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I watched 'A Quiet Place Part 2'.

I have often been deeply moved by a book, but never actually wept over anything I have read.

They immediately clicked,

Love the 'Earthsea' series! I have re-read them over and again,especially the original trio of books, which were all that was available for a while.

Seventy two and a half.(ish!)

I am just about the same! I have many friends who are virtual non-readers,and they cannot understand how and why I choose to read so often. Well it is one of lifes great pleasures,to me. I cannot undertand why some of them choose to spend the same amount of time watching sport/playing sport/or whatever their choice may be. Each to their own;reading is,and always has been a total pleasure for me!* * Ever since i first asked my Mother, what those funny symbols were on the morning cereal packet, and she patiently started to show me what 'letters' were, and how they could be used.She too,was a great reader herself!

It thundered here last night and spotted rain across the ground; only random drops though, not enough to wet anything. We all hoped the heat would break and give us relief; instead it increased as the potential 'storm' moved away!

I always found 'Ulysses' an easy read. It's 'Finnegans Wake' by James Joyce that is real challenge!

I was brough up to respect books too much,probably, so I never,ever mark them, bend corners or write in them! A bookmark for me is often a slip of scrap paper or a shop reciept,just slipped between the current pages. I actually own a few 'real' bookmarks that have been given to me over time,and i generally forget where I have them, or can't be bothered to look, so long as i have a slip of paper handy!

Strangely cooler than the past few days here, but incredibly humid. You could grab the air and wring it out!

A poweful book, and a powerful film. Grimly 'kitchen sink' in aspect, it is like all 'working class' classics, so very true in its aims and aspirations.

Welcome and good to know you!

Hot and humid here for the past few days. My garden triffids are like others mentioned,impervious to weed killers, so have to be forcibly ripped from the ground and ritually dismembered! I suffer occasionally from sciatica, and during an attack, am unable to crouch or stoop to do the job,so with weather like the recent heatwave, they have dominated my garden! But like others here, I will be triumphant. It just may take a while....

It impressed me when I first read it aged around twelve.Have re-read it a few times since, and although bits are dated, most of it is still powerful stuff!

Once again,as a total non-sportist, I have managed to avoid all the footie,the godawful tennis and some athletics event(s) over the past few months!

The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

A bloke named David from Bangor Could wake up the dead with his snore Although he tried hard,

I do not like awarding books on a 'star rating' myself. Like you, I enjoy most books that I read and find I am only occasionally disappointed.Certain authors have never failed to keep me entertained or engrossed; others,which many of my friends suggest as being 'excellent' leave me cold. I am 'long enough in the tooth' as it were to have no patience with something that is obviously not 'working' for me. In that event, I have set books aside;sometimes I have returned and tried again, mostly I do not bother. If a book fails to grab me or keep my interest, life is too short to worry,and there are far too many good books out there waiting to be discovered!

That surprises me too! But I suppose, if it encourages anyone to read the story,where they may otherwise not look at the book, it is all to the good in a way!

It always annoys me, that in a lot of modern books, (and films/TV) the protagonist is in a sticky situation, and decides to call for help. Only to find that their mobile phone has no signal, or is out of battery! I suppose the older equivalent, was that they could never find a phone box, or that if they DID find one, it had been vandalised! A trope that can work, so long as it is not beaten to death with over-use. I am a great crime fiction reader, and it just crops up often enough to annoy me, which I know is my personal issue,and I can understand the writer using it as a valid point to increase the tension of the scenario, but nevertheless, it does grate after a while!

Yes a shame. They also warned us youngsters off H.P.Lovecraft and M.R.James, who are respectively, the top writers of weird fiction and ghost stories!(IMO) Our school was staffed with ,in hindsight, poor staff. It was in the fifties,and WW2 had claimed some of the cream of the crop, leaving the shabby bunch we had to put up with. We had one good English teacher, who was able to encourage us in the right direction(s) as regards good reading and the classics, and I am always thankful for that!

Rained heavily at one stage on Saturday, Sunday we had a short shower, and today (Mon) so far it is dry but 'threatening'!

I read it as a twelve year old,and have re-read it many times. Poe was considered a 'pulp' writer by some of my elders (and teachers), or a man with a warped outlook on life! I simply enjoy his tales for what they are!

Sunny and pleasantly wrm here on this Saturday morning. But the forecast claims heavy cloud later, and probably rain this evening.

Have you watched the BBC series 'The Hollow Crown' ? The first set,which was 'Richard II', 'Henry IV Pt 1', 'Henry IV Pt 2' and 'Henry V' are particularly good. They are basically the plays of the same name, but with jusicious editing and the removal of certain bits,that do not in any way detract from the power and the beauty of the works. There was a second run, which I did not find as good, even though it included 'Richard III', a powerful drama by any standards. Check them out if you have missed them, they are well worth it.