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Recent content by sparklepants_3

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    Recently Finished

    Perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Loved this book, finished it like half an hour ago and still feeling quite emotional from it.
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    A game of thrones - George R.R Martin A catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger Storyteller : The life of Roald Dahl - Donald Surrock Just spent my waterstones voucher, now to sit back and wait for them to arrive!
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    Recently Finished

    Eat, pray, love - Elizabeth Gilbert Not sure about this. Some of it is what every woman wants to hear.
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    So do I and I run one, the shop that I am a manager of is a books and music charity shop. I love going through all the donations and grabbing the ones I want to read first (Of course priced up by someone else and paid for!) Today I got through the post (not from the shop, but from amazon)...
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    What are you listening to Right now?

    Schubert - Unfinished symphony (no. 8)
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Today I went for a wonder round my town trying not to buy any books, after wondering into the charity shops I came out with The night circus Erin Morgenstern Stop Pretending Sonya Jones Dead Air Ian Banks The Help Kathryn Stockett (Which I already own but It looked brand new and was £1, my...
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    have you guys read an e-book

    I don't do it in anyone else's books! Only my own. If someone wants to borrow one then they have to deal with it or buy their own. Books are very personal things, Some of my most loved books are ones that I have read at certain points in my life and remind me of those times much like songs.
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    Biographies that you liked or hated

    I also like biographies by musicians I agree with the Eric Clapton one, I thought that it was really good and honest. I have scar Tissue in my to read pile, when I eventually get to it. I have like 80 books to read.
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    have you guys read an e-book

    No No No I work in a charity shop books and music shop, I'm a bibliophile. I love books the cover art, the smell, having an actual book in your hands rather than a computer. I am a technology person, I love my laptop, I love my blackberry I even studied digital arts as a minor at university but...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Red Plenty - Francis Spufford war and peace - Tolstoy Breakfast with socrates - Robert Rowland Smith Iris - John Bayley Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugines
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    Why we re-read books

    I re-read alot of books. But I only keep my favourite books to re-read On my keep part of my bookcase from the last 6 months of reading are The help - Katheryn Stockett The wasp factory - Iain Banks Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson...
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    Recently Finished

    The last book that I read was Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman I thought that it was amazing, a fairy story for adults. 4.75/5 (as close as you can get to 5 without being 5, the wasp factory - Ian Banks is my 5/5)
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    Vote for June 2012 BOTM

    Life by Keith Richards without a doubt, its is sat there in the shop waiting for me to buy it. I just need an excuse to buy it!
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    Hello!

    Hello everyone I'm Katie and I'm a manager of a bookshop! Thought I would say hello before getting stuck in and reading the rest if the forum!
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