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Title: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Author: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Atom Rating: 3/5 Synopsis (from book cover): I watched his body change. He crouched on the roof, one had gripping the edge. All that strange friendliness disappeared, and he was a hunter. That was something I recognized, something I was comfortable with because I understood it. I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt. I took a deep breath, drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below. They weren't the only humans around, but they were the closest. Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey. It was too late to choose anything. Review: We first met Bree Tanner for a brief moment at the end of the Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse but she was obviously an important character to the author, as she had a whole back story worked out for her, which she has now written up in this novella. I thought it might be a while before I got to read another installment in the Twilight saga (I'm still holding out for the completion of Midnight Sun), and to be honest, I'd convinced myself I wasn't that bothered by this new story as it wasn't about our beloved Bella, Edward and Jacob, but couldn't resist the lure of an especially early opening of Waterstone's on publication date. At 178 pages, it's a quick, easy read, and it does feel like returning home after holiday - you've had a great time away reading other things, but it's lovely to be back with the your own creature comforts. From what I've seen of what's coming in the Eclipse film, I'm guessing Meyer gave this material to the filmmakers, and it rounds out the story nicely. The story concentrates more on Bree discovering the secrets Riley is keeping from his group of newborns. I enjoyed it, and I loved the characters of Diego and Fred. When the story starts, Bree has already been a vampire for a few months, but personally, I would have liked to see Meyer start the story in Bree's last day as a human, or in the first few days as a vampire. Interestingly, Waterstone's had opened an hour early for the book release and I was expecting to find crowds of teenagers at the bookshop, but it was a very quiet store that I walked into. In fact, the display of books was still pretty full, and I had the whole shop to myself. I didn't actually arrive until about 8:45am, so perhaps i'd missed them!

Title: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner Author: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Atom Rating: 3/5 Synopsis (from book cover): I watched his body change. He crouched on the roof, one had gripping the edge. All that strange friendliness disappeared, and he was a hunter. That was something I recognized, something I was comfortable with because I understood it. I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt. I took a deep breath, drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below. They weren't the only humans around, but they were the closest. Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey. It was too late to choose anything. Review: We first met Bree Tanner for a brief moment at the end of the Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse[/i] but she was obviously an important character to the author, as she had a whole back story worked out for her, which she has now written up in this novella. I thought it might be a while before I got to read another installment in the Twilight saga (I'm still holding out for the completion of Midnight Sun), and to be honest, I'd convinced myself I wasn't that bothered by this new story as it wasn't about our beloved Bella, Edward and Jacob, but couldn't resist the lure of an especially early opening of Waterstone's on publication date. At 178 pages, it's a quick, easy read, and it does feel like returning home after holiday - you've had a great time away reading other things, but it's lovely to be back with the your own creature comforts. From what I've seen of what's coming in the Eclipse film, I'm guessing Meyer gave this material to the filmmakers, and it rounds out the story nicely. The story concentrates more on Bree discovering the secrets Riley is keeping from his group of newborns. I enjoyed it, and I loved the characters of Diego and Fred. When the story starts, Bree has already been a vampire for a few months, but personally, I would have liked to see Meyer start the story in Bree's last day as a human, or in the first few days as a vampire. Interestingly, Waterstone's had opened an hour early for the book release and I was expecting to find crowds of teenagers at the bookshop, but it was a very quiet store that I walked into. In fact, the display of books was still pretty full, and I had the whole shop to myself. I didn't actually arrive until about 8:45am, so perhaps i'd missed them!

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Rose will probably always be my favourite, but I do like Amy a lot. It was when he picked up a painting and just started slapping white paint over it to reuse the canvas that got me. The gasp of shock from The Doctor and Amy was great! No way! I'm with the others on this one (I'm sure I've made my feelings on Murray Gold know before ) - I like it when they use a proper song occasionally, it just makes a pleasant change.

I fell asleep halfway through!

I'm going to disengage my brain for a 90 minutes and watch Legally Blonde

Sudoku (especially Killer Sudoku) Legally Blonde or Miss Congeniality?

Verse ...

That was awesome! It looked stunning, made me jump, it made me laugh, it made me cry. That is what Doctor Who is all about. Best of the series so far for me.

The newspaper headline glared at me from a little metal vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SIEGE - DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer

Natural. Flowers or foliage?

Chorus ...

I Feel The Earth Move - Martika

Vuelvo Al Sur - Astor Piazzolla

Este Mundo - Rupa & The April Fishes

A trip to town resulted in these books coming home with me: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer (of which I've already read 50 pages in Starbucks ) The Chosen One - Sam Bourne Martin Lukes: Who Moved My Blackberry? - Lucy Kellaway Blood Promise - Richelle Mead

I definitely want to know what you think of this one. Everyone in my reading group loved this book when they read it (before I joined) and everyone tells me I must read it ... which, of course, puts me off

Chattering ...

Revenge of the Wedding Planner - Sharon Owens

You should also try Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by the same author. It's great fun and I liked it better than Bridget Jones

Just finished What I Saw And How I Lied.

I'll bolster the support for Jasper Fforde too - a lovely nod to all the classics you know

There's a thread specifically for No Time For Goodbye here, plus if you search the forum for Linwood, it comes back with a veritable feast of reading blogs, so I'm guessing you'll find quite a few people who've read some!

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