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I've read: 90 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 53 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver 25 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 10 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown I've got on my TBR pile: 48 A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 41 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 18 Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 9 Atonement by Ian McEwan I have on my wishlist: 30 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 22 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 15 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 14 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 3 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Today I borrowed from the library - Michelle Paver - Spirit Walker Michelle Paver - Soul Eater Jodi Picoult - Songs Of The Humpback Whale Kit Whitfield - Bareback Isabel Allende - Zorro Sara Banerji - Shining Hero Natasha Mostert - The Keeper Ellen Feldman - The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank Charlaine Harris/Maggie Shayne/Barbara Hambly - Night's Edge I finished Wolf Brother this morning, so will be carrying on with the series and reading Spirit Walker next

He does, and his shows are always good, I don't get why they keep getting cancelled I think it's all to do with not enough people tuning in when it actually airs rather than people who record them to watch later etc

The auroch appeared quite suddenly from the trees on the other side of the steam. Michelle Paver - Spirit Walker

Yeah it's a shame

Wow that poor guy, that's outrageous

The House Of Night series, by P.C. and Kristin Cast Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher The Women of The Otherworld series, by Kelley Armstrong If you look around you'll find loads of book that will interest you

Home by Nicola Davies No. of pages: 259 Rating: 2/5 Synopsis: It's 2067 and the world has become virtually uninhabitable with all the pollution and toxins created by mankind. Ruling classes live holed up in the cities and workers live in Stations, safe from the outside world. But one day Station 27 is taken over by rebels. Nero, from the ruling classes, and Sacks, a worker, find themselves thrown together as they're captured by the rebels, their common enemy. As they begin to discover the terrifying truth about their world, the two children get separated and find themselves in great danger. Will they find each other before it is too late? Review: All of the workers have been told that the outside world is harmful, and so everyone stays inside the glass domes where they work and sleep. Except for Sacks. When she goes out and realises it's not actually harmful, it sets in motion a massive set of events, which leads to something Sacks could never have dreamed of... This wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be, which is a bit of a shame. The storyline was okay, the characters were okay, but nothing was ever more than okay. An easy read with an interesting concept which could have been so much more than it was. The way they talked was really annoying, the workers who were meant to be the lower class had chavvy London accents, and the rulers all spoke perfect english, which just seemed like such a stupid stereotype. Not something I'd bother recommending.

Ooo I've been thinking about getting this one, so I'll be interested in what you think!

I finished Home and now I'm gonna start Michelle Paver - Wolf Brother

The Vampire Diaries are nothing like Sookie, so I doubt they were based on them.

I finished Coraline and now I'm trying to get through my library books before they have to go back, so next up is Nicola Davies - Home Thrilling futuristic science fiction with an environmental slant. It's 2067 and the world has become virtually uninhabitable with all the pollution and toxins created by mankind. Ruling classes live holed up in the cities and workers live in Stations, safe from the outside world. But one day Station 27 is taken over by rebels. Nero, from the ruling classes, and Sacks, a worker, find themselves thrown together as they're captured by the rebels, their common enemy. As they begin to discover the terrifying truth about their world, the two children get separated and find themselves in great danger. Will they find each other before it is too late?

Coraline by Neil Gaiman No. of pages: 171 Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall - until Coraline unlocks the door and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different... The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them...Forever. Review: Coraline finds a strange door in her new house, and when she goes through it, she's taken to another world where there's another mother and father. But the other mother doesn't want Coraline to leave, in fact, she'll do everything she can to keep her... I've been wanting to read this for a long time, and I wasn't disappointed. I was surprised by how creepy it was though considering it's aimed at 10+ year old kids, it certainly would have scared me at that age. The storyline was great, I really enjoyed it and I thought it flowed really well, and even though it is a children's book, it's definitely one you can still enjoy reading as an adult. I've heard lots of things about Gaiman and his writing, and I was impressed by what I read, so I will certainly be going on to read other books by him that I'm interested in, and now I really want to watch the Coraline movie!

I don't have a clue, seems really random doesn't it? I was trying to find the missing chapters online earlier, but it doesn't seem like anyone's translated them, or atleast I couldn't find them if they did

Enjoy!

Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. Neil Gaiman - Coraline

I have, I love that whole series

If you read the rules, you'll see that we don't like people coming and asking questions for homework or uni work.

Absolutely, it's my favourite stand alone book of hers

My boyfriend is really not a reader, he's read exactly 11 books in the 4 years we've been together and all but 1 were gifts from me. He's read the 5 Hitchhikers books, he really enjoyed the film and so I got them for him for xmas that year, and he really enjoyed them. And he's also read 3 of the NewScientist books on questions/answers from their magazine and he also has 3 of the QI fact books. But when it comes to fiction which I primarily read he's completely uninterested in reading them. But when it comes to how he is about my reading, he's great. He'll always ask what's happening in my book so I can talk to him about it, and he always encourages me to treat myself to new books, and will often buy me some himself.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami No. of pages: 607 Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis: Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life - spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table - are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. Review: When Toru and Kumiko's cat disappears it's the start of a very bizarre journey for Toru. The people he meets are varied and interesting, but can they help him find what he's looking for? I loved this book, it was such a refreshing change from anything I've ever read before. Obviously the Japanese culture is quite different to ours here, and I loved the mysticism of the spirits and being able to move out of your body for a period of time. The characters were my favourite aspect of the story, they were so random and quite bizarre at times, but they were great fun to read about and get to know. In particular my favourites were Creta Kano, May Kasahara and Cinnamon Akasaka, although I really did feel like each character brought something important to the story. My only dislikes were that it was a tad too long, and it felt like I was reading it forever and seemingly never making progress, and also that some of the longer memory passages were a bit too long too, and I found myself losing concentration a bit. But other than that, it was a fantastic book, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to read something a bit different.

From Wikipedia: Two chapters from the third volume of the original three-volume Japanese paperback edition were not included in the English translation. In addition, one of the chapters near the excluded two was moved ahead of another chapter, taking it out of the context of the original order. The two missing chapters elaborate on the relationship between Toru Okada and Creta Kano, and a "hearing" of the wind-up bird as Toru burns a box of Kumiko's belongings. That's a shame they've done that, I would have liked to read more about Creta and Toru.

I think so too, how he was so completely oblivious to the fact she was sleeping with other men is beyond me, as it was very obvious to the reader from page 1, but then again, I do think that's the point, that he just is oblivious to everything, and really he doesn't even think to find out anything about his wife until she disappears. I think water plays a massive role, as it crops up quite a few times during various stories, and it's something Toru always thinks about due to the preminition thing that he was told many years earlier. Also, because of the well that was dry for all that time, but then started to fill with water almost killing Toru when he saves Kumiko from the spirit place. The fact that Toru thinks that what happened in the spirit place and the well refilling with water breaking the curse for that piece of land is also important, implying that it was the dry well that was the bad luck? I really enjoyed the mysticism aspect of the story, and it was something that made it stand apart from 'western' books, even though there were losts of western aspects, the spirit type things are very rarely written about in a fictional format here, where as I gather it's a pretty big thing in Japan, which is really interesting to read about and it was certainly refreshing to not be reading about modern technology (other than the few small computer bits). Generally, I loved the book, and found it completely different to anything I've ever read before. I loved all of the crazy weird characters, in particular I really liked May, Creta and Cinnamon. Did anyone else have any favourites?

I'm 100 pages from the end of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so I shall def be finishing that this afternoon, then I'm thinking of reading Coraline