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Welcome, Benjamin

Jack is a labrador and according to him, the centre of my world. If I pay attention to anything else, the object must be destroyed. I don't know if getting better is got to do with growing up or with finding new friends - a couple of foxes who visit our garden now and then.

Jack is getting better. He doesn't chew my books very often now and never touches them when I am not reading them.

- Kedgeree can be lethal

Hello and welcome, Pho-Tog

I think the job is beneath you, direstraits. You could do so much better. I thought you would go for a big national team.

Hi Ayan You sound like an older version of my daughter. I am reading Bartimaeus to her at the moment and, although she does not have an interest in torture, she is obsessed with the plague and keeps printing horrible pictures of people affected by pests, bubonic or other wise. I am thinking of...

Then you can use the same company I used, Proflowers. It is based in San Diego, California. Their web address is www.proflowers.com

In a school I visited they had a 'readathon' going on in the library. I am not sure what the rules (wether students had to read the same book or were able to choose, time frames, etc) were but you can make your own. As Miss Shelf said, prizes are a good idea.

Depends on where are you sending them to. My only experience was with an American company and they were wonderful. I made a mistake in both the house number and telephone number of the person so they could not deliver on that day. They got in touch with me, got the right details and delivered...

Gel pens in different colours at different times in the story. Grey at the Orphanage, black at the undertakers, red at the inn, green at Fagin's house, etc. There was also a collection of aeroplanes and stuffed dinosaurs. Don't know the meaning. Ask your teacher.

Why? Those are other people's choices; you make your own. It's just a list like thousands of other lists in blogs, websites and internet bookshops.

In the olden days, women read almost exclusively fiction and poetry, while men read more non-fiction. In Galileo times (and for quite a long time later in many European countries) scientific, philosophical books, and writing on other weighty subjects were written in Latin, while fiction was...

It might sound better in German. Maybe even bits like 'no one would dare to suppose' would make sense. Although I suppose the abuse of adjectives would stay.

I am only half way through Eça de Queiroz’s novel, but I could not wait until the end to share my enthusiasm. This was Eça’s first novel, which he published in the 1870s but then corrected and reprinted several times. I am reading the last version, published in the 1890s and it is hard to...

Pevear and Volokhonski are some of the best translators. Haven't read their translation of C&P, but some of their other translations are brilliant. Back to your problem, I remember both passages in the same book. I will check my copy at home tonight and post tomorrow (I can't even remember...

Did it start while counting sheep during imsomnia and is that the reason you are on sleeping pills now?

About two hours a day, if I am lucky

Agree. Or it can be added to the author's thread, if there is one.

I think I'll be tops with my last buy: Gorki's My Childhood, 1p.