Title:  Risk Assessment
Rating:  PG
Characters:  Ianto, Tosh, Owen
Summary:  Ianto completes the annual risk assessment
Disclaimer:  Torchwood is owned by the BBC and RTD.
 

1. Which of these do you most regularly use for purchasing books?... private dealers, second hand or charity shops, second hand bookshops, independent 'new or remaindered' bookstores, large chain bookstores, online bookshops.

I tend to buy my books from charity shops, jumble sales and second hand book shops.  I love the feeling of finding a book I really want to read in these kind of shops.  It's far more satisfying than just going in to Waterstones and finding it immediately.
2. Where do you leave your books when you are not reading them?

Everywhere.  It's usual to find a pile of books by my bed and in the living room.
3. How many piles of books (unshelved) are there in your home? Are they organized in any particular way?
About 4.  I share a house with two housemates and they have a thing about clutter so I can't leave piles of books everywhere so I have had to be very strict and have a book cull every few months.  Saying that I have joined a large library so I can get my fix but not clutter up the house.

4. Are you a member of, or do you use, any reading or book related websites or online communities? If so, how many? What is the one you most often visit? Why?

I tend to look on play or Waterstones site to see if there is anything that catches my eye.
5. Off the internet, are you a member of, or do you use, any reading or book related facilities, libraries, clubs or communities? What is the one you most often visit? Why?

I'm a member of Peterborough library.
6. Do you borrow books? Do you lend them?

I borrow books from the library and my friends know that if they want a book to read I usually have something that fits the bill.  I have two bookcases in the living room full of books that my housemates are interested in borrowing.
7. When you finish a book, what do you do with it afterwards? (i.e. shelve, review, add to a challenge list, recommend to someone, reread, sell on, lend)

If I love a book it gets shelved, if it's one I like but am happy to have read it once and think a friend will like it it goes to the friend and if it's just an alright book it goes to a charity shop.
8. How often - if at all - do you cull your shelves for space? What do you do with the ones you take out?

Every few months I review my books and decide which ones I have to keep for sentimental reasons i'e childhood favourites or books that I reread multiple times.  Any I have to sacrifice go to charity shops. 

9. What happens to the grubbiest, most falling apart books that no longer look good on your shelves? Are you a thrower or a keeper?

If the book is really falling apart because I have read it to death, I throw it, but not before I buy another copy!

Taken from Joonscribbles site

Title:  No-one knows but you
Author:  Minimumstitch
Rating:  PG
Disclaimer:  Torchwood is owned by RTD and the BBC
Warning:  Character death (of the really fatal kind, there is no coming back with this death)
A/N:  Inspired by the song 'No-one knows' by Beth Nielsen-Chapman.  If you have never listened to any of her songs, I strongly urge you to do so as she has such a beautiful voice and her lyrics are so emotional (just make sure you have tissues handy when you listen to her).

Taken from as well as Facebook, actually:

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of these 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Yeah, never read the ENTIRE thing...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (all of Louisa May Alcott's books are wonderful, they take you back to an idealised tiimes and her words could apply to current times - danges of excess, drinking, lack of parental control; some things never change!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I definitely haven't read all of the historical plays.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen (I love watching Jane Austen adaptations but find her writing very dry)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Um, isn't this one redundant after #33?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - I didn't finish this book out of utter hatred for it.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - I had little interest in reading this book, but a friend made me promise I'd try. And I did try, but...yeah, no.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes .
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare awanderingbard

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo