. EDIT And yes I do love fantasy novels, though I didn't think I liked them more than ie. contemporary fiction and science-fiction. But it's true I've read a lot of them XD.

I've just finished Breaking The Silence (a review can be found in my topic). I loved it, it's a brilliant read that I heartily recommend.

I've just finished Diane Chamberlain - Breaking The Silence, and wow, that was such a great read! It starts intruiging already, Laura's husband kills himself while her daughter was in the house alone with him. She doesn't talk after this has happened. Meanwhile Laura's father dies (just before the husband kills himself), and on his deathbed asks her to take care of someone she's never heard of before. This all happens in the first couple of pages. The story gripped me from the beginning, and continued to make me want to read more. One difference with some of her later works, is that, her other books that I've read, start each chapter from a certain point of view, with the name of this character above the chapter. This book didn't have names at the beginning of chapters, though it was told from multiple points of view. It was mainly told from the main character's point of view, with the parts about the past told from another character's point of view (and now and then the point of view of a third character). It doesn't make a big difference but thought I'd point this out since it's a slight difference from her other books that I've read. I really liked this book. It's better, in my opinion, than The Good Father and Brass Ring, and just as good as The Midwife's Confession (those are the books I've read by Diane Chamberlain). It was really, really good, a brilliant read that I definately recommend. Rating: ***** (5/5)

In the morning, 9:50 (AM) I believe (or 10:10). My energy levels are normally not great, due to my condition. But I am a morning person, and not an evening-person. that's great!

That's a great review ! It really makes me want to read the book sometime.

I do procrastinate sometimes, but not that much. I'm one of those people who prefers to have things done sooner rather than later (I don't do things the last minute, that would really freak me out). I'd rather get it over and done with so I can stop thinking about it and cross it off the list. I'm not very lazy. I can't stand the sight of dirty dishes for very long so I tend to do something about it. I'm allergic to dust so I'm kind of forced to clean maybe more often than I would have otherwise. I do think it's good to have a rhythym and clean at regular intervals, though I have to admit I really don't like cleaning. But when I feel it needs to be done, then I'll do it. I can be lazy but only on somewhat rare occasions.

I just watched Music And Lyrics. I've seen it before, about a few years ago. I like it a lot, it's a funny and sweet film imo.

Wow, those sound like some amazing deals!

There are some books there that I don't recognise, some familiar ones as well. I would have to agree with the ones I'm familiar with, they're pretty important works (ie. Darwin, Dickens, J. K. Rowling). It's an interesting list, I might have to look up some of those books.

I've been putting my books into LibraryThing (I already had them on GoodReads, which is the main site I use) and into Book Collector (software). This post was inspired by I think it was frankie's statistics of the books she read in 2012 (sorry if it was someone else!). I hope you don't mind, frankie .I thought it'd be fun to post some statistics (for those of you who are interested in that) of my books, that I've come across. Apologies to all of you who aren't interested in statistics, this post may not be of interest to you. Note: For the statistics derived from LibraryThing, most of my Dutch books written by Dutch authors are not taken into account. This is because they aren't in the LibraryThing database, though it occurs to me as I'm writing this, that they have several search engines you can select which might've made a difference . Note 2: For all statistics, I only count books I own. I've read more books but I don't own them so they aren't in the list (some are on GR). Note 3: The statistics exclude all children's books (some are on GR) (note: all Donald Duck comics are also not included). Note 4: Some books belong to more than one genre. In this case I'm unsure which genre it's counted as in the book software. Possibly the first one alphabetically. Note 5: I own many more Information books than are in my database. All the books I bought (and read) for my study and for secondary school etc., are not included. Note 6: I've rounded off all values, so the total isn't always 100%. Note 7: For some reason the forum doesn't accept either tabs or spaces to make this post more readable (to put the numbers in one column). I'm not sure why this is. So apologies for that. Note 8: These were all the statistics I found that were interesting, I'm sure there's other interesting ones too. Genre: (Book Collector) Fantasy 31 % Contemporary Fiction 18 % Chick-lit 13 % Science-fiction 9 % Literature 8 % Thriller 5 % Young-Adult 4 % Historical Fiction 4 % Information 2 % Paranormal 2 % Detective 1 % Autobiography 1 % Horror 1 % Biography 1 % Comic % (I don't own many adult comics) Cooking % (mainly because I have some Dutch cook books that aren't well known thus not in LT etc) Manga % (most of the manga I read is owned by my boyfriend) Travel % (I've not put in most of my travel books) Country: (Book Collector) United States 48 % (it would be more if I counted my children's and teenager books) Great-Britain 37 % (I didn't expect to have so many British books) Australia 4 % Ireland 3 % Netherlands 3 % (it would be more if I counted my children's and teenager books) Other 6 % (various other countries, such as Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Russia..) Format: (Book Collector) Paperback 94 % (I do much prefer paperbacks and generally only buy hardcover books if they're really cheap) Hardcover 5 % Ebook 1 % (I expect this to change in a while as I'll be getting a Kindle soon) Male/female authors (LibraryThing) Male: 46% Female: 45% Unknown: 10% I was surprised at this, that's a pretty good ratio (about 50-50)! Alive/dead authors (LibraryThing) Dead 18 % Alive 56 % Unknown 26 % Pages: (Excel) (LT has its own stats for this, but for the Dutch translations LT counts the pages of the English versions because it didn't find the Dutch version. So I think my Excel sheet would be more accurate.) <1 4 % (books still in the wrapper I tend not to unwrap those until I want to read them, to keep them fresh) 1 - 100 1 % 100-200 5 % 200-300 12 % 300-400 25 % 400-500 25 % 500-600 11 % 600-700 10 % 800-900 3 % 900-1000 2 % 1000+ 2 % Average amount of pages: 463 Ratings: (Book Collector) Most of my books are rated four or five stars. There are a few I've rated one or two stars. There are more that I've rated three stars. The Book Collector software works in a 1-10 scale, my Excel sheet works with 1-5 stars. I've tried to scale things to a 1-10 scale, but because I'm so used to the 1-5 scale, the amount of "9s" is not that high. 5 or lower 3 % 6 5 % 7 12 % 8 28 % 9 10 % 10 42 % Note that these statistics only include books I've read. What also helps with the statistics, is that I tend to know what kind of books I like, and I try not to buy any books that I won't like. Of course you don't always know that when you pick something up in an impulse buy, but I seem to have a pretty good idea generally (or maybe I'm not that critical XD). Feel free to post your own statistics if you have them .

That's interesting! It looks like he had a lot of books. It's great the hardwriting is very readable, it looks very neat. I think the books will look nice in the museum. Personal note: I had to concentrate pretty hard to hear what she was saying over the music. Due to my condition it's hard for me to seperate noises. I think I got most of it, though.

That looks very tasty!

I read about this yesterday, it's very interesting! I don't know as much about the history of England as probably most of the British people here, since we didn't get a lot of it at school (we got more Dutch history etc). I hadn't even thought yet of where they would bury him, that seems like a tough question. @ poppy That's great!

He's very cute! I had to laugh when he started to bite his black cushion.

Let us know what you think! It's on my TBR list but I might be tempted to read It first as I read that when I was a lot younger, I have great memories of it (nostalgia etc).

That's good to hear . It gripped me somewhere on the first few pages, it got interesting pretty quickly!

I just had beef (rundertartaar to be more precise), potatoes and lettuce with mushrooms, onion and tomato.

What a sweet dog! And he (Neo's a he right?) has a great matrass thingy to lay on.