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Started Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett yesterday and already over halfway through. The Discworld books are just so enjoyable - it's so easy to lose yourself in the story and characters. I am missing Rincewind though...
He'll be back...
Granny Weatherwax is another great recurring character though, along with the other witches you'll eventually meet.
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Stupid double post!
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Whilst it's free, I thought I might as well take a punt on it too!Thanks for the heads up - have downloaded that freebie - looks good.
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Welcome to the group
I've only a very recent member too and also live in Central England. However, I am a fast reader when I actually do read, but the actual time I have for reading has been diminished by having kids and probably also by having an iPhone, so I don't get through even half as many as I used to!
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Ooooh, Brandon Sanderson and WoT - two of my favourite things . . .
How far did you get in the series? I'm up to book 5 in the re-read and so far it's still good. I've not got back up to the point where it really started to drag yet though (and where I abandoned reading it until it was finished - an exceedingly long wait!). -
I love GBBO. I've watched it right from the start. It often inspires me to start wanting to bake again, but rarely enough for me to actually follow it through.
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That would annoy me too. Just as how it annoys me when the publishers randomly change the cover art of a ongoing series of books when you actually would like them all to match. Wheel of Time...grr...
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Pfft, if that were true you wouldn't have read Brandon Bloody Sanderson, would you?
There's nowt wrong with Brandon Sanderson!
(Well, not with what I've read so far anyway. I may change my mind when I finally get round to the Sanderson scribed Wheel of Time books
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Thank youHmm I shall take that into consideration! Thanks Michelle. Also, totally unrelated: your cats are adorable.
That's Mario & Clara. Mario (the tabby) is 9 and Clara (the tortie and white) is nearly 2. We had Mario from a kitten along with his sister, Zelda, but she got run over 3 years ago. 
My hubby found Clara - a Zelda lookalike kitten - on a 'things for sale in...' group on Facebook. We paid £12.50 for her!
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The Book Thief is Amazeballs and I can feel my mojo coming back
The Book Thief is indeed amazeballs.
(I like that word too and perhaps use it a little too much sometimes! ) -
It's nowhere near good enough to be considered Dresden-esque, really
Based on the one Dresden book I've read, I concur!
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Moved on this morning to the second DIscworld novel, The Light Fantastic. I can't believe I've only ever read the first in this series, but I hope to rectify it in the coming months - and probably throughout 2016.
Ah, you have a lot of joy to come! Discworld just gets better and better as you go through the series
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Where would you suggest one should start with King? I've read Cell, Blaze and Duma Key - and off the top of my head I think that's it. I've always meant to properly get stuck into more of his books but never bothered. Any thoughts on where I should go next?
I would consider Cell to be one of his worst, so you did well to continue after that! Blaze is a Richard Bachman isn't it? I think that one was good, as was Duma Key.
Like Geordie9 says, The Stand is one of his seminal works so a good one to read but if that seems like too big a tome to take on, I'd recommend the old classics like Carrie, The Shining and Christine. The Bachman Books are also fantastic.
If you like a bit more fantasy added in, The Talisman and the Dark Tower series are brilliant.
If you want something less 'horrory', Dolores Claiborne, Rose Madder or 11.22.63 are a good bet.
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I made it all the way through Cryptonomicon. As you say, hard work and not a lot of fun. I don't mind the hard work if it's an entertaining read, which wasn't the case with that one.
My husband is always raving about Neal Stephenson and Cryptonomicon. I read it all but I found it such a hard slog that I shan't be returning to any of this other works any time soon!
Not Gaiman-esque, really, I don't think. Felt more like a UK-based version of Dresden, to me.
Rivers of London is nowhere near good enough to be considered Gaiman-esque!
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That is probably one of my favourites too. I first read it back when I was a teenager borrowing books from the library. It had a very different book title back then though, which is now deemed offensive!
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I can`t tell if that`s sarcastic or not.
A bit of both.
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Another awful day with biblical arc type weather in the evening. We had put some washing out on Sunday morning and left it out there as it got rained on, dried a bit, rained on, dried a bit, ad infinitum, until I gave up with it this evening, shoved it back in the machine for another wash & spin cycle, then hung it indoors on the clothes horse to dry.
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Jury service & the trial system in general, sounds like an immense waste of taxpayers money!
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She looked so different!!
She looked like she'd lost far too much weight. And her hair wasn't as good!
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BTW, did you also start missing Legend of the Seeker whilst watching it ?!
God no, that series held my full attention as it was amaze-balls!
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Actually I only just started Mr Mercedes last night, so I can't really comment yet!I liked it, how's it going?
Incredibly though, within the prelude, it has a direct reference to The Grapes of Wrath!
What are the odds of that, that I would be reading both of those books at the same time? 
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Final episode of Agent Carter, not that I've been following it with 100% concentration, but I've got the general gist of it & it's been pretty enjoyable.
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No, 3 year old boy.Raining here in Kent too. Raincoat with hood, wellies and umbrella weather.
3 year old girl? What about those cut out dresses to stick on dolls. New fangled ones come in books and are ready-cut and plasticky and very popular. Hope you get some good ideas.
We found some coloured pencils that needed sharpening into points and then he decided that sharpening was the best thing ever and proceeded to sharpen the other ends of them at various places around the house despite being repeatedly told to 'do it over the bin'. Then we went for a late lunch in a pub, and got back in time for some friends to visit the baby. They bought him some chocolate cars, which he proceeded to eat all of, at which point he went a bit crazy for a while, had several timeouts, then watched some rubbish nursery rhyme songs on you tube before collapsing in a sugar induced coma so we put him straight to bed.
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7 books in 7 days is crazy - unless you do nothing else but read and even then surely they would be short books! Assuming you aren't reading seven kindle singles/kids picture books or something, I guess...
I probably could have done this in my reading prime (i.e. pre kids) but not any more.
Which fantasy series to delve into next?
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Of the ones I have read, I would personally recommend the Farseer trilogy over all of those. It is absolutely brilliant, as are her two subsequent trilogies.
Riftwar starts pretty well but the next two books aren't as good.
The Wheel of Time I really enjoy, but it is really long, starts to drag at some point around book 8 and I haven't finished it yet so I can't comment on whether it's all worth it!
Malazan I started reading but had to abandon as I found it really hard going and didn't get what was going on. Mind you, I did start it at a really stupid time - when my first child was born - so I was probably too sleep deprived to appreciate it.
I will have another attempt at some point.
The other books I haven't read, although I have heard good things about Patrick rothfuss.