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I have read this book Kate. I used it as a tool for my youth group to teach the ten commanments in an accessible way (and it worked very well). I found it an imformative book and great for young people in today's society. Don't worry about any personal comments. You just gave a good review for a great book, and didn't imply anything personal to anybody. Some people do need books like this, especially young people, and particularly young people trying to follow Jesus.

I love reading outside but whenever I take the girls to the park I have too much to do, changing nappies, feeding the baby, playing with Katie, eating lunch.

I was looking at my sister's sat nav this afternoon thinking, there will always be people, like me, who much prefer the feel of an ordinary map. It will be the same no doubt, with books. They are obviously great gadgets, and ideal for some people/situations, but would never replace the real thing.

It sounds like you had a great time. This book sounds particularly interesting. OH has studied physics and explained a lot of things to me. String theory is something I am very interested in reading more about.

Hey Sam, thanks for answering my question. I look forward to picking up Unspoken soon if I can. It looks rather interesting.

I am a christian and like reading books with religious elements. Being a theologian I have spent years questioning the concept of religion and reading about different religions, so i tend to like textbooks on the subject. Books like The Da Vinci Code which have obvious flaws, while interesting and though provoking are only really a comedy. I do like to read books which focus on the cultural, communal elements of religions to give me more of an idea of how particular religions work, and also creational and apocalyptic books. My favourite thing to do is to read scientific texts and compare what scientists know about the world/universe and compare it with my own beliefs, or to read theologians and philosophers for the same reason. I don't have a problem with a book denouncing religion or the church etc. It is always interesting to hear people's views.

I watched this on Sunday. Now I really really want to read the book.

I know that feeling F&C. I have recently started putting my own ideas together, a task that would have been impossible for me a few years ago, but have ideas for different genre's within the same piece of writing. I just wanted to say that I have finished Blood Ties. It has given me some late nights (only because I can't read a lot in the day at the moment). I couldn't put it down. I did have a question but it would spoil the book.

Great review Kate. It is definitely an inspiring book, even though it is short.

No beef, that is not what i was talking about.

I made an indian tonight. Saffron chicken with rice and garlic chilli and herb roasted marrow

Hi Sam, welcome to the forum. I am currently riveted by Blood Ties. DO you ever worry about what people will think of your books once they are published, and what would you say to someone who is not confident in their talent, despite lot's of people saying it is very good? (This person is not me by the way)

I used to always read on the buses to uni too. Valuable reading time.

I still have my own Enid Blyton's with the original characters. I plan on reading them to the girls in a few years time.

Where do I start? Behind me in the living room are mostly OHs books, which consist of maps, walking and cycling guides, history, politics, Western magazines, biology, Shakespreare, computer books, poetry, and his fiction includes things from Bloke Joke's to Tolkien and from The A-Z of Everything to The Master Mariner. My bible, recipe books and baby books are with these. I have quite a few bible's elsewhere in the house. My collection consists of fiction split into fantasy, historical, classics, thriller, romance, some chic-lit, crime, real life storys and probably others. I have a vast array. I also have my theology, philosophy and sociology text books, christian books, and music books which fall into different catergories. There are my poetry, and other literature type books about poets and playwrights, about writing, various dictionaries and encyclopedias (eclectic in themselves), sheet music, biographies. The children have baby books, children's classics, disney books, fairytales, biology, mystery, horror, bbible stories and lots of others I can't think of right now. There are lot's of OHs ex-wife's fiction and text books around the house too. I haven't unearthed them all yet. She was a big reader.

Pizza and garlic bread tonight. I needed something quick because we were too late back from shopping to cook before the girls bedtime.

This is an interesting topic! I feel you can miss important insights into the subject or parts of the story if you skim. I read everything, but sometimes I lose concentration and have to go back. When I want to get through books I push myself to concentrate and not go back too much, but if I am very tired I can spend ages looking at the same page before I actually take it in, and then sometimes I feel daft for not understanding something very simple. I am not good at much when I'm tired. When the children are annoying me I just give up, in fact Katie frequently comes over to me when I am immersed in a book I cant put down and starts poking me till I put it down.

Thanks Kell! That's it. The Garfield films were quite funny, but I wasn't really a fan of the cartoon. Maybe I will get Katie to read the books allowed when she is older. They will be very funny to hear read by a child.

There are a couple of Garfield books upstairs on the girls shelves. When we had two of OHs children coming here I used to enjoy hearing his little boy reading them out loud. Children can be very funny. I think I have seen the first film, but not the second. The comic strip book I most enjoyed though, and read countless times as a child I can't remember the name of. I borrowed it from my step dad (and it i most likely still in my box of books at Mum's). It is a longish pink book, and I think he had a blue one too, about a guy who was either a nomad, or escaped from the foreign legion. It was hilarious. EDIT: It is really bugging me what it was called now..

I thought this was a lovely book, but then I usually have my head in the clouds looking for angels (angels, fairies, whatever). I was intrigued by Hebe's autism. It is a very interesting condition, and it was great how she managed to connect with Johua and bring him round from his selfishness and prejudice. It was lovely how her family cared for her, especially the children. I think the character of Sonja could have been written better, and There are angels everywhere in the book, and even different concepts of how angels can be used. It gives the impression that different angels have different purposes, or maybe they are all versatile.

They already go at 6:30, (asleep by 7:30).

There are already electronic bibles you can search and I want one because I sometimes don't have time with the children to read in the morning before we go out. It would be great to be able to slip something into my handbag I could read while out, and search when OH is quizzing me. I would still need an actual bible though. I flick through mine too much. Reading this thread visions of that scene in The Time Machine where they don't know what real books even are, never mind what they look like.