Ravenwood

Thought it was good to jump ahead 5 years - I think everyone would have moved out of Wisteria Lane if there kept being major disasters/scandals there every 6 months! And as a mother of two I'm glad to see that Gaby looks dreadful too!

Books from childhood make me happy when I go back to them - Narnia, The Little White Horse, Tamora Pierce's stuff.... I'm on very good terms with my inner child!

Gutted that DT is going, but felt the same when CE left. Might be controversial, but maybe it would be good to have a Doctor who we don't all (well, almost all) fancy? That was something I really liked about Donna - she just wasn't interested in him that way! [i listened to a couple of Dr Who audio books that came with the Radio Times a while back, and it was a bit funny to hear DT talking about the doctor's intense brown eyes and boyish good looks!]

I've just finished The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - yes October was just a barrel of laughs. Before that we had Mister Pip, and now I'm onto The Book of Lost Things.... think I see a pattern developing here.

Yes, a wonderful book, so easy to read, funny and shocking at times. I had a hard time placing the setting within the last twenty years, partly because it seemed so colonial, but also because I had no memory of the events described (bless Wikipedia for a quick history lesson of Papua New Guinea for the woefully ignorant like me).

Gelfling! Glad to find someone else who's read Pilo - definately a book that will stay with me! Anyone else out there? Whenever I reccommend it, and I try to describe it you can see people starting to edge away.....

Once read a Freya North book..... never again

Oh dear I feel so old now! Loved watching this when I was at school