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Depends on my mood, Radio 4... especially if driving long distances. Leicester Sound at the moment. Radio Kent when I lived down there!! Heather

Hi, I have the whole collection of the Sopranos series and also House series.

Hi Nellie, I have been a member of two different reading groups due to moving around the country with work. I loved one & really looked forward to it. The other I felt uncomfortable in so only stayed for 6 months. I think it is important you find out about the groups first as they can be very different. Make sure they read the kind of stuff you enjoy reading etc. The one I enjoyed did mostly modern fiction but also some good classics. However some groups also will nominate biographies/non-fiction as the book of choice. I think most groups will run some form of nomination and voting system for the book choices. Both groups I was a member of met monthly. I will join one again as soon as I know where my next (and hopefully last) move will be to!! Good luck, Heather

Oooh... I just bought that. Let me know how you get on! Heather

Hi Colin Sorry you are having such a difficult time with your health. Thanks goodness for books. They keep us going even when life is throwing it's worst at us. Heather

Hi, Good on your Mum Mia. I remember curling up on my Dad's lap reading Uncommon Law with my Dad... he was also never without a book & read the National Geographic every month... so I guess I kind of inherited it too. I don't much like non-fiction either. I do love learning though so my ideal is a book that is fictional to some extent but based around real events. That way I can learn factually but in a way that is more palatable to me. Lots of good examples ... recently finished Half of a Yellow Sun which was set around the Biafra war in Nigeria. I felt I learned a lot but it didn't give me brain ache!! Colin.. my favourite place to read has always been the bathroom with a big mug of tea!! Run the bath so slowly it almost drips!! I get up early in the morning to give me that time! As a child I used to volunteer to run a bath for everyone else in the family just so I could hide away with my books!! Heather

Hi Colin, A bit like you I was good at reading as a child at school & also enjoyed creative writing. I was lured into the other worlds that existed inside the pages!! I think escapism was part of it & still is. I love to throw off my worldly worries & be transported elsewhere. Heather

Bonsoir Val, Welcome to the forum. Heather

Hi Colin, Welcome from another newbie!! Heather

Hi, Was it synaesthesia? Heather

Just to follow up on my thread before... I found this on a google search: "Inability to visualize. Based on brain research, about eight percent of students cannot visualize during reading. This number goes across gender lines, as both boys and girls are affected. Realize that this is not a learning disability; it is how the brain is wired, just like how some people have an affinity for math or literature. Thus, if a child is reading a novel, no matter how descriptive the passages are, that child cannot put images into, or form pictures inside, his or her head."

Hi, Good thread. This has always fascinated me. I have often wondered if people who don`t enjoy fiction have a deficit in the ability to visualise while reading. For me it just happens without any conscious input but can be incredibly detailed. I`m sure it goes well beyond what is covered in the novel... what side of the street houses are on, which direction people turn to go somewhere. Isn`t the mind amazing! I agree that is has often spoiled dramatizations for me when things just aren`t how they should be! I hated watching A Room with a View after reading the book, or the Rebus series, or Captain Corelli`s Mandolin etc. Only one that worked for me was High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. I have spoken to people who don`t read much & some of them don`t understand when I talk about such visual imagery. Expect most people in BCF will have good visual imagination though!! Heather

Hi Sammy, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Welcome. Heather

Hi Tornado. Welcome. Heather

Hi Sara, Welcome. Only been a member for 3 days but hooked already! Heather

Hi, Sorry to hear you didn`t enjoy Oryx & Crake. I loved it... but found the believability factor kind of scary! It was hard going at first but once I got into it I coudn`t put it down. Heather

Hi, Another Rebus fan here... and upset to hear that he is not going to be the lead character in any further Rankin novels. I love his cynicism which sadly wasn`t really portrayed in the television adaptations. Heather

Hi, I agree with Tambo on this one. Although if it was a Georgette Heyer novel then I might allow a bit of historical romance to slip past!! I also have to admit to owning the biography of Boris Johnson... sorry guys... I was just curious! Heather

Hi all, Many thanks for such a warm welcome. I have enjoyed trawling through the site & suspect I am going to very much enjoy being a member!! Kindest Regards, Heather

Hi, Welcome to you from another Newbie!!! Heather

Hi, Only one I subscribe too is Private Eye. Heather

Hi Johanna, Just joined today too!! Welcome

What can I say. My home is filled with books & I go through a grieving process when I get to the end of a brilliant novel!!! Looking forward to taking part in the reading circle. Heather (alias Checkoe)