[How did you find the forum?]

I typed "Book Club Forum" on google and clicked the first that appeared.

[Keeping track...]

Birthday: 14th February

Age: 19

Starsign: Aquarius.

 

Single/Married/Other? In a relationship.

Children? None.

 

Where do you live? The West of Scotland.

 

Do you work? I've just finished a HND in television operations. I work behind the bar in a football social club at the weekend but I'm currently looking for something much better.

 

Favourite author? At the moment Jane Austen or J.K. Rowling.

 

Favourite book? I really, honestly can't choose one.

 

How did you get here?

 

I forgot to say I got here from typing "Book Club Forum" into google and this was the first place that popped up.

[A problem with... classics]

I've rarely found myself not in the mood for a classic. I guess that's partly because most of the books I've read in the past few months have all been pre 1920. I love the lifestyle and language. I feel I was born in the wrong century to be honest.

 

I've always found with Austen that it takes allot of discipline to read up until the half way point. I don't know what happens then but something takes over. I don't know if you've become used to it or things finally start to happen but they get allot easier to read then and become much more exciting.

 

With Emma I think you really have to skim past Mrs Bates' lengthy speeches further into the novel. She is a very tedious woman.

[Have you ever cheated and]

I look ahead all the time. I can't help it! The page will randomly open at a page a few chapters ahead of me and a line will jump out and catch my eye. I'll read a few lines. It doesn't ruin it for me because I don't know what context it's in and it motivates me to read the rest quicker so that I can get to that part and know what was meant by it or understand it's context.

 

I have a tendency to read the last few lines of the book as well, I don't think I've ever read a book where I was able to restrain myself.

 

It doesn't ruin it that much. There's usually a sort of wind down point after the climax isn't there? The last couple of lines don't usually spoil the entire book for me.

 

I do try not to do it but my self control is astoundingly poor!

 

Although I manage to justify it in the same way that Harry does in When Harry Met Sally. That way I don't feel too guilty.

[Greetings!]

Thank you for all the kind welcomes!

 

I'm from the West of Scotland. A place called Greenock. Heard of it?

 

Anne's House of Dreams is by L.M. Montgomery. It's the fifth book in a series of 6. The first is called Anne of Green Gables. It's about a little orphan girl living on a Prince Edward Island in Canada and who is adopted by an old spinster woman and her brother where she lives a lovely happy life!

 

The books in their entirety take you through from when she was adopted, through her childhood right up to when she's married has a loving family of her own.

 

The one I'm reading at the moment starts days before her wedding day and has her setting up home and beginning to build a family.

 

They really are charming books. I first read them all when I was about 12 and have always been among of my favourites. They're actually the books that started me reading for pleasure.

[Greetings!]

Hello!

I'm rather new here.

I say rather, I joined ten minutes ago...

Why did I come? ...I enjoy reading very much and I figured that a book club forum would be as good a place as any to find good recommendations for books to read (I've come to a bit of a conundrum, so many books so little time! I just don't know what to read next and so have begun retreading old ground.). And forums are good fun!

 

Anyway, thank you very much!

 

~Victoria.