Nellie

Thats so sad, and so young. My thoughts are with his family.

I didn't realise about the Rolling Stone's titles, but then I am not a fan, so I probably wouldn't have!

*Soppy moment warning* At the risk of making everyone vomit, I just look at my wonderful husband and it reminds me he is far better than any leading man ina book.

Thanks! I can feel an Amazon order coming on!

I haven't read any of these and I am starting to wonder if I am missing out on something. Do others like them? Do I need to read them in order, and if so, what is the order?! Thanks x

I really enjoyed it too, which surprised me a lot. I was very scared by the parallels with today though.

I had an introduction to this on my E-Reader and liked the first few chapters so much I downloaded the whole book. It's the first in a series of children's books about a group of children who are also geniuses. They use their massive brain power to stop nasty people destroying the earth. The book is packed full of action and great spy gadgets invented by the main characters. There is a great lead character called Will Knight who's background you start to discover as you go through the book. I am sure there are more skeletons in his family closet yet to be revealed, so I will definitely be reading more of the series. A great book for adults and little people. :-) 9/10

I feel sad after lots of book end, mainly because I don't want the story to end. I use it as an excuse to get another book.

I quite fancied trying The Magician, any thoughts on that one?

A Painted Veil By W Somerset Maugham Well, I've finnished another book which I thought would be nice to share with you. This one is set in China in the 18th Century. A newly married English couple arrive in China. She has an affair with a British offical, and her husband finds out. To punish her he packs them both off to northern china where there is a cholera epidemic. He's a doctor and wants to help, but in doing so exposes both of them to a high risk of catching the disease and certain death. It's an interesting perspective and describes from the woman's point of view her awakening from her shallow upbringing to what really matters in the world. 8/10 I really want to read some more Maugham, has anyone got any recommendations?

*looks serious and pretends to be a doctor* It is extremely important to look after your health, and i can strongly recommend that you continue with reading therapy to keep your stress levels under control.

Well, my list has now hit 10 books and I have to say that I am really enjoying writing little notes about them as finish a book. This is such a great idea. Thanks!

Did anyone see this on BBC 3 last night? I thought it was very interesting, espcially that reading can lower your stress levels. Does that mean I can get books on perscription? Anyway, I was interested to now what other people thought of the modern rebranding of Austen...

I was recommended this book when I had my book spa, and I was a little dubious, but it is amazing! It's a short book and easy to read, so great if you are a bit tired. The story however is very thought provoking. It is about a middle aged man who meets and old woman in hospital. They have a connection, but he thinks he will never see her again once he is discharged. Throughout the book they keep meeting, and each time she has undergone a transformation which makes her younger. Although there is clearly an "urban fairytale" type theme here, it does explore other themes such as getting old, unhappy relationships and lonliness. It has something of the atmosphere of "Lost In Translation" to it. I can highly recommend it, and would give it a surprising 9/10.

Thats an interesting thought. I always find it very hard when people use this as a reason for their current behaviour. Having a bad time at some point in your past does not, in my opinion, justify bad behaviour in the present, especially not murder. Perhaps thats why the book irritated me so much. Couldn't agree more...

oooh! So pretty! Looks like the same bookcases I have. Isn't there somthing very beautiful about all those books together?

LOL Kylie! Great minds think a like! Here are some of mine... Notice the empty shelves?.... They're not quite so empty now....

Due to the fact that I was overrunning our house with books, we turned one of our spare rooms into a library. We bought some nice bookcases from Ikea which have doors on them. Non-fiction books are ordered by subject, and then fiction alphabeticall. Yep, I am anal about my books, but to be fair I have about 3000 so if I don't put them in some order, I'll never find anything!

I remember this being passed around at school. I don't remember much about it to be honest, although I do remember Blume's other books, especially "Are you there god, it's me margaret". I did enjoy them and you are right, the writing is very good for that age group.

Well, I've finished it & I think I must have completely missed the point of this book. The ending was truely bizzare, I simply can't work out what his book was trying to tell me. I was really dissapointed in it.

The problem is that I don't find him frightening either!

I did try with the descriptions of the perfume making process, but as an engineer I just found them irritating they didn't really do justice to the process! Perhaps this book is too much like my day to day work!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer By Patrick Suskind. I'm reading this at the moment, but really struggling with it. The premise is great, but I just can't find anyone in the book who I have any empathy with. I know I not supposed to like Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, but even still I like my main characters to have something I can say is positive about them. I did however like: What did other think about this book?

Thats how I feel, and given my medical issues, it really has been marvellous over the last couple of weeks when reading a paper based book has been very hard. I have read that a library in London has started an e-book library. I have no idea how it works in detail, but the idea is that you download your e-book, read it, and then have to "return it". From what I have seen of the copyright stuff on the software that came with the E-reader, when you download the book, the copyright is restricted to your PC and reader. I couldn't for example copy the file to my husband's PC and read it from there. It only works on my PC and reader. I would imagine that the e-library works in the same way. You temporarily get the copyright files which allow you to read the book, but not keep it. I like the idea of being able to borrow e-books. Maybe that will come in time.

I'm right there with you in the "I love Artimis Fowl books and I'm a bit older than 10 group"!