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Some of it is, there's a lot of things that don't happen in the books happening too though

I'm a famous comedienne reminising about my life and rise to fame

Today was Morrison's shopping day, so it was pasta bar for dinner, yummy!

Michael's the same

Stephanie, I got about half way through watching the series and had to know who the killer was so looked online to see (that was before I'd read the books) it didn't really ruin it for me because it's still really good to watch how it all plays out on screen. (don't read if you don't know who the killer is!)

The Husband, Velocity and The Good Guy are all very good by him too Paula

Ooo I'm so glad you enjoyed this, it's one of the series I want to read for my challenge this year too x

Supermarkets, dear god I hate them! People just ram into you with their trolleys and baskets and are completely oblivious to the fact you're there. And then there are the people that leave their trolleys in the middle of the aisle so you can't get past and then just wander off. I'm not a big fan of going shopping, can you tell?

Hope you all enjoy it x

I think you'll enjoy it Kylie, it's a very touching book

The Diving-Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby No. of pages: 139 Rating: 5/5 Synopsis: On December 8, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby's life was forever altered when a part of his body he'd never heard of--his brain stem--was rendered inactive. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his exquisitely painful memoir, is neither a triumphant account of recovery nor a journey into the abyss of self-pity. Instead, it is a tender testament to the power of language and love. At 43, Bauby was defined by success, wit and charisma. But in the course of a few bewildering minutes, the editor-in-chief of French Elle became a victim of the rare locked-in syndrome. The only way he could express his frustration, however, was by blinking his left eye. The rest of his body could no longer respond. Bauby was determined to escape the paralysis of his diving bell and free the butterflies of his imagination. And with the help of ESA, "a hit parade in which each letter is placed according to the frequency of its use in the French language," Bauby did so. Visitors, and eventually his editor, would read each letter aloud and he would blink at the right one. Slowly - painstakingly - words, sentences, paragraphs and even this graceful book emerged. Review: Told through short chapters, this is the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, written after he had a terrible stroke that left him locked inside his own body, with only one blinking eye enabling him to communicate. Amazingly, he managed to write the book entirely this way. Each chapter tells of something different, a memory of his life before the stroke, what it was like waking up after, the sadness and humiliation he feels now that he cannot do anything for himself, to name but a few. Very sad story, imagine being as mentally sharp as you've always been, but not able to move any part of your body but one eyelid. It certainly takes a lot of strength and courage, not only to carry on without sinking into a pit of depression, but to write a book about what it's like to be locked inside your own body, so other people can understand. The chapters were random, which actually lends to the charm of this book, because it's not all before the stroke and then all after the stroke, he mixes both aspects of his life, sometimes with a dark humour and wit that you cannot imagine feeling yourself in that same situation. It's very well written and flows so easily, but the content really makes you sit back and think about life and try to imagine how terrible such a thing would be. It's definitely something I would recommend, even if it's not something you would normally read, everyone could take something away from this book.

Are you enjoying it Inver?

I'm sorry Harvest wasn't as good as you were expecting, it's one of Gerritsen's I've still to read, if you've not read it already her last stand alone book 'The Bone Garden' is really good

Yeah I'm pretty sure he was in Home And Away, Charm

I've been a reader for as long as I can remember, in fact I have a Enid Blyton book that was given to me for xmas in '94 (I would have been 7 then) and I had been reading for a long while by then. Even though my mum never read I was always given books by various family members, and as I grew into my young teens and went to live with my gran, she would often take me to the big library in town so I could get heaping piles of books to keep me company and then I started going with a friend that was a reader, so it's just one of those things that's always been a part of my life which is really weird as there's not many readers in my family.

Eclipse is also my fave, hope you enjoy is as much as the others Nici

They're really nice Chesil, I hope you manage to pick it up again some day

I drink de-caf tea, and because it doesn't have as much flavour as normal tea I have to have a sugar in it to sweeten it up. Don't drink coffee at all as it gives me migraines. I have a bunch of the Twining's fruit teas too, they're very nice

I entered too

Yeah it's mad, and compared to her we are all very normal

If you think we're crazy, may I direct you to NuttyMadam, who is well known amongst Twilighters for being the most obsessed fan... In particular, you might enjoy her super duper amazing twilight love song Enjoy!!

I'm a man who's had a stroke and now I have locked-in syndrome, I can only communicate with one eyelid that I'm able to move

That looks awesome Kylie!

Can't you just leave it for someone else to merge them if it really annoys you as much as it seems too? And what exactly annoys you about it?