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You are making me feel very guilty for my profligacy, BookJumper! You do often see FS books in excellent condition in secondhand book shops, and I do have a few of those, but I can't resist them all new and beautiful. (Hello, my name is Susan, and I'm a Folio Society addict...)

Hope you enjoy it!

Nice to see you back BookJumper!

Yes, I'm up for Wicked, should be ready to start it in a couple of days

Terry Pratchett

When my husband is out I quite often hear him coming in through the door and walking towards the living room, but he doesn't come in and when I go and look he isn't there. On talking to him about it, it turns out that it is usually about the time he leaves wherever he has been to come home. He was brought up in the mountains of Jamaica and is totally accepting of all sorts of phenomena, and says it is his spirit reaching home before him.

Like kreader, I always dream in full colour; I also feel everything and taste everything etc. I don't like the feel of flying at all! I do dream a lot, and I have certain dreams that recur again and again, especially when I'm stressed. I can usually remember my dreams when I wake up although I forget most of them during the course of the day, and some dreams can affect the way I feel for the whole day. And yes, I am permanently exhausted!

^ You're quite right - I used to work for someone who had had a classical education, and he always used -ize when appropriate. As I had a very ordinary education, I always use -ise to be on the safe side!

Excellent! I'm 750 pages into The Stand, and thoroughly enjoying it, but there is a lot of back story to get through...

^ I'm sure I bought Cell months ago, but can't find it! It will be a nice surprise when I finally come across it, though... Glad to hear it's good.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have had a day of extremes today! From the Folio Society I ordered: Charlotte's Web by E B White The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Lord of the Flies by William Golding Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch and got the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman and leatherbound editions of David Copperfield and Great Expectations by Dickens free (plus an umbrella...) and from Amazon I ordered

Thanks, Nienna, I'm going to have a look now!

My dad used to go to Hay-on-Wye for a couple of days every year and come home laden with books. I never went with him, because I would have totally bankrupted myself! But I would love to go one day - although I would take cash not my credit card so once I run out I would have to stop.

Poppyshake, I was a bit wary of Labyrinth too, but thoroughly enjoyed it once I got started - I hope you do too. I agree with you about Cloud Atlas; if I remember rightly I was really drawn in at the beginning of the book and expected to love the whole thing, but was less and less impressed as the book went on. I kept hoping I would enjoy it more again, but didn't. I'm up to page 650 in The Stand by Stephen King now, and have also read 50 pages of Shadow by Karin Alvtegen.

Hope you enjoy the forum!

Hope you enjoy the forum, Fran, I enjoy sci fi (although I haven't been reading just as much as I used to) as well as fantasy and horror, and all sort of other stuff as well! Philip K Dick's book A Scanner Darkly is this month's book of the month for the reading group if that's something you have read/would be interested in reading?

I'm happy to be...

I have to find out if there is a "first chapter of the author's next book" at the end, and if there is, mark where the story I am reading ends. I find it throws me completely if I think there are still quite a few pages to go and then it goes and ends!

Hope you enjoy the forum!

Having had a look, I think my oldest books are the secondhand leatherbound pocket size set of The Waverly Novels by Walter Scott (a gift to me from my Dad this time!). But they don't have any publishing date in them or indication of what edition they are, so I don't know exactly what age they are. Does anybody know how I could tell?