chesilbeach

A Time To Kill

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Good People - Jack Johnson

I'm with you, Kylie. The Philadelphia Story is an absolute classic, my second favourite film ever! High Society is okay, but not a patch on the original in my opinion.

Hi Rob. I loved The History of Love too, and a couple of books I read around the same time which I thought went well together were Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Five People You Meet In Heavan by Mitch Albom. I'd also say The Other Hand by Chris Cleave fits the bill, and lots of people who've read it here have thought it was a great read.

I read it last weekend. I liked it (how could I not? ), but I felt that everything had built to the huge events at the end of the previous book, and this was a sort of a chance for everyone to do a bit of healing and catch their breath. My feelings are that the series will move forward from now on with the introduction of some new characters, and I actually hope that it might perhaps start moving in a different direction?

The annoying fly that's been buzzing around me all afternoon.

I thought I'd have to watch a few games, but BF has had it on every match, so I've been getting loads of reading done, but I can't help but glance up at it occasionally.

Charlie Brooker is one of my twitter gods! Him, Chris Addison and Mark Steel are twitter comedy legends for me. Could this World Cup get any more boring? I think the only game I've enjoyed so far was watching the French get beaten by Mexico.

Let's Make It Last All Night - Jimmy Barnes

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Sad to see that author Jose Saramago has died http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10352251.stm. The books of his I've read have been some of the greatest books I've read, challenging, compelling and all have had an impact on me.

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Victoria Hislop

Licence To Kill

Elvis Ain't Dead - Scouting For Girls

Tennis. Postcard or birthday card?

Benjamin Black

Wollongong, Australia

I loved what Danny Baker (radio genius) said on MOTD the other night. It was along the lines of ... England aren't good enough to go out of the competition yet. They always start off poorly, scrape through by being mediocre, then gradually get better until they get to the point in the knock out games where they play well, and we just start to think they might have a chance, and then they get knocked out!

Can you give us some more details about the books? Titles and a little bit about the story would be good, just so that those of us who haven't read them know a bit more about them, and also why you love them? Perhaps you'll be able to persuade some of us to read them

Finished Burnt Offerings and have gone straight on to the next book in the series, Blue Moon. Thanks for recommending the series, Charm, although I think I've overtaken you now (I really must learn not to start and get sucked in to any more new series of books)

Force 10 from Navarone

I've only read two of the books on the list, but I have read other books by these authors: Sarah Waters Zadie Smith Ian McEwan Lynne Truss Alan Bennett Malcolm Gladwell Kazuo Ishiguro (currently reading my first book by this author) Khaled Hosseini I'd probably read more by most of them as well, so it's interesting that while I haven't read what seems to have been their best work, I have recognized them for their other books.

I had my library book club tonight too! Nearly everyone liked The Outcast and it provoked a good discussion. We've been given Fear of Flying by Erica Jong for next month (and one other which we actually read last year so I won't be reading again). Meanwhile, I've been back in the supernatural, and reading the next Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter book, Burnt Offerings.