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I'm glad you're enjoying these, lexie! I'm just waiting for the last one to come out in paperback now, but the rest have been some of my favourite books this year.

The Flight Of The Maidens - Jane Gardam

While You Were Sleeping

Living With The Dead - Kelley Armstrong

The World According To Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith

You've basically summed up everything I was going to say, Stephanie! I hope that Jade's injury isn't as bad as first thought and she's able to dance again in a couple of days after some treatment and rest, and she gets to do the tango next week - I was so looking forward to it, as the training footage looked amazing. Either that, or if she does have to pull out of the competition, then they've got some footage of the dress rehearsal so that at least we get to see that performance. Tess and Claudia were excellent, I thought. I think I preferred Tess as the main presenter rather than backstage, and I love Claudia anyway, so it was a great combo for me, although I couldn't see the point of Ronnie Corbett being there at all.

That truly is a bizarre list of books. Twilight? The Da Vinci Code? Admittedly I've read both, but in the 100 best books of the decade? Please Anyway, I've read: 98 Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - meh 90 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - guilty pleasure 54 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss - fabulous for the pendant in me 53 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver - wonderful use of language 35 The Arrival by Shaun Tan - the best illustrator working today 30 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - excellent except the ending 29 The Accidental by Ali Smith - my favourite author of the decade 22 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - meh 17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling - it all went downhill after HP3 10 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - simply awful 5 Suite Fran

I'm gutted - I'm going out Sunday evening, so won't be able to watch it as it's broadcast. Doctor Who is Saturday and Christmas Day only!

Hi Mac! How are you? I recently read The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks - the first book of his I've read in about 20 years - and it reminded me what a great author he is, and I can't think why I've been away from his books for so long. Transition sounds great, and I'll be looking into getting this and more Banks books in the new year.

Wow, Kell, I'd never have guessed you were over 1800 years old - what's your secret? (sorry, couldn't resist!) My OH has been trying to get me to read The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen since 1990, and it's still on my TBR shelf!

Hi Rochelle

Hello Ed!

I read the first half of The Master, but it was a library book and I ran out of time, but I definitely intend to get it in paperback at some point and finish it off, as I enjoyed what I'd read. I also like the sound of his new book Brooklyn, and have it on my wishlist for Christmas.

The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith

The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde

Every once in a while, a book or author comes along that blows everything or everyone else out of the water. Fran

Finished Bonjour Tristesse by Fran

Hello Chris!

We had spent the afternoon in a caf

Hi Anika!

Hello Kate!

Glad you liked it Roxi. It was my introduction to her books, and I've read most of them now, but my favourite was Falling Angels, so I'd definitely recommend that it you liked Girl With A Pearl Earring. Today, I've read about half of Bonjour Tristesse, and visited Waterstone's and only came out with books for other people for Christmas presents! At least I get the points on my card for future books for myself

Hello Grace! I also love Jane Austen, and lots of other on the forum do to, so I'm sure you'll find lots of recommendations here for books and authors you'd never heard of or considered reading

Anything by Dan Brown. I read The Da Vinci Code for my reading group - that's six hours of my life I'm never going to get back - and I absolutely, definitely, stubbornly refuse to read anything else he's ever written or will ever write.