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Holiday reading 2012 ! Roll up with your suggestions

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jen127 · 22/06/2012 12:55

I am off on holiday next week and need some suggestions on books to read whilst away.
I am currently binning 50 shades of shite as it is awful.
I am open to any suggestions at all.
Cheers

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AnnaMosity · 23/06/2012 09:06

Night waking is great read
Colonel gadaffis hat
Defending Jacob is excellent
Paris wife
The return of captain John Emmett is ACE
HOPE And glory

AnnaMosity · 23/06/2012 09:04

I'm finding jubilee heavy going.

The Blackhouse by Peter may
The series by whatserface who wrote the woman in black, about a detective. serallier. They're great.
Visit from goon squad.
Civility. Yes that good.

Rudeness ? Try "bared to you "

thestringcheesemassacre · 23/06/2012 09:02

I'm going to read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen which DH just finished and said was excellent (big American family saga) and will probably take How to be a Woman as well as I've not read and is supposed to be hilarious. Not interested in 50 shades of shite either.

Jumpinginmuddypuddles · 23/06/2012 08:57

I was just suggesting Jilly Cooper as an alternative to 50 Shades. I think I read her when I was about 16 too, along with Danielle Steel Blush

Recent books I've read and enjoyed -

Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You - Louisa Young
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
A Perfectly Good Man - Patrick Gale (nearly finished)

(Read but not enjoyed quite as much -

Lucky Break - Esther Freud
Night Waking - Sarah Moss)

MizK · 22/06/2012 19:15

Thank God you're excluding 50 shades...my facebook is rife with sweaty palmed, overexcited women loving it, but it seems like dreck to me!
I read the Crimson Petal and the White on hol a few weeks ago, was an easy read without being airheaded. Maybe read Letters between Six Sisters, a collection of letters between the Mitford sisters, its a fabulous read and not too deep for sunlounger reading! (

sailorsgal · 22/06/2012 18:58

Marking my place as we are due to go on holiday and want a good read. However I do have a few books that I haven't started so might take one of those.

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jen127 · 22/06/2012 18:03

I read Jilly when I was 16! I need something a little bit more challenging !

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Jumpinginmuddypuddles · 22/06/2012 17:21

Jilly Cooper - a much better choice :o

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jen127 · 22/06/2012 13:39

Lol!
I will bring it with me as an emergency read!

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sherbetpips · 22/06/2012 13:31

keep reading it and have lots of sex on holiday - it is utter shite but still serves a purpose!

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