The Bookshelf

Ilike lots of the classics sgt, dickens, jane eyre, wuthering heights, a lot of catherine cookson books are very good too, i dnt like mills n boon rubbish though, another book I have read in the last year is tuppence to cross the mersey by helen forrester i quite enjoyed that too.. one book i tried to read was catcher in the rye and to kill a mockingbird….. i say tried because no matter how hard i tried i couldnt get back into them. I did read billy connelly’s autobiography too but dint capture me either. tuts :( I am however trying to work my way through a list of other classics , lol I read the swiss family robinson again not so long ago :oops: :wink:

A couple of my favourite reads as a kid was Famous Five books- Enid Blyton, probably read them all abt 10 times lol, i still got all 21 of the series :oops: oh and The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton again, really loved that one !

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Reading Martina Cole “The Ladykiller at the moment good so far :)

Ive read all hers, they are a bit repetative, but still a good read. :wink:

I know what you mean about the enchanted wood lol read them all loads of times, old Moonface up the magic faraway tree and always wondering which land would be up there next time they visited.

That lady Enid had some imagination, 8)

Im reading Michael Connelly’s latest at the moment, though Im having trouble getting into it. Im off work now for two weeks so its on my “to do” list.

I guess I have read so many books it is difficult to choose ones that are my favourites. Here are just a few that spring to mind:

The Wasp Factory by Iain M Banks
anything by Jane Austen
Player of Games also by Iain M Banks
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Through the Looking Glass
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Howard’s End by E M Forster
Anything by F Scott Fitzgerald but loved the Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night
Most recently i’ve been trying to read Ulysses by James Joyce.. a labour of love :)

…books contain the depth, breadth and essence of humanity, without them we would be so much poorer

I know what you mean about the enchanted wood lol read them all loads of times, old Moonface up the magic faraway tree and always wondering which land would be up there next time they visited.

i only read the magic faraway tree one, but yeah moonface , dame washalot etc hellava imagination i can still remember scenes from the book like when the land of spells was up the tree and many more, i read it over 25 years ago and to still remember a book like that must have made a fair impact, not that many books can be held in ur memory for that long.

Couple of other good reads
Whispers in the Sand – Barbara Erksine

My best friends girl – Dorothy Koomson (new author i think )

Jean M Auel with her earths children series-
Valley of the horses
Clan of the cave bear
Mammoth hunters
Plains of passage
though found her last one Shelters of the stone not so good

Maeve Binchy is a nice pleasant read too

Margaret Yorke another good author