~Andrea~

Me too - I never usually leave a gap, and often have two on the go so there is always an overlap of one book continuing while another ends.

I loved the Spielberg adaptation, apart from the ending which was all a bit too neat.

I didn't like the TV series so much. I think they made him too nerdy.

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Nah I know lots of people with bookshelves in their loos. It's pretty common. Seems some people are easily shocked

I read the first two in my teens. Must read the other ones some day.

It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boardinghouse to walk the streets. This Sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith

A burger in ciabatta rolls with corn on the cob and salad followed by an experimental dessert.

FYI I just added a review to my reading blog on here

Hi and welcome Doug Naylor eh? Wasn't he the co-writer of Red Dwarf? What are his books like?

Hi and welcome. Nice to meet you

I started This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith last week, and so far it's excellent. The writing is first class.

Review of 11 Terrible Months - R L Royle This is the creepy story of an ordinary family living in a council flat through a severe haunting, for eleven months. I really enjoyed this book but did think it had some problems. First of all, being as it was, an account of the same set of events recorded by three different people, this book was always going to face certain difficulties: by the end of the first account the reader has already come to the end of the story, so why should they read on? if the accounts were to be realistic, certain events are going to be repeated threefold, how could they remain fresh each time? The author tackles these issues with some success and some failure. Some of the repetition felt repetitive, and some worked really well. I also thought that that the second two accounts should have been considerably shorter than the first, to give the reader an incentive to read on without thinking, 'oh i've got to go through all that again'. Account 3 is the perfect length, short and snappy and filling in the gaps of the other two. Account two however left me struggling. I thought it was far too long, and quite rambling. I do not need to see every idle thought in a characters mind, and a lot of Chris' account suffered from characterization-over-storytelling, and really could have done with some sharper editing (perhaps one of the pitfalls of self-publishing). That said, Chris' character and story were interesting, if overlong. In spite of it's flaws, Eleven Terrible Months is a compulsive read, and I found myself immersed in a world I kept wanting to return to. After I had finished the book it stayed with me for days. I loved the concept of this book, the ordinariness of the family and the writing was fresh take on the haunted house story. It's a shame that this book failed to deliver its full potential, and a good book could have been even better. 7/10

Ah - thanks for that. Have you read any of the other stories in it yet?

I read for 30 mins every night (pretty much) before bed and occasional Saturday/Sunday mornings before OH gets up. I also quite often read for 20 mins in my lunch-hour - so there's usually two books on the go, the bedtime/weekend book and the work-lunchtime book.

I've added Heart of Darkness to my TBR - it's one of those books I feel I really must read one day.

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I'll eat raw veg as part of a salad or as a snack, but not in my cooked dinner.

I'm not a big fan of crunchy veg - I don't like the carrots as they come in nice restaurants, I like them soft - not cooked to death, just soft.

I found turning 20 worse than turning 30 if that's any consolation. I've enjoyed being in my 30s.