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I was in a similar position with the Stephanie Meyer books! I loved the Twilight series but was really uncertain about reading The Host despite having had it bought for me. I had fallen in love with the concept behind the Twilight series and as a result hadn't really paid much attention to whether I thought the book was well written. So, when it came to reading The Host, I was apprehensive, the theme was totally different and I wasn't sure it would work. Like you Chesil I was worried it would affect my feelings towards the Twilight series. I did eventually read the book and absolutely loved it to bits, possibly even more than Twilight et al! TTTW was a unique idea so I can understand your feelings but it's kind of lke actors, you like some of what they do but some stuff just doesn't work!

I have started keeping a note of the books I have read with a short set of notes about what happened to jog my memory! I have read so many books but yet remember very little detail in them! Do others have the same problem and if so what have people done to overcome this problem?

I can definitely see where you are coming from Chesilbeach! I have quite a large number of books but many of them are not ones that I would read again and so just take up a lot of room (but I can't seem to part with them). I guess with an ereader you could still have them but without them taking up so much room! I would still buy books though, but as you say be more selective! Perhaps buy particularly nice copies, special editions etc, wait for box sets come out! I particularly love the new covers on the F Scott Fitzgerald annivesary editions being published by penguin. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/august/penguin-classics-scott-fitzgerald-bickford-smith I have been to a number of book signings recently but can't bring myself to read the signed copies, so try to get them from the library or in a charity shop so that they don't cost me so much money. The problem with the library is that they don't always have a lot of copies or they are all out. Charity shops, whilst an excellent source of books, can't be guaranteed to have what you want and I am rather impatient. The ereader would seem to solve this particular issue. Hmmmmmmm, what to do!?!

I'm still in the indecided camp with the whole ereader thing! What I really want is to be able to hire one for a couple of weeks before shelling out for my own! Don't think it would stop me buying books, especially with my addiction to charity shops, but it could be really useful for commuting to work!

Season 1 of the gilmore girls!

How about Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne series. First book is called Sleepyhead. Or try looking on www.fantasticfiction.com - it's a great website that list authors and all their books in order. You can click on one author and it will suggest others you may like, although obviously there is no guarantee you will like them!

Thanks, I've already read this but am sure I can remember enough to join in the discussion. May even have a skim read just to jog my memory! Absolutely loved it when I read it though!

Haven't posted on here in a very long time, but absolutely love the idea of this thread! My boyfriend and I got quite into GG a little while back although it wasn't the first series, we kept threatening to buy the first series! Well now I am definitely going to buy the first series and am definitely up for reading through her booklist! What is the next book that you are reading and when does it need to be read by?!?

I joined this forum a couple of years ago but never really posted much, not really sure why! I kind of stumbled across the forum again today and remembered I used to have an account and thought I would check it out! So I'm back and hopefully this time to stay!

I'm 25, well for a couple more weeks anyway!

That is disgusting really, surely there should be the same emphasis on books as there is on computer games!

Don't know if this has already been mentioned but I have just read Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsey. It was really easy to read and written quite simply but I really enjoyed it. It didn't take to long to read (the train journey from Dundee to Edinburgh and back and the train journey from Dundee to Aberdeen and back) but gave lots of insight into Ramsey's past and his motivations and beliefs. I'm a big Ramsey fan.

I've had both OH that read and those that don't, although I am single at the moment and loving it! It is obviously easier when the other half does read, I never had any complaints ftom my ex who read and we could always discuss new books and suggest good reads which was great. However, my ex who doesn't read used to get very frustrated. On holiday he would love to lay out in the sun and do nothing, but would then get frustrated because I wanted to lay there and read!

I have this book and have read only a small number of the 1001. I don't feel that I have to read them, but it is a great bit of inspiration if I cannot choose what to read next or am feeling stuck within a genre and in need of change.

Sounds intriguing another for that ever growing TBR list I feel!

I don't quite buy 4 or 5 a week, but I am guilty of buying them quicker than I can read them! Went to pick Mum up from work today (she works in a library) and have decided that I will limit my buying of books to when I want something specific that isn't available from the library or has a long hold list or if friends buy me vouchers as a present! Not sure I will be able to manage it though, I just love the smell and feel of a brand new unread book!

I hope that today goes well for you! We will be having pear and parsnip soup for tea this evening.

I really enjoyed the Time Traveler's Wife although it was a while ago that I read it! Have just finished reading Vanishing Acts and really enjoyed it! I had the impression that Picoult was a chic lit kind of author (not meant as a criticism, I quite like chic lit) but acutally have found that all of her books that I have read have been quite thought provoking! Hope you enjoy it!

Well that's the thing I don't really like watching TV, people ask me what my favourite show is and I usually struggle to think of one. I usually say University challenge! I would much rather read a book, but sometimes the TV just seems to suck me in and it really frustrates me!

I have a growing collection of dance films, any film with dancing in is a must have!

It's a true story about the Author who escaped from an Australian prison and is on the run in India! Definitely agree that you really get to know the characters really well in a long book!

Mushroom soup! First time I had tried the recipe and it was lovely, could well make it into my top 5!

I read at anytime of the day dependent on what I'm doing. I always read as I go to bed, if I can't I get very frustrated. Sometimes I will end up watching something on TV and not go to bed as early as usual and then be too tired to read, I am really annoyed with myself when I let this happen.

Oh and yes you're right it is addictive. I am a member of a dance forum and my firends and family reckon I am addicted to that too!