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[indian_skimmer]

Day 17 - Close your eyes and get any book from your shelf

Several attempts at this have proved that I can in fact find any book on the shelf that I want, even with my eyes closed. That would be fairly normal, but is a bit freaky given that my bookshelves only went in about two months ago. If you want a totally random book then try this.

Day 18 -

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Re: Day 20

[searingidolatry]

Oh. My. God.

I have been trying to remember the name of that series of books for years, I actually spent an evening last month Googling random words (pirate, ship, painting, childrens book, etc) to try and pin it down. Thank you very much indeed - I *loved* that series of books, they're the first books I remember reading.

[indian_skimmer]

Weren't they great! At least, they were the best thing ever when I was six, and I like to think I had taste even then.

I'm fairly sure that's the title- although the fact that googling it doesn't help suggests it may have been something similar and it's still not *quite* right. I think they came through the Scholastic textbook catalogue rather than general sale because I remember nagging the school to order the next ones rather than my parents, and because of their general disappeary-ness. They were always Silver Buccaneers in my head though.

[searingidolatry]

http://sites.google.com/site/buccaneersseries/home

This is the series :)

[fringedweller]

No book can withstand being on any set text list anywhere. But Cider With Rosie is an unforgivable choice.

[indian_skimmer]

Shamus Heaney for poetry, Cider With Rosie for prose and Under Milk Wood for drama. I'm not sure what my school year did to deserve that, but it must have been terrible.

[she_who_dares]

I didn't think much of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo... but then again, I got about 5% in on my Kindle and thought "I'm not doing this to myself any longer" and deleted it.

[indian_skimmer]

I read it because It'd paid £7.99 for it in Waterstones, it only took two hours and I kept waiting for the amazing twist that would explain why everyone else was raving about it.

It never happened.

[she_who_dares]

I admit if I'd paid for it I'd have read through to the end on principle, but I got it for free and was all ... "yeah, this guy's writing style is too torturous to put up with."

I'd say well over 75% of the free downloads I get, get deleted after less than a third of the way through simply because of issues with the writing style, or they're just boring.