Ruth

I have this on my tbr...I want to see the film first though, because when I watch a movie after reading the book, I am generally disappointed in the film.

10 Things I Hate About You Starman The Big Lebowski Brokeback Mountain Edward Scissorhands Frankie and Johnny Any of those will do the trick. Another of my absolute favourite movies is 21 Grams - I adore that film, but I wouldn't call it a comfort DVD...it's just so intense!

I actually didn't realise until about halfway through that I had no idea of when this was set. But I quite liked that about it:)

Just finished Bel Canto, which I enjoyed...time now to read one I haven't read in many years - Jane Eyre.

I'd say To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read it many times, and never get bored with it. I first read it when I was about 14, and loved it. My husband bought me a beautiful rare copy, which is too nice to be read (I'm worried about breaking the spine or bending the pages), but I still have the copy I had as a teenager - a lot more dogeared than it used to be!

I never give up on a book! Even if I am not enjoying it, I just can't give up - I wouldn't advise this course of action to anybody else though! I often wish I could give up, but once I've started investing time in a book, I have to see it through.

I actually think Heath's performance was amazing in the The Dark Knight, and definitely Oscar-worthy. Trouble is, if he wins, people will say it's only because he's dead. (He should have won for Brokeback, but that as a past issue now). Philip Seymour Hoffman is again nominated in the same category - he won the award that year when Heath was nominated. However, I also think that Robert Downey Jr's role in Tropic Thunder was AMAZING!!! Would love Slumdog Millionaire to win best movie - but it won't. I don't understand Brad Pitt's nomination - I honestly do not think that he is a very good actor, but we all know that the academy rave over movies where people have to look totally different to how they look in reality.

Ooh, great question! Mine would be: Jeff Bridges Bill Hicks Barack Obama Susan Sarandon Jon Stewart

It's a long book for me - over 600 pages, but I didn't care, because it was just so interesting! I have yet to read a bad review of it, and I have looked at various different sites! I hope you enjoy it:)

A very quick read - I think I read it in about an hour and a half. It's interesting and certainly made me think, but it didn't move me as much as I thought it would. I did enjoy it though, and would recommend it.

I rarely lend books out - I would prefer to give them away and replace them! I have lent too many out which I have never had returned. I will however lend them to my dad because he always gives them back when he has finished, and they always come back in the condition he had them in. My mum also returns books when she has finished with them, but she and I don't tend to have very similar tastes, so she doesn't borrow many.

Just finished Diary of a Provincial Lady - loved it! Tomorrow, am going to start Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett.

I rarely have baths - I have showers instead - and you definitely can't read in the shower! On the rare occasion when I have a bath, I always take a book up with me. My favourite place to read is in our big comfy armchair, with the reading lamp next to it.

I thought I only had one quirk which I posted earlier in the thread (checking how many pages a book has, and setting myself a 'target' amount of pages to read every day). However, reading through this thread has made me realise that I have a few more! 1. If I buy a series of books (the Inspector Montalbano books by Andrea Camilleri are a case in point), I have to have the same set of covers for all of them. 2. If a book has been made into a film or tv show, I NEVER buy the covers with any images or actors from the movie - I always prefer non tie-in covers. 3. Before I close a book for the night, I have to have reached the bottom of a page (and it has to also be the end of a sentence or paragraph).

Have finished Homicide - which I would recommend to anyone with even the slightest interest in police work. About to start The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

I always look at how many pages the book is and then set myself a target amount of pages to read every day.

Mine would be: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 2. Betty Blue - Philippe Dijan 3. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis 4. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 5. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

It's the first in a series of books. I have The Bone Collector on my tbr - I'm told it's excellent. I always remember reading The Beach by Alex Garland, and then watching the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. Somehow, he just didn't fit the role (not for me, anyway) in any way, shape or form. In fact, I thought the film was awful.

Oh, The Damage Done was a fantastic read. I agree - it was unputdownable! I'm not generally a fan of (auto)biographies, but my dad bought me a biography of Bob Dylan, which I read last month. It was absolutely fascinating.

If you like the Rebus books, you might want to check out the Tom Thorne books, by Mark Billingham (personally I think they are much better than Rebus).

I don't think it's fair to say someone is not a reader just because they don't read quickly. I usually read about one book every five days, but occasionally I'll read one in two days, or very occasionally one day. If it's a long book, it might take up to a couple of weeks (The Historian took me ages)!

On LibraryThing, I always make sure that the cover in my collection is the cover that I have. I don't mind so much on GoodReads though.

I think Lucy Pinder, Coolio, Verne and Terry seem nice. Also - despite myself - I like Ulrika Jonsson. I sort of feel that I shouldn't like her, but I do.

Just started rereading Homicide: Life on the Streets - had forgotten how long it is...my copy is well over 600 pages. Am normally put off by books this size, but I read this a few years ago, and remember absolutely flying through it, because it was so good.

My 2009 reads so far... Crossed Wires, by Rosy Thornton - 4.5/5 The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler - 3.5/5 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by David Simon - 5/5 The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby - 3.5/5 The Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E M Delafield - 4.5/5 Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett - 4.5/5 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 5/5 Blind Faith, by Ben Elton - 4/5 Over, by Margaret Forster - 5/5 The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde - 5/5 Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh - 2.5/5 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker- 4/5 Autobiography of a Geisha, by Sayo Masuda - 4/5 Milk Glass Moon, by Adriana Trigiani - 4/5 Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen - 5/5 The Harmony Silk Factory, by Tash Aw- 4/5 The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald - 5/5 The Unknown Terrorist, by Richard Flanagan - 3.5/5 Bad Dirt, by Annie Proulx - 3.5/5 Road to Paradise, by Paullina Simons- 4/5 A Partisan's Daughter, by Louis de Bernieres - 3.5/5 Mother's Milk, by Edward St. Aubyn - 2.5/5 The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood - 5/5 Death at Dawn, by Caro Peacock - 5/5 Windows on the Word, by Frederic Beigbeder - 3/5 Ferney, by James Long - 3.5/5 Un Lun Dun, by China Mieville - 3.75/5 Chocolat, by Joanne Harris - 4.5/5 Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith - 4.5/5 Iris and Ruby, by Rosie Thomas - 5/5 A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess - 5/5 The Summer of Katya, by Trevanian - 3/5 Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann - 4/5 The Painter of Shanghai, by Jennifer Cody Epstein - 4.5/5 The Road, by Cormac McCarthy - 5/5 Affinity, by Sarah Waters - 4.75/5 Biron's Mercy, by Ben Gibbins - 2/5 Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons - 4/5 The White Family, by Maggie Gee - 4.75/5 Absolute Beginners, by Colin MacInnes - 3.5/5 Keeping Secrets, by Andrew Rosenheim - 3.25/5 According to the Rolling Stones, by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood - 3.5/5 Addition, by Toni Jordan - 4/5 The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory - 5/5 Born Bad, by Josephine Cox - 1.5/5 The Sixth Wife, by Suzannah Dunn - 3.5/5 The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov - 3.75/5 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, by Sue Townsend - 4.5/5 The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger - 4.5/5 Misery, by Stephen King - 4.5/5 Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore - 5/5 The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak - 5/5 The Resurrectionist, by James Bradley - 3.5/5 Fine Just the Way It Is, by Annie Proulx - 3.5/5 Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen, by Joanna Denny - 3/5 The Bone Collector, by Jeffrey Deaver - 4.5/5 Girl In a Red Tunic, by Alys Clare - 3.5/5 The Help, by Kathryn Stockett - 5/5 The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters - 5/5 The Rice Mother, by Rani Manicka - 4/5 Raven Black, by Ann Cleeves - 4/5 A Dog Named Christmas, by Greg Kincaid - 4/5 Catch Me When I Fall, by Nicci French - 3.5/5 The Bad Mother's Handbook, by Kate Long - 3.5/5