Rosalind

Read it , loved it and made other people (anxious to) read it.

I've had books where there were notes in de sidelines, underlyning of major part, dog-eared books(I hate when people do that) and a book which seemed to be used as a coffee coaster. I hate when people treat library books in those ways don't they realise they're not the only one using them. Makes me sometimes think which none visible things are done to the books

At the moment I'm using a clothing closet to store them and that means I've got to put them 4 deep. Because of this I'm sorting at the moment on size and on when read because I don't feel like taking out 4 rows of books everytime I have an author in the beginning of the alphabet. They get there ordering every time a shelve is full.

I'm an 800 year old Immortal who is hunting for a immortal rogue in cabin country about 2 hours north of Toronto strugling to accept that I've found my lifemate

I keep all my books. I used to go to the library and get my books there but since I couldn't find new books or interesting ones that I hadn't read before I started collecting books. I've always said I wanted a library of my own. And from recent events (a friend borrowed a book and i got it back in shreds) I never give anyone one of my books again. I am now at a healthy 316 books and I'm starting to have a storage shortage.

in paperback you still can make a difference between normal paperback and pocket paperback

The Renegate Hunter by Lynsay Sands, number 12 in the Argeneau Vampire series. Lace and Larceny by Annette Blair this is the second book in the Vintage magic series

Blurb: Robyn Sisman - A Hollywood Ending American starlet Paige Carson is off to London to try her hand at Shakespeare, and prove that she deserves more than bimbo roles and Hollywood hunks who can't see beyond their own reflections. But stage acting is not quite what she expected. Neither is her landlord, Ed Hawkshead, a highfalutin documentary-maker who seems far from the charming, floppy-haired Brit of her daydreams. Having a spoiled Hollywood brat - even one this attractive - as a tenant is Ed's worst nightmare. He's certain he will have to rescue her from trouble and is surprised when the tables are turned and he is the one needing help. Opposites attract as Paige and Ed must revise their assumptions about each other and rise to new challenges professionally. My Opinion: I liked this book a lot, although somewhere in the half of it I got a Notting hill feeling. Nothing wrong with that in general, I loved that film. It's very predictable from the moment we get to London in the book. The Hollywood part in the beginning was for me a bit long but it sets he base on getting to know our female lead and all her worries. As it is, this is one of those lovely romance books that would be nice to cuddle up with on the couch. Like I did and laughing at the whole American vs British thing. What more does a book to spent a free day need than romance and laughter. Grade:8.5/10

Blurb: Various - Doctor who 2009 storybook Various authors write short doctor who stories. My Opinion: This is the 3rd yearly Doctor Who storybook I've read now. I like them, but then again I like the doctor. The book is a series of short stories about the adventures of the doctor and in this case Donna. There is also one story that's in comic form. It reads fast and it's only 80 pages so a few hours did the trick. It reminded me that I still have a few Doctor Who books left on my shelves that I should read. Hopefully I'll be in the mood for them soon. Grade:7.5/10

Blurb: Katie MacAlister - Sex,Lies and Vampires Take a flawed charmer named Nell, add a cursed Dark One called the Betrayer who has sold his own kind for centuries to a demon lord, and throw them together in a desperate attempt to save an innocent child...while along the way unentangling themselves from a Welsh knocker named Gigli who runs a house of ill repute for poltergeists, avoiding death by a revenge-minded vampire, and trying to convince a group of mummies that dead really does mean forever. My Opinion: Yes, another vampire book. Seems I'm hooked on them and since vampires are hot at the moment and there are tons of books with them in it, I don't think I will stop reading them at the moment. This one was a funny romance one. It's the 4th in the Dark Ones series and although they read great and you get to see previous characters again now and then I feel that there isn't a real red string through them. I think I would be able to read them in whatever order and not specifically the reading order. But I'm keeping the reading order, just not to get confused on a later stage. Overall, good funny book with romance and some hot scenes (yes, vampire romance that's not suited for at least under 16 readers). Grade:8/10

Blurb: Barbara Taylor Bradford - The Ravenscar Dynasty The Ravenscar Dynasty", introducing the house of Deravenel, launches Barbara Taylor Bradford's epic new series spanning a century. "Ravenscar: A house", a legacy and a dynasty. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes for ever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her 18-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother and cousins in a fire, a part of him dies as well. Edward is comforted by his cousin Neville Watkins, who is suspicious of the deaths. The two men vow to seek the truth, avenge the deaths and take control of the business empire usurped from Edward's great uncle sixty years before. And so begins an epic saga about an astonishing family, set in extraordinary times. Handsome, charismatic and a notorious womaniser, Edward battles his cousin, Henry Grant, for control of the family empire. Elisabeth Wyland, a young widow and a great beauty, stands by his side, and they are secretly married. She is power hungry, and ambitious. But Edward also has a mistress: Jane Shaw, a constant in his life. And as Elizabeth's jealousy damages their marriage, Edward's only solace is Bess, his brilliant first born. Edward's position as the glamorous head of the Deravenels is fatally rocked when betrayal comes from within. Soon, catastrophe threatens to destroy the family and the business! Power and money, passion and adultery, ambition and treachery - all illuminate a dramatic saga set against the backdrop of the Edwardian Era and the Belle Epoque, just before the First World War. My Opinion: This book was on my TBR list for over a year. I never picked it up because I always had other books I wanted to read more urgently. I decided now was the time to start reading it. The book is divided in 3 parts and the 2 first part are a good read but when it gets to the final part the book lost me. Were in the first parts it was pages and pages about the same day/week/month in the last part it seems as if you get parts of the following 6-10 years and that there are parts being skipped that might be interesting to read. Well, overall it's a good read, just a bit of a drag to the ending but when you've already read over 500 pages you're not gonna let the last part get you down. Grade:7/10

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- (on TBR list) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (on TBR list) 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- (didn't get farther in the Divina Commedia) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (for french class) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (for french class) I've read 17 on that list and still have a few of them on my TBR list

If I'm able to sit down with my book (like most Saturdays) I tend to finish it the same day. I start then at about 10 in the morning and finish at about 5 or 6 in the afternoon. Mostly though during the week I tend to read 1 or 2 books of that amount of pages.

When I first got the complete boxsets to both shows I watched Buffy first non-stop and then Angel. I had to finish Angel before I could start the After the Fall comics and wanted to refresh Buffy before starting the Season 8 comics. It's been a while now since the buffy comics have been coming monthly for about 2 years now and I finished Angel last christmas

Imps? Sex,Lies and Vampires - Katie MacAlister

Blurb: Lynsay Sands - Vampire, Interrupted After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal's mother. It seemed simple enough, until Marguerite wakes up one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword. Now she realizes she's in way over her head. Julius Notte wants to protect Marguerite, and not because someone just tried to take her head off. She doesn't know it yet, but she's his lifemate and he's determined to woo her. It's been over five hundred years since he last courted a woman, but surely the techniques haven't changed. Now if only he can keep her alive

Blurb: Meg Cabot - When Lightning Strikes (1-800-where-are-you) (fantasticfiction) When lightning strikes there can only be trouble - as Jessica Mastriani finds out when she and best friend Ruth get caught in a thunderstorm. Not that Jess has ever really avoided trouble before. Instead of cheerleading there are fistfights with the football team and month-long stints in detention - not that detention doesn't have its good points - like sitting next to Rob - the cutest senior around! But this is trouble with a capital T - this trouble is serious. Because somehow, on that long walk home in the thunderstorm, Jess acquired a newfound talent. An amazing power that can be used for good...or for evil. My Opinion: I normally love Meg Cabot books, but for this one I didn't get the feel for it. I think it was because even though stated in the beginning of the book that it was a statement made (to police or whatever) every time it was repeated (In my cofession/statement) and I rolled my eyes. But beside that it's a fluent read, I'm still going to read the other books in the series but I'm hoping it's not all in statement form. Grade:6.5/10

Blurb: True love and other disasters - Rachel Gibson (fantastic fiction) Disaster Number One: Men Hard knocks and hunger taught Faith Duffy not to believe in love. Still, when she married her very wealthy - and very old - husband, she became the perfect wife. And then he went to that big bank in the sky, leaving Faith with lonely nights, a pile of money, and a total mess of a pro hockey team. Heck, Faith doesn't even watch hockey! Disaster Number Two: Passion But most of America and half of Canada is watching Ty Savage. His lethal sex appeal and deadly right hook make him the favorite of fans. For most of Ty's life, he's dreamed of winning the Stanley Cup. The last thing he needs is a bimbo messing up his plans. Disaster Number Three: Love Faith loathes Ty on sight, but she can't stop thinking about him all day . . . and night. Then a moment of temptation ends with Faith in Ty's bed, and she begins to see there's more to him than sex appeal. Ty discovers there's far more to Faith than beauty and billions. But a relationship with Faith is impossible, and falling in love - that would be a disaster. My Opinion: I love Rachel Gibson's books. I've read all her books beside one. And in this one she combined her writing (which I already said I love) with an other element I love hockey players. Surly hockey players to be specific. It's a good lvoe story although I would have loved it to have been 20 pages more, or maybe an epilogue. But it's a page turning chick-lit at his best. Grade:8/10

Blurb: Undressed - Heather MacAllister (eHarlequin) These weddings are starting with a bang! They never thought a fitting would lead to erotic confessions! But thanks to one very thin wall between the dressing rooms in a bridal shop and a tuxedo boutique, four lucky couples are about to be enlightened—and delightfully satisfied…. The bridal shop's assistant manager hears a very suggestive song from the dressing room next door… An arranged marriage isn't always about love. But for one Indian couple, it might be about transcendent sex! A bride-to-be has a flirtatious exchange through the wall…unknowingly with her fianc

Forbidden Planet has a True Blood contest going on at the moment - it states that you can win books and tshirts so maybe good to enter

I thought it was sad especially the last episode. I recorded them all during the week and watched over the course of the weekend. As much as I love Doctor Who and Torchwood I think I'm going to miss David and John cause it seems they're both gone now

I know that I've read them but still I thought the post was about reading the whole book that's what got me confused

Euhm wasn't Midnight Sun never really released???

My holidays are only going to be in September I don't know yet what to take with me depends on the books I read between now and then and also the once I buy.

I'm a 30 year old ex-stripper whose 51 year older husband died and left me a hockey team to manage