Janet

I'm a bit torn! I'd probably have enjoyed it more if I hadn't just read the book and loved it (and if Colin wasn't the only Mr Darcy) but then again, if I hadn't read the book the story wouldn't mean as much! I think Jemima is doing a good job and I love the Jane and the Mr Bennet. Time will tell...

Here's what I posted in my thread. I'm not going to put myself under pressure by giving myself a timescale - I have to read what I fancy rather than being constrained to what I ought to read. I've started with 1908.

Okay, I'm embarking on the 1900s (not that I'm doing them in decade order - it just happens to be the first one towards the top of my 'to read' pile. 1908 - Room With A View - E M Forster

There were lots of things I liked about this little novella. I liked the way that the peripheral characters were portrayed, especially the Duke (even though he didn't feature a great deal), and I thought that the build-up of the Queen's relationship with Norman was both plausible and touching. What I didn't believe I don't know anything about life inside a royal palace and yet the staff and the characters in the advisory roles felt real. I really enjoyed the facts about real authors/books which were dropped into the book. I do wonder whether Alan Bennett and the Queen have met and whether she said something to him in passing which gave him the idea for the book. I liked the way that the Queen softened her attitude to "real" people throughout the book, for example, when she said "oh do get on with it" to someone in her book and then called the maid to ensure she didn't think it was her to whom the Queen was referring. It had some sparks of brilliance and some really funny lines, and I loved the ending, but despite all this, it left me feeling ultimately unsatisfied, although I can't really put my finger on why.

Welcome. You're definitely not alone in recording your reads! I have just read Pride and Prejudice for the first time (I'm 42!)! I absolutely loved it too! I'm going to read Sense and Sensibility some time soon.

This is what I posted about it on my blog... I thought this book was going to be a standard chick-lit story, but it wasn’t really. It’s a family saga with a touch of magic about it, and yet it’s convincing. The characters are well-written and the autistic girl at the centre of it feels as though she’s believable. I don’t have much experience of autism to draw on, but from my understanding of it (and my experiences of a friend’s son who has Asperger’s), I’d say Hebe is fairly characteristic of a child with the condition. The author is a GP so I guess she knows her stuff! Perhaps my only slight criticism is that the loose ends all tie together rather conveniently at the end, but then I read this purely to be entertained - and it did that rather well! 4/5 ETA: I think it's a real shame that her publishers have dropped her because she's "too mystical for the current publishing market" as I thought it was a charming book and I'd like to read her Pillars of Salt some time. She also writes as Mary Selby.

That's what I intended to do, but although I started, I kept forgetting (or not having time) to update so it got neglected. Welcome wordsgood (you're definitely not alone!) and Utopiste.

Whoops, sorry Laura - I don't know where Liz came from! I have S&S to read. I started Emma last year but found it rather waffly so I gave up and passed it on to a charity shop, but having read Pride and Prejudice, I'm confident I can get through it after all! I'm going to start on The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett later today. I haven't read the thread on here about it yet. It's only skinny so should be a short read.

Have you/are you planning to read any more Austen, Liz (is it Liz?)? I've just finished Playing With The Moon by Eliza Graham This book, Graham's debut novel, slips effortlessly between past and present as the story of how the skeleton of Lew Campbell came to be found on a beach some sixty years after his death, together with Minna and Tom’s tale of how they have become alienated from one another. As the story unfolds, things start to change for Minna and Tom, and ghosts are laid to rest for both Minna and Felix. This book is my choice for our next Bookworms meet next week, and I don’t think my co-members will be disappointed with this one!

Thought I'd get the ball rolling! I'm not 100% sure what other people are planning to do, so I may adapt it, but for now I'm planning to read one book from each decade of the 1900s. 2010s - Fiction - 2010 - Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson - 6/10 ............Non-fiction - 2010 - Awkward Situations for Men by Danny Wallace - 8/10 ............Children's book - 2010 - Montacute House by Lucy Jago - 9-10 2000s - Fiction - 2009 - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters - 8/10 ............Non-Fiction - 2004 - Yes Man by Danny Wallace - 9/10 ............Children's book - 2006 - Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose - 9/10 1990s - Fiction - 1996 - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 7/10 ............Non-fiction - 1997 - Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry - 9/10 ............Children's book - 1995 - The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo - 8/10 1980s - Fiction - 1988 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - 8/10 ............Non-fiction - 1986 - The Cherry Tree by Derek Tangye - 6/10 ............Children's book - 1983 - A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh - 9/10 1970s - Fiction - 1970 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - 9/10 ............Non-fiction - 1971 - 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff - 7½/10 ............Children's book - 1972 - Watership Down by Richard Adams - 9/10 1960s - Fiction - A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines - 8/10 ............Non-fiction - 1969 - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee - 8½/10 ............Children's book - 1969 - Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer - 8/10 1950s - Fiction - 1951 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 10/10 ............Non-fiction - 1958 - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby - 7/10 ............Children's book - 1958 - Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce - 10/10 1940s - Fiction - 1945 - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 9/10 ............Non-fiction - 1949 - Delight by J B Priestley 6½/10 ............Children's book - 1942 The Land of Far-Beyond by Enid Blyton - 7/10 1930s - Fiction - 1933 Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood - 7½/10 ............Non-fiction - 1933 - Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell 8/10 ............Children's book - 1939 - A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley 9/10 1920s - Fiction - 1929 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - 8/10 ............Non-fiction The Enormous Room - E E Cummings - 2/5 ............Children's book - 1927 - The Midnight Folk by John Masefield - 7/10 1910s - Fiction - 1910 - The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells - 7/10 ............Non-fiction The Cruise of the Snark - Jack London - 4/10 ............Children's book - 1913 - Pollyanna by Eleanor H Parker - 8/10 1900s - Fiction - 1908 - A Room With A View by E M Forster - 4/10 ............Non-fiction - 1908 - The Autobiography of a Super-tramp by W H Davies - 6/10 ............Children's book - 1907 - The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit - 7/10 ___________________________ 27 books read = 81.82% 27 books read 6 to go I have revised this slightly by adding the 2010s to the challenge, so my new totals are as follows: 36 books read = 100%

I finished this book this afternoon. I loved it! It's my choice for our Bookworms group (discussion meeting next week!) so I hope the others enjoyed it as much. I can't imagine they didn't - it was great!

Does anyone here use photobucket? I store my images of books I've read on it to upload to sites such as this one, LJ etc, etc and have done so for several years with no problems, but today I'm just getting the error message... Image upload failed Upload failed for 025-2008-Aug-31-Playing With The Moon.jpg with error: But it doesn't say what the error is! ETA: Not to worry - I went back to the 'old uploader' and it worked fine. Odd though, as I've been using the 'new' one for months!

I agree, Stephanie - too much showing of a trailer can be a bad thing! We don't tend to watch an awful lot of ITV1 so fortuately I haven't actually seen a trailer for it!

Yes - a lot of members here use it, and most seem to find it addictive! Library Thing

Have a lovely day.

I'm going to give this a whirl.

You've just reminded me that Facebook is another place I update regularly!

I love the premise of Library Thing but I'm not very good at updating it! I've kept a Live Journal of books since Jan 2006 - I started writing mine up in an old-fashioned notebook but I'm very behind on that too. Finally, I also keep my reading list on here.

More here Having just read and really enjoyed Pride and Prejudice (and having decided to tackle the rest of Austen's novels), I'm interested to watch this, although it could go one of two ways!