Lucybird

I've only ever seen one 3D film, Avatar, and it stressed my eyes out, I had to keep taking the glasses off to give my eyes a rest, it may be because I'm very short sighted but I don't know. Some of the bits did look good in 3D (the forest scenes) but most of the time I didn't think it improved the experience. I wouldn't buy a 3D TV unless it was the only option.

I watched Just Married on TV last night, it was pretty funny but dragged on a bit. I saw the second half of High School Musical today but that's not even worth mentioning.

Reading it while eating lunch maybe wasn't the best idea though! I think it's the oldest book on my TBR pile, I keep not feeling like it, but now I've actually started it I am wanting to read it, even though I only picked it up because nothing really appealed to me this morning and it was the nearest book!

I loved it. Really made me miss Tennant. I think this is probably my favourite Tennant series, although I love them all.

I finished this set last week. I need the next one now!

shooting stars

Just Married

Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen Synopsis (from Amazon) At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen’s charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney. Review. This is the first Austen I’ve ever read, and one that I’ve been wanting to read for quite some time. I’ve had a bit of a bad relationship with classics in the past, the only one I can say I’ve enjoyed (other than children’s stories) is Jane Eyre- and that I didn’t really enjoy until after I had finished and studied it, which made me think a bit about it and appreciate it more. It was this relationship that made me hold off on Northanger Abbey until now, I really wish I had tried it sooner though. I found it funny, and clever, and (at least in comparison to other classics) easy to read. I really liked Catherine, she wasn’t perfect, she was nieve, and fanciful, and once she got an idea in her head there was no way she could get rid of it. But she was trusting, and sweet and faithful too. I didn’t like Isabelle, she seemed full of herself, and selfish- or maybe more self serving . I found the ending a little abrupt but that was probably the only thing I didn’t really like. Maybe I’ve just been reading the wrong classics up till now. Out of interest does anyone know if Persuasion is any way related to Northanger Abbey? The original edition was apparently a sort of double bill with both books and I thought there might be a reason. 4.5/5

Finished Northanger Abbey last night and started A Million Little Pieces- James Frey today.

Have 1 page of Northanger Abbey left. Only reason i haven't read it is because the last part of silence is on.

Am on volume 2 of Northanger Abbey now and have about 90 pages left. Am still enjoying it.

I always take the dust jackets off, they bug me when I'm trying to read. I tend to loose them that way though.

The football is on, but I'm not really paying attention.

I've started Northanger Abbey now. I looked up The Dirt on my library catalogue but they don't seem to have it, I should have checked for The Perks of Being a Wall Flower too.

I read on someone's blog that he has started writing for 'The Believer' again, I'm hoping for a second volume.

A triple chocolate sundee

Friends...not even sure why have seen them all a million times.

Ghost- Bombay Bicycle Club

I loved The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I didn't think much of his Scottish series though.

ooh new thread. Started Northanger Abbey last night in bed and am getting on quite well with it.

I feel exactly the same! I like the match.com one though with the 2 people singing.

I'm hoping to get ahold of that next week too, or maybe The Dirt

Finished Path to the Lake, am thinking about starting Northanger Abbey next.

The Path to the Lake- Susan Sallis Synopsis (from Amazon) Viv's marriage to David was not a conventional one, but when he died - in an accident for which she blamed herself - it was as if her whole world had collapsed around her. She escaped by running, mainly around the nearby lake, which was once a popular place of recreation but was now desolate and deserted. It became both her refuge and her dread. But through the misery she made some unexpected friends - a couple in the village whose family needed her as much as she needed them. And gradually, as a new life opened up, she could confront the terrible secrets which had haunted her and which could now be laid to rest. Review This book was ok, nothing special but easy to read and it show signs of turning into something which kept you reading. Unfortunately although you found out more about these hints it never really came to anything, the secret was never really revealed although it was fairly obvious to me by the end what it was. It could have been to much more if the secret was built on and when it was never even explicitly revealed I was disappointed. In parts it felt a little like the work of Linda Gillard, but where Gillard's work has a sort of poetry this doesn't flow the same and I didn't feel the same connection with the characters. I found the whole connection with the doorknob a little confusing, and, to be honest, it was kind of pointless, a plot line that didn't need to be there, it felt more like Sallis was trying to add some excitement to the book but didn't know how to. I found the prologue badly written and was confused by the relationship between George and Nellie, the way it was initially written made it sound (to me at least) like he was her stepfather it was only later, and after a fair bit of confusion that I realised she was his girlfriend! 3/5

lol he said yes?He must have thought you were chatting him up!