Anna Begins

Only Ever Yours- Louise O'Neill

Have you heard of the schools that aren't giving out homework, saying children need more time for just being kids? They want children to have more time playing, being with family, etc. I'm glad you're all feeling better, isn't it amazing how fast illnesses spread once school starts??

We are totally different from you all, it's 7:30 and is already warm, gearing up for another 37C day

What about Starship Troopers or Enders Game?

Are you going to read the rest of the trilogy? I'm reading The Swiss Family Robinson today and probably tomorrow.

Tris in Divergent and Katniss in Hunger Games! Um... Laura Ingalls Wilder, how about Offred from Handmaids Tale. I'm like you, I wouldn't want to trade places with most of the characters I read either!

I always "buy as I read", so it's pretty rare for me to go on a spree Thanks!

Yes! Congratulations I'm so happy for you!

I had Man in the High Castle, Wild, Girl With All the Gifts and Water For Elephants... but I bought The Godfather, Elenor & Park and the Nicholas Sparks one . Fun!

I don't know if UK Amazon is the same, but today's Daily Deals are awesome! Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey Wild by Cheryl Strayed Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman The Godfather by Mario Puzo

My reading is all over the place and I'm devastated. It's my coping mechanism for life and it's unreliable. I'm currently still reading Ian Kershaw's To Hell and Back and picked up Selected Stories of Phillip K Dick. Thinking of reviewing the PKD, I haven't written a review in ages.

Edward Albee, a fantastic playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner died Friday. He wrote, among others, the one act play Zoo Story and also Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. He was 88.

Oh my, the movie! Ugh. Btw- Jack Reacher number 21, Night School is out November 8.

What breathtaking synopsis and reviews! I've never read such books (although I have read books relating to the California coast), but what a beautiful challenge!

Have you read any of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books? I prefer them much more than John Sanford.

I get really jealous of the Horrible Histories I can't wait for you to read Different Seasons!

I put it aside for now- my fault, not the book- but will definitely get back to it. You know, after I posted asking you about Heart Goes Last, I thought I remembered you reading it. I thought I remember you not really liking it. A Wrinkle in Time was my favorite book as an early teenager

I wish I could read the Divergent books for the first time again! I've actually been reading! I stopped Alias Grace (for the time being) and picked up Ian Kershaw's To Hell and Back: Europe 1914- 1949. Just wonderful work by this British historian who I've always respected.

1) The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett (Fall of Giants, etc.) I think this would be a much better movie than it was books 2) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 3) something by Jodi Picoult, maybe Nineteen Minutes 4) Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child 5) Legend Trilogy by Marie Lu

I had just been reading Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette and *whew* I found French royalty much harder than Russian. But I do have quite a bit of experience with Russian politics, it's mostly this early period of it I'm having trouble with, like 1300's. I even took 4 years of the language in high school I didn't see The Turkish Gambit on Amazon?

A 14 year old female freshman shot and wounded a female classmate in Alpine, Texas Thursday morning before killing herself.

It was your list in the top 10 thread that got me to read it For some reason, I'm not reading like I normally do, so it's going kind of slowly. Have you read The Heart Goes Last?

I started it, but unfortunately haven't been able to get back to it- I like what I've watched though.

I'm enjoying Margaret Attwood's Alias Grace. And BBC History Magazine arrived today!

I've been reading the thread on our 10 best books. Grabbed a few suggestions from all of our lists. I've been struggling since Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette, but I downloaded some samples today and have been delighted by Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood. Others have got me excited about my third attempt at Crimson Petal and the White or given me a final push at Hilary Mantel's Wolf Wall, which I've been after since it's release. Just for intrest, it fun to see what you posted too!