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I can see the smilies @Athena, I'm on safari.

I took the boys to see the latest Fast & Furious film yesterday, we loved it, best one yet in my opinion.

Just a few that have been favourites of mine: California - In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters Missouri - Red Dragon (first in the Hannibal Lector series) by Thomas Harris Washington DC/Tennessee - The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris New York - Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Maine - Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger Florida/New York - Paper Towns by John Green Alaska - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney Massachusets - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Hope that helps, I may consider this myself!

Ooh, sounds interesting, I've reads lots set in North America, will try and find some time later to see where the good ones were set!

Always!

Yes, not too dissimilar to Replay, but I chose it due to its WWI references.

Yes, a bit sci-fi, though it doesn't feel like it when you are reading as it all seems so plausible. Simply Isaac Newton discovered a way that someone could go back in time and change historical events, and showed the outcome of doing so, it showed the ripple effect of each small action and was very absorbing. I haven't stopped thinking about it and as I said above it seemed so very plausible.

No, not comical, there was a little dry wit in Time and Time Again but certainly not funny. I don't cope well with funny books, it seems that the moment I am told something is funny, I find it to be less so?

Yes, so far, but I have Two Brothers and The First Casualty on my TBR and will definitely get to at least one of them in the next month or two.

Definitely, I wasn't sure at the beginning as the story bounced backwards and forwards too much for my liking, but, once it settles it was brilliant.

Have you read any others of his frankie? I'm currently reading Asking For It by Louise O'Neill, author of Only Ever Yours, she really does like gritty realism in her books!

Hmm, yes, I did wonder where my post had got to! It was rather good though so very happy to spread the word!

We loved Timeless, I do hope a second season in commissioned!

Me too, strangely, Isaac Newton was mentioned in a discussion at a Sixth Form open evening yesterday and I brought up the book, I should probably have mentioned it was a fiction book though as I got some rather odd looks!!

Finished Time and Time Again by Ben Elton, loved it, will definitely be reading more of his books!

Kinda rude guys? Are you interested in fiction or non-fiction? WWI or WWII? What books have you liked from that era?

Only 10% left of Time and Time Again by Ben Elton, I wasn't sure of it at first but loving it now, just hoping the ending is a good one.

Finished It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, going back to Time and Time Again by Ben Elton, I've not read anything by him before and it's heavier going than I expected, but I think I like it.

Definitely in the top five of my favourite books as a child! As I sit here with one foot on either side of the ledge, looking down from twelve stories above the streets of Boston, I can't help but think about suicide. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Maddie thinks she enjoyed it, said it was a bit weird though (a bit!) Robbie went on the laptop with headphones and peered over every now and then with a bemused look on his face! :D

Watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show with my 16 and 12 year olds, I suspect the youngest may head off to bed soon!

Homemade cottage pie for me and the eldest, homemade pizza for the two youngest.

Yep! I can't remember the exact phrase but in Under the Dome by Stephen King he make a ridiculous number of references to people wetting themselves in fear/surprise. It was my first of his books and it drove me mad!

Some people have been posting favourite poems on Facebook today. I posted 1914:The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. This so, for me, sums up WWI, I also came across this one today, The Mother If you should die, think only this of me In that still quietness where is space for thought, Where parting, loss and bloodshed shall not be, And men may rest themselves and dream of nought: That in some place a mystic mile away One whom you loved has drained the bitter cup Till there is nought to drink; has faced the day Once more, and now, has raised the standard up. And think, my son, with eyes grown clear and dry She lives as though for ever in your sight, Loving the things you loved, with heart aglow For country, honour, truth, traditions high, —Proud that you paid their price. (And if some night Her heart should break—well, lad, you will not know. By May Herschel-Clark (written after reading Rupert Brooke's 'The Soldier'.

Crispy salmon with lemon and dill, rice and lots of veggies.