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I've just started reading Jasper Fforde's latest book The big over easy, a nursery crime novel :D Not being familiar with many English nursery rhymes, I'm going to need help with some... I've found Jack Spratt and Mary Mary, but what I've found on the Gingerbread Man doesn't quite match his...

I'd like to recommend a series of children's/YA books: Being: a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure upon the High Seas: Piratica - Presented Most Handsomely by he Notorious Tanith Lee, and Being: The Return of a most Intrepid Heroine to Sea and Secrets: Piratica II, Return to Parrot...

*scratches head* Are there people who haven't read Orlando? What have they been reading? ;) *mrkgnao*

"For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is that which cannot be written down. For...

Looking through my list, I realize it was mostly Fantasy/Horror titles I didn't find - and then Forbidden Planet was tinier than I remembered, and Murder One had thrown out their fantasy books... (e.g.: older titles by Poppy Z Brite, The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith...

My cat tries the same thing... but I'm not sure if she's trying to turn me into a cat or a vampire? I think I let her watch too much Buffy. *mrkgnao* (see, it's starting already)

Well, basically, books published by American publishers... I'm going to go through my list again, to see if maybe books are out of print - but on the whole, only one or three London bookstores had any American publishers at all, let alone the books I was looking for... It was the same with the...

The London shopping spree haul: Being: The Return of a most Intrepid Heroine to Sea and Secrets - Piratica II - Presented Most Handsomely by The Notorious Tanith Lee Tom Holland: The Vampyre - The secret history of Lord Byron Malcolm Pryce: Aberystwyth mon amour; Last tango in Aberystwyth...

I've recently been on a book-shopping-spree in London (list on the Recently Purchased-thread), and I had a list with me when I arrived, but I was forced to abandon it rather quickly: Are there no American books to be bought in the UK? There were quite a few werewolf novels I was looking...

*Doing the little new Susanna Clarke book dance* ;) *mrkgnao*

I'm planning who to visit at London Book Fair, and every time I come across Bertram Books, I hear Frank Zappa drawling: My name is Bertram, I am a redneck. All my friends They call me Bert (Hi, Bert!) All my family From down in Texas Make their living picking dirt. I just hope I...

I totally subscribe to this theory! :D *mrkgnao*

OK, I'll admit I didn't read all the 149 posts :o (but I will), but here's my list of funny authors, heartily recommended: The obvious ones: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett :D The witty English ones: Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry ;) The weirder ones: Jasper Fforde, Marius Brill, Magnus Mills...

How do you organise your bookshelves? The topic came up in the "Pictures of your book collection" thread, but I felt it deserved a thread of its own (because I'm always looking for new ways...:) ) After trying all sorts of orders (library classification, by colour, by size, alphabetical by...

CDA: Yes, I know, I think my kitty keeps secrets from me... maybe I should keep her away from the horror books :D

Oh, and I've found this page - http://www.kaeleer.com/ - which has really well done pictures of the realms. And very good casting for Lucivar. :) Can't agree with Saetan, but Daemon's nice... :D (but who is it?) *mrkgnao*

Now I've started on pt. 3 of The Black Jewels, and things are picking up again. Pt. 2 did get a bit corny and cute at times. And the villains are rather turning into two little Cruella de Vils - I mean really, *mrkgnao*

Abecedarian: no convincing necessary, my cat loves to sit in the bookshelf! :D *mrkgnao*

Thanks for all the replies! :) I read another book by Fred Vargas, and if the conclusion in this one is along the same lines, it will probably turn out ...:( *mrkgnao*

:)