DFW Rabid Readers: reading and discussion group

se999

Well I need to defer joining in for a while, not got a kindle yet, and can't really travel with a trunk load of books either. Hopefully will join in at a latter point. Hope everyone enjoys the books.

Ames

Thanks for the PM about this thread Ellidee, I've subscribed and I'll catch up on it when I've got a bit more time.

gallygirl

Oh what fun, have found it at last

My favourite authors are not very highbrow - Kate Atkinson, Jeffery Deaver, Harlan Coben. I've been meaning to read more & also to read 'proper' books so am happy to try anything. However, my one criterion is that I will not continue reading something I am not enjoying. I stopped reading 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' 1/3 through when I decided I wished he had killed his mother (whose letters make up the book) as well as the schoolkids . Am happy with a 'hard' book and don't mind one that makes me cry if I am enjoying it (I found The Grapes of Wrath harrowing & wept buckets - but still loved it.)

I learnt to read with !!!!!!, Dora, Nop and Fluff . When I was growing up I went to Auntie Marilyn's every Saturday. She would take me up the town & I would get an Enid Blyton book every week from John Menzies. Then we would go home & have crusty rolls with cheese & onion (which always made my eyes water), and apple pie with thick custard. I would start my book then my uncle would get me to help him with the Words Target in the paper. I loved my Saturdays . I loved Mr Galliano's Circus and always wanted a little girl called Carlotta, fortunately I got over it :rotfl:. Have never read The Faraway Tree collection, am really looking forward to those if we decide to look at the BBC list .

I was away with work yesterday and decided I didn't like the book I had brought so went to WHS. I knew Jane Austen, Dickens etc were on the BBC list but not what books. The only ones I could remember were To Kill a Mocking Bird and Moby !!!!!!*. Fancied To Kill a Mocking Bird but they didn't have it, so Moby !!!!!! it is. Read the intro & had to look up 2 words . Am currently on Chapter 7, not sure about it........ Will have to defer it though if I'm to read To Kill a Mocking Bird.

* Actually I remembered The Bible but thought it might freak out fellow passengers on the plane, just like my MIL with her rosary beads :rotfl:

Firewalker

To Kill a Mocking Bird it is than. Se, it is not on Kindle - just tried to download it. Will have to hunt for it in other ways (first asking hubby whether we have it somewhere in the piles anyway).

Cool readings.

Firewalker

Firewalker

And it has been ordered from Amazon for £1.75 - well MSE (as my sons say).

FW

tellmeitsfriday

I'm going shopping tomorrow them am I

Ames

Great, I've been meaning to re read TKAM.

I love books and reading, they're my one weakness. I've got a few hundred that I haven't read yet. I tend to hit the charity shops to relieve stress, when my mum was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago I did it and ended up buying 22 for £12 altogether!

I've always loved to read, ever since I was a little kid. I recognise so many titles people have mentioned, Forever was big in our school for a while, it had a sex scene but it was written for our age group!

My reading's slowed down recently though as I've been concentrating on a book I'm writing, and on competitions to try and get my name out there. The deadlines were today though and there's nothing big coming up now till Feb so I can spend more time on reading now (assuming I can drag myself away from MSE!).

I'm currently halfway through a load of books, which I'm hoping to finish off next. They're The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovrik, How the Dead Live by Will Self, and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jarrod Diamond (I think that's his name anyway).

So, how long do we have to read TKAM?

And can I suggest that we white out any comments about it till then, so it's not spoiling it for people who haven't got as far?

Ames

I've just got my copy of the latest '1001 Books To Read Before You Die', there's a few changes from the last one, good and bad in my opinion! It's a really interesting list if you get chance to look at it.

I've also just bought a proper book journal, which was half price. Hopefully I can keep up to date with it! Whenever I've tried to use notebooks to keep a list of my reading I've given up after a few months.

tellmeitsfriday

What sort of things are you meant to write in a book journal?

savingwannabe

I have borrowed the book too. v happy.

I would like to know too what is a book journal? I shall start mine on the weekend i think as it is manic at work this week.