Marie H

hello bizzarebird. I have a Kobo Glo, and I wouldn't live without it now, but it's only a few months I've had it, and have never had any e-reader before, so I can't help you as to give you any comparison with other e-readers. I think that the battery life is very good, compared to some of the others that I've heard of. On paper, the battery should last you two months,( If you don't use the backlight),and one month If you do use the backlight.So far, that seems to be the case with mine. So technically it's a good e-reader for me. The only thing that does bug me is that their library is huge, but I think it is limited for me.They say that they have millions on their library, but there's an awful lot of trashy stuff in it. As an example, I tried to find Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay, but they didn't have it on the library.

Yes,his life was short, and not that happy either .but his music was beautiful.

P.S. I should let you know that Nick Drake was a very,very tortured soul, and very much a 'shoe gazing' person. I recommend that you hear Northern Sky as his most wonderful track, off Bryter Layter album.I get a lump in my throat every time I hear it .

Google damn quick, frankie!not knowing Nick Drake?

no, I didn't you know that there was a sequel but that's another for my 'to read' list!. Phil Rickman is also a big fan of Nick Drake, and he drops a lot of l his lyrics/references to Nick in his Merrily Watkins books. (Don't tell me you don't know any Nick Drake song lyrics?)

I enjoyed your Greenery Street review poppyshake I'm a fan of Persephone Books too, both for their themes, and the look and feel of their books. I only buy them second-hand copies, and they are rare to find. It seems most people keep them after they have read then, but are reluctant to give them away - they are so beautiful! Saplings by Noel Streatfield was my first Persephone read, it's a wonderful book.

Cannery Row is really good frankie! Very gritty realism. I've read The Wine of Angels, it being the first of the Merrily Watkins series. It's quite good in a spooky way, but I've haven't bothered to read any others in the series.

Wheee! Just downloaded Morrissey's Autobiography

Elyne Road by Toumani Diabate Toumani is the King of the Kora, for me

P G Wodehouse is my love-lit. His work is the pick-me-up remedy to all mental anguish.

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly Kylie I love reading The Moomins, and it's only in this year that I first read Winnie the Pooh! I've got an audiobook of Winnie the Pooh, read by Alan Bennett. The best person to read them, I think.

Just finished Georges Perec's A Void. Working on the review for the book. 2nd book for Marie H's World Tour of Fiction will be The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov

Hello Athena. Thanks very much for your post this morning , and also it's nice to know that I can send you a PM too I've just read your review of The Mind Gym - good review! I know how you feel about not being 'on the autopilot' – but it's very difficult to explain other people that walking and talking at the same time is incredibly difficult, as I have this problem

Yep, Psycho has that wonderful chilliness about it. I haven't seen Bates Motel, but it looks good from TV reviews - it has a Twin Peak-ness, and I loved Twin Peaks . TP hardly gets repeated, but it really should shown more often.

Thanks Athena Life has been limited since I had the brain haemorrhage. I have my mobility, so I can get abound independently, but can only manage stairs with handrails, so many buildings are no go areas for me. It really pi**es me off that in these modern days, that so few buildings have disability access .I've always been a socially awkward person, so I'm quite happy in my own company, usually with books. I'm sure that with you having HFA, you get fed up with people thinking that they might be on the spectrum. I just had a gnawing feeling that I have something that explains the way I feel and act. I feel that I think differently from most of the world i.e. neuro-typicals. Also,I feel a bit uneasy discussing these things online. But thanks a lot Athena

Uummm, none that I think off the top of my head, (I always need time to think about things ) . I'll just tell you something about my disability first. I have right side hemiplegia, and aphasia, after I had a left-side brain haemorrhage 22 years ago, so I have short term memory problems, and speech and language problems. Plus, I've always thought I might be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, but I have not been diagnosed as on the spectrum.

Psycho and Some Like It Hot are my favourite films. Two very different themes, but then someone pointed out to me that both have men cross-dressing in them....

I agree with you muggle not, a good meal is not quite right without wine. But I find that I like to have a slurp or two of my wine before eating, especially when I'm doing the cooking . I have "issues" with many recommendations of food with the wine, on the label. It might be my palate, but quite often I find the wine is better either before or after the meal, not with it.

I'm another red wine gal, and it must be something about my Dad's Scottish gene pool, as I never,ever buy wine unless it's on a very good offer in the supermarket Shiraz, Merlot and Cab Sauv are my preferred grape varieties. I'm certainly not a wine snob or expert, I just drink wines that I enjoy. And at a bargain price of below £10 per bottle. Most of the wine I drink come from the Southern Hemisphere, as I find the wines more mellow. I do like a rose or a nice Aussie Chardonnay, on a hot summer day, with food. Sadly that will be a lot time away...

Wow, Athena! You did go a bit mad with the free ebook downloading! Hope you have fun and success with the cookbooks. Browsing through the Information section of your free ebooks, I could find some help from tips myself Something tells me that you and me could have quite similar personality traits

Congrats on your 5001 posts poppyshakes!

I managed to spend the afternoon reading a good chunk of Georges Perec's A Void. Just another 100 pages to go.

Hee hee, frankie, but my least overrated one was The Alchemist

Recently I heard Peter Gabriel say that Dolly Parton was his first choice for Don't Give Up! Quite a surreal thought, to me.

My everyday fave fruit is banana. Then as seasonal fruits, I love fresh apricots, fresh figs and the Japanese variety of persimmons. They are a longer bodied fruit than the usual sharron fruit, and when they are ripe they feel so soft, like a raw egg without the hard shell. They taste divine, difficult to describe - mango-ish with a hint of 'boiled fruit sweet' hint. Only find these persimmons in a local whole-food shop, and their season is very short.