~Andrea~

I'm not sure. I suspect it could be the audio narration. I think I'm going to put it to one side and come back to it fresh.

I started listening to Jekyll and Hyde but for some reason I'm really struggling with it.

Hi Poppyshake. Great to have you back. I hope you're feeling better.

I acquired two audio books today. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (audio)

Hi sorry to hear about the challenges life has thrown at you. How about something creative? Painting, drawing, creative writing, craft etc? The act of completing something could give you a sense of achievement and help you set goals etc.

Cathy was my favourite character in East of Eden - not because I liked her but because as you say, she pulls you into the story and was really interesting.

As if I didn't already have enough books on the go at the moment, on the weekend I bought and started The Four Loves by C S Lewis.

The chyrsalids cover is the one that was on the version of the book we studied in school. It's bizarre because the cover has absolutely nothing to do with the story as I remember.

Ah lush - Wuthering Heights is great. Glad you enjoyed it.

I know! I expect they were in a different font or something (because the last 7 words are a kind of quote) and weren't picked up by the scanner.

I finished Chocky last night. It was an enjoyable little book although it was quite dialogue heavy and I did feel a little too much of the story came through dialogue. A little more description and narration would have broken it up a bit. It was almost like reading a play. But the story itself, of a boy who acquires a so called imaginary friend, is quite engaging and I did like it. It didn't really have the same depth or excitement as The Day of the Triffids though. Also in my ebook version the last 7 words were missing so I had to look them up online today

Yes, it was. Hopefully they'll put me through as a priority when they reschedule.

The Seance is a great book, glad you enjoyed it. The Ghost Writer is fab too. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on that when you get to it.

Not quite finished Chocky but I've started another book anyway. I had to go into hospital yesterday and didn't want to take my Kobo or any valuables in so I started reading The Men and the Girls by Joanna Trollope which I'd picked up in a charity shop. I probably won't read more until I've finished at least Chocky. Annoyingly my op was cancelled right at the last minute when I was all gowned and tagged and ready to go in, having been hanging about all day. Good job I had a book with me!

Congratulations Kell

Oh my thoughts to your wife. I had it aged 10 and it was horrible

I'm drowning in non-fiction at the moment, so I'm having a bit of an NF break. Yesterday I started Chocky by John Wyndham.

Gotten is perfectly correct in American English. It was a part of British English at the time of colonisation of America but we evolved away from it while America didn't. So to say 'Got' is correct and gotten isn't just isn't right. 'H'aitch is rife here in south Wales. That's just how we pronounce it. Regionality and dialect just makes language more interesting. It would be a boring world if we all spoke the same. Languages evolve and change - otherwise we'd all still be speaking Old English. It's just what happens, and like it or not, popular usage decides how. That's democracy in action

Ugh I get this all the time. Not as the dialler but the diallee. My name puts me at the front of a lot of people's phone books. Grr - lock your phones people

So glad you enjoyed Watership Down, it's a wonderful book.

I think the Narnia stories were the ones that really captured my imagination. Like Chrissy, as a child I was somewhat obsessed, and would have loved to have been transported there. Also in my late teens I read Animal Farm and it blew me away. The power of the story form that a simple story could say so much was really inspiring.

Woot! I actually liked Heroes and was disappointed when it ended (tho series 4 was a bit poo) I doubt remade Blake's 7 will have the charm of the original though.

Well I didn't think his Christian views were that extreme, certainly not as extreme as being in Hamas.

Do you know that's exactly what I thought of the sex-scene in the only Ian Rankin I've ever read. It felt like the obligatory sex scene, rather that having anything to add to the book.