[What Did You Have For Breakfast?]

Porridge or fruit of late, although some mornings it's porridge and fruit.

[Bobblybear's Book List - 2012]

Why have I bought these when I have a gazillion books on my TBR list? Who knows?

 

It's a sickness we all have, you are not alone (200+ on my Kindle, and I daren't even count the number of books on my TBR shelves).

[Computer Help Thread]

I don't format ours before using them, as generally the software on them is useful for unhindered use of the sticks. The flip side is that unless something is a impediment to me with this kind of thing I generally leave it as it was, a computer laziness of sorts.

[I got a Kindle]

Julie, I think your husband may be one to keep! What a lovely surprise.

[Tunn 300's 2012 Reading Log]

Congratulations on the move! I hope you and your wife are happy in your new home.

[Andrea's books 2012]

So I finally finished The Secret of Crickley Hall. What a load of utter tosh. This book is the worst written, most cliche-riddled pile of rubbish I have read in a long time. Right from the start I found the writing awful. I hoped it would pick up, but no. It's almost as if James Herbert deliberately tried to drop every writing clanger in the book, just to see if he could get away with it. It has it all: cliched themes, boring characters, badly written local dialect, info-dumping, outrageously villainous villains with no redeeming qualities at all, to name a few. The writing is amateurish and repetetive, the story predictable and it's not even scary. I even spotted a couple of continuity errors. It fails on all counts. The atrocious writing aside, the story itself is predictable (did I mention that?) and downright unpleasant in parts. The child abuse aspects are written without a scrap of sensetivity and are pure sensationalism, which is unforgiveable. A horrible book, badly written. A total waste of time.

 

It's a shame that you have been unable to express what you feel about this book Andrea! Your review may be damning, but it is brilliant written. Great stuff.

[Your book activity in 2012]

'Mistress Masham's Repose' dropped into my letter box today. It's a near perfect 1979 edition (original price 75p).

 

I have got further into 'The Last Dragonslayer' whilst at the hospital today - loving this book - loving Mr Jasper Fforde!

[Astronomy Pictures]

I suddenly remembered this thread today, and had a shuffle around at NASA (as you do!), and found this sparkly colourful photograph, and thought I'd pop the link on here.

 

With a raised glass (or in my case, a mug) to our gone but not forgotten astronomically minded Raven, I give you Starburst Galaxy .

[Pets ~ Part Two]

What a gorgeous, gorgeous cat! He and Molly are just darling. He was such a cutie, and the roof pic made my heart race just looking at it!

 

Oh Poppyshake, what can I say? So sorry.

 

Molly probably feels a little bewildered without him. But she will be ok. I know our fella did when his sister died last April. But now the relationship he has with us has been redifined, and he gets our undivided and incredibly spoiling attention (thus my 4 am starts nowadays!).

 

Big hugs. X

[I got a Kindle]

Ok, when I don't want to hear something I can stick my fingers in my ears and sing "La, la, la, la!". What the heck to I do when my fingers automatically click a link and I see all the goodies? What's the vision equivalent of "La, la, la, la" ?

[Amesy: The Return, part 2 episode 1 Chapter XVI]

Welcome back Amesy.

[How do you arrange your books into collections?]

On my (ye olde worlde) kindle you just click 'create collection' on the Menu page.

 

Once you have your collections sorted, go to your first book and 'right push' the navigation button.

 

This brings up options including 'add to collection' which you click, this takes you to your home page where all the folders are, and at each stop you can 'add to this collection'.

[Your book activity in 2012]

Finished 'Coffee At Luke's' last night. What a lovely book to read. I would most definitely recommend it to fellow Gilmore Girl fans.

[Show your bookshelf]

That is WONDERFUL! Thank you so much for posting that Chalie. My goodness, how much time that must have taken to make! The filmaker MUST be a book lover. The settling down at the end is just so sweet,.

[How do you arrange your books into collections?]

My kindle has the following;

 

Miscellaneous Fiction

Non Fiction

Young Adult

Sci Fi & Fantasy

Husband's Books (it's my kindle, but I collect for him too!)

Read (but not yet archived)

Currently Reading & To Be Read (bumped into and out of as my mood takes me)

Classics, Myths & Legends

[I got a Kindle]

All my kindles books have been cheapies or free too HoneyGirl. I feel the same way you do about the costs, and the fact that paper books cost to be produced, whereas once the book has been 'uploaded' it costs very little, so why the expense?

 

I still buy proper books as much as I used to, so despite my husband hoping that the kindle would help ease the book shelves, but that hasn't happened just yet.

[What's up with that? (Confusing things in movies)]

Anything that throws me in Harry Potter I always put down to Elf Magic ~ it covers a whole multitude of things such as missing pockets and dubious happenings! lol

[Your book activity in 2012]

I'm coming to the end of 'Coffee At Luke's' and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been so interesting to read theories and opinions on The Gilmore Girls series. 'The Last Dragonslayer' has taken a back seat while I have been working my way through it. I hope to have both finished by the weekend, if my week doesn't get any busier than it currently looks to be.

[Mona's Reading List (2012)]

I have seen this book mentioned many times, and was always intrigued by it. Now you have convinced me to actually get hold of it.

 

Not sure whether to thank you or not! 2012 looks like it may be as book buying heavy as 2011.

[Tunn 300's 2012 Reading Log]

I have Blacklands and Darkside on my TBR pile, and will hopefully get to both soon. Your review of Darkside has made sure that I stick with the first one if I feel the same way about it as you do, as a stepping stone to this one.

 

I have read and enjoyed The Graveyard Book a few times, and although somewhat macabre at times, I love Neil Gaiman's writing, and can definitely recommend some of his other books (Neverwhere, American Gods etc).

[The diary trend]

I would think that if you know that you will be reading excerpts of your diary to a group then you would (consciously or unconsciously) write the entries differently, or would read them out perhaps placing the emphasis / meaning in a slightly different place to alter it's meaning. Human nature would surely make that the case. Or at least - it would for me.

[How many books do you read at once?]

I was wondering, why would anyone read more books at once? You are not going faster. So what would you say is the point of reading more books? (exept reading for school of course)

 

For the studying, it was a matter of different books for different subjects / modules, so there's that.

 

Since then I have at times had a few books on the go, with maybe a crime thriller, a historical and a non-fiction. It meant I had somehing to read for every mood, or every situation. Some books take more concentration than others, so you would have difficulty say reading in a crowd. Other times I may only have 15 minutes so would throw myself into a read that had short chapters.

 

My reading mojo has been so wobbly in the past couple of years, it has been miraculous at times to have even 1 book on the go, so for me having two books that I am reading equally feels like a personal uplift. In this instance, I am reading a collection of essays on a favourite television series, and a YA book written by one of my favourite authors, so they are a couple of good reads that cover my current reading moods.

[Chrissy's Reading 2012 Onwards]

I wish every visitor a happy reading year. I feel like I have got off to a great start with 2 books (yes, you heard that right) on the go, and I am enjoying both enormously.

[I got a Kindle]

I made my own out of some greeny velvety material, some padding and the backboard of the box my kindle came in. It works well, doesn't look like a kindle case, and never gets lost in the depths of any of my big bags.

 

I've had my Kindle for almost a year now, and love it to pieces. It currenly holds about 250 books, although I haven't spent more than around £40 on them.

[How many books do you read at once?]

Now usually I would have to answer with "One", but I am happily reading two at the moment.

 

At University I had to read a few at a time, just to keep up with the required reading. I found it pretty easy to do whilst I was deep in study, but since then I have become a one-at-a-time reader. I am glad that my reading mojo has brought me to this point where I can read more than one again.