Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Never apologise.


I adore children's literature. I can't imagine a library shelf complete with out, for example The Little white horse and the Narnias. I keep thinking I should try more Fantasy books written for adults to try and refeel that feeling of wonder and rapture of a child reading about magic ....but the ones I've tried just lack that simple pure possibility and I just haven't felt ''caught'' by that genre..so badly I want too (some things work...can't remember name of either book or author at the moment but I enjoyed a book about a world where people had various colour blindness...what a feeble attempt at one line synopsis!)

Never read Terry Pratchett. Just hasn't grabbed me.

I loved reading the Harry Potter books. In some ways, they got me back into reading.

I did enjoy Phillip Pullmans trilogy, though the last book does drag somewhat.

lemonjelly

Nice peeps, I made a very tongue in cheek post on one of those vitriolic threads some time ago about working in the public sector, having lots of tea breaks, lots of meetings, more tea breaks and so on. I've been trying to find it but my abilities with the search & so on are limited.

If anyone could find it, I'd be well grateful!

Wheezy_2

is it this one, LJ?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/34344823#Comment_34344823

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Have a good weekend, all :j

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Out of interest, was his illness stress-related?

No, but I think he would have retired rather than overseen some of the changes that were coming over the horizon. He had an accident which necessitated operations, convalescence periods etc and, at his age, retirement was the most sensible option.

There are worse things than being Head of a school in a reasonably nice place. A former friend of mine left his successful school in a leafy suburb to take on the headship of one in a truly notorious city area. He's had an 'interesting' 20 years sandwiched awkwardly somewhere between the forces of law and order and the local populace. The annoying thing is, he still looks about 37! :rotfl:

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Interesting article, thanks Jelly!

I'm not surprised to see so many children's authors in the list, though Daisy Meadows is a pseudonym, so its cheating a bit. Because of that I'm surprised not to see Adam Blade on the list as that follows the same pattern.

The most popular books - in my library anyway - over the past year I would say are:

1) The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
2) The Millennium series (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc) by Stieg Larsson
However because neither author has written many books they won't appear in the top authors list and Larsson has sadly died.

Swimsuit is popular in our library, but I wouldn't say it is the absolute best mover. Lee Child's 61 Hours is one of the most popular at the moment, over the course of the year the most popular may have been Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

Sorry, I love talking books!

Eldest son has the whole Twilight series and I think he has one of the Stieg Larsson ones.

I read 61 hours a month or so back and it was as expected, another excellent Reacher book (can you tell I am a fan of Lee Child?). Have not read Swimsuit as yet, I usually read a lot of James Patterson but that one didn't excite me looking at the synopsis of the book.

I'm another that loves talking books...especially books I have heard of!

vivatifosi

Sue, if you don't know it already, keep an eye out for the "Dagger in the Library" award. It's awarded to up and coming crime writers. In the past - and in their earlier days - its been won by some now very well known authors, probably the best known of which is Alexander McCall Smith, have a look here:

http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/library/index.html

James Patterson never appealed to me, but I do know he's very popular!

vivatifosi

tomterm8 wrote: »

Try terry pratchett, LIR, I think you might like him, although it's not likely to give you that "eeling of wonder and rapture of a child reading about magic" which you want. I don't think anything can do that... we are jaded old people now

I was just thinking "Terry Pratchett" when I paged down and saw you'd said just that. He would be my choice for fantasy lir, particularly if you like children's lit as he writes for both children and adults. I prefer quirky sci fi, my favourite is Douglas Adams who just has me cracking up.

michaels

And I would say don't read Terry Pratchett, it has become more and more patchy and isn't really escape in to another world because it is too 'arch' and knowing in an airplane sort of way.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I was just thinking "Terry Pratchett" when I paged down and saw you'd said just that. He would be my choice for fantasy lir, particularly if you like children's lit as he writes for both children and adults. I prefer quirky sci fi, my favourite is Douglas Adams who just has me cracking up.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sue, if you don't know it already, keep an eye out for the "Dagger in the Library" award. It's awarded to up and coming crime writers. In the past - and in their earlier days - its been won by some now very well known authors, probably the best known of which is Alexander McCall Smith, have a look here:

http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/library/index.html

James Patterson never appealed to me, but I do know he's very popular!

I like some of his books but some (like Swimsuit), just don't float my boat. I think his books suffer from being rushed out, his output rate is massive, I have never known an author quite like it.

I am now waiting to see if there will be another in the Shardlake series by C.J Sansom, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the series thus far (after initially being dubious that they would be any good) but he appears to be an author who takes his time to get the quality right rather than churning out books at a rate of knots.

lostinrates

.....Terry Pratchett.......

http://www.discworldemporium.com/index.php

I've looked in the window many a time of this place. There is a lovely big cat often asleep ...it makes me feel happy, cats in shops.

I wonder if the film of Never let me go is as good as the book? I keep thinking I should vow to never watch the film but you can't help it can you.

Stupid borrowed car won't work. Got a jump earlier and it was fine but dead as a doornail now. Had to ask a friend to collect dh..he didn't get to the local station either. So lucky to have the odd friend about locally who one can impose on occasionally. will stick battery on to charge just in case its that not something horrid sounding like alternator, but I know I didn't leave anything on before Not our year for cars, obviously.

I want to read ''A kind man'' soon. susan hill can be so tautly engrossing.