Kylie

Hi June and welcome! Looking forward to discussing books with you!

Nice review Judy! I've been interested in reading this book for a while now but I got sidetracked by A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

I'm glad that's a plural 'books' because I'd never be able to choose just one! I've been keeping close track so I have a few in mind. I've had an excellent reading year!

Shameless - this is such a brilliant show. Wonderful acting by everyone and the best show on TV I think. It's so under-rated over here though. Looking forward to our monthly book show on telly tonight.

Supernatural S3 has started here Gyre (I was wondering why the discussion hadn't started up again - now I know why!) I think the third season has gotten off to a better start than season two. It seems to have gotten scarier/grosser, which I think it was lacking last season. Very enjoyable so far!

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my very favourite books And Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is right up there too. They're the only ones from your list that I've read. What did you think of Enduring Love? I have that one on my TBR pile.

Don't know if this will help, Oblomov, but there's a small section on culinary use at Wikipedia. I haven't tried them myself (I prefer the chocolate variety ).

Hi Evelyn and welcome! Nice to have you here

I was a big fan of the BSC books too CoG! I still have all of mine but I stopped collecting shortly after Abby entered the series. I recently bought the final book from a book fair, along with (I think) the one where they go around the USA. I haven't read them yet though. And wow, you did look like Karen! I used to have a couple of picture books by Graeme Base called Animalia and The Eleventh Hour. They are beautifully illustrated children's book. Animalia is an A-Z and The Eleventh Hour is a story about an elephant inviting 10 friends to his 11th birthday on 11 November at 11am - then his great feast goes missing and the reader has to try to figure out who stole it. There are clues and things to look out for in every picture. Wonderful stuff! I can't believe I ever gave my copies away. Now I'll have to track them down again.

I'm so glad you liked Pride and Prejudice Pontalba! I read it last year (it was also my first Austen) and it's now one of my very favourite books. I found myself flicking forward to see what would happen next - something I very rarely do! I agree that her writing and insights translate well into the present day.

Wow, you must live in a town of fast readers! Or are you allowed to borrow for a couple of months at a time or something? I'll be interested to hear what you think of DBC Pierre. I haven't read any of his work but I've been curious about it.

Because my books are so scattered, and I have them on a couple of shelves here and a couple of shelves there, I really can't organise them very well. I do have my Wordsworths together (all 3 of them!), and my Penguin modern classics (with the grey covers) and then my Vintages (with the white covers), then my Jane Austens (which are all Penguin Read Reds). After that, it kind of degenerates and they're all a mess, although I do have one shelf for sci-fi, which is badly overflowing. I like the idea of colours, but if I had the room I would probably end up arranging alphabetically in genre or something.

Karen, if you really want to find it, go out and buy another bookmark. When you return home, I guarantee your other one will turn up!

Sounds like everyone has been busy rearranging books for more space! I moved a few books around on my shelves but I don't think it created any more space - it just looks a bit better now because I've grouped more books together that are the same height.

Can't imagine how you could forget such a riveting title Judy

Hmm, that's a very interesting idea ii! My dad's quite the handyman so I might talk it over with him. Thanks for the idea!

We had some fried rice and leftover chicken so added it together with tandoori sauce. Yum. That was yesterday and I'm having more for lunch today.

I saw Miss Saigon last night. It was a brilliant performance and very cleverly done. I got a bit teary a couple of times. I've never seen it before and didn't even know the story so it was all a surprise.

Chocolate! It might be bad for me, but nothing will ever induce me to try and give it up. Life's too short, and eating it makes me happy, so why not? I probably eat a bit every day, but not in copious amounts. I also crave chicken (I'm surprised at how many of us there are!) I will eat it in any way, shape or form. Why hasn't anyone brought out chicken-flavoured chocolate? I bet it wouldn't taste as gross as it sounds!

Bought two books yesterday (the ones I mentioned in an earlier post): Magical Mystery Tours: My Life With The Beatles by Tony Bramwell Mapping The World by Michael Swift

I used to read under the covers with my torch too, until I got caught and got into a lot of trouble I have memories of my Mum standing in the hallway between my brother's room and mine, and reading Roald Dahl poetry out to us when we were in bed. She was very good at it

Mmm, yum, Echo! We make English muffin pizza at home sometimes (meatlovers - heavenly!) I'll be having a toasted ham and tomato sandwich.

I have a stack of Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie novels on my TBR pile. Glad to hear you're enjoying Poirot - it makes me want to get a move on to start reading them!

Hi Miguel and welcome to the forum! I like sci-fi too but haven't read many different authors yet. Do you have a particular favourite in sci-fi?

I completely agree about Ray, Kell. Do you think the character was written this way on purpose or did something go amiss in Mark Haddon's characterisation? Because if I was supposed to dislike this character the way the other characters did, well, it didn't work!