Natty

I've lost my mojo

I agree with this. Although I mostly think prologues are just not needed and if anything, misused in some situations to not have them would indeed break the flow of a very good story. The example that jumps to mind is Frankenstein. I can't think if it's set out as a prologue but if we didn't have the letter's at the start telling us this is a story told to the narrator by Frankensteinn then the ending would just confuse us. x

So I keep getting ebooks and plonking them on my ereader but basically, this is the list of books I'm attempting to get read I started on The Life of Pi last night but so far, not overally impressed. Ho hum. Drew Karpyshyn - Mass Effect Novels. Geeky but I loved the games. All of the Harry Potter novels in sequence. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife Sergei Lukyanenko - The Twilight Watch and The Last Watch Yann Martel - The Life of Pi Jose Saramago - Blindness Jose Saramago - Seeing (if I can get hold of an ebook version) Terry Brooks - The Word and the Void set. Trudi Canavan - Black Magician Trilogy Stephanie Meyer - The Host And as recommended to me on here Tad Williams Otherland series. xx

Definately it made me go "awww" x

I wrote my dissertation on women in China 1845-1926 by looking at literature and history. Originally though I wanted to look half at Chinese women and half at Japanese women - just so I could fit geisha in. I read Memoirs of a Geisha in preparation and then never used it. However, I was really glad I did because it's super! I'd encourage anyone to give it a go because despite being written by Golden who's a man writing about a) a completely different culture and about a world which is entirely female he's really convincing and as it's something which I've researched it's accurate. If you enjoy that I'd recommend Liza Dalby's Geisha. It's a true story about a western woman who went to Japan to "become" a geisha. x

I have two bookmarks. One's a metal one, which has an angel one it which you twist to sit outside on the spine? I just read someone on here mention something similar but their's sounded much prettier. I also have a Matilda one which is probs my fave and says something like "if a calculator can do it, so can i". x

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Really? I thought she did. The way I read it was that she didn't care for herself. x

Aww hi everyone dead lovely. I like most books to be honest, I'll give anything a go. I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy and if it's got some sort of post-apocalyptic themes I'll probs just melt into it and no one will see me for like days. However, I like a lot of classics and the sort of undefinable ones too. Oh and Genevieve, I am officially putting my slippers on haha x

Haha, I agree with all those things apart from mayble the "it kills me to stand up on a bus part". I have no physical pain so have no problems standing up. Buses cause me so much annoyance. Damn my inability to pass my driving test haha! On another note I work in a shop and so I have several "general public" annoyances. The first is when three people come through my check out with one lot of stuff and I ask "would you like a bag?" and they say yes and then watch and tut and mutter whilst I scan everything and then bag everything, when one of them was capable of giving me a hand. The other is people who come to my checkout on the phone and when I ask questions such as "would you like a bag?" do hand motions to silence me. The same applies to people with mp3 players on. They are really my biggest gripes ever. x

Thanks for the recommendation. I actually have those books on a CD for my e-book reader. My boyfriend got me a load of random ones so I had something to read on it. However, the ones I didn't know have kinda been kicked to the wayside a little. I'll be popping it on shortly in the hope my reading block ends soon!! x

Aaah, I'm glad I found this post. I really enjoyed The Historian. However, I struggled to get into it. Reading the first 150 pages or so was a real effort, and then suddenly it seemed to me it picked up the pace and I just couldn't put it down. I've never had that with a book before. Usually I love it or hate it.

Indeed. I had to study it for A-Level and then again when I was doing my degree. I've never tired of it. His views on religion and things blow my mind - it's almost like he had beliefs that where years ahead of his time. And the way in which he communicates them through imagery is fantastic. Aaah... awedome haha x

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience struck a chord in me like no other poet or writer has done since. So him. x

'ite I'm Nat, already posted a few times but figured I'd say a proper hello here too. x

Anyone hopping on any festival bandwagons this year? Download for me m/ x

At least if it ever came to a toss up where the Cullens where like "Right book club forum members, we've ditched Bella/Alice/Rosalie and we want you crazy cats" we wouldn't be fighting for the same guy Of course they'd then have to be real and it'd destroy everything written in the books which is sad... Edward's like the perfect male I guess, and that's what gives him the grr factor. At least I think he's the perfect male... x

He looks scared all the time though. He's nothing like what I imagine him to look like either. I mean come on, the fourth book where Bella goes to get some fake documents and we find out Jasper's actually considered scary, it's just a bit unbelivable when he's got such an adorable face! And when adorable meets the pure grrr of Edward and Emmett... no competition hehe The other two are just like... wow. x

Eeesh!! I live in a tiny town and went after it had been on for a while, so maybe that's why it wasn't so crazy. Then again it played until sort of mid-March and when I finally got to go a second time, it was still busy, mnostly full of girls and their boyfriends haha. I guess it just shows how popular it was! I'm pretty excited about the next one. Edward and Emmett. Nom Nom! x

I still haven't seen the movie on account of me wanting to read the book first. However, on this occasion the writing just didn't capture me. I couldn't get into it. It didn't find it accessible in the same way J.K.Rowling's writing is; written for young 'uns but adults can take something from it too. Maybe I'll just give in and watch the movie. x

I went to the cinema and saw the movie, my best friend roped me into it. I was pretty concerned the cinema would be full of teens and we'd look like twenty-something weirdos in the corner. However, the cinema was half full and mostly of ladies of the same age as us. I came out wanting to know more so got the books and read all of them in a week. I really didn't want it to end. Still don't much to my boyfriend's annoyance. He did buy me the DVD though bless 'im and he did go to the cinema with me so I could see it a second time x

That actually sounds lovely. I'll get right on finding it, thanks. x

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (it's probably my favourite book ever anyway) Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Emile Zola - Nana x