Michelle
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I'm up to 6.
It looks as if people are helping each other out on other forums - I don't know if this is good or bad?!
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My boss told me not to go to work because he didn't want to catch it - ironic, because I think I caught it from others who had been in the office
I'm so jealous of this type of boss. We have to be on our death beds before they feel we should take time off - and even then they don't pay us for it!
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I've been keeping an eye on this all morning, it's awful. I hope everyone gets out ok.
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Beth only did bits of it for school, so we didn't get round to the TV series.
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I agree with the disappointment - although I did enjoy Jamie's character. Maybe it had been hyped up too much.. I'd seen comments of twitter from early readers who said it was his best yet! On the other hand, I put off Mr Mercedes for a while, because I didn't think I'd like it, and I did.
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I've just finished Revival - I quite enjoyed it on the whole, but was also a bit disappointed. I like King when he's telling someone's story, and I felt connected with Jamie. I wasn't so keen on the development of Jacob, and I thought the ending didn't quite gel with the rest of the book.
I had high hopes for this, but I actually preferred Mr Mercedes - you might enjoy that one too.
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I've just finished book 58, and my audiobook, Revival, is nearly finished, so I should make 60 books by the end of the year.
I decided to try Angelfall by Susan Ee, after being persuaded that there wasn't a silly romance in it. I loved it, and went straight on to the 2nd book, World After. I'll review properly soon, but it's definitely recommended. I guess it's officially YA, but it had me gripped.
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However, that can't be done until someone has 10 posts.
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But none of the others though?
I haven't read them, so I'm not sure. I started To Be A Cat, and it seemed to be for younger readers.
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I'm pretty sure 'To be a Cat' is suitable.
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I see Haig's come out with a new book, Echo Boy! They have copies at the library, good stuff
Hm, the book's been out since March 2014, and yet I see no one's mentioned it on this thread....
Edit: No one's mentioned To Be a Cat, either!
I have both of these upstairs, but haven't gotten to them yet.
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These are happening tonight, so I thought I'd post the shortlists, and will come back with the winners later..
Crime/Thriller Book of the Year:
• Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz (Orion)
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Little Brown Book Group)
• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Transworld)
• The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah (HarperCollins UK)
• Personal by Lee Child (Transworld)Magic FM Autobiography/Biography of the Year:
• The Unexpected Professor by John Carey (Faber & Faber)
• So, Anyway… by John Cleese (Random House Books)
• Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts (Penguin)
• Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton (Ebury Publishing)
• Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson (Transworld)Food & Drink Book of the Year:
• The Art Of Eating Well by Jasmine & Melissa Hemsley (Ebury Publishing)
• Mary Berry Cooks by Mary Berry (Ebury Publishing)
• Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes by Tom Kerridge (Bloomsbury)
• Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Publishing)
• River Cottage Light & Easy by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Bloomsbury)Children’s Book of the Year:
• Animalium by Jenny Broom & Katie Scott (Bonnier Publishing)
• Archie Green And The Magician’s Secret by D D Everest (Faber & Faber)
• Awful Auntie by David Walliams (HarperCollins)
• Goth Girl And The Fete Worse Than Death by Chris Riddell (Pan Macmillan)
• Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook by Matthew Neeler and Phil Southam (Egmont)Audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year:
• Awful Auntie by David Walliams (HarperCollins)
• More Fool Me by Stephen Fry (Random House Audio)
• Walking Home by Clare Balding (Penguin Audio)
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Whole Story Audiobooks)
• Man At The Helm by Nina Stibbe (Audible Studios)International Author of the Year:
• The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson (HarperCollins)
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Pan Macmillan)
• A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Gallery Beggar/Faber & Faber)
• The Long Haul / Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney (Penguin)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselved by Karen Joy Fowler (Profile Books)Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year:
• Elizabeth Missing by Emma Healey (Penguin Books)
• In The Light Of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman (Pan Macmillan)
• Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (Penguin Books)
• The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Pan Macmillan)
• Wake by Anna Hope (Transworld)Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
• The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer (HarperCollins)
• Elizabeth Missing by Emma Healey (Penguin Books)
• How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran (Ebury Publishing)
• Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse (Orion)
• Secrets Of The Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd)Non-fiction Book of the Year:
• Curious by Rebecca Front (Orion)
• How To Speak Money by John Lanchaster (Faber & Faber)
• Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe (Penguin Books)
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine (Faber & Faber)
• Waterloo: The History Of Four Days, Three Armies And Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (Harper Collins)UK Author of the Year:
• How To Be Both by Ali Smith (Penguin General)
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• Us by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (Transworld)
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Thanks - that's what confused me with the audio -
There was the date and then the music, so I thought is was somehow relevant.
To be honest, I can't see why there are reviews saying it's let down by the ending - I'm not sure what they don't like to see?
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I've just finished listening to this, and I really liked it. Brady was a disturbing character, and for me, I was Hodges I liked the best.
As for the ending..
In the audio, he wakes up and aske for his mother, and then there's a blast of music. Was there anything in the book about music, or was that just something they added?
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I keep adding books to my read list, without making comments. I've just finished book 56, and I'm wondering if I can make it to 60 by the end of year. I keep going through phases of starting a book/audiobook and giving up on it, so I can't be sure.
I think my last few, since posting are:
The Reviver by Seth Patrick - review
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill - review
Florence and Giles by John Harding - interesting, I keep meaning to write my review..
Venus by Ben Bova - I can't remember much of this one, to be honest!
Coping with Headaches and Migraines by Alison Frith
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga - review
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey - pretty good, quite addictive, looking forward to the second one!Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgewick - very thought provoking, will probably re-read.
Mr Mercedes by Stephen King (audio) - a good offering from Mr King - recommended.
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I would assume that you can't give blood for a while after a tattoo, in case you've been somewhere unsafe for it - therefore you may be at risk for HIV or Hep B.
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For me, I was trying to decide between hardback and ebook - and as they were the same price, I went for the hardback. If the ebook had started off at £2.99 (or I knew it was going to drop) I would have made a different decision.
As it is, I'm not even reading yet, so I don't know why I rushed to get it! sigh...
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Well considering I didn't set up the site, and I've only just tried it myself, I don't know.
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This is something I've seen a few times on twitter, and I've just had a go at setting up my own. The basic idea is that you set up a 'bookshop' with 12 books of your choosing.. you can go for a specific genre, share you last few reads, or go for your favourites.. and you can change them at any time.
Then, when people take a look, if they want to buy a particular book, it goes through hive, so it's good if you want to help indepndent bookshops as well.
So, for anyone who wants something else bookish to play with, it's https://www.myindependentbookshop.co.uk/ (and mine is https://www.myindependentbookshop.co.uk/MJMoore)
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Unbelievable!! I bought it on release day for £9.00!
I wonder if it's an error, as I haven't seen any of his new releases so cheap.I don't think it was an error, as the publishers tweeted about it. A good plan for them, but frustrating for SK fans!
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I'm personally rather annoyed by this, because I've already bought - but the kindle version of King's Revival is down to £2.99.
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I didn't even realise this thread existed!
I read this not long ago, but I haven't gotten around to the review yet. I liked it, and I have the sequel on my kindle ready to go. -
It's a while ago now for me, but I can remember being quite thrown by The Scorch Trials.. it didn't really feel as if I was reading a series, it seemed quite a bit different.
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I'm not holding out much hope! I haven't been that keen on his Christmas ones so far.
Claire's book list 2014
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Yep - we can claim Statutory Sick Pay, but only after 3 days. So I would have 3 days with no pay, then the rest as SSP, which is quite a bit lower than my wage!