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Anyway. Hello everyone. I'm not a newbie really, I've been a member for a while, but I came by today and noticed I hadn't logged in for almost 4.5 years. Woah, time flies. Changed a bit around here hasn't it?
I'm steffee. I'm 33. Haven't written a book but I like to read...
In May, 31 members of this forum read 179 books: 168 unique titles by 145 different authors.
Popular book choices were:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Time Traveler's...
In April, 24 bookandreader members read 138 books, 133 of them unique titles by 108 authors.
Popular books were:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
A Short History of Nearly...
In that other thread, abc made a suggestion about another forum she visits whereby upon joining you are sent a friendly PM welcoming you to the forum, and containing a few hints on settling in.
As the majoriy of bookandreader misunderstandings seem to stem from people posting duplicate...
Sorry for the delay, I have been working on this for two weeks. :eek:
In March, 23 members of the forum read 164 books; 155 unique titles, by 122 different authors.
Popular reads in March were:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Never Let Me Go...
Years ago, you used to be able to get a huge variety of Penguin and Wordsworth Classics for £1 or £2 maximum, but nowadays they're often even more than the £6.99 ordinary paperback price.
The quality of course, was much poorer than ordinary paperbacks, though it was okay.... but I can't seem...
In February 32 members read 161 books, 152 separate titles by 130 authors.
Popular books read by more than one TBF member in February:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Vernon God...
Tell me something about the place you live.
I live in Coventry in the UK, but I am originally from Durham.
Coventry smells. It's a city, but not as big as London or Birmingham, and it's quite cosmopolitan compared to Durham, which is beautiful (if I do say so myself ;) ). The nightlife...
Let's play a word game.
8-letter words, the last letter of the current word starts the next word, and so on?
E.g.
comprisE
enchantS
swampinG
.... ?
Or something else? :D
And strictly NO googling ;) :D
1. In the 1983 film `Christine`, who or what was Christine?
2. In 1976, which single was knocked from the number one spot by a single whose title was contained in the lyrics to the first single?
3. What is the name for a group of goldfish?
4. In the...
... would be good on here, as we have a few games going at the moment, which are currently in General Chat and the Music sub-forum and all over the place really :) , and a Quiz / Games forum would clear them out of the way of real discussions, etc... and then we could start more games and...
I've noticed quite a few people are struggling with character development or whatever, in the writers forums, and I just remembered a free course I was enrolled on, once, with Barnes & Noble University.
They have courses under the categories Liberal Arts, such as "writing memoirs" or "writing...
I got asked today, why I read fiction. I was in the middle giving a huge response, involving just how fantastic books, and reading is, when I was interrupted with...
"but why fiction? why not stick to none-ficiton?"
So why do we read fiction? :confused:
How about a palindrome thread... I reckon it'll be interesting and might aid creativity and all that :)
"sex at noon taxes"
"stiff, O dairyman, in a myriad of fits"
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama"
All stolen from Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue.
Any more?