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I read for enjoyment and if I gain some knowledge along the way that is a bonus.:) Veggiedog I sympathise. I am not a vegetarian but I get motion sickness if I read in a car or a bus or a train. It is very sad.:( I really envy people who can read just anywhere.

At long last my Amazon order has arrived.:) Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Gavin Bell The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee

Today I went to Waterstone’s and I bought The Harmony Silk Factory – Tash Aw The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela

When I lived in Glasgow I probably never fully appreciated Borders. I only manage an occasional visit there nowadays. I like Waterstone’s, but our local branch is very small. It sometimes does not have the books that I want. Today was one of those days. I guess I will just have to send off...

These are really interesting figures Steffee. Thanks.:)

I guess this is a book you either love or hate. I loved it. Steffee I think you are right and there was no other option open to them. They had no role models and only rumours of awful things having happened to children who had tried to escape. I too felt that the youngsters seemed to be...

Thanks pontalba! I am putting I Claudius to the top of my ‘to be read’ stack.

I have been to the local second-hand bookshop and made a few purchases. Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson £1:50 I Claudius – Robert Graves £1:25 Russia - Edward Rutherford £1:00 Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally £4:00 The Falls – Ian Rankin £3:50 Misery –...

Tigers! (You mised out tigers.)

guzzle! :o

I think the book could not have ended any other way. I think that Ishiguro wanted the reader to think about the ethics of cloning humans. Did we think that the youngsters were actually human? Or not human as had been suggested when Madam called them poor creatures? Are we all really just...

This is the first Ishiguro book that I have read. I really liked it. I think my favourite character was Tommy. He seemed to be the most straightforward and honest. I would have said that he was the most naïve, but I think they were all naïve about their situation. It is a book that I will...

I felt Vanishing Acts was not as good as the Pact. These are the only two Jodie Picoult books I have read. I think the prison scenes all seem a bit similarly violent. I am not a great reader of crime but I liked the courtroom scenes in both books.

What a fabulous title for a book. The synopsis sounds great. I am putting this one on my wish list. Thanks folks.:)

I agree I don’t think his father was a bad person. I think it must be incredibly difficult to be the parent in such circumstances.

During February I read Small Island - Andrea Levy Vanishing Acts – Jodie Picoult Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro The Bonesetters Daughter – Amy Tan I really like this thread. I love to see what others are...

The books on the top of my TBR stack are 1. Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier 2. A Breath of Snow and Ashes Diana Gabaldon 3. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 4. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 5. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle This combination of course may change, since three of the...

23 A Squidge off sounds as if it should have been something at the start of a Quidditch game. I can’t remember hearing about it in any of the HP books however.:(

23 Is it shinty?:p

It has been a little cold here, but lovely and sunny. Spring is on the way.:cool: