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Same here Prolixic: magazines like American Baby, Babytalk, etc. piling up everywhere:) Otherwise I sometimes read "Book", sometimes "Premiere" (about movies) but mostly I prefer to read novels than magazines...

So am I :) I've read 7 chapters of "The Shipping News", and enjoy it so far... Ell, I see you 're reading "Payment in Blood". Have you read "A great deliverance"? This is the first of the Inspector Linley series... Though you can read each book independently, there's an ongoing story...

Yes, some graphic novels are definitely not for kids and besides, there's nothing wrong with reading kids books once in a while:)

I've just finished Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient", and there is a scene in it, where Hana, one of the characters, uses piles of books to replace missing stairs that collapsed when the house she temporarily lives in was bombed (the action takes place in Italy, during WWII). So I was...

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë "The Ladies'Paradise" by Emile Zola "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen The Harry Potter series Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably come up with 5 different titles! That was tough indeed:( Marie

He's supposed to be retiring soon anyway... According to his official web site (http://www.stephenking.com), he plans to finish the Dark Towers series first but nothing is said about a Carrie's sequel! I doubt he would ever write a sequel to Carrie. First of all he seems pretty obsessed with...

On the same day if I don't finish the book too late in the evening, sometimes just minutes after I've turned the last page. I'm a compulsive reader...:)

I started a list of books I've read when I was about 12 and kept it more or less updated until I was 16 or 17 and then forgot about it. I stumbled on it about 3 years ago and copied it on an excel page. I've tried to fill the blanks of the missed years but I'm sure I couldn't remember half the...

The Shipping News Count me in for the discussion about "The Shipping News". I wasn't very motivated by "Coma", but I'd like to read this one...

I've done it before but I don't like to do it for the following reason: one of the books gets my attention more than the other and I stick to it: I end up reading one book and generally forget completely about the other one during a couple of months (during this time I read other books). When I...

I don't know why but when I posted the question, I hadn't thought about "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile". I really loved both! They were faithful to the books and of course the casting was excellent for both movies. I didn't like "Stand By Me" that much, though... But I hadn't...

E for Ellis Peters Author of the Brother Cadfael series

I don't know if it is the case for other people, but sometimes when I finish a book, I have a hard time deciding what I'll read next. I have to have several books to chose from, and then I try to analyze what mood I'm in and what book seems to correspond better to that mood. For instance...

Some of them I never forget, I liked them so much that I remember almost everything (but it's also because I've re-read the ones I like the most so I'm less likely to forget... ) For most of them however, I remember the story fairly well, but I forget about some details, the names of the...

Sorcerer's Stone/ Philosopher's Stone From what I understood, it is not only the title that changed but also part of the contents: they removed the British English words or expressions, probably for the same reason that you mentioned, Ell. I've only read the American version so I don't know...

I think it is because the USA and Canada have their own publishing houses that re-publish the book originally published in England. You'll notice that the same title often doesn't have the same cover in England and in the United States: different publishing houses... The main reason is...

Has this mystery game already been done before or is nobody inspired by mysteries? C for Caleb Carr (author of "The Alienist")

Bernard Werber French writer, author of "Empire of the Ants".

Funny coincidence! That you wrote a post about this just a couple of days ago... Out of curiosity: which book?

Well, it seemed to me there could have been an interesting philosophical debate behind this story, but somehow, they managed to make it VERY minimal. "Blade Runner" at least, was interesting (I haven't read the book but I've been told it is even better). As for "Minority Report", the...