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I have this on my book shelf (well it's back on the bookshelf now mister.g has finished with it ) and I'll get round to it soon hopefully. I do enjoy Dan Brown books, but find his style of writing to be quite clumsy, so I'm glad this is a smoother read. Makes me more inclined to give it a go.

Personally I think it's a good writer who can pull off a great story in less than 100 pages. If they can have a beginning, a middle, an end and a punchy story that keeps me interested and entertains me, they must write really well in my opinion. Stephen King has a couple of books that are a collection of short stories and one of my favourites is a book called Like A Charm which is edited by Karin Slaughter and has 16 short stories. The first and last stories are also written by Karin Slaughter and the other 14 are written by other authors. Admittedly, each one does lead onto the next but even as individual storys, they are all really well written and enough to keep you individually interested.

Read Severed - Simon Kernick A Good Day To Die - Simon Kernick The Trophy Taker - Lee Weeks The Trafficked - Lee Weeks At Risk - Patricia Cornwell The Front - Patricia Cornwell Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult Reading The Pact - Jodi Picoult Next To Read Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult Want To Read (Got) The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult Second Glance - Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky Trace - Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell Fractured - Karin Slaughter The Final Days - Alex Chance Sunstroke - Jesse Kellerman Dexter In The Dark - Jeff Lindsay Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay In The Dark - Mark Billingham Night Sins - Tami Hoag Guilty As Sin - Tami Hoag The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud - Julia Navarro Road To Perdition - Max Allan Collins Fear - Jeff Abbott Lost Souls - Neil White The Dead - Ingrid Black The Timer Game - Susan Arnout Smith Immoral - Brian Freeman Blood of Angels - Michael Marshall Revelation - Bill Napier Land of the Blind - Jess Walter The Last Place - Laura Lippman Atlantis - David Gibbins The Burnt House - Faye Kellerman The Reader - Bernhard Schlink Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman (borrowed) Need To Get The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini Atonement - Ian McEwan Defiance - Nechama Tec Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult The Case of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny Cries Unheard:The Story of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny Trouble - Jesse Kellerman Belonging - Sameem Ali The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell Martin Misunderstood - Karin Slaughter Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay The Shakespeare Secret - J.L Carrell Rose of Sebastopol - Katherine McMahon Note from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale Blood River - Tim Butcher The Resurrectionist - James Bradley Pirate's Daughter - Margaret Cezair-Thompson The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller The Outcast - Sadie Jones Down River - John Hart Visible World - Mark Slouka Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Under The Knife - Tess Gerritsen Call After Midnight - Tess Gerritsen Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith Everything Changes - Jonathon Tropper The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff Run For Your Life - James Patterson Breakneck - Erica Spindler Whispers of the Dead - Simon Beckett The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Survivor - Tom Cain The Birthing House - Christopher Ransom The Island - Victor Hislop Sliver of Truth - Lisa Unger The Lost Throne - Chris Kuzneski Daphne - Justine Picardie The Bolter - Frances Osborne Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano

That's a very good idea - you'd be surprised what you can get for a bit of 'constructive criticism';)

Oh I'm sure they will! I loved them!

I was right! I was right! I knew he was in it because of that!

I just know it'll be one of those things that doesn't mould as well as it says it does and it'd end up getting thrown across the room when I'm in a bad mood! You could get one of those book holders that people normally have for recipe books in the kitchen and cover it in bubble wrap or something:tong:

Ah don't beat yourself up over it - there are much worse addictions!

They did it with a lot of shows - I think it was all to do with the Writers Strike. Even though the strike finished ages ago, a lot of writers write for more than one show, so there was a backlog of episodes that needed to be caught up (that was what I read somewhere anyway).

I don't know whether it's being repeated but I would think you'd be able to catch it online through the ITV site. Pesky TV schedules clashing - don't they know how much we love our dramas!

This episode is now my all time favourite Supernatural episode - and not just because of Eye of the Tiger! It was a v v funny episode. EotT completed it though!:lol:

I watched it - I didn't even realise it was on tonight. I just saw it on the guide by chance. I agree I was v tired watching them - and hot! Awww at the biker guy (I can't remember any of their names!) crying when the critics said he food was so fantastic. I'd quite like the young guy with the red cheeks to win - although I'd not be disappointed if any of them did to be honest.

I'm so glad I saw this! I didn't know it was starting back tonight! I think I might know what Edie's husbands secret is (I can't remember his name either:lol:) and I can't wait to find out whether I'm right or not!

I'm another who prefers book shops, but I do buy quite a few online - mainly for convenience. It's easier to check at home what I've got/not got etc.

Terrestrial - it's on channel 5. There's Law and Order on atm and Law and Order:SVU and Criminal Intent. SVU is a spin-off of Law and Order (stands for Special Victims Unit - deals with a lot of rape, child abuse etc cases) and Criminal Intent is another spin-off. Just checked and a new series of Criminal Intent has started but it's saying it's on at 11pm on Saturday but that Law and Order is on at 10.40pm so not sure what's happening there! Anyway, there's normally one or the other on after CSI on a Tuesday at some point, sometimes it's on a Friday evening too after NCIS and then it's on Saturday evenings too - it all depends on which one though.

I don't think it's a silly idea at all - I don't do it now, but I used to when I was a teenager. I used to have a book of quotes from books, films, programmes etc. I don't know what happened to it actually... You may even have inspired me to start doing it again!

:lol: I'm not giving anything up for Lent - I'm not religious (i'm agnostic) so I feel like I'd be a hyprocrite. Not that there's not plenty of things I could really do with giving up, but 6 weeks without anything wouldn't make that much of a dent. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl!

Bizarre! I came across this today on The Book People site and added it to my To Get list. Not heard of it before. Will definitely get it now. Btw, for anyone who's interested in getting it, not sure how much it is elsewhere but it's only

I was highly sceptical (admittedly one of my sticking points was Bradley Walsh - I have no problem with him personally just couldn't 'see' him in this) but I loved it and was very impressed. I'm an avid watcher of L&O and L&O:SVU (I'm another who can't stand Criminal Intent) and thought they transferred it really well to the UK. Will definitely be watching again.

Awww Chimera, Ben and Charm Nice topping though Charm! Mmmm Chrissi, Nutella...*salivates* What did you have on yours Michelle? I made some for me and the boys (other half is still at work so will make him some later). We had chopped banana, vanilla ice-cream, chocolate sauce and sprinkles on ours. V nice they were too!

So has anyone/will anyone be having pancakes? Do you prefer yours sweet or savoury? Is anyone giving anything up for Lent?

In which case if I think of any more I'll let you know.

Ah so I was right when I read the synopsis then! Will give it a go as it did look good at the time, and still sounds well worth a read now. I can't take the credit for calling them that, a friend of mine does and I picked it up from her. Does seem quite fitting though - and at Dan Brown's books being one unit! Have you read The Medici Secret at all? I do love these type of books, but I found The Medici Secret to be a total slog to be honest - and not a good one at that. The conclusion was obvious from about half way through the book, but then carried on dragging through until it's obvious conclusion. I've got another along that line on my TBR pile - The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud by Julia Navarro.