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bobblybear

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  1. Clearly you have more self control than I do! Thanks! ...and welcome to the forum. Thanks. Hopefully I will get to read them sooner rather than later.
  2. I'm not a very creative person, but I would love to be able to draw.
  3. I'm at the end of Season 7. It's good to be watching it again. Yeah, I stopped watching that early on, as it was just dire. It inspired me to re-read the book, but that was about it.
  4. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
  5. I've updated my 'Purchased this year' list with my recent acquisitions. I'm always taken by surprise at how many I buy. I blame the Kindle....I was never this bad until I got one. The Atlantis Plague - AG Riddle The Atlantis Gene - AG Riddle Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries - Jon Ronson A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson Under The Skin - Michel Faber The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer, Anne Barrows The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice - Christopher Hitchens The Shadow Wife - Diane Chamberlain Wonder - RJ Palacio The Journal of a Disappointed Man - Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  6. I've just finished this one, and was a bit disappointed by it. It was easily readable, but there was something lacking throughout. I think it's that there weren't enough clues dropped throughout for the reader to pick up on. Instead Strike (the detective) kept them all under wraps and only revealed them at the end. So in way, I felt as though I was missing out on a whole lot of Strike's thought processes throughout, if that makes sense.
  7. I don't know.....the ending just seemed to tie it all up in a neat little bundle, and present it to the reader. For some reason I would have preferred more to be revealed along the way, rather than in one go. As it was, it felt like nothing happened in the first 90% then all was revealed in the last 10%. I'd say it was an ok read, and I'll read the sequel at some point, but it's not a book that I would read again. Yeah, but the way it was written, so much was held back until the end that no-one could have guessed the culprit. Normally in a detective story there are clues dropped along the way, so the reader can try to figure things out as well (even if they may be completely wrong ), but that wasn't the case with this one.
  8. Oh, when I read the synopsis I thought it would be a really fast-paced exciting read! Guess not!
  9. You should give it a go! Mind you, we often have polar opposite tastes in books (The Crimson Petal and the White, and Wolf Hall ), but you may enjoy it like I did!
  10. In 10 years I'll be 49 which is extremely depressing. Where I'd like to be is a bit more financially secure, still married, living in a more rural area, with a couple of more labradors. Assuming I haven't won the lottery, I hope to be working in a job that is interesting enough to keep me going, but doesn't take over my time when I'm not at work. I think I'll have more free time as well, and would like to do a lot more walking and hiking, and get back into astronomy and some astrophotography. I like the simple life with no drama, and with plenty of leisure time.
  11. Thanks! I really hope the sequel doesn't let it down....I'm only a couple of chapters in so it's all background basics as the moment, but there are already some exciting actioney bits in there.
  12. I remember being a bit surprised that you hadn't commented on my review at the time, as I read it shortly after you read it I think. I'm a couple of chapters into Beowulf's Children, and it's good so far.
  13. I've just finished The Cuckoo's Calling. The ending took me a bit by surprise, but it was all explained quite well. Next up is Beowulf's Children. I read the first book - The Legacy of Heorot - last year and loved it, so hopefully this one is just as good.
  14. Sounds like the famous Richard Feynman quote: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
  15. Oh no, what a pain! How much notice have they given you?
  16. Yeah, I have no resistance whatsoever when it comes to books.
  17. Dammit, another one to add to the wishlist.
  18. I'm back into watching The Office (US Version).
  19. I haven't heard of it either but as it's a Kindle freebie I have just downloaded it.
  20. Just flicked back up a few posts, and back in November 2012 it was £8.29 for the Kindle which is why I didn't buy it. I've just gone back onto Amazon and it's only £1.99 so I have bought it now.
  21. Thanks! We Need To Talk About Kelvin is probably quite elementary, as I have come across similar descriptions before, but I just can't grasp it.
  22. Hi WarWren. Welcome to the forum.
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