Have you read any good books lately?

[jampot]

Has anyone read any good books lately? I really like to read chick lit books because they're so easy - trouble is I can't seem to find any good ones now. I've read and can thoroughly recommend The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, The Devil wears Prada, Easy (although it's a little honest), Crossing the Paradise Line by Anabelle Giles. Can you recommend any others?

Personally I prefer crime novels and can thoroughly reccommend The Kay Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell

not chick lit but read books by john irving - recommmend hote new hampshire and the prayer for owen meany

hotel new hampshire even

i am currently raeding the Tony Martin book......very interesting! (but i left it at a hotel over the weekend and it's a library book so will probably have to pay alot for it!!)we were at a wedding!

Anything by Jane Green, Jill Mansell, Marian Keynes make excellent reading- 'switch off books'.
Jampot, I am about to take a huge load of books to the charity shop (all chick lit) after much nagging by dh so if you'd like me to send you (or anybody else) a couple then please let me know.

I try to balance a chick lit with something more "intellectual" - doesn't often happen!!! I can recommend Raffaella Barker - don't let the name put you off!! "Hens dancing" is excellent. Also Isabel Wolffe is ok, and Imogen Parker.Just reading "I don't know how she does it" pretty good, and read "Don't try this at home", Katie Pearson. Anna Maxted, Paullina Simmons, Emily Barr, all easy to read. I also like Margaret Forster, and Janet Evanovich is great for light hearted crime. Hope this helps!!!

Big effort to finish a book these days, but did really enjoy Blake Morrisons 'Things my mother never told me' follow up to the one he wrote about his father. Very interesting about the role of women & how women used to/still do?? change to please men. Great stuff.

Jennifer Crusie writes really funny chick lit - Welcome to Temptation is probably her best. Serena Makesy is pretty good too, especially Virtue.

my friends just started a book club. (We must be getting old!!) I'm really up for the idea as hopefully it'll force me to read and finish books. There isn't enough time normally but now there is a real reason to HAVE to read.

I've just finished Life of Pi and really enjoyed it. Very different and made me sit and think about it for 5 minutes or so after I'd finished.
It kind of stays with you for a while.
Lokking forward to discussing it at our first book club meeting.

Hi,
When I can keep my eyes open long enough I love to read in bed, just finished The Girl With The Pearl Earring and am off to see the film tomorrow night, it was brilliant!

if you like Tracey Chevalier I highly recommend ger earler nivels: Falling Angels and The Virgin Blue (don't read if you are sensitive to the miscarriage subject though)

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night.

really blu? i loved the beginning but felt it dropped off a bit at the end, ie it was less surprising and engaging. good nontheless and better than Vernon God Little, which i still haven't finished and although it's about a teenager almost the same age is far less entertaining.
have you read any jane gardam books? just read queen of the tambourine and loved it!

Oooh, no I was gripped beyond belief by his 'epic journey', and felt the 'ordinariness' of the ending was rather engagingly within the character style.

I did like the actual end, but the train bit was a bit "let's fill a few more pages". loved him though

The Curious incident of the Dog in the night time, Mark Hadden. It's about lifr through the eyes of a twelve year old Autistic Boy, it's lovely

Sorry i didn't read any of the other posts before writing that

s'aright ff! although I sounded a bit negative before, I read it in two afternoons flat and loved the drawings etc.

I really enjoyed 'Curious incident' too ... does anyone know if the "children's edition" is identical except the cover?

children's edition? I thought he was a children's writer...

me too JanH - have read all of hers

quite like Faye Kellerman now...

John Grisham

James Paterson

and anything else that catches my eye.

I've just started "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali - can't comment on it just yet as literally only started it last night. Before that, I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold - couldn't put that one down - definately recommend that!

After that, I've got "Sickened" by Julie Gregory lined up - it's a true story about a young girl growing up with her mother who suffered from Munchausen by Proxy.

Like the same authors as eidsvold, thrillers crime stuff. Bought cold Mountain yesterday but not started it yet. Love to read in bed- all the women in my family are mad readers(in bed)- much to their men's displeasure!

Have got Lovely Bones if anyone wants it.

Reading Life of Pi at the moment but I am the world's slowest reader. Pleased to hear your comments about it Thomcat. Unfortunately my DS2 got a hold of it and tore the last page (sorry Hulababy if you are reading this, I will tape it together and still offer it back up for a swap later). My Mum has just bought Cold Mountain and is going to pass it my way when she has finished so I am looking forward to reading that.