OMG! I cant believe it, I have read 3 books! (Congratulate me please) And HELP!

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I have never found the time to sit down and enjoy a book, since DS2 was born, but before Christmas I managed to make a start on Isabel Allende, The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. In the last five days I have devouvered also The Davinci Code and The house at Riverton, and I am wrestling my niece for her Harry Potter. I am back in action, and boy does it feel good! Yippiee!!

What do you recommend I read next??

well done! It's a great feeling to be back!
Try:
Kite Runner
Pillars of the Earth ( very long but fab)
I just got the next books to each for Xmas and am about to start these when i finish or abandon Gentlemen & Players Joanne Harris is it rubbish? I suspect so!

Depends if you have worked in a private school - I had the whole cast worked out from my last two !

I'd second the "Kite Runner" - but it is bleak in parts.
Another sad one but beautiful - "Over" - Margaret Forster.
"The Gathering" is stunning but very, very bleak.
And finally "I know why the caged bird sings" is a must.

HAve always taught in indep schools and feel i know the cast too but am getting so fed up with it tonight is its last chance - new year new start
i just read IKWTKBS and really struggled with it glad you liked it but not my cup of tea

Before you put it down, I challenge you to tell me who the killer is - mind you, I didn't see the end of "We need to talk about Kevin" either.

had just abandoned it but you've sparked my interest again - Keane I thought maybe but the main problem is that i just don't really care who it is enouigh to read the rest. You couldn't just precis the bit from the murder could you, please please? i am slighlty curious but am not reading it any more... about to post and then keep checking to see whether i do in fact have to pick it up again!

Blimey. G&P obviously left such a lasting impression on me that I had forgotten that there was a murder!!

that's because it is shite, there - I've come out and said it! He hits the boy on the head with the car boot and then carries him over to the community bonfire and ties him into a chair ready to be burnt and goes off with his mobile and e-mail addresses and stuff too silly and boring to mention and too confusing to know who is who!

It is the young female teacher, who was the caretaker's daughter and has been bopping people off since killing her friend at the school, by pushing him off the roof. Put like that, it sounds very silly .

Just read "Half a yellow sun" (to put myself in a better light) but don't know if you'll take any more recommendations from me .

i was up til 11.30 despite being knackered and promising myself to be asleep by 9.30 to catch up. Why, you may ask? Because you 1066, sasid it was a bit interesting and i had to keeep reading to see why it wasn't Keane... anyway, yes it was the girl i now know, where i'm up to: they are still at the bonfire Straightley is having a heart attack and has worked it all out...should i read on to the bitter bitter end i wonder?

Only if you want a happy ever after - apart fromt the teacher getting away with it, so at least a touch of reality.

finished it - phew! THanks 1066. There's jsut one niggling question, why didn't they find the charred remains of Knight in the community bonfire? Certainly hasn't made me want to read anything else by her. May look in the library for half a yellow sun, who by?

Well done! - I'd have given up - I sort of flicked through "La Princepesa" (or some such title) recently, but by chapter two, just wasn't that bothered! By the way, I can't remember why they didn't find the body - sorry.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - set in Nigeria in the 1960s. The other one I really liked recently was "Over" by Margaret Forster.

I have just read 3 books this week too tho it drives DH mad that I am up til 1am reading!

I read Andrew Gross - The Blue Zone,

Damaged - by Cathy Glass - (v disturbing) and

(hardly mentally stimulating but very funny)

Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella.