I watched the BBC first then read the book. I love both of them to bits!!! As Forever Fan says there is not a lot of difference between the BBC and the book. My feelings toward the BBC is that firstly I absolutely LOVE IT!!! But I feel there are some places they could have done it a bit better. The parts that I think they could have done better in the film I think are better in the book

Okay, you're really starting to convince me. I think I'll try to read it sometime soon, as long as I can watch the movie immediately afterwards! I'm a big fan of spoilers (:P), so feel free to pm me, or post about what you mentioned.
I *think* Jane of Lantern Hill was one of my favorite Montgomery books.

Thrift stores are basically second-hand shops, yes?

Yup! I think in Aussie land you guys call them op shops??

Anyone here a fan of Gerrard Durrel's books? I've only read his Corfu trilogy--which other ones would you guys reccomend?

there's this awesome series by Audrey Penn that includes "Mystery At Blackbeard's Cove", "Blackbeard And The Sandstone Pillar: When Lightning Strikes", and "Blackbeard And The Gift Of Silence" all of the books are set in modern day from the perspective of 4 young tweens who inherit ancient treasure from a recently deceased old lady who has a mysterious and pirate filled past. but to earn the treasure, the kids must do all sorts of crazy things. and this gets them trapped in a cave with gold and skeletons! it's epic and crazy and adventurous and addicting

My last ordered book, James Herriot's The Lord God Made Them All, arrived today. I also went to the library intending to do research on weapons for my book, but couldn't find any. Instead, I came away with two books on horse care, a book on the Wars of the Roses, a book about the descendants of Queen Victoria, a book of horse stories, a book about Barbaro, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle, The Fisherman's Lady, by George MacDonald, and The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, which I haven't read in years.

I watched the BBC first then read the book. I love both of them to bits!!! As Forever Fan says there is not a lot of difference between the BBC and the book. My feelings toward the BBC is that firstly I absolutely LOVE IT!!! But I feel there are some places they could have done it a bit better. The parts that I think they could have done better in the film I think are better in the book

Okay, you're really starting to convince me. I think I'll try to read it sometime soon, as long as I can watch the movie immediately afterwards! I'm a big fan of spoilers (:P), so feel free to pm me, or post about what you mentioned.

I'm so glad I convincing you It's such a great book and I'm sure you would love it if you read it.
Right, to my mind the biggest change they make from book to movie is:

So, I've been praising up the book in this review but I really do love the movie, and it's lovely to read the book with the movie in you head If you do get to read it I would love to know what you thought of it

Thanks so much for the information; I don't think it's possible that I could like the book more than the movie, but hopefully I could make myself like it for itself - and not thing about the movie while I read it. I'll certainly try soon! Thanks for the spoilers!
I had a stack of 4 (or is it 5?) John Buchan books sitting on my dresser, which my brother is forcing me to read. Finally got through one of them; Adventurers all, which has three seperate books/stories in it. I'd read one of them, so that made it easier. I do enjoy them a lot, but they're awfully hard to get through, until you get really, really into it.

That's fine - you don't have to read the book if you had rather not - no pressure

I haven't read any John Buchan books - what are they about?

I don't remember when I was last in here...

In the past two months I have read:

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett--There are two intersecting story lines. The first involves Death wanting to forget, well, everything. So, he tries to get drunk and then joins the Foreign Legion because he's heard that's what people do when they want to forget. So, the Death of Rats (who handles more than just rats) summons Death's granddaughter to take over the family business. She hates it. The other involves a travelling band who soon take over the music world after the birth of Music With Rocks In. It had me laughing at several points, particularly the way the Rock Music frightens the band members (it's alive! We can't control it! Ah!). It wasn't as good as some of Pratchett's other works, but still fun. 3/5

The Attolia books--My sister bought these and convinced me to read them. I didn't like the first half of The Thief much because Gen was so annoying, but the second half was pretty much one surprise after another. I was at first surprised by the grimmer tone of Queen of Attolia, but again, Eugenides managed to surprise me. I liked the other two books even better. 5/5 for the whole series

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale--I saw it at the library and just picked it up. I loved it. It's kind of a typical fairy tale in that the princess is exiled/has to run away and live in hiding but I really liked the heroine. Once she realized what her situation was she went with it and plotted and planned how she could reveal her enemies. 4/5

Book of a Thousand Days by the same--It was...different. I liked the premise, and the tale really was interesting, but I would have been fed up with the whole thing far sooner than the heroine. Basically what happens is the maid gets locked in the tower with her lady because the lady refuses to marry the guy her father wants her to. I can't blame the lady for that, the guy was awful, but then making her maid pretend to be her all the time? And just sitting there feeling sorry for herself? Show some backbone girl! They eventually get out, and have more adventures, but the maid had to pretend to be the lady some more. 3/5

The Shadow of the Bear by Regina Doman--a fascinating retelling of Snow White and Rose Red (not to be confused with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). And I think it was recently released as an independent film. Blanche and Rose are Catholic girls recently moved to NYC from New Jersey after their father's death. They meet Bear one winters night and strike up a friendship. And then they get caught up in Bear's life which is shadowy and uncertain. That summary wasn't very good, but I didn't want to give anything away for those who may not have read it. The characters are all really great, and Blanche and Bear's sort of romance is very sweet. However, the book is a little hard to figure out because even though the subject matter is obviously aimed at teens it reads more like a children's book. Speaking of subject matter, there's content in it that may not be appropriate for all ages, including: drugs, under-age smoking, torture, and more than one near-death. 4/5

Black as Night--a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the sequel to SotB. This story continues Blanche and Bear's relationship, as well as featuring Rose and Bear's brother Fish. Instead of the seven dwarfs, there are seven friars who are some of the coolest characters I have ever come across. This one was better than the first because the writing style caught up with the subject matter and read much more like the young adult novel it is. It was hard to put down. The content warnings are pretty much the same. 5/5

Waking Rose--a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and sequel to previous. This one is about Rose and Fish, who are apparently the fan favourites though I'm not sure why (I like Blanche and Bear better ). Again, the characters are a real highlight of the story, particularly Rose's friends from the school. The boys that live in the Sacra Cor dorm are a little crazy, but very cool. They do martial arts and sword fighting! This one was even harder to put down mostly because the climax is several chapters long and on the intense side. Content includes, but is not limited to: medical abuse and mention of prior assault. 4/5

House at Pooh Corner by A.A.Milne--I needed something on the lighter side after finishing Waking Rose, so I turned to an old favourite. I found it much more melancholy this time though. Perhaps because Christopher Robin grows up in this one and I'm a lot older than I was the last time I read it? The animals are still fun, and the introduction of Tigger still makes me smile. 4/5

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale--another reread because I'm going to college in two months and can't take all my books with me. I liked it the first time I read it, and I still like it. Go Miri! The quarry-speech is still a little hard to understand, but at the same time it's a very interesting part of the story. 5/5

And currently on my to read list are The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton and The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff.

The Shadow of the Bear by Regina Doman--a fascinating retelling of Snow White and Rose Red (not to be confused with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). And I think it was recently released as an independent film. Blanche and Rose are Catholic girls recently moved to NYC from New Jersey after their father's death. They meet Bear one winters night and strike up a friendship. And then they get caught up in Bear's life which is shadowy and uncertain. That summary wasn't very good, but I didn't want to give anything away for those who may not have read it. The characters are all really great, and Blanche and Bear's sort of romance is very sweet. However, the book is a little hard to figure out because even though the subject matter is obviously aimed at teens it reads more like a children's book. Speaking of subject matter, there's content in it that may not be appropriate for all ages, including: drugs, under-age smoking, torture, and more than one near-death. 4/5

Black as Night--a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the sequel to SotB. This story continues Blanche and Bear's relationship, as well as featuring Rose and Bear's brother Fish. Instead of the seven dwarfs, there are seven friars who are some of the coolest characters I have ever come across. This one was better than the first because the writing style caught up with the subject matter and read much more like the young adult novel it is. It was hard to put down. The content warnings are pretty much the same. 5/5

Waking Rose--a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and sequel to previous. This one is about Rose and Fish, who are apparently the fan favourites though I'm not sure why (I like Blanche and Bear better ). Again, the characters are a real highlight of the story, particularly Rose's friends from the school. The boys that live in the Sacra Cor dorm are a little crazy, but very cool. They do martial arts and sword fighting! This one was even harder to put down mostly because the climax is several chapters long and on the intense side. Content includes, but is not limited to: medical abuse and mention of prior assault. 4/5

I've read the first two books of that series and I really like them Very well written although yes, they are really aimed at older readers. I think Regina Domain gives them a 14 + and I would say at least that. More like 16+ in my opinion. There was a movie made of the first one and I believe it was released only a few days ago (it was an independant film as you said) I've only seen trailers and clips but it looked pretty good to me

I've seen the movie for The Shadow of the Bear, and yes, it is pretty good. Are you going to read the other two books in the series by Regina Doman, Dot? (Midnight Dancers and Alex O'Donnell and the 40 Cyber-thieves? The last one is one of my favourites. )

John Buchan most famous book is The 39-Steps. (I'm basing this deduction on the fact that it's the only one I know of that was turned into a movie. ) He wrote adventure novels, usually featuring a British hero who has spent a fair bit of time somewhere in Africa. Spies, conspiracies, lost treasure...

I'm currently reading Mary Hoffman's latest Stravaganza book: City of Ships. They take place in an alternate-history version of Italy and are usually a good read; well developed characters and very well described setting. I wasn't too impressed with the last one, City of Secrets, but this one promises to be interesting... it has pirates.

I just finished Yotsuba:1. I liked and can hardly wait till read the next book. Even if the books don't really have a plot-just little stories.....Yotsuba is a manga book, about a four-six year old girl with green hair. She moves in with her adopted father and meet the neighbors: Asagi, the beautiful one; Fuka, the dependable one;Ena, the youngest and patient one.

daughter of the king mentioned she had read the Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. I read it and liked it best out of all of Shannon Hale's books I've read. My favorite parts were

I guess the John Buchan questions have been answered for me. Yes, they're about british gentlemen, in a time period that's between World War I and II. They're always off doing adventures, and saving people, and working for the - government, I guess. They're really fun.
And I got through the stack on my dresser! Yay!! I really, really loved Castle Gay.

Yes, they're about British gentlemen, in a time period that's between World War I and II. They're always off doing adventures, and saving people, and working for the - government, I guess. They're really fun.

Lovely, are they not? His characters, from what I have read, are my perfect ideal of a book hero/character. No, I'm not being fangurlish, they just are.

I'm currently, and slowly, reading a very thick history book at the moment, entitled The Reign of George III. It's a 1960 edition, from the Oxford History of England series. It is fantastic so far, it has me quite convinced I was born in the wrong era, actually. The book covers in some detail the economic, social, political, and historical happenings of HM King George III's long reign. Good stuff!

I'm reading (or rereading) an awful lot of things right now. The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, which I'm trying to finish. The Robe, which is one of my favorite historical novels ever. I've also reached the last book of James Herriot, Every Living Thing, and am partway through Alexander's The Foundling. Of course, there's also the Secretariat book (on which the movie was based), and The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses, which is actually very interesting.

I'm currently reading a nice little book by - well, I probably shouldn't say the name, but by my sister, Dennie. So exciting to read her NaNo; and it's marvelous!

Lovely, are they not? His characters, from what I have read, are my perfect ideal of a book hero/character. No, I'm not being fangurlish, they just are.

You sound exactly like my aforementioned sister. She loves Richard Hannay. And they are so lovely. I really like them all, and my favorites are probably Hannay and Archie Roylance. I'm so glad they all have romance in them too.