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My pleasure the boyfriend lent it to me so just spreading the message.

The QI Book of the Dead Synopsis (from Amazon) The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. 'What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.' (Gustave Flaubert) Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have. The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe* throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as 'There s Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life', 'Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone' and 'Is That All There Is?' here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead, to celebrate their wisdom, to learn from their mistakes, and to marvel at their bad taste in clothes. 'The man who is not dead still has a chance.' (Lebanese Proverb) *We don t rule out the alternative possibility of a compassionate God whose motives are beyond our ken. Review Bit of a difficult one to review this. Very interesting, and well written so it was as easy to read as fiction tends to be. Gave me a fair bit of knowledge without any of it being particularly useful! Quite amusing too, although I found more made me laugh in the first few chapter than in the last few. Well worth a read anyway. 4/5

Finished The QI Book of the Dead and started The Rotter's Club by Johnathan Coe.

Yay I'm not the only one!

I know right? Even though they're awful I keep reading!

While on holiday, read Eclipse, continued with The QI book of the Dead. Managed to get my hands on: Head Trip Jeff Warren Magyk- Angie Sage

If anyone is still after it Cavilar and Clay is on 3 for 2 at waterstones at the moment

Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer Synopsis (from Amazon) 'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's captivating saga of vampire romance. Review Can someone tell me why I persist with reading these books?! They are awful. Badly written, and I want to smash Bella's head against the wall to knck some sense into her. And this one doesn't even have a halfway decent plot behind it. Yet I know I will still read the last. 1/5

Easter egg!

But they don't actually jump off cliffs! I learnt that when in Vatican City Da Vinci attached horns and wings to a lizard to turn it into a dragon to scare the Pope's courtiers

I'm with you Dimitra

Oh will definitely join in with Wicked, it's been on my wishlist for years!

I have been reading Eclipse. My sister lent it to me and I want to finish it before her holiday finishes, so have put The QI Book of the Dead to the side for now.

If I get the chance I may...need to find my library cards first!

I read war books as a kid but I think most were based around the kids, so evacuees mainly, which isn't really what you're after. The nearest I can think of is The Shouting Wind by Linda Newberry, but it may be too old for him, and has a lot of romance stuff he might not appreciate. I'll think on it.

I'll sit this one out, really should not buy more books!

I've found I really like here older ones but more recently I tend to be disappointed (although I loved Handle with Care).

Have been reading The QI Book of the Dead all weekend. Really good.

Finished Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult. Think I'm going to read The QI Book of the Dead next.

Picture Perfect- Jodi Picoult Synopsis (from Amazon) A woman is found in a Los Angeles graveyard, unable to remember anything about herself or her life. No one is more surprised than she when, days later, her husband comes to the police station to take her home - and turns out to be Hollywood's leading superstar, Alex Rivers. Cassie Barrett begins to remember bits about her life: her passion for her career as an anthropologist, the whirlwind romance on location in Africa, her childhood. But she senses there is something troubling in this perfect life that she can't remember; and then, when she sees a pregnancy test, it all comes flooding back - and once again, Cassie feels there is no alternative but escape... Review I must say I have been disappointed with Picoult's writing more recently. I did enjoy the book, and it's still an improvement on Second Glance or Mercy. I did really like Cassie. It's strange I wanted everything to work out with Alex, despite anything, I think that shows some skill in Picoult's writing that she could still give the sense that Cassie really loved him, and that he loved her. By the end I did really enjoy it. 4/5

I wish I knew there was such thing as Didaskaleinophobia a few years ago, just using the word might be enough to pretend!

There are only 2 countries in the world beginning with the letter D, if you happen to be speaking English.

I have a whole list of products/places somewhere, will look it out for tomorrow.

Dead and Gone- Charlaine Harris Synopsis (from Amazon) Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course - her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter. At first the great Were revelation seems to go well - then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's. Though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But what Sookie doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war . . . Review Lots of Eric in this one, and proper Eric too. I am happy. Must say I expected more from the Weres n this book though and we barely saw Alcide. Again I thought there were a lot of threads all over the place, not a bad thing, it kept the action going. I really don't have much to say. I just hope Sookie's great grandfather was talking about Eric not Bill at the end. 3.5/5

I forgot to pack my book today. I had to read More at work instead.