[owleye]

id like to join this review but then again iv never tried a manhatten how sad am i :(

[Laurie]

our family have an anual holiday to ireland (my home away from the place i live) which involves a six-hour drive to Co. Mayo (with frequent pit-stops at tempting pubs i might add) and it has become my own anual ritual to go book shopping the day before we leave. I found The Gift in WHSmiths last June along with a few classics and had finished it before we were half way there! (i must admit though, i cheated and started reading on the boat - the cover was too tempting)
i found out the Riddle didnt come out till this May (gutted eh? weren't we all?) and i found this now much beloved forum only then, when i was desperately Googleing Alison's name looking for the exact release date. Now lets all come together on the struggle to survive until the Crow! :D ;)

I wouldnt actually lend my books out they prob wouldnt come back!!!!!!!
ive learned that lesson the hard way. Something i do now is put my initials in the corner of the inside cover or somewhere similarly unobtrusive so that you can always prove that a book is in fact yours if it isnt returned.

[owleye]

lol i bet your friends love that

[Laurie]

they do.

but then i do love being able to prove myself right when people demand that they gave my copy back yonks ago.

[owleye]

i think you just like the power

[Laurie]

Mwahahahahaha! *cough*cough*... shhhh dont tell them...

i like the idea of those travelling books or whatever that thing is called - you know where find a book in a cafe or something, read it, and then leave it somewhere else for the next person to find. Anyone tried that or found any decent books that way?
(I wouldnt write my initials in one of those books, i dont think)

even better, i wonder if anyone discovered Alison's books that way?

[Thelxiope]

I found the series when I was browsig in Ottakar's, Milton Keynes. It was highly recommended and being a big book I hoped it would last me. How wrong I was :p

[owleye]

i think i stayed up the whole night reading it because i liked it so much. i wont tell too many people you like power *shouts out of window* nope ive told no one :D

[Thelxiope]

Oh same here! My mum hates that, she says books never last in this house.

[owleye]

my mum says that, ive just got told off for reading a book that i was ment to save intill i got on holiday