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They do - and they also do a mascarpone one which is lush and very moreish!

It is pretty good - they've had Martin Clunes, Lenny Henry, Martin Freeman, Holly Aird, Art Malik, Chris Marshall and loads more reading the stories. Lenny Henry is my favourite!

I think it is a bit scary though - while I was reading it, I kind of got into her mind and could understand why she was scared and saw things from her point of view.

They do still have Jackanory Junior on the CBeebies channel. My 2 little ones watch it and both enjoy it.

Read Severed - Simon Kernick A Good Day To Die - Simon Kernick Reading The Trophy Taker - Lee Weeks Want To Read (Got) The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky Trace - Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell The Final Days - Alex Chance The Trafficked - Lee Weeks Need To Get The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini Atonement - Ian McEwan The Reader - Bernhard Schlink Defiance - Nechama Tec Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult The Pact - Jodi Picoult Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult Second Glance - Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult The Case of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny Cries Unheard:The Story of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny The Brutal Art - 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

Jacket potatoes with cheese (my other half was working till 10pm). The cheese was so strong it made my tongue tingle!

Which is bad because...? I bet you can't guess my accent now? (well, feel free to omit the 'washer woman' bit... I too love an Irish accent - particularly Dublin and Cork. I also adore a male New York accent. I like Italian too and also French...particularly if it's Jean-Christoph Novelli...

Do you have one? Do you have a soft spot for a particular accent?

It is actually really well put together - there was only one of the stories which wasn't really to my taste or kept me interested, but you do need to read all of them for it to all follow on properly. It's not really a problem though as the stories are so short, so it's not enough to put you off.

Was it just me who guessed from the off that it was one of the flight attendants?

Like A Charm is a collection of short stories based around a charm bracelet. Each story is written by a different author (if I remember rightly there's 16 in total), the first and last story were written by Karin Slaughter herself and the rest were edited by her. Each story is based around a different charm on the bracelet and each story leads on from the last but in very different ways. Some are thrillers, some are horror and some are suspense. Anyone else read this?

I was another who was very sad at the end of Skin Privilege. I'm wondering what direction the next book in the series will take (apparently Karin Slaughter has said there will be another.) I'm also glad she's built on Triptych and gone with Fractured and hopefully there'll be more.

I've never listened to an audio book - I'm not sure whether I'd like it personally to be honest. I don't know if the narraters voice would be off-putting for me (no matter who they were). I can 'create' each characters voice in my head as I'm reading in the same way I can imagine what they look like, whereas I don't think I'd be able to do that with an audio book. I might give one a go one day though.

I've never had a serious physical illness but reading helped me through when my mum was ill - and through the months and years after she died too. I also have OCD and it's helped me focus on something else other than my compulsions and obsessions when they've got really bad - not always, but some is better than none.

I'm with crotalus_p - although it would have to be a book from my TBR pile, not his...

I don't think I've ever just 'given up' on a book - I have not been able to get into a book and left it for a while, but when I've gone back to it, I've been able to get into it. That said, there have been a couple of books that when I've got to the end I've thought 'I wish I had given up!':roll:

I don't like barbecue Pringles - I do love the paprika ones though. My favourite have got to be salt and vinegar!

I agree about the Take A Break and bingo ads - I also really can't stand that DulcoEase advert. Was it really necessary for them to make it so blatantly obvious they're ripping of the Sex and the City characters?

Most people watch at least 2/3 I think, so they'll know what you're talking about - I do anyway...

I've read Whistleblower and Never Say Die, both of which I really enjoyed. For me personally I don't think they're as good as the Isles/Rizzoli series, but they're still very good and well worth a read in my opinion. I'm going to keep an eye out for the others soon too.

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky. I want to read it, and I think I'll enjoy it, but I've had it for months now and everytime I'm getting a new book off the shelf to read, I hover over this one, and then move on to something else. I think, as some others have said, that I think it's going to be a 'heavy' book, which on the one hand I'll like it, but on the other hand haven't been ready to read.

I LOVE that it has Maroon 5 in it this week!

I salute that!