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Danny John-Jules. Check my Twitter page for details (@BronwenPhoenix) ~B

Dan Brown in general. I think he's way overrated. In particular? The Da Vinci Code. ~B

Jeffy the Burglar's cat. I was about 10. I was reading late at night, and the ending was so sad, I was in hysterics and woke my parents up. My mum had to cuddle me and kept telling me it was only a book, but I was too far gone by then. ~B

Being a writer, I go to a monthly writers' event in my area where everyone meets up and talks about what they are doing (for anyone, at any level) and there's often people there who take to the stage for a bit to talk about their own book or maybe it's a publisher, or a new magazine starting up... anyway, what does this have to do with books? Well, recently we've started having BOOK TOMBOLA which is amazing! They bring in a whole box of brand new books (2 boxes actually, fiction and non-fiction) and all the books are £1! You get a ticket, but you get to choose your own book. I walked away with about seven last time! I was just wondering if anyone else did this. Say if you went to a readers' meeting etc. why not have a book tombola there? It's a wonderful thing! Could even just manage it yourselves by providing a book or five you didn't want any more. So far I've gotten some great books from there, including 'The Amateurs' by John Niven and 'Tail of the Blue Bird' by Nii Ayikwei Parkes. I'd definitely give the experience a thumbs up.

I have that book, started reading it, didn't get into it the first couple of pages, really need to go back to it. I loved 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'.

I am re-reading an excellent and hilarious book at the moment, called 'The Amateurs' by John Niven. It is a Scottish comedy based around the game of golf - I don't really know anything about golf, but I still love the book. The characters are wonderful, it's a little bit rude and there's some broad Scottish talk but it's so funny, sexy, violent and completely refreshing. I read it the first time a few weeks ago and then gave it to someone else for a loan. Only just got it back and felt like reading it again ~B

I turned 25 in August. The big 2-5. So old. ~B

Man, I need a job lol!