im going on a train journey and i will eb able to READ A BOOK!!!

[LOLcod]

ok recomendations please
do not watn anything pre20th cent
anything indian ( suitable boy did me in)
anything with dead children in it or ghosties ( although charlie st cloud was goood)

like biograpghy and history
fave authors are saint margaret forster, kate atkinson etc tec

LR that s ounds good
houdeon is good too!

remember watching oranges when very young - got the DVD waiting to watch now.

i quite like lighthousekeeping (her most recent one). it's a bit more "floaty" than oranges though.

ooh YES!!!

kevin has dead kids int it doesn it?
looked at that a few weeks ago

Is that her name? I saw in it Ottakers, then wandered to WHSmiths and couldn't remeber the name. thanks!!

What about the history of Mao by The author of Wild Swans? Again, can't remember her name.

Yes, that's it. Doesn't it look good?

If you're asking about Good Behaviour, it's not chick lit. It's set in Ireland in the decade after independence (I think, or it might be the 30's) and it's about social manners and public appearance told through the eyes of someone not at all socially adept.

cod, is it "kids die" or "parents lose kids" that's the problem? There's a lot of the first, and not that much of the second in Kevin.

But it really is brilliant.

god i am th only person in the world ( aprt form my dad na sister)who actually finished MAo

i took it to france and it affected my taning
i had a HUGE strip oiver my tummy where the book had been!

ah goo d behaviour sounds good then
c an do irish.

So is it good?
Mao book i Mean?

NQC both really
am quite a softy in rl

well the preamble is boring
foudn the cultural revolution buit good.
its just too long and not enough abotu him -0 more about what he did

Good Behaviour here

it gets very good reviews

Hmm, cod, maybe Kevin isn't for you. But it's quite ... it's not very detailed with the horribleness. The main character doesn't dwell on it, IYSWIM.

(I just try not to imagine myself in the situation.)

Am I allowed to boggle at the idea of the fish being a big softie IRL?

I read No Wonder I Take A Drink recently and it was really quite funny and heartwarming.

The book NotQuiteCockney recommends I think is I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward (?). I enjoyed that too but wasn't gripped, IMO it's a bit of a rambly tale, not a page turner, also found out after reading it that it is a sequel, the first one may have helped set the scene a bit better.

That's it, MrsSpoon.

I didn't love it, but the drinking really freaked me out. I wasn't mad for most of the Booker Prize short list, really.

'Bel Canto' by Ann Patchett

Easy. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

have you read J S Foer -everything is illuminated -laugh out loud funny and sad and toutching i thought.

snow by orhan pamuk - not fun but well written

A recent read that I really enjoyed was As Far As You Can Go by Lesley Glaister, her other stuff looks good too.

gosh, thanks all am all tooled up to hit ottakers later