Which books have you borrowed from your DCs and then really enjoyed?

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About 4 years ago while on holiday I had got fed up with exahusted my own holiday reading so borrowed one of DDs (she was 10 at the time) It was one of the Robert Muchamore "Cherub" books and I found it fun, escapist stuff and have read several others since then.

While on holiday this year she was in stitches over a book called "Spud" by a South African writer called John van de Ruit. I borrowed it at the weekend and have just finished it. Marvellously funny book!

However, she still has not managed to interest me in the Twilight saga.

Which books have your DCs introduced you to?

I have just finished the Louise Rennison books that I borrowed from dd2 13 and loved them all ,

I read one of the Louise Rennison books on a plane once & embarrassed dd by snorting all the time!

Really liked one called "How I Live Now" (I think)

by a different author whose name escapes me

Sorry, inadvertantly worked out how to bold!

The 'His Dark Materials' books by Philip Pullman. Everyone should read them.

(DS is only three, but my Much Younger Cousin used to recommend books to me).

Roald Dahl's autobiographies Boy and Going Solo.

I liked Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, Eleanor Updale's Montmorency series, and one by Robin Jarvis called Thorn Ogres of Hagwood. And the Philip Pullman ones.

Ds annoyed me for months about 3 years ago to read the twilight books. I ended up reading 3 in a week and was so upset that dh wasn't a vampire that I put off reading the last one for a year.

He also got me to read the hunger games the third one is out this week. They are a really good read.

all swiped from DD I meant to say

Princess diaries
Stargirl

an inspector calls
much ado about nothing
lord of the flies
of mice and men

yes,gcse students here...i love reading there books....escape from all the crap at home!

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I couln't put it down and there are 2 more to read which I am going to have to get.

Agree re His Dark materials.

Also the Judi Canavan seies and Eragon series

I urge you all to read The Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson and the Mortal Engines quartet by Philip Reeve. You must! In my humble opinion the Reeve ones are much better even than Pullman.

We go the other way & I buy childrens books for me the persuade dds to read them.

Artemis Fowl springs to mind

I really loved the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michell Paver, and Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke.

Also have a bit of a soft spot for Hiccup .

How I live Now is by Meg Rosoff - its great.

I enjoyed the Michelle Paver series starting with Wolf Brother - as recommended by three charming boys!

I just read Remembrance by Theresa Breslin on DD2's urging and really enjoyed it.
DD1 is always pushing books on me - OP please note I resisted Twilight for ages, but found it strangely compulsively (though v badly written) when I finally gave in.

Any Diana Wynne Jones,particularly the Chrestomanci ones also Joan Aitken Wolves of Willoughby Chase and others.

How I live Now is a great book.
Also I really liked A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (It is the first part of a trilogy but I haven't read the other 2 yet)

Twilight series
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Holes (can remember author - Louis Sachar or something)

Do you live in Cromarty FortiesCromarty?

Diana Wynne Jones's The Ogre Downstairs will always be in my top 10.

Ah yes - Hunger Games. DD has read these and just borrowed the latest one from a friend. DH is rather taken with them too but I haven't tried them yet.

Captain Underpants
(dd & I share a rather childish sense of humour - admittedly more forgivable in an 8 y/o)

No Decorhate, I would be Dover/Wight based on my home town but that's not such a good name