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(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » RABCK - Jeanette Winterson *CLOSED*
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
Hi! I have an international RABCK for Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. Journal Link: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4122529 First person to PM me gets it!
Book Talk » Modern or twisted versions of Cinderella » I absolutely adored...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
The Coachman Rat by David Henry Wilson. I picked it up in a car boot sale for a challenge and ended up with it on my PC shelf instead! Perhaps I loved it so much because I have never read that kinda thing before but I …
Book Talk » The Time Travellers Wife » Re: put it down now and never look back!
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
Yes, I would agree in most cases. But I was reading it as part of a ring and wanted to give it a fair chance. And I was glad I did.
Book Talk » The Time Travellers Wife » I enjoyed it to a point...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 3 replies
I found it very difficult to get into for the first 200 or so pages because, as you say, it is VERY boring and nothing really happens. I did enjoy the last part a lot more and found certain threads tieing themselves tog…
Book Talk » Is your bookmark special to you? » Re: Is your bookmark special to you?
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
I've got a lovely leather thong, which on one end has a little pewter book and on the other, a little pair of glasses. But for some reason, I usually end up with scraps of paper, train tickets etc instead. And this thon…
Book Talk » It's time to start slapping! » Good Question!
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
But I don't know any that I have read recently - I've obviously been lucky with my reading at the moment!
Book Talk » Books like "Salt" or "Cod"? » I feel so sheltered...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
I never even knew such books exist! I'm not going to look up 'Salt' and 'Cod' right away!
Book Talk » May 18, 19, 20 - What are you reading now, and what do you think, so far? » Lost For Words by John Humphries
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
I'm really enjoying it so far - and have learnt a thing or two!
Book Talk » The Celestine Prophecy.... a disappointment! » I read this for the same reasons as you did...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
and found I was left with the same feelings (although I didn't like the Da Vinci Code either). I did find the story very tedious and found that a lot of the information was not accurate, the theories were not particular…
Book Talk » Do you ever read books that you put down years ago? » I do put them back onto my TBR pile but...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
when it comes to picking the next book to read, it is certainly not one I would pick up because I remember not enjoying it enough to finish it the first time, and there are so many others which I haven't given a chance y…
Book Talk » Favourite School Books? » Your all so lucky!
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
In primiary school I remember reading the biff and chip books (not sure of the title - The Magic Key maybe?) They were great fun. Last year my cousin brought some home from school to read and I sat with him for hours b…
Book Talk » Have you every had to put a book aside because reading it was too upsetting? » Apt Pupil by Steven King upset me
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
I tend not to read books about Nazism and the like but I didn't know what this was about when I picked it up. I didn't finish it.
Book Talk » Favorite authors, name five » Ummmm...in no particular order...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago
Terry Pratchett George Orwell Chuck Palahniuk Grant Naylor And number 5...had to think about...maybe John Steinbeck?
Book Talk » Do you read faster if you like the book ? » I wouldn't say I read faster as such,
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 4 replies
But I am more likely to pick up the book and read it than if I am not enjoying it, which I just avoid. I'm more likely to put off chores to read if I'm enjoying too! :oD
Book Talk » Can someone recomend a book on Logic? » I did Logic as one of my modules in uni last year and...
Vickyloo 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
I found Philosophy of Language by Alexander Miller to be very good, a nice introduction to logic and a bit about the philosophy of language. Hope this is the kind of thing your looking for. :o)
Book Talk » Has anybody read the Lemony Snicket books to their kids? » A friend fo mine tried reading the first one to her 5 year old son
Vickyloo 18 yrs ago
He got rather upset at some of the disasters that happened and wanted to throw the book away! My friend admits that he is a little over-sensitive though, and she is going to try again with them in a few years.
Book Talk » This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. » A Room With A View by EM Forster
Vickyloo 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
Was supposed to study it for A'Level but couldn't through even half the book, I absolutely detested it, and still do. I read the study guide for it and still managed to get an A - don't know though! lol!
Book Talk » Where not to read » For some reason...
Vickyloo 18 yrs ago
I can't read in a doctors waiting room - which surely was designed for reading! lol! I think I'm too nosy and interested in what is going on around me!
Book Talk » When do you decide - Enough is Enough !! » I'm terrible with this
Vickyloo 18 yrs ago
Where as most people here seem to force themselves to read a book, I give up way too easily. Sometimes within the first few pages.

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