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Hello and welcome! I prefer 'real' books too, but I must admit I have a sneaking fondness for my ereader which allows me to carry dozens of books when I go away on holiday or whatever!

A terriffic read, that I always class alongside The Three Musketeers and anything of Jules Verne!

Wind Beneath my Wings - Bette Midler

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - Bobby Vee

I more or less gave up 'holiday' meals when my two sons grew up and left school. So Saturday and Sunday will be a 'normal' meal, ie, whatever i would generally have on those days!

Summer in The City - Lovin' Spoonfull

Hayley there have been various TV versions of the 'William' stories. One of the early ones featured Sweeney/Minder star Dennis Waterman as William, while the last that I recall, had the youngest son from the series 'Outnumbered' in the lead role!

Any (and all!) of the Richmal Compton 'Just Wiliam' books. Perfect stuff for would be young rebels (but who in fact were not in the least rebellious!)

As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithful/The Stones

Time is on My Side - The Rolling Stones

Welcome and hope you enjoy it here!

We had a fabulous Library here in our town, for most of my life. massive, with seperate reading rooms etc it was a joy to visit. A few years ago, the local council (in their infinite wisdom) closed it, and opened a 'new' library inside our Council House (Town Hall) which is very tiny and is only realistically one small room inside the main building. Poor selection of books to borrow, no reading room(s), generally very poor. I have only visited it once just to have a look; I won't be returning so far as I can see.

I won't name the actor as I have no desire to get into all that again! But I will point out that it was a female actor ('actress' in my day and before the PC police) and I suspect that the main reason for the reaction to my post,was an age and preference issue! I am elderly and the 'actor' concerned is relatively young, and has appeared in things since she was a teenager. The chap who disliked my post,was probably a young man,who thought that the actor was beautiful (as does my son's best pal!) where to me, she is just an average looking girl/woman with very little acting ability! (I.M.O.!!!!) But as I said earlier, the whole point of a forum is to get differing views,surely? If you write that actor X is a great actor, and I am unfamiliar with their work, I will probably go and check some of it out. I may end up disagreeing with you (and your opinion) but as ever, I respect your right to think and believe what you will!

I once emailed Stephen Booth, who writes the Fry and Cooper crime series, set in Derbyshire. As I live in Derbyshire, I had spotted two quite glaring errors in his descriptions of places (although his town in the books is fictional!) and he replied the same day. A nice chaty mail, where he admitted that he was not familiar with the place(s) I had pointed out, and had simply 'winged it'!

I have only been on here a short time, but find the gang here to be friendly and very tolerant toward newcomers! Just relax, you will enjoy your time on here. I too was 'blasted' on a TV and Movie forum, where I had the temerity to suggest that a certain actor was not as good as their fans always seemed to think. So I just take any criticism as a difference of opinion, which is what forums are all about, surely?

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles

Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles

Useless fact for anyone interested in trivia: the chapter ' The Council of Elrond ' is the longest chapter in the book. In the audiobook version narrated by Rob Inglis it runs at just over two hours! But as has been pointed out already, there is a lot of exposition and filling in of details in that chapter, so it has to be that length to fill in the background story.

The Games People Play - Joe South

A Whiiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

Currently watching 'The Hunters' and 'A Discovery of Witches'. 'The Hunters' of the title are a group of elderly former Holocaust survivors,with a few younger associates,who are hunting down former Concentration Camp Staff who are all rabid Nazis, and despatching them with summary justice. Head 'Hunter' is Al Pacino, who refused to do TV work for years, but has now seemingly had a change of heart. A bleak and gritty series that would not be to everyones tastes, but I find it strangely compelling. 'A Discovery of Witches' is a strange one; I was gripped by the opening episode and stayed with it for series one. But as the series has morphed into something 'other' than the opening led me to believe, I may not make it through series two and three!

Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes

I always interpreted the ring wanting to stay with Frodo, as the fact that we are shown that he is a good natured and sweet soul, and that the evil inherent in the ring felt that he would be more malleable,and easier to bend to it's will. Like Smeagol/Gollum a more pliable sunject to work on!

Reeling in the years - Steely Dan

Hold Back The Night - Graham Parker