Liz

Ummm....well...........errrrrrrr...... I've read a few of the Insp. Morse series by Colin Dexter. Does that count??

Once I've read a book, I keep hold of it in case anyone I know wants to read it - that way I can either lend or swap with them. Books that I haven't got a hope of someone wanting I take it down to the local charity shops. I only ever keep books if I have enjoyed them so much that I would want to read again, or if the book means a lot to me, for example... a very good friend of mind gave me his copy of The Woman in White in which he wrote a special message for me. Even if I end up not liking the book, I'll still keep hold of it for as long as possible.

I first read it when I was about 14/15 years olds. I'd reach parts of the book and completely start agreeing with what Holden was saying. And then there were parts which I couldn't stand and thought he was a right plonker. I thinks that's why I enjoy the book so much - one minute I love Holden and his ideas about the world, and then the next minute he's talking rubbish and acting like a complete fool.

The dwarf was soundly whipped, and as a further punishmeny, forced to drink up the bowl of cream, into which he had thrown me; neither was he ever restored to favour, for soon after the Queen bestowed him to a lady of high quality, so that I saw him no more, to my very great satisfaction, for I could not tell to what extremity such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment. He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the Queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and was have immediately cashiered him if I had not been so generous as to intercede. Her Majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect as it stood before; the dwarf watching his opportunity while Glumdalclitch was gone to the sideboard, mounted upon the stool she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow-bone abouve my waist, where I stuck for some time and mage a very ridiculous figure. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift

Ahhhh.....That is the cutest thing.

Hmm,quite fancy having a little look at that, then. Thanks Louise xx

I love The Catcher in the Rye. It is definitely one of my favourite books. I've read it several times and each time I end up loving it even more. I think it's a great book!

Ah, bless you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't spell my own name. I always find that really embarrassing when I tell my friends. They take great joy in taking the mick out of me.

YAAAY!!! I think I'm getting back into the swing of things again. I've reached page 91 and now I'm starting to settle back into some reading. At long last!!

Found a book token this morning where the use by date is the end of October. Well, what could I do! It would be wrong to let that token slip away. So I toddled off down to Waterstones and bought a few books..... Different Seasons ~ Stephen King To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee Rebecca ~ Daphne du Maurier To be honest, I thought I already had Rebecca - but after a few hours of hunting about it looked as though I hadn't got it after all. Well, at least now I know I have it.

When I started school at age 5, I couldn't read or write a thing. All I knew was how to spell my name (but I couldn't even spell my surname). My Mother used to read to me all of the time, but I never tried reading the books myself. As soon as I'd started school, though, I was well on my way. By the time I was 9 years old I had a reading age of 14+. I'm not sure how I managed to catch up so quickly, but I guess I caught the reading bug not long after starting school, so that must have helped a lot.

I'm tempted to read a Mark Billingham one. The reason being.....I love the Maid Marian t.v. series by Tony Robinson. I think Billingham helped to write the scripts and he was one of the guards. I know that's probably not the best reason to read a book but I want to see how his writing is for a crime book. I've got one of his - I picked up Sleepy Head from Oxfam but I'm not sure whether to try it or not.

Oh right. Thanks for that. I may give them a try sometime, then.

In our city we have a group of elderly men who have no trouble in shouting "Good Morning Worcester" and promptly flashing to anyone who wants a bit of a chuckle.

Yeah, so do I. I've managed to read the first chapter, so this could well be a good sign.

He told Greenblatt how the power of the PDP-6 would be improved by a new piece of hardware which would expand its memory to a size bigger than any computer in the world. He promised that the time-sharing system would be better than any to date - and the hackers would control it. He worked on Greenblatt for weeks, and finally Ricky Greenblatt agreed that time-sharing should be implemented on the PDP-6. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Steven Levy

The last few CDs that I bought were..... Ta-Dah ~ The Scissor Sisters America ~ Razorlight But It's Better If You Do ~ Panic! At The Disco The Essential Bob Dylan The Planets~ Holst Beethoven Collection

Is the Truckers/Diggers/Wings set something to do with the Discworld series, or is it completely different? I'm not sure what they are about. Are they any good?

Someone has said I should give A Long Way Down a try. I'm not too sure about it. What's it like? I've heard that Nick Hornby is more of a man's writer, so I don't know if this book is much different. Any thoughts on whether I should give it a go?

At his talk he said that he found it far harder to write this book as he had to put in a lot more work than he does with his other books. He joked that he wasn't sure if he would do another non-fiction book because of the amount of time that went into it.

ARRRGGHH..... This is beginning to get on my nerves a bit. I cannot seem to get past the first page. I read a sentence or two and then walk off and get a drink or do something else. I'm not sure why I'm finding it so hard to concentrate. I know I haven't read enough to see whether I'm hooked or not, but usually I can read at least the first chapter or so. I'm never this bad with a book. Hopefully this is only a temporary thing. I'm really enjoying a bit of reading at the moment.

Ah, I hate it when that happens. There's just so many books that you want to get through, but you just cannot get settled down to one.

Hmmm....sounds like this book could be worth a try. I'll have to have a closer look.

(The following passage is describing Vivian Stanshall) "Thank God some people helped, but people don't know how to deal with his kind of severe behaviour. He didn't sleep because when you take that many Valium tablets your metabolism goes completely. He was taking them in huge doses." Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall Lucian Randall & Chris Welch

Well, when it comes to cats, the only books I've read with them in are the Beatrix Potter books and the Enid Blyton collections. I don't think there's anything else I've read.......??