2)As a child, I fancied the idea of reading under the covers, but only really did it at boarding school after lights-out. And I have?

1) What are you reading at the moment
The Tiger?s Wife right now. Just finished Thomas Keneally?s The People?s Train.

2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
__To kill a?

Yes it is. :) Only one more week, m'dear. And I like to think of this more as a slow-burner – like most of my cooking. (Thank you very much. You've been a wonderful?

2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
I don?t?

It totally does. I only haven't done it yet because I'm too busy over-thinking it.

1) What are you reading at the moment?

Just finishing Julian Barnes' Pulse, and marvelling at the guy's writing: this a very personal thing, but you know how you can start reading someone and something just goes 'click' in the brain??

I?ve just finished Jim Butcher?s Dead Beat, and just started Murakami?s The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Rob?s above comment about variety has my full support.

2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?

Nothing, I was never told to?

?The Debt to Pleasure? by John Lanchester, a signed first edition of which I bought
from the Oamaru recycle centre for $2-

As a child, what book/s did I read ?under the covers?

This only happened at the Moeraki cribs ? because there were others?

No spoilers, but damn I love his work at the moment. Just got the three in one 1Q84. I'm stockpiling some sanity before reading it.

I'm using it to mean "someone I'm having an ongoing sexual relationship with". Not neccesarily someone I want to mawwy and have bubbsies with, but more than a one-night stand.

I can't feel sexy about someone I don't connect with in other ways, that's just how I am. And sharing books can be an awesome connection.

not a word I've ever heard any confusion over

lol. Well except for book-lovers?

ETA: I've recently discovered the word "bibliophage", which I Iike very much.

get real mate-

Interestingly, for me it's a question with a completely different answer. A book for a loved one would be something I would think they?

I think you could guess there would be complete sets of Austen in every home (and a test) if I ruled the world. :)?

and to me, that's a different question – books for loved ones, not books for lovers. I have a feeling they weren't thinking of cake-lovers, either.

I once gave a lover a copy of Michael Herr's Dispatches.

This was shortly after our first date, which was a big-screen showing of 'Apocalypse Now'.

So how did that one work out for me? Reader, I married her.

1) What are you reading at the moment?

I've just finished re-reading The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler. I like to re-read when I'm stressed or having trouble finding books that I love.?

Napalm Pour L'Homme: because chicks love the smell of it in the morning.

do you reckon a teenager might like reading it?

Was she sullen? It's many years since I read that book, but I rather liked her. I thought she was brave. Perhaps I need to re-read it.

Any one in any Iain Banks novel. Or any Iain M. Banks novel. Culture or otherwise.

1) What are you reading at the moment?

The Information by James Gleick. It is now horribly overdue at the library because I can't read more than a few pages without stopping to?

Ah well, topical cross to your links on Twilight the other day...

Add a few werewolves to Pretty In Pink, or stock Pride?

Oh, I'm perfectly well aware that Stephanie Meyer isn't speaking to a middle-aged gay man like me, but it just bemuses and creeps me out a little. It's still useful to, now and then, try and figure out why stuff that leave?

I am three quarters of a very enjoyable way through Peter Wells' new book 'The Hungry Heart: Journeys With William Colenso' which I'm betting will make a lit award winner next year. It is very good and a lovely production to boot?

I did that too.

That's going some way towards making my day. The giving, not the outcome, I hasten to add.

**12) Spying Mein Kampf or Dan Brown on someone?s bookshelf can spell havoc for a friendship. What?s your?

"...I've always thought that the only people who do well from self-help books are those who write them, and sell them. Everyone else may have a bookcase stacked with programmes for total fitness through 20 minutes of creative visualisation?

brilliant

Just finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. Are there any other David Mitchell enthusiasts among you? He is my favourite discovery of the last year or so.

Comics! They were kind of a guilty pleasure as they were seen as being inferior to books, which totally sucks. Plus a copy of Lady Chatterley discovered on my parents' bookshelf ...

And speaking of Dan Brown, check out?

Books don't normally have that effect on me, but .. Laurence Fearnley's Edwin + Matilda, in the closing scenes. Mother-son dynamics. Packed a wallop.