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There are books for that sort of thing. In the UK we have the annual Writer's & Artist's Yearbook, which lists newspapers, magazines, festivals, competitions, publishers, agents, etc, and the sort of thing they are interested in. No idea what the North American equivalent is. Research it.

Uh huh? Copy and paste job.

When would suit? ;-)

Sounds like I have a few things to teach you about basic biology.

Good, good.

Ich verstehe schon, you mean.

I have my own forum to deal with and I hardly came by here. It would be wrong to maintain a status when my interest had dwindled.

But why, what?

You know what, that was a good idea.

Going back to the thirties, and enjoying a bit of a resurgence now, the books of Eric Ambler are worth a shot.

If you are going to ge crying buckets over the sort of book written for middle aged women with no sense of adventure, and don't actually want to get emotionally invested then perhaps fictional games may be of interest to you. Try Mark Dunn's ella minnow pea. You couldn't possibly cry along to...

Pop up, by any chance?

You'd be surprised. Florida would be a more likely destination than France, at least for Brits, regardless of the varied journey times.

You do know that geography covers so much more than looking at maps and knowing where in the world a country is? When I was at school (at around 11 to fourteen) we were covering topics such as the different spheres (lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.), types of soil, formation of glacial features...

I have certainly thought that in the past, finding things like The Adventures Of Augie March and The Actual to be impenetrable from the off, but on employing a new tactic, which was to head right back to the start, to his rookie works, I found I really enjoyed Dangling Man, and the influence of...

Not just Googlebots, Yahoo! Spiders, too. Plus MSN's crawlers, and all the other search engines out there gathering information.

Not yet. when it's all over and done it will be 2012. I can't wait that long.

I've over a 1,000 books going unread on my shelves. Having reader's block at the moment doesn't help.

The big day is tomorrow. Can't wait.

Try I, The Divine by Rabih Alameddine. It's narrated by a women telling the story of her life. Yet every time she starts a chapter, she decides that's not the way to tell it, and starts again. Effectively it's a book of first chapters that, when put together, tell the whole of her life.