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this is one of the dafted things I've ever heard, how dare people think they can just walk into a bookshop and either blatantly lie about it not being read/being a double/whatever or say that it sounded repetitive and demand a refund?!!! People are special.... I owned a cafe a few years back and a customer ate their soup and their bread and then decided they wanted a full refund because they hadn't enjoyed it.... when we said no, they took a handful of complementary mints 'to make up for it'..... what a world, huh?

Independently Happy - Blue October

Started Digging To America by Anne Tyler - much better than I was expecting. Really interesting to see the mix of cultures and how they cope with raising adopting babies, with one couple (so far at least) wanting to retain the child's heritage, and the other happy to let their child be.

True.... hated ALL Shakespeare until I left, now am quite fond of Macbeth

I've never seen any adaptation of this, tv series or film, but loved the book - beautiful gothic imagery, characters that for me, I loved to hate, definitely worth a read or three!! x

I remember reading this in school and just hating it.... can't think for a second why, because when I read it again a couple of years back I absolutely loved it and read it twice over! Weird, huh?

Honey Waffles... think tummy still recovering from Christmas dinner, but could sooooo do with a proper meal now!!! xx

Difficult to choose one favourite.... hmm.... Am gonna cheat and pick one from each book!! Twilight - Edward New Moon - Jacob Eclipse - Bella Breaking Dawn - Seth and am probably gonna change my mind again when read them again... x

I agree, thought he was a lot of fun Looking forward to see what Matt Smith brings to the role....

Just got round to watching Dr Who from Christmas Day (better late than never)... wow!!!! Can't believe David Tennant's leaving, New Year's Day's ep is going to be so sad!!! It's great to see Donna and the Master and Wilf..... little disappointed that Rose wasn't in the ep but guess you can't have everything... And good luck to the new guy, what a role to try to fill! I've watched Dr Who for as long as I can remember but I guess 'my' Doctor growing up was Sylvestor McCoy - I know a lot of people didn't like his portrayal but I loved the relationship between and Ace, and her back story in The Curse of Fenric - an episode which actually gave me nightmares at the time!!! Scariest ever Dr Who villian for me? The Cybermen.... definitely a hide-behind-the-sofa moment whenever they're on!!! x

Loved both soundtracks, and am either biased or loyal.... but love everything Muse have ever done!!!!

Hi all Just read this one over Christmas as well, loved it!!! I love wolves anyway, and was intrigued to see how this one would be written as I loved The Horsewhisperer, and it lived up to my expectations, beautifully written, had my heart in my mouth the entire time, had a little tear or three at certain points... Brilliant!

Hi all Finished reading this over Christmas and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought... really got me engrossed, would have read it at the table whilst having my dinner but was too busy playing chase the sprout..... Really beautifully written and a great glimpse at times gone by x

Hiya All of Roald Dahl Malory Towers A Little Princess The Secret Garden Peter Rabbit

Marian Keyes every time, has me in fits, tears, stitches and hysterics all within the same page, genius

Oooh, I LOVE the Secret Garden!!! That, and A Little Princess, I could read over, and over, and over again... and I do!!! As for today's reading... managed a few pages of The Other Boleyn Girl at lunch, and gonna read a bit more this eve....

Hi All Wondering if anyone else has any favourite war poets/poetry? I remember studying these quite a bit at GCSE, and my grandfather, an RAF veteran, was also really fond of these... Wilfred Owen - Anthem for doomed youth Dulce et decorum est Disabled Yeats - An Irishman forsees his death

Place your hands - Reef Clumsy card house - Blue October Sing for absolution - Muse Starlight - Muse Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Megalomaniac - Incubus Down with the sickness - Disturbed American Idiot - Green Day Burn the bridges - Feeder Stranger things have happened - Foo Fighters

Know what you mean about LOTR - and I know, technicallt all one book.... I read somewhere that Tolkien was heartbroken that they wouldn't publish it in one, and that in fact the plan was to break it down into 6 due to a paper shortage? (can't remember where read.... perhaps dreamt that?!) I've read the Hobbit and attempted to read Silmarillion (if that's how it's spelt) but struggled with that one, definitely a 'thinking' book!!

I agree totally, I read a Cornwell, can't remember which one now, readh a Reichs... and just wanted to read them all! Think I may just have to read them all again 'in order'....

Thanks for all the welcomes people, this is a brilliant forum!!!

Glad to see some other people out there love this series too!! If you go onto Patrick Ness' website, there's a free ebook which is kind of a prelude more than anything, to The Knife.... just a little sampler but worth it. The treatment of the women and spackle is horrific, makes you think about what we do as a species to one another and other 'beings', awful... I love the fact that the animals talk but don't really have anything much to say - such basic language, for their needs like food and shelter, love it!

Okay, that recipe is lethal, am so glad the only ingredients I have in from that list are flour and sugar!!!!!

Hiya This is a bit of a long shot I know.... I read a book a few years back, and its sequel, can't for the life of me remember the name. The basic premise is that it was set in the near future and humans had found a way to manipulate 'space rock' as spaceships, although the journeys to other planets took many years. A priest is on one such 'flight' and when they land on a planet that is already occupied by a race of aliens that for all intents and purposes are peaceful... but when he is asked to remain as something like an advisor or go between, basically he is turned into a slave...a lot of horrific things happen to him, including a 'mutilation' of his hands/arms to make him almost docile to them. The story is a flick between his time on the planet and returning back home with his memories..... I think the title had something to do with singing, since when transmissions from this planet were sent back to Earth there was a lot of singing but only the priest really understood what the singing was about... Like I said... long shot, and am aware an waffling a lot, but worth a try!!!

I really enjoyed the Host, much better than I was expecting - for any Stargate fans out there was thinking it would be something like the whole Go'auld/Tokra thing, but thought it was very cleverly done. Good first 'stand alone' book for SM after the Twilight series too, hard act to follow