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Excellent book! Both this one and Animal Farm will always remain on my top list.

Can I have your dreams please??!! LOL

I do a lot of the same things others on here do. If it's an author I know I like, I usually just buy it, especially if it's something I've been anticipating. Otherwise I'll read the synopsis, and if I'm still undecided, the first few paragraphs. If I'm still on the fence and I see that it's in a series, I usually pass until I can find the first one. I hate reading things out of sequence too .

I've read Tobey Young's 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,' and other than that I have a lot of art/artist and design books. The most recent purchases being an Andrew Wyeth book, oh and one on Charles and Ray Eames. Lovely stuff!

I saw a play of An Inspector Calls many years ago Christie and LOVED it! I don't know where I've been, but I had no idea this was a book too. I will have to add it to my list now .

Ditto to all you said, Stephanie, especially the above! Rushed, anti-climactic and fizzled are all perfect words to describe this book! Myself, I would read the first three many times over, and BD just the good bits, lol.

Yummy spinach/chicken florentine for me tonight! I just finished lunch but I'm already thinking about dinner, LOL.

I think that's some sort of olympic record, Roxi, reading that big of a book in that short a time! Can't wait to read your review .

Yeah, SueK, his Jonathan Argyle art-history mysteries are lots of fun. I always wished he would continue on with them. Hopefully one day he will! I loved Instance of the Fingerpost also. Have you read his Dream of Scipio?

"And eventually I was able to lever myself out of the chair and prepare to rejoin the world; to go home to sleep, and then to start afresh the next morning. It wasn't so bad. The worst that could happen would be failure." Stone's Fall: A Novel - Iain Pears

I finally received my copy of Stone's Fall!! I'm excited to start reading it tonight . It was just released last week in the U.S., and I think the UK as well. Here is the jacket description: In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall seeks to discover why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London Home. Chronologically the store moves backward - from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867 - and the attempts to uncover the truth play out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race. At once a murder mystery, a love story, and a quest, Stone's Fall is an intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzle - an erudite wedding of history and fiction that feels utterly true and uncannily timely - and marks the triumphant return of one of the world's great storytellers.

Hello and welcome, Escargot! Glad you found us and joined up .

Me too, Roxi!! You are asking a lot of good questions! I can't wait for you to read on .

Yep, and you can't hear us, but we're yelling it too . Pretty soon you'll be checking the daily blog rolls and hyperventilating over any tidbits of new 'New Moon' film news. You'll hardly be able to contain yourself come November! I think you'll be glad after you read the books, then you can really make an informed decision about them and about all us crazed folk .

Yay, Charm!!! I'm tearing up now I'm so happy for you, *sniff*. If I didn't live on another continent I would mail you my books in a heartbeat. When you get them though, keep an open mind. I have my own opinion on the books and movie, but something keeps me addicted. You know, like looking at something you know you shouldn't but you can't make yourself look away?!

Yep, it's an excellent show!! I'm sad that this next Monday's episode is already the season finale here in the U.S. Maybe I should get the DVDs of that show or Guardian to hold me through the summer, LOL.

I think you should email me your expertise, Roxi... I just hate reading it on a computer screen. I want to hold a copy, darn it!

You girls! Just do what I do and read only the good bits from now on. There were a couple in BD, you know . Has anyone here successfully been able to save and/or print the 200+ pages of Midnight Sun, by the way??

You can say that again, Kimmy! The whole story after the first day or two on Isle Esme () was OTT, IMO. Ugh.

Hello and welcome, Beth!! Glad you joined us .

Sounds like an excellent read, Dan! I'm keeping it on my TBR list that's for sure . Are you liking the Stackhouse books? I'm tempted to look for them at the bookstore this weekend...

Can you imagine the possibilities??!! Pretty soon you'll be able to have potatoes in any conceivable shape! This is a goldmine, I'm telling you!

They make potato smilies AND stars?? I had no idea! I'm excited to try a new recipe tonight, a lemon chicken artichoke thingy. Not sure what I'll have with it, but it's a start .

The first and second ones are great, but I agree with Miss about the third one, so your best bet is to avoid it, imo. Here are a couple more I forgot to add to my list: Smoke Signals Run Lola Run Being John Malkovich Psycho Party Girl Waiting for Guffman

Yes, Maggie, and thanks to you I saved that link! So thanks for reminding me . I will for sure be visiting that site when those books are released. Yippeee!!