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That's a good deal Timmo

High praise indeed!! I will check this one out thanks...

Nah happens all the time

I can tell by your avatar!!

I guess not!! Noooo!! I can't believe they have an American to play Maggie Thatcher. Might as well get Samuel L. Jackson to play her!

I have wondered about Poppyshake's book-licking too. I think she is only half-joking.....

Ah good luck then. Talk to you soon.

Hi Julie I think I am overtired because I have started back at the gym last week and I have to push on through the initial muscle pain and fatigue till I start feeling better again. Last week was just aerobics and swimming but this week I started back on the weights again. After I finish the gym I just flop down and sleep until it is time to go to work. Happy Days!! I am not in an unhappy mood just that my mind is in one place and my body is in another.

I looked this up Frankie and it was about caring for AIDS sufferers? Is it a documentary film as well? meh kids today get everywhere.....

What do your uni friends think of your bookmania Ben? Are there any more nutters keen readers like us in your circle ?

Should we have an online petition for Kylie to add her ebooks onto her TBR pile? We stand for truthful disclosure!! Julie what are you reading now or are you between books and cannot choose?

Migraines are horrible. Happy reading chaliepud!

I will get around to reading Adventures very soon. Reassuring to read that you liked it Laura.

Genus sounds great. That's going straight on my wants list. Thanks BB!

I have furniture but am losing my appliances one by one. The washing machine is gone now and so has the microwave. Will replace them . Reading Shadow Of The Wind now. Enjoying it better than The Angel's Game, although the two books seem quite similar. I am in a strange detached yet- can't- give- a-monkeys mood today. Maybe I should have a nap before I go to work. Received Mistress Masham's Repose through the post.

Thanks Rose! . I got some paperbacks off my wish list through from Amazon today to help fill it: Last Light Before I Die Mistress Masham's Repose (Reading Circle) The Knife of Never Letting Go

Hey, no worries! Yes it is only a very small bookcase. My few large format books I will be putting on a shelf above a doorway.

Hi Katrina how are you healing up? What happened about your classes? That is interesting about your MIL. Did she have to contend with that separate toilet thing? That is so degrading. Please tell me things have changed?

That's a great present. He probably likes to see you happy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_16?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=the+penal+colony+richard+herley&sprefix=the+penal+colony%2Cdigital-text%2C147 The Penal Colony by Richard Herley Amazon UK This was a stonking good read. I think it goes in the genre of speculative fiction. It is set in 1997, (so was possibly written a few years before that?). An innocent man called Routledge has been wrongly convicted of rape and murder , by the normal process of British law. What is diifferent in this version of 1997 is that a right wing government has taken tough measures and made several islands off the UK coastline into penal colonies where certain categories of criminals are sent for life, with no chance of reprieve. Routledge wakes up at Sert, an island off the coast of Cornwall and his ordeal begins. In his first days of confusion and mind numbing fear he has to fight for his survival in this new unforgiving society . He is a quantity surveyor, unfit and soft. Can he possibly survive ? Or will he succumb to madness? There is nothing second rate about the writing, the book is gripping throughout. definitely worth downloading.

Hi Frankie, I already put a pic in my New Life thread but here it is again for you:

You have a collection for Maths , chesil? I thought about cross-adding books to different collections but in the end I didn't. I would rather learn to find them in just one place.

I won't be reading that till March but I will certainly let you know. Yes Coraline is the one they made into a movie. The book and film are slightly different but both very very good.

Hi Poppy very sorry to hear about Oscar, At least he is not in any pain now and is running around in Cat heaven. Or, if you believe in my theory, has been beamed back up to his home planet to report.

Although I will check out all the ones I have been recommended, I chose my Romance book for the Genre Challenge. I found it at work . The woman on the cover is about to swoon or faint and the guy has an eyepatch. I couldn't resist it. It looks so bad It has to be good.