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Thanks guys for all the great and creative suggestions! :D :D It's not like people here think about books and bookstores easily and a lot, is it? ;) Right now we're kind of fond of The Book Nook. My brother (beer good, credit where credit is due) suggested that then we could have a logo in...

Myers' Manifesto sounds just as narrow-minded, or narrowing, and judgmental, as Harold Bloom - only the other way round? I like the Toni Morrison quote. Sometimes it's nice to just read a book the whole way through, for relaxation and enjoyment, but the reads that really stay with you - the...

Thanks for the feedback! It sounds really interesting... :)

(It's only now it's coming to Sweden.) Have you heard anything about it?

I really liked the movie, haven't read the short story yet, though I'd like to (there are a lot of scenes I'd like to read as well as have seen, in order to keep them even more). And it seems I'm not the only one who keeps thinking about it a lot after seeing it. (;) Sitaram) Some very...

I'm a bookseller. It's one of the signs of my addiction, I guess... :rolleyes: *mrkgnao*

"Director Michael Winterbottom attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." " (imdb.com) :eek: Well, it's certainly brave to try... :rolleyes: And I suppose it could be done, if it's done with...

stood up proudly, but

I don't often read non-fiction, but I do it occasionally on subjects that interest me. For example, right now I'm reading A short history of myth by Karen Armstrong. But I was having a little trouble in the beginning, simply because I don't read non-fiction often: I didn't know how to read it...

I actually prefer it when I learn stuff from fiction, when it's baked into the narrative. If it's done in a good way, of course! (And I rather enjoy the dimension of having to question it more, because then I can research it further...) But on topics I'm interested in, I'll read a non-fiction...

I can really recommend Guards Guards and its "sequels" (a rather pointless world in the Discworld... :rolleyes: ) Men at arms and Feet of clay: They have my absolutely favourite character, Sam Vimes, and also in the latter two (?) Sergeant Angua! *mrkgnao*

Humphrey Bogart!

Oh no, the dreaded book slump! :eek: I've been in a few of those, but so far they all passed (knock on wood). The only thing to do is wait, and hope your luck will let you stumble on just the right book to get you to like reading again... *mrkgnao*

I started giving up on books when I left university: if I don't have to read it, I'm not going to read it if I don't like it... However, the point where I decide whether I like it varies greatly and in a number of different ways... Sometimes it's a single sentence or phrase that makes me think...

- the disappointed brigade asked:

Walking, if the weather's nice... but it isn't... :( Yoga, if I have the time, but I rarely do :o ... how many calories do you burn reading? ;) If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be? (OK, three things, if you need, or five...)

busy all afternoon while

Ohh, they are soo worth it (and especially when you love fantasy, horror and Metallica!)! (I'm one to talk, I read them at the library :o ). But you should know there are some in the ten-album-series that are not part of the ongoing story, but rather "short story collections" - they add depth...

I tried catching runaway (sockophage = great word, bren :D )

I'd suggest The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips, which I've just finished, and which brings up a lot of multidimensional questions about the believability of fiction. http://www.theegyptologist.com/synopsis.html tells about half the story, the rest you get when you read the book. I don't...