Lucybird

Am about 100 pages into The Secret Scripture, not that sure about it yet but enjoying it more than I was.

I buy the damaged ones, but point out damage to staff so I get the money off! I do flick a little when I'm unsure but usually I just read the back.

aww that's a shame, I really liked it.

Oh you lucky thing! I want!

I'd say finish it, you may as well you're already over a third of the way through. I started The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.

Maybe not a room without books, but a house without books certainly. I find it a hard thing to imagine as we only have 3 rooms in our house without books (the bathrooms and kitchen) and even have a bookcase on the top landing. We may atually have to put one in the kitchen soon as all our current bookcases are overflowing.

I'm intrigued to know how they bring Donna back without her dying...or maybe she does. :/ On today's episode I can't believe The Doctor acted like that! It's like he stopped respecting time or history or something, I mean he realised but still. I think it's a bit them trying to make us feel it's time for him to go, so we accept Matt Smith better.

lol I will bear that in mind then.

Finished my review of The Fatal Englishman now

Synopsis (from Amazon) Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe. His account of his experiences, "The Last Enemy", made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31. Review 3/5 Can't decide whether to read The Secret Scripture or Dracula next, I'd be happy for any opinions.

I have a loyalty card too, it gets used weekly, going through town tired on the way home from work does have a bad effect on the amount of coffee I drink! I can only drink Starbucks coffee without getting ill (and even that not in the mornings) and I love it! I recognise the name but don't think I ever saw it, or if I did I was too little to remember.

Sunday roast here too, we're having chicken this week.

What was the show catwoman? err 5 new ones 1) I have a job as an apprentice at a nursery in one of the roughest areas of Birmingham. It is the perfect job and I love it. So much so I worry I'll never want to leave it! Which leads to... 2) I have a degree in psychology and want to eventually become an educational psychologist, I need 3 years of experience before I can take my masters (part of the reason 1 is such a perfect job) 3) I am addicted to Starbucks Gingerbread Lattes, I even almost went into town just to get one yesterday. 4) I am drinking tea right now. 5) I am addicted to underwear and have enough to wear a different pair for a whole month

I'll have to think about this but I agree wih Dumbledore, I think he's be interesting without being boring.

The book that has most ever got me thinking (is that grammer right, I don't know how else to put it) is actually written for teenagers. It's called Eva and is by Peter Dickson. It's about a girl whose life is changed when her body is transplanted with a monkey body. It sounds strange but it really does get you thinking about animal rights and medical ethics.

Finished The Fatal Englishman, review is in the pipeline.

One day in the Spring of 1921 a beautiful young Englishman set off for Paris to become the greatest painter the world had ever seen. The Fatal Englishman- Sebastian Faulks

Finished the second section of The Fatal Englishman and started the third. Enjoyed the second section more than the first but still am not that impressed.

I've read: 90 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2005) 30 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 25 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 22 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2003) 10 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 7 Life of Pi by Yann Martel On my TBR list: 41 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry And a few others on my wishlist. I wouldn't put Twilight on there, and I certainly wouldn't put The Da Vinci Code on that high, if on there at all.

I tend to look at what's on offer at Waterstones and pick up whatever catches my eye, but if I have to choose between a new author and one I've read (and enjoyed) before then I'd go for the known author

Mervyn Peakese- Gormanghast James Frey- A Million Little Pieces Bram Stoker- Dracula Julian Barnes- Arthur and George Jane Austen- Northanger Abbey Have all been on my list for about a year (and before that A million little pieces was on my wishlist for about 2 years). Most of them have been lent to me and that tends to make me get to them slower (unless I need to give them back quickly) because I didn't choose them. I keep meaning to read Dracula but when I think to read it I'm in the middle of something else, then by the time I've finished that I don't want to read it anymore

It's rare but I can, usually I have to make myself put down each and every book I pick up though. Generally I just resist going into bookshops instead. I go into Boarders a lot because I like the Starbucks at the back, I can usually resist the books there because I usually buy at Waterstones.

I don't want David Tennant to leave, he's so prettyful

I am prefering the second section of The Fatal Englishman and have almost finished it already, and am just over halfway through the whole book.

I hate, hate, hate the oven pride advert. I hate their tag line 'So easy a man could do it" and I even more hate the stupid girly laugh that follows it. It actually makes me never want to buy it because I don't want to support anyone who supports that advert.