Book/reading club

[popsycal]

Would anyone like to be part of a reading group?
I need something to encourage me to read more regularly - i absolutely love to read but seem to have put it on the back burner recently....
want to get back to enjoying it again
I anyone is interested, we could agree on a book (easier said than done, I suspect!)
read it then discuss....
hmmmmmmm
anyone>?

so pops it's left with u

I agree with Popsycal selecting the choice/s too as it was her idea.

Oh, now I could really do with discovering a good mystery writer. Have been experimenting with PD James, but her characters are often awkward and it irks me as I read.

anyone read a prayer for owen meany then!?!?

Yes - up to you Posycal!

if not, then that is number one....

Ive seen the film that was taken from this book, is it very similar.

A prayer for owen meany gets good reviews on Amazon

No, I haven't. But what about 2 and 3? and what is it about?

I'll join if that's ok. NOT 'Captain C's Mandolin' though...tried that and it was like wading through concrete!

I am forcing my way through 'Middlemarch' at the moment. I can't help thinking that it would be infinitly better if Jane Austen had written it. I have just read 'Porterhouse Blue' by Tom Sharpe. I have loads of favourites, and of the classics, the following would be high on the list; 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Vanity Fair' and 'Our Mutual Friend'.

Of the non-classics, I love Jean M Auel, Diana Gabaldon, Fiona Walker, Robbert Goddard, James Herbert, Phillippa Gregory, Minette Walters...etc.

Oops...'Infinitely'

Chinchilla - I love Jane Austin (way before the BBC drama came out too). and find it all very romantic. I like a lot of the classics too.

got to find some that i havent read yet but wnat to read.....]looking at amazon!

This is the Amazon page on Popsycal's first book. Hope she doesn't mind me jumping in here though.

I really need to expand my reading library. I read all the classics when I was much younger as I am a prolific reader, given half the chance. Nowadays I read books by Jill Mansell, Marian Keyes, and others similar! I was even known to read my mums Jean Plaidy if I got bored (many years ago now..lol)!

Me too 3GM. I used to love Jean Plaidy as a young teen

Currently reading Life of Pi for my January's book group meet. About half way through.

owen meany sounds very bizarre on the amazon page
basically john irving is think is the modern charles dickens - very observant and a commentator on life around him
his characters are so vivid and the story line of this book keeps you really hooked....
you know the fate of the main character from (nearly) the start but the intrigue is to find out HOW ON EARTH THAT CAN HAPPEN!!!!
i enjoyed it even more on the 2nd and third readings!!!
John irving is class

sounds serious n deep

I read life of pi at the recommendation of another mumsnetter - i enjoyed it...was intrigued by it....but not as overwhelmed as some seem to be!
ANother book i like is this - the wrong boy
i need to find some that i havent read though but would like to....

Has anyone read Birdsong? Just read a review on that and it looks good..one to add to my list for future reads.

fairydust - it is sooo not serious!!!!!
it is great....
if you want to try my 2nd favourite irving book instead try hotel new hampshire....a little more seedy - incest, prostitutes, lesbian bears, etc etc
great!!!

read birdsong in france....a fab book!

The synopsis for The Wrong Boy looks quite good.

The wrong boy has some good customer reviews on the UK site of Amazon.