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When I was younger I read a lot of books by Nina Bawden and my love of reading seems to have stemmed from there. Her childrens books were always very interesting for me and I'm thinking about hunting some down again for another look. I also enjoy Margaret Atwood, although I'm not really sure...

*slaps eyez0nme with a wet fish* Oh hush you. There are plenty of good female writers out there if you just look. I really believe you just try to make trouble...

So far I've got: * Not to fail my exams. * Prepare myself for university life (still in shock that I got in). * Improve my vocabulary (I have already started as I'm writing down stuff in a notebook). * Get through my stack of unread Neo magazines. * Actually do things when I say I will. :o

I had some time to spare today so I got some second hand books: Bluebeard's Egg - Margaret Atwood Espedair Street - Iain Banks The rest of the alphabet wasn't very interesting. :rolleyes:

My list looks rather like This. Plus there are the 82 unread books sitting on my shelf at the moment, some of my family's books, and other random books I come across in second hand shops. :p abecedarian, I like the sound of those folders! :D

This is the first year that I have had a full and complete list of what I have read in a year, but I am resisting counting them up until the very end of the year. :) This is because I don't want to try to aim for a certain number and want to be surprised (hopefully) at how much I read. :p In...

Not many others stand out in my mind from what has already been said, but I'll put them here incase you haven't seen them. First thing I thought of was The Pagemaster, which is definately good for people who like books. :p Along with the mention of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, I...

Have you tried Kelley Armstrong's The Otherworld series? It sounds like you might be interested in it. :) It starts out with a werewolf narrator and switches to a witch in the third book. So far I've only gotten that far though (I was reading my brother's copies but he moved). They're all...

I just finished the book and I really enjoyed it, and I think it may actually have gotten me out of my reading slump :). At first I found the size a little daunting but nearer to the end I didn't want it to end. I'm not sure if the ending was all that good compared to the rest of it, but it was...

You know... Peat. ;)

I really like Litany's advice. :p Good luck with that! I'm in the same boat as a few others in this thread in that I'm applying for university too at the moment! I got my first "We have recieved your aplication, but won't make any decisions until the deadline so that everyone else has a...

Excellent choice... and welcome to the forums. :)

I'm about half way through at the moment and I'm really enjoying it. I would direct you to the thread on it, but I'm too scared to go there myself because of the possibility of spoilers. :p

I had some free time to fritter away and ended up with 3 books: The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (£0.99) Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Balckman (£1.59) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (free) I only get Dan Brown's books when they are £0.50 or less. Today a second hand shop had 2 for the...

Oh, I forgot another Iain Banks line from The Crow Road which I love. I must say it has been one of the most unexpected opening lines of a book for me yet. ;) "It was the day my grandmother exploded." *giggles* I am easily amused. :rolleyes:

Not a bad month for me! Britain's Interwar Period by Sydney Wood King Lear by William Shakespeare A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb The Bailey Game by Celia Rees Also, for the first 5 days of the month I was...

I bought her book Fear and Trembling on impulse when I was on holiday in America and only just got round to it a couple of days ago. It was an easy read which I managed to finish in a day, but I think that it was lacking something. Some of the book's imagery made me smile though (such as the...

Hmm... Well, I haven't heard of 1948, but were you meaning 1984 by George Orwell? ;) If you were I suggest other dystopian literature such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The former is considered science fiction, and there are probably quite a...

I tend to seperate the fiction and non-fiction and read from not, and then sort by genre. The only problem I have with that is that I want to keep all my Chinese/Japanese books together, which means that I have to mix them in slightly. Soon I'm going to reorganise completely and see if sorting...

I hate Rap/Hip Hop/R&B, and also dance music (which might come under Techno/Rave), but the former takes the lead. I just don't see the value in the majority of the songs and all the music videos for them seem to have a fixation with half naked women and cars...