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I think I'm slightly up on last year too, this last few weeks I seem to have read more and more 25% of books read this year have been by Tess Gerritsen, she is fast becoming a favourite author of mine . The only book I wasn't keen on was Boy A by Jonathan Trigell, I couldn't get certain things out of my head and it spoilt it for me. Highlights have been: Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen Footprints In the Sand by Sarah Challis Blood Ties by Sam Hayes Harvest & Vanish both by Tess Gerritsen The above books I've scored 9/10 and to press Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes will be up there too.

You did well to last two days

Hope you enjoy The Surgeon H&D, I loved it and I've got The Apprentice lined up to read soon.

Tut tut and there's me thinking you were being good

One loaf of bread per family per day didn't go far with five of us plus parents so she had no other choice. In a way it was good because the homemade bread was far better and even when the strikes finished mum continued baking her own till we'd all left home.

My mum made her own bread for years, curtesy of the bread strikes in the 70's, and I would love to do the same but unfortunately in this more modern world I have nowhere for it to 'prove' my mum used to use the airing cupboard and the fireplace (we had an open fire). I've been thinkong about a breadmaker for a while now so I'd be interested to what other people have and what they think of them.

Wasn't very hungry tonight so just had a couple of toasted teacakes.

Oops I keep forgetting about this, I need more hours in the day

In my opinion the only similar thing between the two is the initial subject matter. So far Nineteen Minutes covers a lot more angles, but as I read more my opinion may change.

Show off Hubby wouldn't allow me to sit and read all day :motz:much as I'd love to do so.

I'm a quarter way through it and in a word I'm 'hooked' I know it's a hardback but it's coming to work with me tomorrow, well worth taking an extended lunch break to read more.

A friend from work has offered to lend me this and I have to admit it sounds good. It's something I would never have considered to read before joining BCF! I'm even thinking about reading Wicked.

After last nights indulgence of chinese we are having jacket potatoes with tuna and salad tonight.

Blood Ties was a great book from start to finish, highly recommended and an author to keep an eye out for. Next up is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case should be the state's best witness - but with her boyfriend dead and her childhood friend charged with murder, she's struggling to remember what happened in front of her own eyes...

Finished this yesterday and loved it from start to finish, a real page turner to the extent that I found myself a quiet room in the youth hostel we were staying at to curl up on the sofa and read undisturbed . I even read the first chapter of her next book Unspoken and can't wait to get hold of that. This is one author I'll be watching out for in the future.

To tired to cook tonight so we'll be having a take away, probably Chinese

Just about to start Nineteen Minutes, I read We Need To Talk About Kevin last year so I'll soon find out how similar they are.

So far so good

Great programmes RedAlligator, hope you get Life on Mars series 2 soon.

We had pancakes, I know it's not shrove Tuesday but we love 'em

We're practically neighbours I'm sure you'll find lots of new genres to read here but be warned your TBR list will soon grow and grow