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  1. What a great site, cool link Janet I've enjoyed reading your 30 day list Chrissy, very illuminating
  2. Thanks nursenblack and VF, I can't recommend both book highly enough, VF, I agree, 'Handling the Undead' is definitely an interesting concept and it shows in the book, you really do not know what to expect as you reading it, the only thing you do expect is the government reaction to the 'reliving'
  3. Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist (re~read) ~ Started: 20.06.11 ~ Finished: 30.06.11 Synopsis ~ Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up...What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home. Review from 2009 ~ ‘Let the right one in’ also by John Ajvide Lindqvist is one of my favourite reads of this year, a remarkable story, not just a vampire story but so much more. ‘Handling the Undead’ is just as good, another amazing story from John Ajvide Lindqvist. ‘Handling the Undead’ begins in Stockholm on a night when the weather is heavy and everyone can feel that something is about to happen and it does, in the worse way imaginable, people who have been dead for two months are returning from the dead, the government are not sure what to do, the families of the ‘reliving’ (as they are eventually called) are at a loss of what to do or how to feel about it? ‘Handling the Undead’ is a book that makes you think, what would you do? So much happens once the ‘reliving’ return, the government find themselves making the wrong decisions, how do you handle people who are technically alive but not alive, do they have rights? Do they have a place in the world? Can they return to their families? ‘Handling the Undead’ is more than a story about life after death, what do you do when you lose someone and they come back from the dead? All the characters in the story are conflicted, they have lost someone in some way and now they have returned but the ‘reliving’ are different, they are not the people they once were, they are a shell of what they were but at the same time there is a faint glimmer of the person they were. All of the relationships are strong relationships, you can feel the strength as you read, and you feel their pain and their loss, their confusion, coming to terms with a loss and then their happiness when their loved ones return. I found ‘Handling the Undead’ to be a powerful read, so many questions are raised and so many social problems are brought forward, you will get very engrossed in this story, there is so much to this book that you will find enjoyable, enlightening, scary and most of all make you look at the world around you. A must read. *** This is my second time reading 'Handling the Undead' and I enjoyed it more this time, despite the subject of the book, I do like the feel of the story and how the characters are developed, and how they cope with the return of their dead. All of the characters acted differently when their loved ones return, some with fear, some with happiness, it was interesting to read. Rating: 10/10
  4. Sounds interesting Michelle, great review
  5. Good times
  6. That was brilliant Kylie! I loved the episode when Dean took Castiel out because it was going to be his last night on Earth and Castiel looked so lost
  7. Hi Kylie, how are you? Just stopping by with hugs *hugs* xx

  8. Oh no its fine hen, the more news the better, I saw the trailer for that advert and it looks brilliant, I do enjoy the funny episodes (Do you remember the episode when Dean and Sam had bad luck and the one they were in the sitcom.
  9. :blush: I had to check (I'm going to read the books again at one point) here goes ~
  10. Me too hen, I wasn't keen on it until I saw the picture of Jennifer Lawrence as 'Katniss', she certainly looks the part, sorry hen, its another link ~ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/ I'm still surprised though that Lenny Kravitz is playing Cinna but in a good way but I just can't see Eizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket (I don't know why, I always saw as her older)
  11. Frankie has fab taste, it was a great read.
  12. Team Peeta! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it, its a book that raises a lot of questions which was good to see in YA book, I can't wait to hear what you think of the rest of the series.
  13. He's really good, quite a diverse author, he covers different subjects, 'The Possession of Mr Cave' is a great read. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/matt-haig/
  14. Hey peace, how are you? I have read 'Meet the Radleys', I am very biased when it comes to Matt Haig, I think he is a brilliant writer, I did enjoy 'Meet the Radleys' , it was a good story.
  15. I read the first book in the series, 'The Wee Free Men', I love Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegles, Chrissy, you have definitely encouraged me to read the rest of the books, thank you.
  16. Hi Everyone, sorry I miss the rest of the chat, time got away from me, I hope we have another chat soon
  17. Sounds good Abby, I will try to join me if I remember (I have a terrible memory sometimes)
  18. The Innocents
  19. Your desktop is so pretty poppy
  20. I agree
  21. Sorry poppy I can't see your desktop picture Here is mines ~
  22. Great minds think alike hen
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