Laurel’s Comments (group member since Aug 06, 2013)

Laurel’s comments from the I Read Therefore I Am group.

Sorry ;)

Oh no! Sock monsters are cute but a book-eating monster??? That would have to go...

That's the first one, although they can be read as standalone's, so you might be better starting with that if you wanted to read them ;)

hee hee, it's what I say to people when they commiserate with me for having to work all weekend...just wait till Monday morning and I will spare a very brief thought for you as I turn over and go back to sleep!

I've just finished The Well of Ascension which is the 2nd Mistborn book - absolutely brilliant! Started a bit slow but then the 2nd half was great and the ending has got me dying to read the next one. Am gonna try and resist to get our group reads and readlongs read and save The Hero of Ages for Christmas week!

Started this today, looks like will be a quick read - we have just met Poirot throwing a marrow over the fence into someone's garden lol!

They are awesome if you like fantasy but Mieville isn't traditional fantasy though - he is very clever and they are not like anything else I've read. Perdido Street Station was 5 stars handsdown, I gave The Scar 4 stars but possibly only because it wasn't Perdido!

Yeah I think I had too many last night! Luckily am off work today (got to love a Monday off)

@ Hilary - The Dark Tower is one of those books where I'm really shocked that I haven't read it yet - it is totally up my street! Being 7 books longs isn't a problem (Wheel of Time fan remember?) so I will make that one of my goals for next year to finally get to them.

Yeah, I would start at the beginning with the first two longer stories he wrote A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four and then The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - that way you're reading them in the order they were published and you get to know Holmes and Watson from their first adventures together. Hound of the Baskervilles is absolutely brilliant though, probably my favourite of all the Holmes stories! I'm waiting (not very patiently) for series 2 of Sherlock to come through Lovefilm so I can catch up!

It gets better once you get a bit further into it!

I really liked Cold Comfort Farm - it was fun! And The Scar is a great book and the one set before it Perdido Street Station was absolutely awesome! Haven't read any of the others though

Lol, a poolside coffee shop would be awesome! We could branch out into cocktails!

I bet the workmen were happy to see Mr Moore! They'll be about ready to kill Sam by now ;)

Howard Goodall's arrangement of it is lovely too - here's the choir of Well's Cathedral singing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxdb3...

Only problem is it really reminds me of the Vicar of Dibley!!

Yeah join us for Persuasion in Jan Tracey! I've not read it either and am not really an Austen fan but a lot of people seem to have a real soft spot for it so it's worth a try ;)

Me too, something I've never heard off but am interested to learn more about the Basque people

Yeah The Bloody Chamber was brilliant wasn't it? I really need to read Wolf Hall and also the Dark Tower books

I'm reading The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson which is Book two of the Mistborn series and is brilliant!

Oh he's one of 'those' bosses is he?