More reading time required

I finally finished Lord of Chaos (TWoT book 6) last night. I'm hoping to get through my next book, The Long War by TP and Stephen Baxter, a hell of a lot quicker.

So sorry to hear the news, Anna. Charliepud, what a lovely poem, it almost brought me to tears!

Ed's dance was definitely a sight to behold. It was a shame that Daisy went, but she has been in the bottom three lots now so she's clearly not one of the public's faves and it could have only been one of her, Greg (who did much better in the dance-off), Ed (who wasn't going to go after that dance) and Judge Rinder (which I kinda felt would be unfortunate as his grandparents were in the audience) to go, if there wasn't to be a shock entrant in the dance-off.

Yes, I was highly disappointed in this whole series. Nothing really happened at all. Nothing! Other than that and the programs I previously listed, I have recently been watching: National Treasure - quite good, though I had the ending spoiled for me by Gogglebox before I got round to finishing it Ordinary Lies - I concur that it's not as good as the first series, but it's still enjoyable enough The Missing - fantastic The Code - not bad so far, though not as gripping as series 1 yet Supergirl - might stop watching this soon, I can take it or leave it Ash vs Evil Dead - fricking hilarious, but very sick & wrong Generally far too much telly, which is why my reading has suffered.

I am still reading TWoT book 6, which is really peeing me off now. Not the book, just the fact that I haven't finished it yet. I've also still reading Emma as an aside, on my Kindle. I'm 80% through both of them, and just really need to get a move on and try and pick up some easier/quicker reads next, to get my reading mojo back.

Hi all, I kinda forgot about the forum for a few weeks what with half term & just life in general. Hope everyone is well, apart from dealing with the presidential result the other day. Sadly, after going through the whole Brexit debacle, it didn't come as a massive shock to me.

I could do with reading this. Our 'new' house (and garage) is still so disorganised, even after being in there for nearly 16 months!

Starting to get to a state of telly overload! I have been watching: The Fall Poldark Damned Divorce Yonderland Hunted Morgana Robinson's The Agency Strictly Come Dancing The Great British Bake Off (nearly all over ) Mock the Week Have I Got News For You Would I Lie to You Plus, I want to catch up with National Treasure, Westworld, Ordinary Lies and The Missing.

Last night we watched The Conjuring 2. Properly frickin' scary!

I can't remember if there is much about the character's emotions in them (as it's a long time since I read them) but Brian Keene's zombie books (The Rising, City of the Dead and Dead Sea) are some of the best books I've ever read in that genre.

I used to plan out my path of a certain colour to maximise the amount of stitches I could do before having to switch whilst trying not to have too long a line of thread underneath. It required a lot of careful counting though and if you mucked it up, the dreaded unpicking beckoned! I've not done any for about 20 years. I still have a partially finished cross-stitch of some woodland animals hanging around somewhere. Perhaps I'll dig it out and try and finish it off for my daughter's room. (My son has one that my mum did for him, with his name & DoB).

I will put it in spoiler tags as I only watched it yesterday myself.

I suspect that this is one of those things that if this happened to men, there would be all sorts of information out there about it and lots of different ways to try to combat it. As it's a women only problem, we tend to just suffer in silence. Glad the stuff you're taking is helping

I used to be in the 100 page + a day bracket but now i'm happy if I can do about 30 pages From time to time if I want to finish a book quickly I can still manage a 2-300 page blast, but that's basically with ignoring the telly & all the chores. I just popped into the library near work as it's in the same local authority as my one at home and I nearly got some James Patterson's out, as they had loads of new ones I'd not seen before. Now *they* were books that I could devour in one sitting and I read all of his when they first came out, but before too long I felt they got too diluted, more like large print books and his proliferation was too much for me to cope with so I stopped reading them. I still get tempted back from time to time though. In the end I thought I've got too many books at home to read so I probably shouldn't use the library at the moment.

I'm not currently watching any foreign drama, for the first time in ages. I couldn't remember if Beck was one of the ones I enjoyed or the one that I didn't, so I haven't bothered so far.

Oh yes, I'm looking forward to this too. Also watching Cold Feet which I'm enjoying. It's almost like it's never been away!

What I've always heard is, if you hit & kill an animal with your car you're not allowed to take it home, but the next person to come along is. I don't know how much truth there is in that though.

Well after being confused by the trailer thinking I'm sure *she* wasn't in the first series, the confusion was quickly dealt with early on in the first episode. I've enjoyed it though, even if it's a bit predicable at times. Which one is Ben Aldridge?

Thank you

I finished reading the rest of the Preacher graphic novels fairly swiftly (which I thoroughly enjoyed), then it took me a fair few days to get back into reading Lord of Chaos (TWoT book 6) again. I'm just about barely doing one chapter a day, so I still need to gee myself back into a normal reading mode. I think a different book would probably help but I already feel like I've left this book to languish a bit too long already, so I just want to get through it as quickly as I can.

Am currently mainly just watching a lot of BBC stuff: Poldark Our Girl The Great British Bake Off Strictly Come Dancing I'm also watching Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit. It's rather cheesy and has an abundance of filler, but I like seeing the old games they're playing. Sometimes they are painfully bad at them though.

That's what I thought too. We watched it last week when we were both off work ill and lying on the sofa. Tom thought it was boring and not a comedy (as it had been listed as) whereas I thought it was sweet

Feels like I've not been here for ages! What with the chaos of the school settling in fortnight, the almost daily homework (already) and a week where this sickness bug that's been going around took us all out one after the other (well, me & hubby were ill on the same days, which really wasn't good!), I kinda forgot to check in. Hopefully we're all over it now and this week sees us get back to normal! Hope everyone else with various ailments gets better too

I'm sure you'll beat me in my re-read/new read of TWoT I've not read the prequel at yet. As someone who's only got to book 8 before, when would you recommend would be a good time to read that one?

Gutted that BBC have lost the rights to this show. I've watched it from the very beginning and it was a yearly cosy treat - both heartwarming and very amusing. Even if the format stays the same (albeit with the inclusion of adverts - gah!), it just won't be the same show, so I doubt I'll watch it on C4. The strength of the show was down to the four of them and without three of the main components, it just doesn't work for me. I am loving the current series though and am just trying to make the most of what's left.