Confused

One, they don't really get that I'm reading, although they've asked and we've told them. It just looks like I'm sitting there staring at a toy and it somehow isn't as bad as a book . . . seems a little less anti-social for whatever reasons than having a printed book.

Two, doesn't matter where in the cottage I sit -- I don't need to be near the one or two lights. I can sit in the shadowy corner.

Even if I took the time to figure out how to scan my pics of Sadhbh and post them here, I wouldn't. But I do have pics of her reading LOL!

Penn

The May count is gonna be down because of a visit to your in-laws.  LOL  I hope you had a good time. 

 Try not to get a papercut while frantically turning those pages trying to catch up! 

Sadhbh, that happened to me recently. It was a newly published HSR, but there were whole sections of the book that seemed so familiar. The setting wasn't exactly the same and there were some areas that seemed 'new,' but there was that constant sense of deja vu. It was very disconcerting.

Though that did remind me.  Back when I was trying to write for Desire, I'd come up with a plot for a book.  I was about 3-4 chapters in when a Desire was published that had almost my exact same plot.  Way down to some minor details!

Since it was released after I'd already plotted mine, and since her book had to have been written months before I'd even dreamed mine up, it was purely coincidental.  But creepy!

So especially considering the number of books you read, I'm not at all surprised you might have run by two that were very similar.

Of course, once you're old like me, you can do what I did.  Once, I took a murder mystery off my own bookshelf.  I was positive I hadn't read it yet.  But as I was reading, parts seemed very familiar, others not familiar at all.  I began thinking maybe I'd started it but not finished.  Then, when I read the ending and found out who did it, the lightbulb went off.  I'd read the book already!  But it took me the whole damn book to recognize it!

Now that there is age, I tell you!

Lori

Once, I took a murder mystery off my own bookshelf.  I was positive I hadn't read it yet.  But as I was reading, parts seemed very familiar, others not familiar at all.  I began thinking maybe I'd started it but not finished.  Then, when I read the ending and found out who did it, the lightbulb went off.  I'd read the book already!  But it took me the whole damn book to recognize it!

Now that there is age, I tell you!

Lori, were you surprised by who did it?  Because hey, that's great if you were!  Double the pleasure out of the same book. 

I love that sometimes you can enjoy a book just as much again on the re-read. 

I read some books 10 years ago at my local library....  that just now I'm coming across again because I went out and bought old books off of eBay....  and sometimes I think "this sounds familiar, crap I know how this is going to end" (and I'm disappointed) ... sometimes I don't remember the book at all until the very end ... somettimes I remember the book and think "wow I did read this before, and I remember this being good, I can't put it down because I want to go through this journey with the characters again!".   

Has anyone noticed the lovely picture of the LOVELY Sadhbh??

Jayne 

Putting it to the Test by Lori Borrill. I won the book during a chat and enjoyed it very much.

Sadhbh- Love your hair. You have inspired me to figure out how to post my picture. Scary thought.

Angel

Hey Sadhbh - so there you are! Hello.

I came straight here when I logged on this am and my first thought was 'cute'.

Did you get the TV show 'Home Improvement' over there? Where Wilson is always hiding behind something? Is he a relative of yours?

I've never read the book you mentioned but it certainly sounds intriguing.