~Andrea~

Thanks Devi. It's good to know this is normal behaviour.

Following the good advice above, I opted for some Narnia and started The Magician's nephew last night

Haha love the penguin dream!

Thank you Chrissy, Kylie, Pontalba, Athena and Janet. Your kind words mean a lot x

Hope you're OK Julie x

Well I absolutely devoured Fool's Errand. It was brilliant. I can't believe I read it in two and a half weeks. For me, and for a book over 600 pages long, that must be some kind of record! Although I was quite ill for about a week and did more or less nothing but read. So what to read next? I'd dearly love to read the next one (Fool's Errand is the first in a trilogy) straight away but I don't have it at home and need to borrow it from my ex. As I've just moved and haven't fully unpacked all my books yet (my unread ones are in a box at the back of the garage somewhere) I decided to pick up a book I'd already read called The Big Love by Sarah Dunn. It's a comedy about someone who has just been dumped by her long term boyfriend. Since I am going through the exact same situation myself I thought it might be good to read. I was wrong and it's far too close to home to be enjoyable! I think I need some pure escapism right now - as far away from reality as I can possibly get! So I might have a browse at Kobo for something new for my e-reader or dig out my unread books from the garage and see if there's something there to take my fancy. I do have King Solomon's carpet to finish but as I started it when I was on holiday with my ex I find I just can't bring myself to pick it up as just looking at the cover arouses all kinds of stressful emotions in me. Silly I know!!

It also depends who your target audience is. Is it the scientific community or the general public?

I really like Capaldi as the doctor. I prefer him to Matt Smith and I wasn't a big fan of Christopher Eccleston. Capaldi is possibly my favourite so far. Loved the finale (part 1) looking forward to part 2.

Thanks Athena. Also, the book I lost (King Solomon's carpet) has turned up! So I will try and finish that soon too.

I finished Odd Thomas last week. I enjoyed it but not as much as I thought I would. I've enjoyed others of his more. It was still good though. I was going to start reading The Asylum by John Harwood in time for halloween but I've recently moved and now live alone. I wasn't sure if I ought to read anything too scary as I'm a bit of a wimp if I'm home alone and do get easily spooked. (Anybody know how scary it is?) Instead I've started Robin Hobb's Fool's Errand - part one of the Tawny Man trilogy which follows on from the Farseer trilogy. So far so good!

When I drank caffeinated tea I was terrible, always nipping to the loo. And half hour after a cuppa, I'd be busting. It's one of the reasons I gave up

I only drink herbal tea. My favourite is Rooibos which I drink every day (usually one or two cups) with milk. I occasionally drink camomile and less often peppermint. I gave up all caffeine about two and half years ago.

I chose what I thought were the worst 4 but I could have easily chosen more. I agree with Emelee though, we probably all have some of these traits to some degree. It's easier to see flaws in others that in oneself.

I don't usually do a Halloween read but this October I'm reading Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas for 'horror month' and will be reading The Asylum by John Harwood after that, so I'll definitely be reading something spooky come Halloween

What a lovely idea for a thread. Thank you Athena. What cheered me up today? Coming on to BCF and reading this thread.

Aaahh that's so lush. Thanks for posting. I think I might share it on facebook.

Dobar Dan Marina! Welcome

Thanks Athena I hope you enjoy the series. PS I see you've become a moderator since I was last here. Congratulations

OK a while since I've been in here then! I finally finished Ship of Destiny, the last in the Liveship Traders trilogy, and I thoroughly enjoyed this fantasy adventure series. Lots of strong female characters, ships whose figureheads come to life, pirates and magic. A great read. I did feel the ending was a little rushed perhaps or that there was just too much to wrap up at the end (there is a lot going on in this book, lots of characters and lots of plot lines) but that was a fairly minor niggle. Recommended. Annoyingly I've lost a book I'm half way through This was King Solomon's carpet. I put it to one side because OH's kindle became free which had the last liveship book on it. But now I can't find it anywhere! Oh well I guess it'll turn up. Anyway - I've just downloaded Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz and The Asylum by John Harwood. I think I'll go for Odd Thomas next and save The Asylum for October in keeping with the spooky theme of the month.

Definitely Stephen King but another favourite of mine, perhaps more ghostly and chilling than out and out horror (depends how you define it I suppose), is John Harwood. I also like Dean Koontz. Again I'm not sure how well he fits into the horror category but some of his books, The Taking for example, is definitely horror genre.

Welcome Nicolo. I hope you have fun here.

I would recommend To Kill A Mockingbird which is a wonderful book and I would think it would appeal to adults and teenagers alike. Also Watership Down is an old favourite of mine and again I think it has cross-age appeal. I was going to suggest Room by Emma Donahue but I wouldn't know if it was age appropriate for a 14 year old as the themes are quite tricky even though it's all very well handled by the author. Maybe one of the mum's who've read it would have an opinion on that?

Thanks. I'm loving it so far Athena

So I've been waiting for OH's kindle to free up for a while and now it has so I'm dropping everything to read Robin Hobb's Ship of Destiny, the final book in the live ship trilogy. Wup wup!!

Glad you enjoyed My Cousin Rachel. It's a great book and Daphne Du Maurier is one of my favourite authors. I'm yet to read Rebecca though but will get to it one day The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry sounds great. Another for the wish list. Best wishes for your surgery Julie