[Looking for "Horsey" novels]

Try Richard Adam's Traveller.

[Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files]

This was a slow start for me but I grew to like it by the 2nd book. The last book I've read is Changes. There's still Ghost Story to be read as well.

[Sci-fi/fantasy with a different angle]

One of the best sci-fi romance crossovers I ever read is Anne McAffrey's first book, Restoree . A woman is plucked from the streets of New York and wakes up on another planet as somebody else. She had actually been skinned and hung up like a piece of meat ready to eat by an alien race but then rescued....she is a "restoree" one who has had somebody elses' skin and face placed over her flesh by the skill of a surgeon. Such as her are usually driven mad by the experience and trained for menial tasks as servants but our heroines' mind gradually returns and she becomes a strong woman who influences events.... It is also a love story and a strong female fantasy ( ie what woman does not want to sometimes be "someone else" more beautiful with a totally different life?)

I really recommend this one it will stay with you!

 

I recall reading this years ago, it was good,

[Have you ever found anything inside a book?]

I've found a used train ticket, strands of hair and some bookmarks in some books.

[Can you truly enjoy a book you've been forced to read?]

I enjoyed almost all of my school book reading list, college book list and uni book list. It helped introduce me to new reading material I wouldn't have come across on my own. I do have two that I absolutely loath Howard's End and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

[Snuff - Terry Pratchett]

There is - it's out now - The World of Poo by Miss Felicity Beedle (and Terry Pratchett) I plan to get it very soon and laugh at it with Xander.

 

Hi Kell,

 

I've noticed

[The Last Film You Saw ~ Part 2]

I saw Children of Men.

[Looking for a high fantasy book!]

There's Lisa Shearin's Raine Benares series starting with Magic Lost, Trouble Found.

[what's a book where tons of people meet each other in their dreams?]

Tad William's Otherland series, It starts with City of Golden Shadow.

[Something different to read]

I recently read Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, it'd be more in the fantasy range, a sort of cross over maybe you'd like that? Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is good too and that's Sci-fi.

[Looking for something like ''The Name of the Wind'']

Hmmm, maybe you'd like Peter Brett's The Painted Man or Brent Weeks The Way of the Shadows orRobin Hobbs's Farseer Trilogy starting with Assasin's Apprentice, orTerry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, Book 1 of The Sword of Truth.

[Looking for a new book/series]

There's The Crysalids by John Windham, that's a classic.

[A new first line of current book]

The telephone rang.

I answered.

After that.....

....it's complicated.

 

Kate Griffin's The Midnight Mayor

[Hardback vs paperback]

Paperback, I find them easier to walk around with.

[Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch]

I've just finished reading this book and I want to read the next two books in the series as well. The water nymphs and the gods of the river seem unique in the way that they are portrayed.

[The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison]

You have to laugh at Jenks brand of swearing.

[Anne Bishop's BLOOD JEWELS TRIOLOGY]

I've since read the Ephemera series except the last book Bridge of Souls, I'll get to that one eventually. I enjoyed these books as well. I liked the idea of different lanscapes attuned to different personalities.

[Snuff - Terry Pratchett]

Hi,

 

it was nice hearing how young Sam is coming along Its just that now there's another off shoot book about different types of poo

 

I have to admit that I sort of wondered off by the time I got to the last few pages of Colour of Magic. I finished the other books fine.

[Has anyone ever had a mishap with a book?]

I keep books and water/fluids far apart. No books in either the bathroom or kitchen. I took books with me when I went camping sleeping in a tent and I put each of them in a zip sealed plastic bag. I do sometimes smudge printing ink with my fingers. I have to use creams on my hands due to allergies/skin condition and this seems to make printing ink messy.

[Do you sometimes refuse to read sequels?]

Sometimes I'll not bother with a sequel other times I'd be series addicted.

[Book with missing pages]

I'd hate to have a book with missing pages

[What's your poison?]

I'm not an alcohol drinker. If I manage one drink that it for the year or so. Due to allergies I try to avoid all drinks with added colouring. I went off of fizzy drinks from the age of 14. I got fed up with the extra burbing. I mostly drink water, juice occasionally and am not a fan of juice drinks. I don't like hot chocolate, tea or coffee. I'd eat coffee cake in a second as well as coffee icecream or chocolate coated roasted coffee beans, just don't ask me to drink the stuff. I'd say hosts find me a headache to deal with. I've started to walk with my own drink or try to convince them I'm fine with plain still water or nothing.

 

I have a mild allergic reaction to fresh raw pineapple and fresh kiwi. It give me a rash on my lips and a slight burning sensation but oh they taste so good. I usually have these in small portions occasionally.

[Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor]

I love all the nutty flvours like pistachio, macadamia, almond and coconut. If I could find a peanut butter flavoured one, I'd be in 7th heaven!

 

Have you tried Hazelnut? Its lovely.

 

I had violet ice-cream in Paris when I tasted it I realised it was lavender flavoured.

 

There's brown bread ice-cream selling in shop near me. I'm not sure if I'll try it though. I do like ginger ice-cream especially with the crystalised ginger bits in it. I'm not a big fan of all those chocolate/caramel/fudge/toffee concoctions. Yuck!

[How many languages do you know?]

I'm an English speaker of course. I can manage reading the odd Spanish book and I do understand Spanish if the speaker does not speak too fast. I learnt Spanish in school and have been trying to expand this in Uni. I was supposed to have learnt French as well but that didn't turn out that well. I can pick out some French when reading but don't ask me to pronounce the words. I was in Paris last week and all the signs etc seemed comprehensible to me. I'd call what I know as get by tourist French. I have a friend who has been accidently speaking in Italian to me since my teens. I think it is rubbing off. Sometimes I understand whole conversations now. Some how when another friend of hers from Italy came to visit we managed a chat. This Italian visitor spoke no English.

[Required Reading in School]

Some of my most enjoyable School books are;

The Pearl, John Steinback

Miguel Street, VS Naipaul

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare

King Lear, Shakespeare

Beka Lamb, Zee Edgell

The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

 

The one's I hated were

Howard's End,EM Forster

Cleopatra, Shakespeare

The Caretaker, Harold Pinter

 

My siblings and I are close in age, older sis is a year older than me and my younger bro is a year younger than me. Little sis is two years younger than me. We all read each other's school books.

 

From my siblings my favourites would be;

 

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Of Mice and Men, John Steinback

 

I couldn't take Lord of the Flies.