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Penne with wild mushroom sauce & lots of garlic bread tonight

I had veggie sausages with mash, veggies & onion gravy

Hi BooksForLunch and welcome to the forum

Oh dear I'm going to see HP6 on Friday - not sure if I'm looking forward to it now!

The greatest love stories for me are Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and The Time Traveller's Wife - all amazing love stories in one way or another

Hello! Welcome to the forum

Went out for lunch today and had Pizza Fiorentina - yummy! Feeling rather stuffed now so that's my food intake for the day

Well, I'm about 35 pages into The Absence and so far I'm enjoying it. It is reading slightly differently to TAG,D but he definitely has a very distinctive writing style. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next Will report back when I've finished the book!

Corn beef hash

Chicken - can't decide on how though

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D

Hi livnlern! Welcome to the forum

Oh, I'm itching to start The Absence now - still ploughing my way through The Birthing House though so my friend stops nagging me! Michelle, thanks for the review - 'twas very good and makes me want to read it right now

Grilled salmon & salad today

I had garlic chicken with mushrooms and home grown new potatoes

Completely weird - have to say I'm glad I bought it though! Definitely keep me posted about the interview - looking forward to reading it, and I certainly hope he's got something new in the works otherwise I shan't be happy. The only problem is, if The Absence only came out in April we might have a bit of a wait

Smoked mackerel, cous cous and spinach, watercress & rocket salad

I actually stumbled across it on Amazon about 3 weeks ago when I was looking for something else and it came up as a recommendation. I added it to my shopping basket, thought about it for a few days, gave in, ordered it and the book arrived about 5 hours before your review went up! So glad I got it now. I haven't started The Absence yet as I have 2 books from my friend to read by Sunday but will get to it on Monday hopefully Will definitely have some incoherent ramblings about it when I'm done.

It's contagious! All the way through I could visualise the various scenes as a film but if they actually went ahead with the idea I think it would be completely Hollywood-ised and therefore ruin the whole thing. I don't know if I could bear to watch it. I'm definitely going to re-read the book again - pretty sure I missed quite a bit!

Anyone who's not read the book - don't highlight as there are major, major spoilers ahead!

Right, going to a dry run of the spoiler thing - keep your fingers crossed! Oooh, it worked! I'm not too good at explaining what I think but I'll get my thoughts together and post them. The Absence just arrived and I'm itching to pick it up!

Hello Peyton and welcome to the forum

I think that's Kristen Stewart more than anything else, rather than 'Bella' - she's not been stellar in the other couple of films I've seen her in! After reading the opening chapters of Midnight Sun you do get the sense that Bella is not as one dimensional as she can come across as in the books.

Not sure how to do the whole spoiler/highlight thing so will just say that I agree with what you said completely. Jack is one of my new favourite literary characters!