Nellie

When I was at school I did an enormous cross stitch with wild flowers on it for my Mum and Dad. It was about A3 in size. I had it framed and gave it to them for Christmas. It took me about a year, but it looked so beautiful. I was so proud!

I understood there to be a strong personal story in it too, which is why I wondered what other knew about it. Perhaps I'll give it a go.

Arsnic and Old Lace is wonderful! I haven't seen Back To The Future for years, thats another one I'll have to dig out!

OK, thats really, really odd...

Four weddings! Now thats a good idea... *rumages in DVD cupboard*

I'm poorly (all together now "Aaaawwww!"). I am working my way though my House Of Elliot DVDs, and was wondering what other people watch when they want comfort TV...

Has anyone read this? I was wondering whether there was any substance to it, after all it's reputation is for being rather saucy. I missed the David Tennant series on BBC3, but everyone raves about it and a colleague told me the book was better, althought I suspect that may be for sauciness reasons!

Like others, I would go for Terry Pratchett. If we could go back in time (is there a lift in the TARDIS??) I'd love to meet Agatha Christie.

Cool! I loved Jackanory, I would be engrossed in it!

I know I moan about Twilight, and although I don't like it myself, I do like the fact that so many other do like it. Does that make sense?

I saw this on the BBC about a new story programme for children. It made me think about how much I enjoyed Jackanory when I was little. My favourite was Rik Mayall reading George's Marvellous Medicine. I don't think there is anyone better to read this!

Ahhh, but the difference is that you want to read it again, and I don't!

I think this is official, I am the only person in the world that thought Twilight was rubbish... I feel so alone...

This is a fantastic book. It's well written and easy to read (not dumbed down though!) depsite the subject matter. I've never really looked to see what qualifications the "science correspondent" on different newspapers have. I had always assumed they had some sort of science background... but maybe not...

Definitely add them, they are well worth it. Easy to read too.

No, I haven't, does that have a similar theme?

Hello! It freaked me out too. I was reading part of it on a train on my way to London. It was the bit where . As I was reading this passage I was getting very tense, and someone sat next to me and I jumped a mile! They must have thought I was insane! Seriously though, it is very scary, tense and also made me think a little about where the boundries of science do and should lie. Excellent read.

I just finished A Killing Frost By R D Wingfield. I wrote a little about it here

I had a search, but couldn't see a thread for this, so thought I would start one. From the Waterstones Website: The discovery of two young girls' bodies leaves Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a race to hunt down the killer before he, or she, can strike again. At the same time he faces a crisis at Denton police station which could result in him being sacked. Jack Frost, brought to magnificent life by David Jason in the TV series, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the Frost books, and the pace of this one kept me hooked to the end, in fact I couldn't read it fast enough. Mulitple murder, rape, blackmail and a really nasty new DCI keeps Frost and his team on their toes. The cases are beautifully plotted and with so much going on you really feel as though you are in the thick of it all. Fantastic book! 9/10

I was in a similar situation, and listened to the Harry Potter books read by Stephen Fry. He does has an amazingly calming voice doesn't he? I always listen to them when I need to wind down. I wonder how he would feel if he knew people were using him to medicate their stress levels!

I've just finished reading this after the recommendations on this thread. It's brilliant. Very well written, with some excellent points argued well and with humour. I thought he had a very valid point when he was discussing how science is dumbed down in the press, but the financial pages and the literary ones were not. Why the difference?

How does a muffin mixture differ from a sponge mixture?

I know those as butterfly cakes... I guess it doesn't really matter, it's all cake and it all tastes nice!

I was falling about at that line! Just goes to show how humour is a very individual thing.

Until I joined this forum I used to feel very bad about buying books when I already had so many unread. I thought I was the only person that did that! Now I realise that others do it too I feel so much better!