[Glee]

so the 'new season' is actually a continuation of the first season and is epiode 14 series 1 rather than episode 1 series 2:roll:

 

Hence my question:mrgreen:

[Glee]

When does season 2 start in the UK on E4 or channel 4? How many episodes per season anyway?

[What have you been watching at the cinema? (Cont..)]

I've already been and seen Clash of the Titans in 3D.

[Books that you would throw away before passing on]

I'd give books away to people and charity shops but I'd never destroy one, I think that sacrilegious. What we like is subjective. Someone somewhere is bound to enjoy reading what you can't/don't/won't read.

[Mistakes in books. Have you ever found one?]

I've re-read two Anne McCaffrey books in a series. She has a character learning to read and write English from scratch and in the following book she's forgotten that the character has already learnt this. She again has him learning to read and write English starting from the alphabet and marvels how fast he's done it. That's definitely a problem with continuity in a series.

[Adrian Tchaikovsky - Shadows of the apt]

I've enjoyed these books and their world too. I've only read up to book 3. I also like their inventions and theories. Che may be average and boring to some but I like her and her uncle. All Che's peers appear to be maturing in different directions.

[Who/Where Are You?]

I am a PI, ex policewoman who is charged to find out why 2 deaths occured in a museum where Egytian artefacts were being studied. All the coronor could come up with is that their hearts have stopped and there's not a mark or bruises on the bodies. I have an advisor and friend who is the 'person of dubious parentage' son of Henry VIII who happens to also be a vampire centuries old. I also have the aid of my ex partner police officer.

[Glee]

I've just seen episode 13 of the first series:D.

Sue gets it this time and poor Finn

[Mistakes in books. Have you ever found one?]

There are some books I have read that have had errors I could easily notice. There have been typing errors, spelling errors, grammar errors and continuity errors (more noticable in book series).

 

It can spoil the enjoyment of reading but I do tend to finish these books and think that the editor should be fired or an editor is needed. I'm aware proof reading is difficult because parts of the story might have changed a lot and a book could be going back and forth from writer to publisher until they all have been satisfied.

 

I can enjoy the idea and plot behind a story however I am let down by so many errors. Is there a justifiable reason why publishers think that the consumers are so hungry for a book that they'll buy just about anything?

[Favourite books from childhood?]

My next childhood series books were Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and The Chronicles of Narnia series.

[What is the one thing that makes you enjoy/not enjoy a book?]

There are a few things that help me enjoy a book. I think everyone has listed them. If I can empathise with either the main character or a secondary character, a fast or medium pace, sometimes the style of writing or the approach at the beginning of the book, a smooth flowing story and in some cases being able to escape in the world the writer has created.

 

What I dislike is books that places a lot of emphasis on millitary fighting and positions, too much raw violence and naked romance. I can read a book that has romance and even a little sex which may be found in a romance section in a book store or library but it has to have some other storyline going on with it as well.

[Favourite books from childhood?]

I remember clearly when I first got seriously stuck into books that my choice of reading then was Enid Blyton with The Secret Seven,The Famous Five,The Malory Towers series,The Magic Faraway Tree & The Wishing Chair series.

 

What was your's?

 

Those were my first childhood series books.

[Will American English Become the Norm?]

I got used to people saying pants in the Caribbean when in the UK its trousers. I was babysitting and trying to get my young nephew ready for school. He was prancing about in his shirt and undies and I asked him where his pants were. He replied "but I am wearing my pants!". Pants are undies here.

[Looking for a book]

I've found one called The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

[Books that make you look "cool"]

I just find it cool if a person seems really interested in what they are reading. No upside down books or having a book just to hide behind.

[Plotlines .. How Much Do You Remember?]

I've managed to remember many plots of books I've read over the years. Sometimes I'd need a trigger though to jog my mind. At times I do literally inhale a book and do remember bits of it. I can't remember every detail and I'm sure there are books I have forgotten but in general most books and films tend to stay with me. I can recall books I've read in childhood and I'm in my 30s. I say my memory is average. I can forget to return a phone call on a daily basis but what I read stays longer.

[Will American English Become the Norm?]

I've been brought up using British english even though I've spent most of my school years in the Caribbean. Two words I've been caught out with have been Jail/gaol and encyclopedia/encyclopaedia. Language does indeed change but there's no reason thing should go the USA's route. I can quite comfortably read American published books and British published books even if I imagine some extra 'u's some places and the 'z' and 's's thing.

[Tamora Pierce's Circle series]

I read these years ago and came across another book recently. It's about four children mages, Sandry, Briar, Tris and Daja brought together to live in a house in a mage community. It starts of with Circle of Magic which is Sandry's book.

 

http://www.tamora-pierce.com/about_circle.html

 

Each of them has a book. There is a follow on series called The Cirlce Opens.

[Can someone tell me a good book to read?]

You can try Kelly Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series starting with Bitten.

Katie McAlister's Aisling Grey Guardian series starting with You Slay Me.

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files starting with Storm Front.

Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy starting with The Magician's Guild.

Terry Prachett's Discworld series.

[Where to start with Steampunk?]

Has anyone tried Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series starting with Empire in Black and Gold?

[Addicted To A Series?]

I have a few series I follow

Dresden files (I've just ordered book 10)

Furies of Calderon (read up to book 4 from library hoping they add 5 & 6)

Merry Gentry (read up to book 6 both library and bought books, disliked some of the books contents so may give up)

Dark Hunter series (read some but not bothered to chase up the rest)

Women of the Otherworld (read all but two of the books)

The Ender saga (read 5 books)

The Dragons of Pern (read 10 books)

[Any Suggestions?]

You can try Holly Black's books

Tithe

Valiant

Ironside

[Looking for a book]

There's the Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan; The Magicians's Guild, The Novice, The High Lord

 

A college of Magics by Caroline Stevermer, sorry I don't have any modern setting suggestions.

[Books about new beginnings in new places?]

How about American Brat, by Bapsi Sidhwa, about an indian girl who moves to the US and how it changes her.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Brat-Bapsi-Sidhwa/dp/1571310053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268775153&sr=1-1

[Book needed]

Tamora Pierce

Circle of Magic quartet; The Magic in the Weaving(Sandry's Book), Power in the Storm, (Tris's Book), The Healing Vine(Briar's Book), The Fire in the Forging(Daja's Book)

 

Circle Opens quartet; Magic Steps, Street Magic, Coldfire, Shatterglass

 

Circle reforged; The Will of the Empress

 

Mercedes Lackey

 

Owl series; Owlflight, Owlsight, Owlknight

 

The Last Herald Mage; Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price

 

The Diana Tregarde Investigations; Burning Water, Children of the Night, Jinx High

 

Valdemar novels

 

Rick Riordan

 

Percy jackson series starting with Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief