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just saw on Twitter that Librarything are allowing people to set up new accounts free between now and sunday..usually if you add more than 200 books you have to pay..after a year you'll then have to pay if you add more than 200 a year I believe.

I first heard of these books on a blog, savidgereads, and he has challenged himself to read all Persephone's catalogue.. (he's called it The Persephone Project) As for me, I love the presentation of these books, the grey jackets..a whole shelf of these would look so cool..

we are big fans in our house..my 8 year old sat through 2 hrs of subtitled tv. without moving...it's THAT good..

How daft am I though...sat there thinking to myself..'Troels Hartmann from The Killing looks different.'...till I found it THAT was his brother Lars..

I'd totally agree there..I read it recently..but came to it by a circuitous route.There's a fairly recent book out by Lynn Shepherd called Tom All-Alone's which is a victorian detective story based on some of the characters who appear in Bleak House. I'd heard this discussed on The Readers podcast, and it inspired me to read Dickens first, so that when I did get to it I'd 'get all the references' (although you could read it as a stand-alone' work ) The upshot of this long story is that I read both, and surprised myself because apart from reading the usual 'Great Expectations' and 'A Christmas Carol', I hadn't got past the idea that Dickens was too long-winded, or complex. I was wrong on both counts..

I watched 'The Hunt' last week with Mads Mikkelsen. it's a Danish film about a man wrongly accused of child abuse, and how easily and quickly his life falls apart; friends suspect him, people he's known for years shun him. It was very dark but the performances were wonderful.. (Coincidentally the Guardian have it on their site to rent today.)

Hi Julie..fairly broad tastes..mostly 'literary-fiction', classics,crime/thrillers.. and I love translated fiction as I am an armchair traveller... I am not a big fan of horror or fantasy..although I am doing some challenges over on Goodreads involving reading genres you wouldn't usually try so I've varied things a bit recently. The only one I really don't get one with is YA..I have 'had a go,' but it's just not my thing..

Wow, you lot are quick..went away for a spot of beans on toast and came back to your kind replies..thanks all..

Hi all, my name's June..I'm excited to find this site.. have only just found it after seeing it mentioned over on Twitter. I'm a middle aged mum who has rediscovered reading of late and I'm fed up of talking to non-bookloving friends and family whose eyes glaze over as I gush about yet another book they have never heard of,let alone read..! I look forward to spending some time among like-minded people here.. Waving to you from a rather cloudy Brighton..