Kylie

Please excuse double post. OK, so I couldn't wait until after Christmas. I just went out and bought Thank You, Jeeves. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Ooh, you have a tricky question on your profile...I can't see your shelf .

Poppy, I can't wait to get a hold of PG Wodehouse. I have a feeling he's an author I'm really going to enjoy. I was browsing books the other day and noticed his works are being re-released (the covers looks great), so now looks like an ideal time to be getting into them! I'm going to try and hold off until the post-Christmas book sales though, because if I'm going to get them all, the cost will add up! I also found George Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody to be very funny.

to the forum, Toria! Look forward to discussing books with you.

I reread this last year and really enjoyed it too. I also followed it up with Through the Looking Glass and enjoyed that one even more!

I really enjoyed On the Road. I think it's one of those books where you need to be at a certain period of your life, or in a certain mindset, to fully enjoy it. I've read that a lot of people read it when they're young and absolutely love it, and then hate it upon re-reading it many years later. I would love to read the original scroll version - just waiting for it to come out in paperback.

Hi Sammy and to the forum!

Anything by Bill Bryson

Hi Sara and to the forum! Any specific authors or genres you enjoy?

I have finally gotten under the 300 mark in my TBR pile . I was considering putting my TBR books in a separate bookcase when I was organising them, but seeing as they make up almost half of my entire collection, they would have taken up an entire bookcase on their own, and that's just too daunting.

I have several of those musicals in my TBW pile I've gotten right into Gene Kelly recently. He's just terrific, isn't he? I watched An American in Paris the other day. I confess to getting a little bored during those long dream sequences though. In fact, I may have skipped through some parts

I think I'll have a ham and cheese omelette. Because I'm living by myself now I have to get used to buying enough food just for me. Seems I've been buying too much so I've been basing my food decisions on whatever is going to go out of date next

I haven't read any OSC to date, but I believe Ender's Game is one of his most popular books (it's the first in a series). I have this on my TBR pile.

I read this last year and enjoyed it. Here's what I wrote in my review: I haven't seen any movie versions yet but I'm on the lookout for them, particularly Hitchcock's take, although I understand it's fairly different to the book. According to IMDB, there is a new version slated for release next year, although there doesn't appear to be many details available (it's on the 'back-burner'), so who knows when it'll come out.

Thanks for the tip! I didn't realise it was part of a trilogy.

I read The Book of Evidence earlier in the year and loved it (thanks to your recommendation!) I've since gone out and bought Athena, Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, Mephisto, and The Sea. Can't wait to read them all.

Nice review, Pontalba! I'll have to track this one down. I'm edging ever closer to reading Pnin.

I bought one book on the weekend and my Mum bought me another, for no particular reason: Daphne du Maurier: Julius Stephen King: Night Shift I have several reviews to write up - I'm slipping behind again! I'll be finishing up Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut today, and I've finished Charlotte's Web by EB White and have moved onto Stuart Little by the same author (both books are in one volume, along with The Trumpet of the Swan).

I agree. The only other book of Kerouac's that I've read is The Town and the City and that is exactly the same ('overwhelmingly masculine'). It follows the lives of a large family, but the women are almost completely ignored and instead the story focuses on the men. In fact, I mentioned this in my review. I loved both books though, even in spite of this 'problem'. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the book when you get around to it again!

Thanks Beef I might hold off a bit longer in hopes it will be released in Australia.

Hi Heather and welcome to the forum!

Johanna! Great to have you here

I bought a bag of Coconut Roughs from Darrel Lea this morning. Yum! I absolutely love them

Welcome to the forum!

to the forum, Tiresias! How are you enjoying Don Quixote? I have it on my TBR pile and am really looking forward to reading it.