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My daughter is like that! Since she started to read I've lost bookmarks which I had kept for years. Nowadays every few months we need new bookmarks.

I read books written by both males and females. But there are more male authors whose work I've read. Females weren't taken seriously as writers for ages. Also tradition was such that they could only mostly limit their life and experience within home life. Only in the last century more females started to emerge as serious writers. Even today their work isn't always taken very seriously. And I can't fit all writers in that mould, you know, female -> emotional, male -> rational. A writer like Agatha Christie actually wrote detectives, let's not forget that. Marcel Proust was very emotional and tried to understand peoples actions and reactions, relationships were important in his work.

I have mostly all kinds of bookmarks for books which I haven't read yet. When I reread a book however, I don't always use bookmarks. Especially not when I'm only reading a book to pass some time while going somewhere. One of my worst habbits according to my children is that sometimes you can hear me laugh when I read something really funny. So it isn't bad for the book, perhaps only for possible people around me.

Sometimes while rereading I discover something which I didn't notice before, because when reading it the first time, I was mostly curious to know what's written next. Rereading can be something useful too in a different way. When I go somewhere I sometimes take a book which I've already read, so I can stop reading any time and start reading it again in any chapter I like since I already know what happens anyway. It's a nice way to pass time, just enjoy the book and you can still pay attention to where you are supposed to be, because it doesn't matter when and where you close that book. You have to be carefull about something else though, if funny books tend to make you laugh, then it's perhaps better not to take them. I do laugh out loud sometimes when I read something too funny. But for me it's different, it matters less what anyone thinks of me. Sometimes I do take a new book with me and then I tend to be so in the story that I forget everything around me. I've also noticed that I'm interpreting certain books in an entirely different way which I haven't read in years. When I read some of those now, I find completely new meanings in them than years ago.

Booklets and a few times average size books which were difficult to stop reading because I was too curious to know what happens next to stop reading.

Right now, I can only think of a few. When I was growing up, I remember reading a true story about a boy who got Aids and died. It was so sad and depressing. Later they made a film of it which also made me cry, but less than the book. When I was a little girl, I also had a comic about a girl who is an orphan, when she's ill in hospital she overhears nurses talking about a dying child and she thinks they mean her. When she's back in the orphanage, she is very nasty towards other children to make them stop loving her so they won't cry when she dies. After the children dislike her, she discovers when she runs into one of those nurses in town, that they were talking about a different child. In the end all turns out ok

I'm different people of a few families whose generations are shown in different eras of London.

I started reading it yesterday and so far I like it. Perhaps because I like to read about history topics. You learn something from this book and it has interesting stories. I can't stop reading it now. It's getting more and more interesting, all day I was delaying to read this book, knowing it would be difficult to stop reading. Now I'm sleepy and yet I come online to read and write about this book. I should listen to my body and go to sleep now. I wish I could sleep and read at the same time.

Forgot to mention E-bay, sometimes I buy books from internet, but not very often. It isn't always affordable. Shopping for books is the nicest way to spend money when you can.

Sometimes.

Library mostly. If I like a book, I mostly buy them in used books shops or I buy them new during sales and sometimes, I buy them for their own price.

Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. You can even dislike both the book and the movie. It doesn't matter, we all have different opinions and I like to know why someone has a different opinion to be able to understand different points of view. You can even learn something from people who you disagree with, people who are completely different from you. It makes life more interesting.

I want to read the book again too. First I want 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Mansfield Park' though, then a second read of 'The Book Club Forum' so I can understand the discussions better. Literature about literature, great recipe for a book. I'm sure you will enjoy reading the book again. Rereading certain books can be an entirely new understanding of the work and enjoyment on a different level. Have a nice read.

Normally I wouldn't think that a book about a sheperd could be interesting for me, but after hearing so much about it I had to see for myself what the fuss is about. I started reading this yesterday and now I've reached part two of the book. I actually like the story so far. It's simple prose, but there is more meaning to everything. It's not as amazing I had expected, judging from certain reviews, but also not as terrible as I had expected, judging from other reviews. It's allright. So far anyway. Still have to read the rest of the book.

I liked that book a lot, but I couldn't really understand a few discussions because I still haven't read 'Mansfield Park' and 'Northanger Abbey'. But still, I enjoyed it and I liked the discussions about the Austen books I did read. It's interesting how Fowler gives each person a different perspective of Austens books and as a reader that allows you to get to know other opinions. It was also interesting to see how the members of the 'Jane Austen Book Club Forum' used Austen as some sort of guide in their own lifes. It was worth reading and perhaps buying one day. Later I discovered there was a movie of this book. Though it was nice, I agree that the book was much better. The movie wasn't terrible though, it was ok

I agree with most of the posts here. A lot depends on the translator and it can be difficult work. I think they should get more credit for their work. Once I volunteered to translate some religious texts, English-Dutch. I didn't have to translate a difficult style in those, they were just a few facts about different life topics. But even translating those properly became a bit difficult. I wasn't much of a translater even in those easy texts!

Depends on the story. Some need more than 100 pages, others don't, but yet are worth reading. When I go somewhere, I do tend to choose smaller books though because they are easier to carry around.

I'm Edward Trencom,married to Elizabeth and own a cheese factory. We live in England. ('Edward Trencom's nose' by Giles Milton)

Thanks for the info. The edition of 'Interview with the vampire' in my library is a Dutch translation of 1990. It only mentions two other books. Perhaps the rest wasn't translated (yet). The third book is called 'Moeder aller zielen' in Dutch, which means roughly translated 'Mother of all souls'. I didn't know the original title is 'Queen of the Damned', I've seen that movie too! It was pretty good. I did'nt know it was part of a series of 'Interview with a vampire'. I hope they have all the books here. The Dutch translation also mentions four other books by Anne Rice, under the category 'De Mayfair-Kronieken', I assume in English it's called 'The Mayfair-Chronicles', unless they've completely changed it's title too in Dutch. They seem to be about witches judging from their separate titles. Maybe I'm going to try those after finishing 'The Vampire Chronicles'.

I always buy a book if I really like the topic or the story regardless of the way it's been printed, even though I do have problems reading them sometimes. I can read smallprint, but my eyes start hurting a bit when I read those tiny letters for a while. Then I have to use glasses or a magnifying glass so my eyes will stop hurting. My glasses still don't feel comfortable after many years and you can't always use a magnifying glass everywhere you go. So I sometimes read smallprint without them even though my eyes hurt a bit, because I'm too curious to know what the rest of the book has to tell me. I have bad reading habits, I know. Sometimes when I read books online, I change the size after pasting the book in Word or Wordpad to save my eyes.

I finished reading 'Interview with the vampire' last Saturday. It was much like the movie, as far as I could remember. The way Rice described in the book what a vampire feels when becoming a vampire or drinking blood made it a bit less disgusting and almost something mystical, I'm not sure how to explain. It was very interesting to read the way they see the world in comparison to humans. I've always liked both Louis and Lestat in the movie, and it was the same in the book. In the movie, I wasn't sure what to think about Armand though, in my opinion he wasn't enough 'explained' so to speak, but after reading the book, I understand his character and decisions better. I felt sad for Claudia. It was a fantastic read. I haven't seen the movie in a long time. After finishing the book, I watched the movie again. This is one of the rare occasions that for me the movie was as good as the book. There were some changes of course, but they weren't all that bad. From what I understand there are two more books. I'm looking forward to reading them. Today I finished 'The Historian'. It was interesting because you get a lot of real history of the places the characters in the book visit and there were different kind of stories and legends about vampires and dracula's. An original twist to a topic which has been covered so many times. It was an amazing read.

Today 'Donner Boeken' newsletter sent us chapter three of 'Het Spel van de Engel' (Angel's Game). For anyone who reads in Dutch, here it is: http://www.selexyz.nl/content/Het_spel_van_de_engel/Hoofdstuk_3.pdf It's last try out chapter.

None, I don't want to be stuck in a lift!

I do the same with non-fiction. Sometimes there is something specific about an area of a certain topic which I'm looking for, so I check the index to see if there is something about that as well and what the rest of the chapters are about.

From the moment I could read, I always wanted to be a writer. I wasn't sure about other jobs, my preference always changed about that, but about writing a book, I was always sure. That isn't going to happen though, but I do write stories for the pleasure of writing. For many years, one of my wishes was also to work in a library. Nowadays I don't really like our libary and perhaps that's why I'm not interested in that anymore. I would like to do something with writing and with books though. Perhaps something in publishing, I don't know. But I'm happy enough to have the pleasure of writing for fun and reading nice books.