Liz

Well done for finishing IT. It's a book I would like to tackle sometime. It seems as though it's a book worth ploughing through.

Finished the second Alice book this afternoon. I prefered this one to the first Alice adventure - I felt the story had a better pace than the previous book. Really enjoyed the poetry in this one, as well. Next...... A FAREWELL TO ARMS Ernest Hemingway

Snap. It's staring at me from the shelf, but I keep putting it off for shorter books.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland wasn't too bad. It had its good parts and its slow parts all the way through the book. The illustrations were wonderful, though. Going to continue with Alice.... THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Lewis Carroll Alice goes through the looking glass into another world whose eccentric inhabitants seem to be either chess-pieces or characters from nursery rhymes - that is, when they are not talking flowers or insects. Obeying their own impossible rules of logic, they are all full of criticism or good advice as Alice, a lowly Pawn, sets out on her quest to become a Queen of the Chess Board.

I'm afraid I've only read Rebecca so far. I thought it was a fantastic book and beautifully written - one of my favourites. I will definitely be reading more of DdM's work.

I'm going to have to make a confession, guys. I do sometimes annotate certain books which I am studying for English. I know this a pretty poor excuse, but I do go out and look for the shabbiest copy of the book I can find in a second-hand shop and use that for studying. Sometimes it is just a lot easier to annotate the book rather than write out great paragraphs of the text. That's no excuse, though, I know.

I thought I would have a go at another children's classic. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Lewis Carroll Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit-hole and into a series of extraordinary adventures in Wonderland, a country of crazy logic where the absurd and surreal are the norm. Riddles have no answers, songs turn into nonsense and everything is punctuated with dreadful puns. The animals who live there can not only speak but are positively argumentative; however, the self-possessed Alice is well able to cope with everything she meets.

Read the final chapter of MEDIEVAL LIVES this afternoon after Biology revision. I've read this book before and it's a really interesting little read. It's an easy book to understand, which makes a change to some books about history which can be a little confusing in places with language which you have to keep fetching a dictionary for.

I've also thought about giving this series a go. Looks like they could be quite good. I'll look out for the first book - that's another one to add to the TBR pile...

Have now finished PETER PAN. I have to say that I was a little disappointed with it. It started out rather well and the last two chapters were good, but the story in between just seemed very dull. I didn't really care about or even enjoy any of the characters. This book was just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid. I'm in a bit of a history mood at the moment, so I decided to re-read.... MEDIEVAL LIVES Terry Jones

Today I managed to read through the play WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? by Brian Clark. It is a play set in a hospital about a man, named Ken, who, after having a car accident, has ended up being left totally paralysed. Only his brain functions normally. Due to his state, Ken wants to discharge himself, which would end in him dying within a week. Ken wants to die, but due to him being completely helpless in the hospital, he would need the authorities' consent. The play follows Ken's stay in hospital and his fight for the right to die. I'm studying this for GCSE English Lit. It's not too bad a play and it leaves you with quite a few things to think about. It is definitely a play which I would like to see performed.

They had this book in a 3 for 2 offer, so I ended up buying it without knowing too much about it. Looks like I may have picked up a good 'un. Sounds like it's a good book - looking forward to giving it a go. Thanks for the review, Gyre.

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The Thursday Next series: 1. The Eyre Affair 2. Lost In A Good Book 3. The Well Of Lost Plots 4. Something Rotten

The end is near, then. Are you glad you stuck with it?

I think I'll give This Book... a try - sounds to be good. Trouble is, I haven't really been getting much reading done - I've got several plays and a book of poetry to read for English Lit. and revision for the other subjects to do, so books have been placed second for a little while. And there's so many I want to read.

Seeing as I had been looking forward to reading The Lost World for a few years, I was very glad when I finished it and had very much enjoyed it. It's a fairly short story, and even though it was published in about 1912, I didn't think that the writing style felt dated that much. A fantastic adventure story. Next....... PETER PAN J.M. Barrie

I've read the four books so far in the Thursday Next series - I really enjoyed them. I hope you get on with them as well.

I quite often have a look around the different charity shops in the town. I would guess that nearly half the books which I own at the moment have been bought second-hand from a charity shop.

I've got the "1001 Books" one. It's quite handy when you want to know a little bit of information about a certain book. I could spend ages looking through it.

I thought the last episode wasn't that good either. I thought the whole of the 'answer' to the series was a little disappointing.

Zipped through the sixth Morse book. Wasn't the best one I've read but it was still quite good. I'm now going to have a go at a book which I have been wanting to read for a few years.... THE LOST WORLD Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm going to have to choose Bambi as well. Also, the end of All Dogs Go To Heaven usually brings a tear to my eye.

I quite like to read a few True Crime books here and there. I read one a couple of years ago which I really enjoyed. THE DEADLY GAME Simon Cooper Let the games begin..... He was a quiet, gentle man. He was someone who mocked a man dying of cancer. He was a reptile. He was a weird recluse. Wrapped in cheery festive paper, six parcels were delivered to branches of Barclays Bank across London. But the paper hid a deadly Christmas gift. Inside each parcel was a video cassette box and inside each box lurked a booby trapped shotgun cartridge. A trap that detonated as two workers opened the boxes. Attached to each parcel was what appeared to be a still from the hit film reservoir Dogs, annotated with a cryptic message - 'Welcome to the Mardi Gra Experience'.....

Quickly re-read The Dead Of Jericho and still found it an enjoyable read. As the sixth book in the series is fairly short, I'm going to have a go at another Morse. Next........ THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE Colin Dexter By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried. Dr. Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...