Lucybird

We're getting take-away curry. Unusual for Sunday but nobody feels like cooking after traveling all day

I can't read outside when it's bright, it hurts my eyes when the sun glares off the page, otherwise I like to rad outside

I suppose I see it as a brand really. People buy the books because they are 'writen' by Katie Price, it's like a marketing strategy really. While I don't like Katie Price she really has been quite clever about marketing herself

How are they gonna do that...? Monsters Inc wasn't especially open ended

I kinda liked how it was different, but still fitted with the story

Oh it's early next year!

I used to be a fussy eater as a child but now I'll try most things at least once. My little sister is so fussy though, the only meat she'll eat is chicken and then it has to be perfectly white. She doesn't like baked potatoes, will only eat raw carrots- and even then not many. We always joke that she only eats pasta, rice and potatoes but she'f a bit less fussy than that!

Pork chops with cream and mushrooms

lol it really was! I quite liked the Tenth Circle, I don't think it was up to her usual standard but the comic book sections made up for that! Am reading Diary of a Married Call Girl by Tracy Quan

Me too

I just had a sudden image of all these people standing in a bookshop sniffing books

Hi Aaron to the forum! What types of books do you like?

Probably Diary of a Married Call Girl. I read the first couple when I was in my chick-lit phase but only just got that one. It should be a quick easy read

I really am! I'm going to read something easy now

I finally, finally, finally finished (and yes it does deserve 3 finallys!) Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope Synopsis (taken from Amazon) This is Trollope's most detailed and concise study of middle-class life in a small provincial community - in this case Baslehurst, in the luscious Devon countryside. It is also a charming love-story, centring on sweet-natured Rachel Ray and her suitor Luke Rowan, whose battle to wrest control over Baslehurst's brewery involves a host of typically Trollopian local characters. Review Well what can I say? I did not enjoy this book, in fact I'm surprised that I didn't give up before the end although I was tempted many times. There were the occasional sections which I, didn't enjoy exactly but found somewhat engaging and that is part of what kept me going I think. By the end I did want to know how the characters would end up, which I suppose shows that I found the characters more engaging than I had realised while reading, or maybe it just shows that I was looking forward to resolution and the end . Plot wise I didn't find it particularly engaging. What I had expected to be the main plotline- that of Rachel and Luke's romance although a central plot was not really seen so much as discussed. This was somewhat disappointing as possibly my favourite book moment was when we actually saw them together as a couple. The second main theme of the brewery I just found generally boring. I found the owner of the brewery stubbon to the point that I just wished he'd shut up and stop moaning. The whole story I found rather dragged out, everything was written with more words and explaination than neccersary. Some discription is good but I found the ammount of discription gave a waffley element to the narative, paired with the usual language used in 'classic' novels it made reading a real effort, which I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the fact that it really added nothing to my enjoyment. Oh and the blurb said it was a comedy, maybe there was one point in the whole book which made me laugh! I have a feeling it was an observational comedy though and society is quite a lot different to how it was at the time when Trollope was writing. I am not generally a classic reader. Which I suppose is part of what made me so determined to finish this one. This though is the first I have really not enjoyed of what I have read. I wouldn't recommend it, and deffinatly not if you are not someone who usually reads classics. 2/5

The bookchair is quite good in ways, I have used it a few times for my textbooks when writing essays, and my Dad used it for a recipe book the other day. I like that you can fold it up and put it away easily

I do have a book chair, which I got through the Disabled Student Allowance, but I almost never use/used it.

As a Harry Potter fan I did find the notes the best bit, but I think if I hadn't read any of the Potter books I still could have enjoyed the fairytales

Fountain of fair fortune was my favourite too

Chili

I've always thought Beedle the Bard could work quite well as a read alone book, if you took out the notes. The tales are definitely a fairytale form and I think they could be read as such

Yes ours is like that too. One used to be a Dillons but I barely used it when it was because the kids section at waterstones was great. Now I use the one which was Dillons more because it's a nicer shop

Yeah it is a bit thinking about it... I'm surprised Mrs McClusky isn't in it though, maybe she's on her way back from her sister's?

Oh...I kinda remember now you said it