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It was only published in hardback in the UK on the 11th June and the US yesterday, so I haven't read it yet. I'll probably wait for the paperback or order it from the library, but I will definitely be reading it at some point.

The BBC Press Office released the press pack for Series 3 of Torchwood yesterday, and they usually do that just before they announce it in the schedules. The programme info is updated on a Thursday afternoon, so I'm guessing (and it is only my guess) that the schedule for Week 27 (4-10 July) will be published tomorrow afternoon and will include the scheduling of Torchwood.

I'm so pleased you liked Lost In A Good Book, Kylie. I know what you mean about the use of well known characters in literature, but it's all done with such warmth for the source material, and is for those of us that love books, so I can forgive the author. Plus, I went to a reception at a bookshop where he gave a talk, and he really does love the characters, the books and the authors, even if he is a little irreverent in his dealing with them!

I've got two paperback copies both with the apple in the hands, one 2008 edition and one 2009 with the advert for the DVD on the last page, and both have exactly the same, with potent on the inside and dominant on the back cover.

Excellent - unfortunately, my library is closing for three weeks from Saturday, so I'm not sure when I'll be able to get the next book Yes, all the right gaps! Although I have to say, there was something extra about the Twilight books - I know that after reading the first book, I had to go out and buy the other books the very next day; there was just something so intoxicating about Twilight that brought out the romantic in me! I didn't feel the same way about Dead Until Dark, but I did enjoy it a lot.

Today, for the first time, I've noticed an odd discrepancy between the book contents and the book cover. I'm re-reading Twilight, and I got to the chapter where Edward has saved Bella in Port Angeles, and at the end of the chapter are the lines: But in the blurb on the book cover, and in the film, the line is At first I thought it was a difference between the film and the book, but was amazed when I put down the book and noticed the back cover that it was different as well. Surely, if you pick out a section to quote on the back cover, it ought to at least be the same as what's in the book!

If anyone's interested, Carlos Ruis Zafon was interviewed on Claudia Winkleman's radio programme on Friday evening, talking about The Angel's Game. I haven't listened to it myself yet, but if anyone wants to, it will be on BBC iPlayer (should be there until Friday 19th June) or you can download the podcast through the normal routes.

I haven't got around to Airhead yet, but do plan to at some point. I've read the Princess Diaries upto number eight, I've read all the Mediator series, which I loved, and the two All American Girl books, plus the Avalon High! I'm just as happy reading the YA books as well as the "grown-up" ones

I've read the first two, but am waiting for the third one to be out in paperback. I really enjoyed them too.

I read Dead Until Dark today. In about 3 hours. Up early and had a spare half an hour before work, then the full hour lunch break, and polished it off when I got home. Apart from the Twilight Saga (as it now seems to be known according to the films), I've never read any vampire books, but after the good people on this forum recommending these Sookie Stackhouse books, I thought I'd give it a go. It was great fun, a real page turner, and thoroughly entertaining. I know other people have commented on the sexual content, but that didn't particularly bother me, and I'm not good with blood and violence, but this was not graphic at all either. I'll definitely be looking out for the rest of the series!

Tell me about it! I had 97 books on my TBR list at the start of the year, I've read over 60 books, and I've still got 71 books left to read! I noticed you've read a Meg Cabot book, and another one on your list - I take it you like her writing? I think she's great fun, one of my favourite comfort reads. I really enjoyed the Heather Wells Murder Mystery series - have you read them?

For me, it was just what I wanted for a Sunday/Holiday read - entertaining, but not particularly taxing or anything outstanding. I think the modern day characters lacked a little bit of development, but the historical characters were very well rounded and I connected with them more. While I was happy to read a library copy, I certainly won't be going out to buy my own copy, and as I mentioned about the typeface, that did make it difficult to read the historic sections, so I'd probably borrow or find a second hand copy if I were you.

I've just finished The Conjurer's Bird. It was actually a pretty interesting take on a quest of a modern day search for a presumed extinct missing bird alternating with the 18th century story of the origins of the discovery of the bird. The clues and snippets of information from the modern day research gradually come together with the historic love affair to the conclusion, where the reader knows the whole story behind the bird and its disappearance. It reminded me a lot of Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, with the two parallel stories running together throughout the book, and that it was a quest to find something, and someone from the past. No great work of literature, but very readable and certainly made for an entertaining Sunday. However, I did have one major gripe, and that was with the typesetting. The two stories are set in two different typefaces to distinguish between them. I have no problem with this, other than that the typeface used for the historic story was such a bad choice that it was difficult to read. The copyright page says the book is set in Sabon and Bauer Bodoni, and I think the historic typeface was the Bauer Bodoni, but it was a thin and scratchy style of typeface, and it looked like the page hadn't quite hit the ink correctly, as it was faint and incredibly difficult to concentrate on. It made it very hard to read these passages, and the book took me longer than it would normally have done, while my eyes struggled with the writing on the page. My next book will be Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. This is definitely one I would not have read, but after seeing all the praise the series has had on here, I thought I'd give it a go, and picked it up from the library yesterday. I probably won't have a chance to start it until tomorrow now, but I'm actually looking forward to starting it.

We are a careless species. The Conjurer's Bird - Martin Davies

Polished off the whole of Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher this morning. I love her writing, in fact my favourite book ever is probably Postcards from the Edge, and this one is right up there with it. There is only one problem with it - it's too short! At only 159 pages, with photos and wide line spacing, I finished it in about an hour and a half, and I just wanted it to carry on for much longer. She talks about growing up with celebrity parents, her relationship with her mother, her relationship with drugs, and her bipolar illness among other things, and it comes across as brutally honest at times, but always very funny. I absolutely loved it. I'll be starting my reading group book next, The Conjurer's Bird by Martin Davies. No idea what it's about, but at least that means no preconceptions about whether I'll like it!

So I am fifty-two years old. (Apparently.) Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher

Thanks, Lexie - I hope it arrives soon, as I'm looking forward to it a lot! Finished Case Histories by Kate Atkinson this evening. I really like her writing (I read Behind The Scenes At The Museum a few years ago), and think her plotting is excellent. Having said that, I'm still not a fan of crime, and although I wanted to finish it to find out what happened, I don't think I'll be reading any more of her crime novels. I do appreciate her skill as an author, and I think for those that like crime fiction, then this would be a very satisfying read, neatly weaving together the various threads and still coming up with some surprises at the end. Also read about 100 pages of Eclipse during my lunch break at work as a reward for a tough morning. Looking forward to my next book, which is Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher. I loved Postcards from the Edge (the most often quoted book between me and my friend - so many memorable quotes that apply to our lives!), and as that was semi-autobiographical, and this is a memoir based on her one woman show and set around the same period in her life, I have high hopes for it! I just hope I'm not setting myself up for a fall ...

I have finished NM again today. I remember really enjoying it the first time I read it, but after that, I'd always been too anxious to get to Edward that I'd skim read the Bella/Jacob section which I felt was too long, so this time I decided to read it fully again, and I actually enjoyed it much more that I thought I would. Knowing how the saga ends, I did sort of see how she was trying to lay down the threads and markers for , and it sets up the Edward v Jacob rivalry in Eclipse nicely. I haven't started Eclipse yet, as I have to get in my quota of non-Twilight book for the day, but no doubt, when I go up to bed and see it looking down at me from the shelf, pleading me to pick it up, I'll have to indulge.

I've reserved the first one from the library, so will be giving it a go as soon as it arrives.

I am about half way through Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, but it's really not my sort of book, and I've waivered and read Twilight and New Moon again! I'm still reading Case Histories making sure I read about 75-100 pages a day, as I want to know how the story pans out, even if I'm not particularly enjoying it, so I don't feel too guilty going back to Ms Meyer. Feel free - we Twilighters must stick together! I've had the DVD for just over a week, and I've watched the film six times, plus twice with the commentary, and all the extras as well, so I haven't really had any opportunity to get withdrawal symptoms so far! Yes, but I'm way past teenage years, and really ought to know better, so I still think I am pretty sad - you can't convince me otherwise

Ummm .... it was raining and I had a couple of days off work I'm a fast reader anyway, and these are so easy to read, especially if you've read them before.

I've reserved a copy of The Angel's Game at the library, but there's no sign of it yet. I'm desperate to read it now!

BookJumper, I can sort of understand the page corners being turned and the left in bookmarks, it was just that anyone would actually write on the text of a borrowed book that amazed me! And, I don't even think their "correction" is right! I think the author was right in the use of were, which made it even worse for me to see the writing (in blue ink) on the page!

I'm currently reading a library copy of Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, and I've just got to page 176, and someone has queried the following sentence: by underlining were and writing "was?" in the margin. I don't think I've ever written on a book of my own, let alone a library book, even if I've been horrified by the grammar or spelling errors in it, and this led me to wonder whether anyone else does this? At most, I've marked the page with a post-it note or a paperclip, to bring it up with someone I'm going to discuss the book with, but I've never written on the page itself. The notation doesn't bother me, and it's not particularly intrusive, but I do wonder about why anyone would be inclined to write on a book that didn't belong to them?

I am also incredibly jealous! I love ISIHAC, probably my favourite radio programme ever. I'm so pleased with the decision to have alternating guest hosts, and Messrs Brydon, Dee and Fry are excellent first choices. I can't wait for the new series (I think it started Mon 15th June). I always loved Rob as a guest on it, particularly his showing the others up with his singing