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hardback or softback novels? Softback because they are easier to carry about. Pen or pencil? Pen. Paper clip or staple? Staple Holding a book in hand or laying it on your desktop? Holding a book. Having a stack of books on the floor or shelving them up correctly? Shelves but I...

Congratulations DS I have just bought Exodus by Leon Uris, Baudilino by Umberto Eco, The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, and the Hound of the Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Congratulations Stewart.:)

Happy Birthday tundra. Have a good day.:)

I don’t mind a book looking as if it has been read more than once. I don’t like to see a book that has been mistreated however.

Happy birthday Agua Have a good day..:)

To Kill a Mockingbird The Good Earth The Colour Purple Gone with the Wind Middlesex

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder Derailed - James Siegel What the Body Remembers - Shauna Singh Baldwin

A friend of mine recommended this book to me. Apparently it takes up to 6 weeks to get it from Amazon, so I have not ordered it just yet. I mean to do so very soon. Let us know how it goes dr!

In July I read Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova The Good Earth - Pearl Buck Out - Natsuo Kirino

If we are going back really far I would say the Anne Of Green Gables books. I read them all as a child and just loved them.

Happy Birthday! Have a great day.:) :) :)

I don’t know if Prodigal Summer is Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel or not but it does seem to come after Poisonwood Bible. I exchanged another book for it while on holiday recently. The back cover says that ‘It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives...

Recent purchases Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver Empress Orchard - Anchee Min Perfume - Patrick Suskind If nobody speaks of remarkable things - Jon McGregor The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zazon Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran

I have just finished reading The Poisonwood Bible. It is the first Kingsolver book that I have read so I have no other to compare it with. I just want to say that I really enjoyed this one. I think Kingsolver is very good portraying social problems. She must have done a lot of research. I...

I only managed three books in June. I have been on vacation and there were just too many distractions. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Recent purchases High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughs The Haj – Leon Uris The Covenant – James Michener The Accidental – Ali Smith The Sea – John Banville The Peoples Act of Love- James Meek Empire of the Sun – J G Ballard The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurt Express Tales –...

Our power did go off this afternoon. The weather has been pretty good (As good as it gets in Scotland), but it looked a bit like thunder. It has cleared up now and it is a beautiful summer evening.

The books that I read in May are Baghdad Burning – Girl Blog from Iraq The Falls – Joyce carol Oates The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro

Dogmatix and Muggle The Portuguese wine last night was very different from anything we have tried before. It was from the Beiras region of central Portugal, and was from a grape variety that we have never come across before - Touriga Nacional. It says on the label that it is “A powerful...