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tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.

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Post by princessjane » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:52 am

Sometimes i find that if you read a certain book it helps.. Like you can relate.. I like the books "speak" and "crooked" and so many more..
So heere is a place to put books that help you cope - so others have soemthing to read.

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Post by plantt » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:14 am

i like books that i can get lost in. sometimes they're books that i can really relate to & other times not so much.
i like bill bryson (thanks to someone from the board) & nick hornby & tom robbins. i like more juvenile books like chronicles of narnia, 'the cat who' series, & trixie belden.

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Post by pretty » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:29 pm

I like Dan Brown, because it's so easy to read and lose myself in. I also love Terry Pratchett for escapism. Years ago I read Prozac Nation over and over and over when I was depressed, and that really helped. I didn't feel so lost and alone, and it just sucked up lots of nights when I couldn't bring myself to do anything else.
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Post by ~starblaze~ » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:37 pm

I like the sound of this thread as i really like reading but are never quite sure what books are good and worth reading!

Ive recently read three books by Jodi Picoult and i really like them as i found them really easy to read and books i didnt want to put down.

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Post by ViolinPlayingGoat » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:03 pm

i 'comfort read' when i feel icky, books like bridget jones diary, and anything by jill mansell (all books v samey, romantic comedy, great all the same!)
also favourite books from when i was little :)

atm i am reading a fab book called 'into the silent land' by paul broks. it is about the patients he has treated as a neuropsychologist and is really interesting, but not too hard to read, its in little sections which is good for me atm. it gives you a lot to think about yourself as well, which i think is really good. great for anyone doing/has an interest in psychology :)
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Post by gnome girl » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:27 am

recently read the time travellers wife by audrey niffenegger (sp) and the kite runner, both are lose yourself, miss your train stop books. But I'll read anything, including back of cornflakes boxes.

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Post by TainTeD Xx gRAcE » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:44 pm

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Ive recently read three books by Jodi Picoult and i really like them as i found them really easy to read and books i didnt want to put down.
I am in the middle of My Sisters Keeper right now, and it's amazing. I love her at this point because I just got the book yesterday and have read over half of it.
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Post by balletomane » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:29 pm

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Post by black_23 » Wed May 03, 2006 10:15 pm

Anita Blake Vampire books are my absolute chill out books - I adore them, or Nicci French Books.

Malorie Blackman I love too - Noughts & Crosses is amazing

Currently trying to read Tess of the D'urbyfields....
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Post by forevercryingtears03 » Wed May 10, 2006 8:21 pm

Anything from Anne Rice or Francesca Lia Block.

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Post by irishpecas14 » Mon May 22, 2006 4:38 pm

ahhhh i didn't see this before... good post!

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Post by ~starblaze~ » Mon May 22, 2006 4:52 pm

i really liked 'Memoirs of a Geisha' when i read it a while ago now and i also liked Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts and Crosses', im still waiting to find the third book to buy it and read so then ill have completed the series! Another series i like is the one by Marianne Curley and its first book is 'The Named' and second is 'The Dark', i love them :blush:

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Post by black_23 » Sat May 27, 2006 8:26 pm

I've just finished Never Let Me Go and thought it was a very thinky book quite slow to get into and then half way everything takes off. Started Labyrinth too which I am loving!

Managed to get Salem falls - Jodi Picoult and Wise Children - Angela Carter today so can't wait to start them.
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Post by troubles undone » Sun May 28, 2006 4:20 pm

Anything by Jeffery Deaver or Andy McNab.
Deaver's books can get quite graphic- Crime/thriller type books, and really well written with lots of twist- is easy to get engulfed!

McNab is ex SAS and all his books are based on personal experience in some way- can get a bit repetative, but well written (be sure to read them in order...i didn't :oops: and it got a bit confusing...)

I also like the Malorie Blackman books and Dan Brown (who else has seent he DaVinci Code :D ????)

I have read the Alex rider series by Anthony Horowitz- they are teenage books, but boy are they good. They sound kinda cheesey- teenage spy etc, but they are full of action and good reads...i read a whole book in a day- i didn't put it down

I will read most things though as long as it's interesting

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Post by daisy_chain » Mon May 29, 2006 8:54 pm

anything by jodi picoult.

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Post by plantt » Mon May 29, 2006 10:09 pm

The Quest For Christa T. by Christa Wolf
(the one book in my history class i've actually liked!)

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Post by jendifa » Wed May 31, 2006 10:55 pm

running in heels by anna maxted
don't ask me why by tania kindrsley
Cazalet chronicles (The light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting off) by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Post by Lynds » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:50 pm

OOO I spend all day working with books so I'm muy excited about this thread!!

The book that I find best for when I'm feeling happy or sad or shit...whatever is Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It sounds dead cheesey but it makes me feel better because it shows you that not everything has a happy ending but that's ok just as it's ok for things to be bad sometimes.

Also Looking For Alaska by John Green...so so so good!

Both these books just describe feelings so brilliantly that it makes you think the author got inside your head and sucked out your exact thoughts!

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Post by plantt » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:48 pm

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
--i've heard of that book before but never actually read it. will have to remember to look it up =)

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