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Oh that's a shame, sorry you didn't enjoy it. I really liked it. I read Michelle Paver's Dark Matter over the last couple of days, and really enjoyed it. So atmospheric and depsite the unusual setting it had a really classic feel to it. Now reading Reviver by Seth Patrick. So far I'm loving how fleshed out (no pun intended) it all is. Only about 50 pages in but really enjoying it. Yay for getting back on the reading bandwagon!

Sorry to hear Michael isn't feeling well, Gaia, and that you haven't been feeling the best yourself lately. Hope ye both start feeling a bit better. Claire, I love going home in the dark! Love winter - I just wish it would stop raining!! I haven't been on here much - work and social life been a bit busier than usual, but should be all quiet for the next little while and I'm getting back into reading again so I should be around more. Think I'm getting sick again though - ugh. Body, you're turning 28 tomorrow, not 82. Cop on.

Watched It Follows on Tuesday night. Loved the premise, loved the cinematography, but it all felt a bit pointless. Felt like it had been made with some very specific symbolism in mind and that got a bit lost in translation.

I have no interest in a new Star Trek series. I love TNG and DS9, Voyager is grand if there's nothing else on and Enterprise was atrocious (apart from the stunning intro sequence). The films are okay, but they're big block buster action films, and don't really have any of what makes TNG and DS9 Star Trek, for me.

I read the first book in that trilogy and I really enjoyed it. Must re-read it and read the others. I too am looking forward to that.

Honestly I love the idea of being able to browse books by rating!

I would *love* if this was done well.

I bought my first Christmas gift! A purple stuffed elephant for my mum. She loves elephants, purple, and stuffed toys. Seems like a winner. Bought some wintery themed bedsheets and clothes over the weekend Everything is pretty good with me lately, not much to report. Didn't do much for Halloween, had a bit of a hectic week last week at work and just wanted to chill out.

Oooh these sound really interesting. Think I'd like them? Reminds me of Tru Calling a little bit.

I put my tablet Kindle in landscape mode yesterday and sat it on my desk at work while I munched my lunch - was very handy not having to hold it, I must say!

Very heavily overcast with very high winds it seems because the clouds are tearing across the sky. Also purple, because I now work in an office with purple tinted windows. It's all very post-apocalyptic.

That's really awesome, actually. I too would love a print of it

The Lion King in 3D Like watching gorgeous cardboard cutouts.

It's a very faithful adaptation, and it's harder to digest actual teenagers reciting John Green-isms than it is to read characters doing it - but I think it's a great movie with fantastic actors, so you should give it a watch I'm reading another Helen Fitzgerald novel, The Devil's Staircase. Tearing through it - should have figured she was what I needed to reignite my mojo It all seemed fairly tame for the first third and then it just took a turn for the typical Fitzgerald madness. Really enjoying it

His teenagers are in no way authentic, they're just a variety of mouthpieces for John Green's various thoughts and opinions. He's not the greatest writer in the world, but I do love the way he thinks and the way he articulates his thoughts. Don't be sorry, everyone likes different things!

No, by Jason Mott... I was fairly underwhelmed by it. And this is true! I'd like to get another book or two finished... might be time to pick up some I put on hold earlier this year! Glad you enjoyed it - it's the only John Green novel I have left to read. Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it, but it definitely sounds like you're just not gonna get on with him. I find that very interesting because Tfios is the more widely known/read/popular one of the two. Paper Towns is very much the underdog.

I use my tablet to read books, I have Kindle for tablet installed on it. Not sure if that feature is on it, I'll have to have a look. Could be useful if I'm lying in bed - the tablet will prop up by itself on its cover in landscape mode and facilitate extreme laziness on my part!

Great reviews of Asking For it and I Let You Go - agree with basically everything you said about both books, good and bad points. Glad you enjoyed them both!

Have to agree about I Let You Go, amazing twist. Haven't read any of the others!

I'm about thirty pages from the end of The Returned, so hopefully I'll finish that today - and I'll have read one whole book in October!

Whaaaaaat you can't just skim over that! Why will he be on national tv?? Also happy 30th birthday for this weekend!

'Yup no hassle' - my dad, about picking me up from the bus station this evening.

I've been so tired lately. Moved back on-site at work, so have to get back into a routine of getting up early enough to get ready and go to work, rather than just sitting up in bed and turning on the laptop I miss working from home. I also have some tough work ahead of me, I'm being trained in something this afternoon (I don't even know what, really), and then I have to train other people in it next week. Then I have another full day's training next week, which I'll probably also have to teach to people. I hate training. Went to see Hamlet live from the Barbican (with Benedict Cumberbatch) on Monday, and aside from some sound/visual issues with the stream, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some weird and some really great production choices, well worth seeing. Today after work (whenever that is) I'll be heading to my parents for the weekend, which isn't really going to give me a break from the stress of work, but it'll be nice to see my dog at least. And there should be birthday cake for me (its not my birthday, but I won't be down there for my birthday so having it this weekend instead). Mostly I just want to sleep.

I too have added Our Endless Numbered Days to my wishlist

Oi!!!!!! Watch it, you!! On that note, the origins of Irish dancing: https://www.facebook.com/nuky1077/videos/10153546202149720/?pnref=story Okay NOW back to Strictly - sorry Claire!