chesilbeach

Brisbane, Australia

Hi Pixie! We read The Three Musketeers in the reading circle last year, I really enjoyed it

That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald

Suck ....

Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (I always seem to get the tricky letters in this game )

Me too! I keep one spreadsheet for every year, but I also have a database where I keep details of all the books I've read since 2006 when I really started reading properly again. My books themselves are in no particular order on the bookshelves (I'd need a full time librarian for that!), but I do have (currently) two shelves for by TBR books - I'm trying to reduce that to one shelf and eventually, one bit of one shelf, but I can't see that ever happening!

Burnt ...

I would say that chick-lit and YA would be my default comfort reads and one name for me is the ultimate comfort read, Meg Cabot. I also tend to have a hankering for travel and tales of moving abroad, and I always come back to Annie Hawes for a comforting, entertaining and funny read to ease me back into that style of book.

Plans ...

Sorry, Charm Probably only making token visits to Wales and Scotland too. It really isn't fair - I hate that most authors only ever seem to end up in London and the home counties too.

Don't Ever Let Me Go - Alesha Dixon

Invention ...

The Girl At The Lion D'Or - Sebastian Faulks

Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison

Stone. Painted walls or wallpaper?

Just Kiss Me - Harry Connick, Jr.

Xinzhou, China

I certainly don't think Burning Bright is the best example of her work, but I still enjoyed it. I thought some of the descriptions were a little bit cliched at times, and I think sometimes it strays from Jem and Maggie slightly too long as the focus changes to another of the Kellaway or Butterfield family. I too loved Girl With A Pearl Earring and like Mexicola and peacefield, I think The Lady and the Unicorn is great, but my favourite of hers is still Falling Angels which I adored and it made me weep by the end.

Welcome to the forum, mookieb, but I'm sure a mod will be along shortly to advise you that you should look at the forum guidelines, which say: "... please do not join just to ask for help with your homework / dissertation / survey etc. These are also only allowed for regular, active members." I hope you'll become an active member of the forum, as it's always nice to talk to new people, but I'm afraid you probably won't get your question answered if you're only here for help with your research.

I started Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro during my lunch break and read the first of the five short stories. Not bad, but not blown away by it - hoping the rest will get better.

Following on from what Cornflower said earlier, it's also important to tell the truth about the various topics, because let's face it, how many teenagers are 100% honest when talking to each other about things like sex, drink, drugs? At least by reading about it in a book, they can see the story from all angles, not just their friends and peers.

For all the Deaver fans on here, he's doing a UK tour to promote his new Lincoln Rhyme book with loads of dates from what I could see. Details are on his publishers website http://hodder.co.uk/news_events/events_search_results.aspx?Term=jeffery%20deaver&Page=1 (hope it's okay to post here and doesn't need a separate thread in the promotional board?)

Emotion

Verona, Italy