Kell

Bolognese tonight.

I'm afraid I've abandoned it for the time being. I'd been reading it for the best part of two months and was still only half way through. I may well go back to it again in the future, though, as there were parts of it that I enjoyed, and I liked the film.

I've been reading Edgar Allan Poe this month and I'm terribly unimpressed and can't understand why anyone thinks his writing is any good...

I'm somewhere in the middle.

Stand By Me (which was the story, The Body, which was in the same book as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) is another King short story that was an excellent film...

There are some exceptions to that general rule. I thought The Princess Bride every bit as good as the book - it was incredibly faithful and delivered onevery level.

As long as I finish at the end of a sensible-ending paragraph, I'm fine, as I use a sticky tab to mark my exact place on a page.

I saw a version with Ciaran Hinds and Samantha Morton which certainly delivered in the plainness of the leads - they both looked decidedly plain (despite her being quite a striking-looking woman). It was made for TV in 1997, but not bad at all, if I recall.

I doubt we'll be watching the Dr Who Xmas Special this year. We gave up watching the show because we couldn't stand Matt Smith in the role and that sidekick lass, Amy Pond, was so bad she was making us sick every time we saw her. I think we'll just wait till the Dr regenerates and then take another look - but only if Amy Pond is long gone by then!

I'm just watching a Christopher Eccleston episode on Watch now - it's the first Slitheen one...

I tried to read Eragon, but felt it read like it was written by a 15-y-o boy with a fantasy fetish. Given that I WAS written by a 15-y-o boy, that shouldn't really be surprising - LOL! I felt the writing lacked maturity (which, again, is fair enough when the author's age is taken into account) but I just couldn't get on with it at all.

Mac, I love you. You always make me laugh.

I'm with Mac - I wan't find of Cather in the Rye either. I found it very dull and I really didn't get on with Holden Caulfield at all. Perhaps I came to it too late to readily identify, but I suspect I wouldn't have liked it as a teen either.

I buy almost all my books either second hand, from bargain bookstores or from supermarkets. The only time I buy from bookshops is when they have sales or I have vouchers.

I can't drive, so I walk pretty much everywhere, or get a us if it's a bit far. Hubby drives though - we have a dark metallic gunmetal grey Seat Ibiza which we bought new this year at Easter.

hot, buttery salted popcorn - yummy!

Homemade pizza with pepperoni, pineapple, sweetcorn and mozarella. Mmmmmmm - delicious!

Gleaned from Wiki (so you'd have to look into what you could get for free): Q: - Roberto Quaglia - Erica Quest (a pseudonym of Nancy Buckingham and John Sawyer) - Jorge Queirolo - Amanda Quick (a pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz) - Julia Quinn U: - Jenny Uglow - Lisa Unger - Tomi Ungerer - Harilal Upadhyay - John Updike (The Witches of Eastwick is VERY goo d- borrow it from your library!) - Leon Uris - Emma Maree Urquhart X: I'm sorry, I couldn't find any for X! Y: - Agustín Yáñez - Michael Yarwood - Dornford Yates - Richard Yates - William Butler Yeats - Tamar Yellin - Frank Yerby - Jane Yolen - Rebecca York - Banana Yoshimoto - Than Yutthachaibodin - Ed Young - Marguerite Yourcenar - Gary Yukl - Lin Yutang Hope that's of some use to you.

I detested The Lovely Bones. I thought it was a bad story and badly written.

I couldn't finish it - it was just so dull!

Not as many as I used to, as I now pass so many on, either to my sister, or selling them on Green Metropolis, or leaving them at a Book Crossing site.

Luke SKywalker?

My reading seems to have taken another dip as I've got several chunky books no the go at once - LOL! As a consequence, I've decided to have a look at some Edgar Allan Poe via DailyLit in November so that even if I do't get my chunky books finished, I can feel I've finished something - LOL!