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Am tempted by Gone Girl too. But I am making tough going of reading at the moment.
I still stay up after my parents (22.00) but the second I feel weary I'm off to bed, lights off and sparko.

Reading The People's Queen by Vanora Bennett and have been for at least a week (!) It's pretty much okay but I can't hold Plantagenet politics in my mind indefinitely, so I keep having to backtrack. I'm not doing it justice.

I also have Anno Dracula by Kim Newman waiting in the wings. I bought it on a whim because Mum used my Waterstones card to get a few books she wanted post-Christmas, giving me enough points that I only paid £1.13 for it. Given the price of paperbacks nowadays I count this as a bargain and am determined not to be disappointed. When I finally get round to it.

And I have bought 11.22.63 by Stephen King. Ebay 99p. The benefit of waiting until other people have rushed out to buy it and then just want to pass it on. I did the same for Rowling's A Casual Vacancy. It's on free delivery of 10-12 working days but I'm hardly worried about the time it takes to get to me.

When I worked in the charity shop they sent all of Rowling's books for pulping. Just too many people bringing in the Hogwarts series and too few people who hadn't already read them. That's why I love eBay, there are people out there willing to take a punt on a book, without worrying that it is taking up shelf-space on something they can sell for more.