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I finished Heaven can wait- Cally Taylor yesterday, which was a very light and enjoyable read. I'm about 10 pages into Falling by Sharon Dogar, which I'm finding quite interesting. I've also added 5 books to my wishlist but have so far resisted the urge to buy anymore until I've read at least 5 more books from my tbr pile!

Echo, those cherry blossom pics are gorgeous! I actually have cherry blossom as my wallpaper at the moment. So pretty!

The Notebook

Example- Won't go quietly

I don't necessarily want to lose weight, but I wish I could be healthier. It always seems like such a lot of effort! My worst habit is not drinking enough water. I can easily go all day without a drink and not be thirsty, never in my life have I had the recommended amount. And like bookjumper I don't like the taste either, so no, not weird! Another thing is skipping breakfast..and occasionally lunch and end up stuffing my face (with entirely wrong foods) from 3-10pm. I've heard its supposed to be: Eat breakfast like a King, lunch like a prince and tea like a pauper, whereas most people do it the other way round. Luckily so far I have maintained a fast metabolism, and am not overweight despite my abysmal habits but I'm sure this won't continue as I get older.

I finished The five people you meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom (which I thoroughly enjoyed-really got me thinking about life and death.) ..and I started One thing led to another- Katy Regan.

Blue- Fly by I'm ashamed to say I'm having a good old singalong to this.

I'm not hungry but keep raiding the cupboards/frigde for anything I can find, which is currently a kit kat..any excuse not to do my essay.

I watched the 1st 2 episodes this morning. I wouldn't say I was particularly blown away but I will keep watching and I'm sure I will get into it after a couple more episodes and knowing the characters more. It's definitely darker than twilight but they are a lot of similarities. Boy meets girl, boy is a vampire, boy and girl like each other, boy doesn't feed on humans anymore...and thats pretty much as far as its got.

I read a few more chapters of Mitch Albom's The five people you meet in heaven. I was in Asda yesterday and there were a huge amount of books for just

Mines not that interesting..Aquarius as thats my starsign and 91 because I was born in 1991. Echo is a brilliant middle name!

I loved last night's episode. I've missed it so much, it feels like years and years ago since it was last on! I did get rather annoyed though. A few people decided to try getting hold of me while it was on. From now on 10-11pm on a wednesday my phone is switched off!

I added this to my wish list just a few hours ago, will be interested to see what you make of it. Joe- How are you finding Eclipse? I think I preferred it to new moon if I remember rightly. I started The five people you meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom which has an interesting start to the story!

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- 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 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- 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 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 Total: 16 ETA: Quite a few are on my tbr pile, for example, Life of Pi, Handmaid's tale and the five people you meet in heaven. A lot of the others I don't think would interest me.

Hitch, with the amazing Will Smith. I'd forgotten how much I love this film!

Marmite toast.

Chicken noodle soup.

Born reader. I read lots when I was younger, and my reading age was always 3-4 years ahead of my actual age in primary school. I took to it really quickly and loved it. The book I remember most from my childhood is Enid Blyton's The magic faraway tree. Her old cottage is not even 5 minutes drive from me! Between the ages of 10-17 not much reading occured at all, then eventually I got back into it. I don't think English lessons helped. The books we read were Lord of the flies and Hard times- Charles Dickens . I don't know if it was the age I was at but I found these quite boring and didn't inspire me in the slightest. I somehow still managed to get a B in English Literature despite not feeling I learnt anything at all.

I finished Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult which I thoroughly enjoyed. Now I'm going to go back to the book I started before Salem falls, which is Dean Radin- Entangled minds.

I have spent the last 3 hours reading Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult, and wow, Im impressed. Theres so many twists and turns Im just dying to see how it all ends up. Its a shame I have to go to work tonight, I'm sure I'll be reading into the early hours. A book hasn't been this gripping for quite a while!

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I have only briefly skimmed the list, but I only saw 1 book that I have actually read! Looks like I have my work cut out. Never again will I be stuck looking for a book to buy. I'm going to gradually work my way through the list and find the ones I am actually interested in reading.

Same for me. Harry Potter lost my interest in the 4th book. I didn't read the 5th or 6th but did read the 7th (the final one I believe?) to see how it ended. I haven't read the first few Harry Potter books since I was a young teen, maybe if I re-read them I'd love them all over again. I have to say I don't care how badly people think Twilight is written, its managed to grab the attention of a lot of teens (and adults) and even got some teens reading that wouldn't otherwise, it deserves praise for that. Personally I judge a book on how much I enjoyed it and how quickly I got through it, and in that respect, Twilight did very well!

I have issues with not finishing books. Even if I really dislike the book or find it boring I just have to stick with it, which is a waste of time really. I find myself wanting to get through it just so I can move onto the next one, which I'm sure defeats the object. I'm not a fan of loooong and constant descriptions of things, I mean really long, a couple of sentences sure, they've got to set the scene, but when its paragraph after paragraph of describing how something looks I just find my mind wondering and that is when I get bored of a book and just want to finish it. I did enjoy The Time travellers wife. I don't think I anywhere near appreciated as much as other readers have. Some people rave and rave about it.

I'm 18 and none of my friends read (that I know of). They may pick up the occasional autobiography of someone they love but as far as reading novels or any other sort of book, well..they don't. They think I'm a geek for reading all the books I do but I don't care. I just tell them I'm more intelligent because of it. I order all my books online. Book shops are dangerous! I love them though and can spend ages in there. Usually I find ones I like, make a mental note of the name and look it up online for less then half the price! I certainly think a lot of teenagers read. Maybe closet readers? Its not as cool as partying, t.v or computer games.