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Living on an island where there aren't many UK chains of bookstores is slightly annoying for me to find books. However when I was at uni I loved going to waterstones and using my card and buying new books of course with the 3 for 2. I miss england and Waterstones which I absolutely love! However I do love going to the many chairty shops, local bookshops and car boot sales to get my book fix! There are many local events here throughout the year in which there is normally a huge secondhand book tent. I totally geek out and buy like 7- 10 books each time, for about a fiver or so I also really miss a lovely little bookshop called The Eagle Bookshop I think in Bedford where I was at university, that had about five rooms crammed of interesting old and new musty second hand books. I used to go there with a friend of mine and buy a few at a time. That is where I found The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, and that is my all time favourite musical film Man I so want to goo bookshopping but I'm skint till the end of may!

I have about 150-170 books ish I think Definitely collected lots over the years, then a few have gone to charity etc, but I always go to charity shops to buy more books oops!

Thanks and yes I am going to be sticking around now

I just finished this book yesterday and oh my gosh what a fantastic read! I don't think I'll watch the film, as I really loved the book which I would never normally read, but picked it up for 50p in a charity shop. I don't normally read horror but man it gripped me from start to finish. All the way through I really felt for Oskar and I was so proud when he got his own back on the bullies! Believable characters that I felt for all the way through, and really well written I felt mostly for Oskar as I can remember when I was 11 and starting a new school, I was bullied quite a lot so it made it all that personal to me, and I love it when I can really connect with a character in a good book. Hakan was the most disturbing character by far, however I do feel sorry for him in the fact that he probably had a rubbish life before he met Eli. The only thing I wish that there was more of, is Eli's past in the book that she showed to Oskar a few times. I would have been really interested in how she became a vampire etc.. Great review

Yay Thanks! And yes definitely read it, it is a refreshing alternative to the vampire novels that are out there at the moment

I only own about 150-170 books, but they are all neatly organised on the smart wooden bookshelves my step dad bought for me a few months ago, although of course the collection keeps expanding as I keep reading! Whenever I get my own place they are all coming with me and I will have a library one day! I can never throw out the books that I had when I was little or the ones that my mum gave to me. I do give some books to charity every 6 months or so when I decide that I either am not interested in the book or that I know I will never read it! I try to use my local library as much as I possibly can as I love borrowing and reading books Also I have an ereader that I use when travelling which has about 100 ebooks on it but I still love holding a book and turning the pages

Has anyone read 'Let the right one in' by John Ajvide Lindqvist? I just finished reading it and it was gripping from start to finish and wondered if anyone else liked it? I'm going through a phase of reading books by swedish or classic authors although the book I am currently reading is very much about psychology as I want to study that eventually, so its mentally stimulating as well as a good read! Also I was wondering if anyone else has read the House of Night series? I just finished Marked the first book in the series and I am wondering if it is worth buying the next book...

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 27 out of 100 is not bad, although there are a few on that list that I want to read

Hey guys, Have not been on here in ages, I even remember the old forum! I've decided recently to try and get more involved in the online book community so I decided to recover my profile, tweak a few things and well say hello all over again! I have recently since last time I have been on here quit university, been broke for a while, worked in a office job as a temp, then got my current and full time job that I started in January of this year working with children which I love Oh and I recently got engaged to my fiancee We are going to be living together soon and then get married in a few years And well I love books and reading and writing so this seems like the right place to be! See you all around on the forums

Aww i know what you mean, it is hard choosing a new book, and also running out of time to read them as well! So busy with uni and socializing, but i think i shall be reading a lot over summer It is weird the gap between books, i always have one or two on the go, and i always go through bursts of reading lots, then hardly reading. Its weird i know!

Hey guys, So sorry havent been on here in ages! whats up with everyone? Ive been so busy with university work and things like that! Im back now though! Also not too sure where to post this thread, i think general will do! BookGeek xx

Synopsis by Waterstones.com: "On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her...Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made..." This book was a cracking good read! It was a real page turner from page one and i enjoyed reading it immensely! It was addictive from page one and totally exceeded my expectations! I thought something different all the way through and the ending was not what i had expected! Awesome book i would give it 9/10.

I just watched Moulin Rouge for the first time and its made me cry! Its such a beautiful love tragedy, and for those of you who have not seen it, see it! It is a great, funny, lovely, heart-wrenching love story that will touch you!

I finished No Time For Goodbye last night and really enjoyed it, i shall be reviewing it later :)Very rarely do i find such a good book that keeps me gripped all the way through! It was an awesome book. Now onto Anita Shreve Where or When!

Cool ^^ im more than halfway through No Time For Goodbye, its been a long time since i read such a good book!

*droooolz* Mm cannot wait to see eclipse hehe maybe its cos i have a huge crush on rpatz? I love Twilight so much! *girlish squeal* ok *calm* hehe BTW loved New Moon, i skipped a seminar to see the first showing of it in Bedford in November <3

Ill have to admit i feel a bit deprived having never been to a Barnes and Nobles store in my life, i thought that Waterstones was the best bookstore ever, (this is coming from a small island girl who got all her books from local bookshops, one of which closed down last year ) Anyway as for book activity hmm i have now read up to chapter eleven of No Time For Goodbye, a tad slow at the start ill admit, but gripping so far. i really want to find out what happens next! (At this rate ill read it late into the night!)

oh my gosh i know nicola, i hate it when im engrossed in a really good book and someone talks to me it just annoys me because im 'in the zone!'

One book that called to me i swear it did was when i visited my local library a few years ago and it was sitting on the shelf calling my name and saying "Read me! Reeeeaad Me!" (ok i exaggerate, give me some creative license! hehe) Anyway I picked it up and read the blurb on the inside cover for it was a hardback, borrowed it out and read it in a day i was that engrossed in it! So much that the very next day i had to go out and buy it I was 13 at the time i think, gosh that was a good 7/8 years ago now! The book you ask? it was Sabriel by Garth Nix. He has to be my most favorite fantasy writer. I shall have to read it again soon. Anyway it has a pretty cool cover:

Some of my earliest memories from reading was on my eleventh birthday when my mum had bought me The Animals Of Farthing Wood Series, I also remember enjoying The Winds in the Willows books, Roald Dahl books and reading encyclopedias when i was young. I had a big imagination when i was young and to this day still do. I think it was the thirst for new adventures mainly and the thrill of reading about other things that didnt exist! I still remember lying in bed many a time with my bedside lamp on engrossed in a good book that i would read till the early hours. I read for escapism, pleasure and a good story well told, as well as inspiration. Time sure does fly when you read. It also inspires me to write ideas/stories one day i dream of seeing one novel of mine being published. As I constantly tell myself, My story is still being written

Great Review about The Luminous Life of Lily Aphrodite, i read this book last year and really enjoyed reading it I agree i felt so much for both of the characters, i might just have to re read it at some point!

hehe great i now have a craving for a huge french fancy! hehe, i wonder if i could make one.... hmm

Born in Guernsey Channel Islands Currently Residing in England whilst doing my degree