Books!

Silme Lor · Post by **Silme Lor** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:27 am

Hmm some books I've enjoyed

Sabriel by Garth Nix (great fantasy to get lost in, a good trilogy)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Angela's Ashes (extremely depressing but a good read)
Harry Potter, one of my all time favorite series to get absolutely lost in (sorry, couldn't leave it out

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Bandgeek · Post by **Bandgeek** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:04 am

I've always liked CS Lewis. most every thing he writes is really good.
also, Kafka's writings are really interesting, but I dont know if many people read his stuff.

beautiful_facade · Post by **beautiful_facade** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:04 pm

i just read Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse. It's a good, must concentrate, realy page turner book.

Anything by Russell Andrews is worth a read too...esp. Gideon and Icarus. Nice twists.

Lynds · Post by **Lynds** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:16 pm

Going back to what you guys were saying about kids books-that's all I read now although my excuse is that I have too for work....good huh?!!

I read Elsewhere the other week and that was just mind blowingly AMAZING! Also Angel Blood by John Singleton which was about kids in a loony bin and you never found out why they were there, who they were, who their parents were...it was almost like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but with kids.

AND!! (Oh god here I go!) Read a proof of a book by Kate Le Vann called Things I Know About Love bloody fantastic!! I thought it was going to be really lousy chic lit but it wasn't (well, it kinda was but in a good way and it was almost deep and very moving and sad.)

tzanti · Post by **tzanti** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:22 pm

For fluff and bored moments: Stalky and Co by Rudyard Kipling (a kind of fictional autobiography about himself and his two schoolfriends) or whatever harry potter volume is lying about from the last time. - Must be some deep school thing in my life somewhere, but both of these strike deep chords.

For needing to rush to the bottom of the well: Pioneers by Philip Mann (Absolutely Heartbreaking)

Currently reading: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Though I'm feeling slightly disturbed by how much I identify with V, but relieved at how much I identify with Evey.

T.

lotus · Post by **lotus** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:38 am

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd-amazing and I cried my eyes out

Memoirs of a Geisha-riveting

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult-couldn't put it down

anything by Dorothy Allison-raw and visceral

The Passion or Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson-poetic

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams-chikdren's book I've collected since I was little

The Depression Book or There is Nothing Wrong With You or anything else by Cheri Huber-a Buddhism-based reality check

*as usual I am long-winded

Aly · Post by **Aly** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:00 am

lotus wrote:Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd-amazing and I cried my eyes out

I LOVE this!!

Other good books:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby - Very interesting, very inspirational

Rowing Without Oars by Ulla-Carin Lindquist - VERY sad, very inspirational

October Sky - Homer H. Hickam - just a very good read

Deerskin - Robin Mckinley - SA triggers here...but amazingly written.
Also, Rose Daughter, which is based on Beauty and The Beast, but also very good.

Watching The Roses - Adele Geras - also potential SA triggers, but again, very very good...

Cut - Patricia McCormac - obvious trigger there, about a girl in a rehab center.

Merlin Trilogy - Mary Stewart...The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills and THe Last Enchantment. VERY good reads. Engaging, interesting...

Surya series - Jamila Gavin - The Wheel Of Surya, The Eye of the Horse and The Track of the Wind

For more children-y books:
Robert Muchamore - Cherub series - about children who are used in undercover security missions. Makes you wish you were a 'CHERUB'

The Swish Of The Curtain - Pamela Brow

Diana Wynne-Jones - anything by her is VERY good. Fantasy, magic stuff,
but very good

For romantic, easy to read, girly stuff:
Kate Cann - VERY good!

Marian Keyes - especially Rachels HThe Swish Of The Curtain - Pamela Brown, oliday - about a drug and alcohol addict who goes to rehab

Cecilia Ahern

Sheila O'Flanagan

Hating Valentines Day - Alison Rushby

This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen (All time fav book!!)

Love and Other Four Letter Words - Carolyn Mackler

My comfort book is Alice In Wonderland (I have so many copies of this that people have given me for xmas and bdays (my name is Alice - how original) and I have my favourite copy and everything!!

flipflopfetish · Post by **flipflopfetish** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:33 am

two things...

i recently read Perks of Being a Wallflower on recommendations from this thread

and I loved it, but does anyone else feel that the epilogue was written only to appease people who thought it was too dark? I mean, the version I read was published by MTV books... just wondering.

and the other thing, i was approached by a stranger who told me to read this book about female empowerment and it was called cunt. has anyone read it? cause it's a little odd that someone would just randomly ask me to read a book.

plantt · Post by **plantt** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:05 pm

the shopaholic series.
stupid & contagious.

Lynds · Post by **Lynds** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:14 pm

PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER IS AMAZING!! I know what you mean about the end-it was a bit too neat I felt but still loved the book! If you like that you'll probably love Brave New Girl by Louisa Luna and Looking For Alaska by John Green. Both EXCELLENT books! There's a whole series of books that MTV published in association with Poket Books, USA in the 1990s and a lot of them are out of print now but some of them you can still get in bookshops, Perks is still my fave tho.

I've herad of Cunt but I thought it was written by the bloke who wrote Blow Job (can you see a theme here with his titles?!) I could be wrong though.

irishpecas14 · Post by **irishpecas14** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:29 am

"on beauty" (zadie smith) and "the unbearable lightness of being" are some of my favorites at the moment.

Lenny · Post by **Lenny** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:28 am

PS i love you by Cecelia Ahern

black_23 · Post by **black_23** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:28 pm

The Historian is amazing!!!!

lotus · Post by **lotus** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:34 am

i also read perks of being a wallflower on suggestion of this thread and i loved it.

i also just finished the center of winter, the first novel by marya hornbacher who wrote wasted. suuuuuch a good book. i loved the characters, the story, the language, all of it. i highly recommend it! i actually haven't wanted to read anything else yet so i don't "spoil" the feel of the story.

Weetzie Bat · Post by **Weetzie Bat** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:03 am

I like reading books by Jacqueline (sp?) Wilson for something 'light' and my favourite ever author is Francesca Lia Block.

Oh and I love 'Speak' as well.

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:16 am

The whole series of "The Dragons of Pern", by Anne McCaffrey. Total escapism, and total validation of why inter-personal relationships between whichever and whatever people are so damn important.

Then, also fantasy-style, but more enmeshed in real-life issues (the protagonist is a leper, ffs) - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen Donaldson. Like Lord of the Rings for grown-ups, I guess.

And if you're not triggered by SA stuff, "the God of Small Things" by Arundathi Roy, and The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier. Both are... Amazing. Poetic. Totally wonderful. And even though it sounds a bit poncy, completely readable too.

Sarah

Post by **Spidey** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:16 am

friarygirl wrote:The whole series of "The Dragons of Pern", by Anne McCaffrey. Total escapism, and total validation of why inter-personal relationships between whichever and whatever people are so damn important.

I love the Dragonriders of Pern series. Actually, Anne McCaffrey has really, really *awesome* non-Pern related, like the Freedom series and the Acorna series.

green · Post by **green** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:22 am

Nemo wrote:I was reading The Master and the Margarita but i'm only on page 70.

I love that book.

I also really want to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

And some more Haruki Murakami- as I mentioned before he's such a talented writer. He just draws me in to the story and keeps me there right to the bitter end. Love it!

purplefroggydishwasher · Post by **purplefroggydishwasher** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:53 am

i use innocent old-time books as my escape.

anything by enid blyton [malory towers, st claire's, faraway tree, other compilation books]

also a bit of rhol dalh [sp?] matilda, BFG etc. the adult short stories are good when i'm not in need of fluff, but something plesant to read.

and fanfiction... you can find anything to suit your mood there.

black_23 · Post by **black_23** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:43 pm

Just read Cats Eyes - Margaret Attwood, is amazing, does touch on incident of si, but book is so engrossing and imaginative. The Handmaid's Tale is also awesome!
Undead and Unemployed or any in that series is fabulous, vampire comedy books, always making me laugh.
Just started Beyond Black too which is really good.

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