I bought that book when it was first released because I heard they were making a movie of it, and because it had to do with the Inklings.
I still haven’t read it yet, I've got so much reading to do!
Please tell me what you think of it once you've finished I'd love to know if it's a good read!

Here There Be Dragons is an excellent read, in my opinion. The following book (The Search for the Red Dragon) was also well written, but the third was a bit of a let-down to the series. I think NOT knowing the character's true identities made it more interesting, but it was still fun.

Libby: don't you dare spoil me!

Bookwyrm and AJAiken: that would be so cool if the both series were intertwined! I have to get my hands on a copy of The Red Pyramid!

GTG: no worries, I won't give anything away!

I just read a book called "The Field Of Dogs" by Kathrine Patterson. it was well written and very intruiging!

I just finished A Tale of Two Cities. Loved it. My favorite character was Madame Defarge (I know, dreadful me). It's whetted my appetite and got me wishing I had more time...
I also picked up Ian McEwan's Atonement, read nine chapters, and cast it aside, bored. I haven't been reading much lately.
EDIT: And then I read George Orwell's Animal Farm. It was sad, but I liked it...sort of. In the way that Animal Farm and books of it's type may be 'liked'.

Here There Be Dragons is an excellent read, in my opinion.

Oh, Thank You for telling us! I'm going to add that in my list (my very, very long list) of books to read!
I'm tired of seeing it on the shelf glaring at me, knowing I havn't read it yet!

Fanny, unfortunately I haven't started War and Peace yet. I've finished the first page, but nothing more. It greatly contributes to me procrastinating with it... *really had better start it soon*

Well, apart from War and Peace, what I've read/am reading/will read:

Black Beauty: I enjoyed this one to a big extent! I was curious about the book and was really expecting the worse (a corny little girls' horse-loving novel, in a word of what the book is made out to be.) It turned out to be much different, though. I found it very touching and it definitely makes to my favourite book list.

Robinson Crusoe: For literature in school. I'm trusting it'll get more adventurous after where I'm at. (Currently, chapter 3.) People's daily activites while their stranded on an island just doesn't entertain me. I've heard of when he meets Friday, so I'm clinging on to the hope things will change presently.

Twice Freed: For English in school. A fiction book by Patricia St. John. I believe it's based on Philemon and is about Onesimus. It's rather interesting.

Green by Ted Dekker: I'm looking forward to reading this one a whole lot. The way Blessed Child was written had a good impact on me, so I can't wait until I finish the other two preceding this one.

And, lastly, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the first book....don't recall it's name. My sister was giving the series a try, liked it, and is persuading me to read it. I'll see how I like it.

I was also reading Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass but seeing how it was a little longer than some of the other books waiting to be read, I put it down. I'm not sure if I'll carry on with reading it.

That's about it! Although, if CoK arrives at the library, everything else on here is sort of secondary to it.

I just finished reading Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy, both by Jean Webster.
Daddy-Long-Legs: I'd pegged the ending within the first couple of pages, which, in this case, was not a good thing. I also found Judy rather like Anne from Anne of Green Gables, with her whole outlook on life, at least in the beginning. (Which, in this aspect, was not a good thing---I found her rather annoying.)

Dear Enemy: I liked this one much better (DTR was right, but I don't think she knows how right ) than the first book. First off, I like Sallie much more than I like Judy. Sallie has a more solid personality and, despite all the talk of frivolousness, pretty grounded, I thought. I'm sure part of this is the differences in ages, but still. Second, the Jerk has a much smaller part in this book, thank goodness! Third, automatic plus for a Scotch Presbyterian doctor. I'm sure I'll come up with more stuff to say later. But hopefully what I have said will start a conversation amongst the NWebbers who have read the book(s).
(You know, I think those spoiler boxes are a bit arbitrarily placed. )

Twice Freed: For English in school. A fiction book by Patricia St. John. I believe it's based on Philemon and is about Onesimus.

That's right. Does your copy have the introductory note about how she came to write it? I thought that was a really interesting part of the book, especially since I was a bit disappointed with how the story wrapped around the different characters and events. I expected too much of it, maybe, and it wasn't like the Adventures in Odyssey episode.

*approves of the Daddy Long Legs/Anne of Green Gables comparison*

Spoiler

Though, I must say, all three times I've read the book I've completely missed any hints of manipulation. I do kind of remember the summer she spent somewhere else, and I supposed I did connect it with her not meeting DLL, so... eh. I'm happily oblivious.

I really like bit you mention in the last paragraph of your second spoiler. (I wrote it down and added it to my quote file. ) I may have added one other bit to my quote file, but I don't remember... *will have to check*

Of the two, Dear Enemy was a lesser favourite; the attitudes therein bothered me so much more.

Finished reading The Red Pyramid. According to Wikipedia, the series is set to be a trilogy, so it won't be as long as the Percy Jackson series. Anyway, I enjoyed it. Not sure I think it's as good as the Percy Jackson books, but it was pretty fun. I enjoyed the fact that he wasn't lazy and just duplicated the way he handled the mythology in his previous series. Here the Egyptian gods are these primal forces that can exist in more places than one and can deposit a part of themselves within a host, human or otherwise. Their true forms are only ever seen in dreams of the Duat, the Egyptian underworld that seems to be heaven and hell and a lot of other things all rolled up into one. The premise of the novel is that Egyptian magicians sealed the gods away in the Duat after Rome conquered Egypt. Now someone has set them loose and not all of them have pleasant plans for humanity. It is similar to the Percy Jackson books in that there's an ancient evil that's wanting to get out and conquer everything, but I thought that was about the only obvious similarity.

Now I'm reading book 7 of the Ranger's Apprentice series. I think it's kind of weird that he skipped forward in time and then skipped backwards, but after six seasons of Lost, weird time jumps in a series don't bother me anymore.

Mel, what was it about the attitudes in Dear Enemy that bothered you? I think I might remember that there was something that put me off a little, but I don't know what it was. And, no, I wasn't entirely happy with the characters and their views, but I was easier with them than with those in Daddy-Long-Legs.
I'm not sure if I'm ruining your happy oblivion here, but That's all the manipulation et all I can think of this moment.

Glad you liked The Red Pyramid, Booky. I'll have to see if my library has it...

I also read Dragon Spear before the Webster books. I thought it okay, but kind of came out of it going "meh". Anyone else read it?