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I finished Betrayed by P.C. and Kristin Cast during my lunch break, and will definitely be buying the rest of the books in the series. Going for something completely different next, with Love Begins In Winter by Simon Van Booy. Love the cover, and can't wait to start on the words inside!

Luckily I don't spend money on much else. I don't have any expensive vices, and I hate shopping in general, in fact the only shopping I like is book shopping!

You've come to the wrong place if you're expecting someone here to tell you off for buying books! I'm also reading the House of Night series at the moment, so I'm even less likely to reprimand you, Ben. Enjoy!

I'd love to be able to do that, but my library is quite small, and I rarely find even one book I remotely like the look of, so I end up having to reserve them online, which leads to have a list of books ready to order, which leads to not being able to wait for the reservations to arrive, which leads to going the bookshop to buy the book instead, which leads to 3 for 2 offers, which leads to shelves full of unread books waiting to be started!

When I was a kid, I always wanted to be George in The Famous Five books. As an only child, I could identify with her, and we were both tomboys, but I was also envious that she had a dog (love dogs, but allergic so couldn't have one of my own) and she had the other children to keep her company all through the school holidays, and then they all had thrilling, exciting, heavenly adventures! As a grown up, I'm not sure I'd like to swap lives with any characters in books I read! I don't have a perfect life by any stretch of the imagination, but I can see the pitfalls of the lives that my favourite characters lead.

Or, could you put a coloured piece of paper between the tear so that it overlaps one part of the page, and underlaps the other part of the page?

That pretty much sums up my reading as well. I've had some weeks this year when I've read 10 books (lightweight, frothy, pure entertainment including some re-reads) and other weeks where I've read just 1 book. Looking at this year, I've read 110 books so far, which is just over 3 books per week on average, which I think it about normal for me. If I manage to get a lunch break at work then I'll read during that and a lot at weekends, but I don't read in bed (unless it's a re-read), and I don't generally read a lot during the evening. Holidays are a different matter - I'll read for at least four to five hours a day, and can easily become engrossed in a book and read it in one sitting, so will finish a book a day on average.

I have to try and find books for my dad, but he's quite fussy about what he likes, but these sound like they might be the sort of thing he would enjoy. I'll have to see if the library have them on audiobook.

I've given up for the moment on Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella - the hardback is just too big and heavy! Still want to read it, but will wait for the paperback. Started Betrayed by P.C. and Kristin Cast at lunchtime, and enjoying it so far

I love all of those, except Foul Play, which I've never heard of. Will definitely keep an eye out for it, as it sounds like we have similar taste!

We've got the boxset as well! We watch the directors cut of the films over three evenings at Christmas (it's too long to watch them all in one sitting, so we have to split it over three days!). I'm glad there are other people who've walked out of films as well. Based on the assumption that I've been the to the cinema on average once a month for about 20 years, I think that only walking out of three films in that time is a pretty good track record, and makes me realise how awful those three films must have been!

"New kid. Check it out," Shaunee said as she slid into the big boothlike bench we always claim as ours for every school meal served in the dining hall (translation: high-class school cafeteria). Betrayed by P.C. and Kristin Cast

Rabbit Proof Fence

Dr Who and the Daleks

I am put off this book by the title, and I don't know why. I read the blurb and your review, and it sounds like an interesting story, but I just hate the title, and I honestly have no reason why that should be. I don't think I've ever had such a strong feeling about the title of a book alone, yet I really dislike this one. Very odd

I tried to read this on holiday a couple of years ago, and I couldn't get further than the first chapter either. I don't know why, I even tried reading something else and starting it again, but I just couldn't read it.

I don't know if you're the only one, but I didn't want her to .

I read this with my reading group a couple of years ago, and I found it a very uncomfortable book to read. I read it to the end, but mainly because we were going to be discussing it in the group. I could appreciate the quality of the writing, but I didn't enjoy it and would never read it again. It wasn't the subject matter or sympathy with the characters that was the problem, it was the tone of the book that I didn't like. It is possible to write about difficult subject and unsympathetic characters and still make the book interesting to read (I would cite A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard as an example), and I just felt constantly uneasy as I was reading this book, which made the reading experience unpleasant for me.

I know you're probably desperate to avoid the Twilight thread, but we had a bit of a discussion about it there based on the marketing of it. I read this article in the Guardian about the Wuthering Heights reissue, but this is the excerpt that caught my eye:

Toy Story

Thanks for the heads up - I'll try and remember to listen to those next week, even if I have to do it on the iPlayer

Unfortunately, I've got one of the weird obsessive type things, where I can't start a series and not read every book in it, so the books would have to get really bad for me not to read them all. I've always been the same - I blame Enid Blyton!

I was totally determined to get off the supernatural stuff and back to normal reading, and I needed to read Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella as it has to go back to the library at the end of the week. The problem was, Twenties Girl is a big, heavy hardback, and I wanted something to read in bed last night, so I picked up the much lighter Marked by P.C. and Kristin Cast. I've just put it down, and now I have another series of supernatural books I'm going to have to read Another young adult take on the vampyre mythology, set in a boarding school, the plucky young heroine, the mysterious adult looking over her, the most popular girl is a nasty, selfish young madam - plus, in fact, all the expected clich

I love Amelie too, and there is absolutely no shame in adoring A Muppet Christmas Carol - one of the best Christmas films ever, and I think it's completely wonderful.

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