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Yes it is ridiculous, but sadly that is a very valid point KW.

Sounds like a great book for this day and age.

Me 3. Sounds good Bagpuss.

Of course, saying all this about looking after hardbacks and only stuffing paperbacks into bags, I do have an exception and it happens to be my most beloved book. I have about five/six bibles, but there is one that has gone absolutely everywhere with me for the last four-five years, has lot's of annotations and is looking very battered. I had to remove the paper cover from the front (and the hard one doesn't have the picture on it), and buy a nice cotton bible cover to keep it in. It certainly looks old before its time.

Sorry. I have amended. don't worry. It is just me who can't read.

Yes thank you Princessponty for that. Sounds very interesting, and something worth looking into at least.

Welcome back.

What exactly do you mean by graphic novel? I've never been into comics really.

I feel like that too. I didn't read many books last year and would like to. Partly because i was doing my finals at university and partly because I am also a slow reader (until I get into it then i'm fine. I think it is more a concentration thing). Not sure how well reading nore will work with a baby due any time though.

It is an easy place to quickly check what books I want to read, where I can see them all together (I have so many books it is easier to see a list than the actual books, even though my fiction ones are all together). I also like writing about the books I read. Keeping a blog enables me to see what I thought of books easily, plus add more later (because I can't do it all at once), while also getting better at writing reviews to better express myself.

A child called it is great. It was very moving, though you are right it should be read in the right frame of mind. It could hit home in a lot of different ways because it views a lot of different emotions from different angles.

I agree. Mr. Men will always be around I think.

I love the feel, and look of hardbacks too, although of course paperbacks are more portable if I'm reading when travelling (or for my rucksack when i was a student) een though they do get wrecked that way (then so do hardbacks). Having said that I think most of my fiction collection is paperback and most of my textbooks are hardback becasue that is just the way it worked out. Lot's of textbooks are only available in hardback, and I have a few folio textbooks too. The exceptions to my paperback fiction collecton (she says carefully, thinking that her books are still in boxes and therefore she cannot see the shelves) are a few folios and my recent Harry Potters. I definitely plan to replace my HP paperback with adult hardbacks to match the recent ones.

Yes that is right. It is probably something to do with All Hallows eve, or it is a place, maybe a place that links Harry and Voldemort somehow.

Porridge. I got up late.. (didn't sleep well last night).

**List updated** This Present Darkness is the best book I have read this year. I can't really say very much without givng the book away, as it all comes together in the last few chapters. I highly recommend this book to everybody. It is a book that brings the innate human curiosity of life into the real world. It is a story of human will, the fight of good and evil, and provides answers to many questions we all ask, whilst pushing us to ask more questions. I will certainly be made to reflect upon the issues that from this book. I'm now reading My Sister's Child, a very different book. It is a romance story. Not deep like This Present Darkness. As the author writes in local dialect, I am already in a completely different world after just a few pages.

I think it depends which bits are read before bed too. The last two nights I slept fine after reading substantial sections. I am sure after finishing the book I will have another outlook on it. It is a book that most definitely changes your opinions and expectations right the way through.

Harry has had a lot of protection and it seems his luck should run out, but at the same time those people could be objects of help on the path of destiny. I am sure I heard JK saying she wasn't going to kill Harry.

I'm definitely enjoying the book, and am not sure yet of my reaction to it because I feel there is something unexpected going to happen, but from what I know so far I am intrigued and enlightened. I think I just have a very vulnerable sleeping mind. OH thinks I'm mad..

I have just decided that I should not read 'This Present Darkness' before going to bed. Will I stick to it?? I had a horrid dream about evil spirits last night, then woke up thinking there were evil spirits all over the house especially in the bedroom. I managed to convince myself it wasn't true and go back to sleep but I have been very tired today and now I have to wake myself up to go to band..

I saw and loved the movie, especially the music and would love to read the book. It probably has so much more to offer.

Just what I was thinking..! But i forgot to post earlier:irked:

Why does Voldemort have to go? There doesn't have to be a wonderful ending..

**List updated** I went to my mother in law's yesterday and she gave me 'My Sister's Child' by Lyn Andrews to read. It looks like I have to bump up my list to fit another book at the front. Will I get to my own bookshelf?? My Sister's Child is set in Liverpool where I went to university, and where my maternal family is from, so maybe I will recognise some of it. It is also a book someone has leant to me so it looks like I'll have plenty of threads to post in when it is finished. I'm still on This Present Darkness at the moment. Will try and finish it before I have to renew it again.

It would be interesting to hear your views in the film thread on this one Liz.