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popsycal · 14/12/2003 20:24

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>?

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:02

is senora still about?
getting excited about jonathan swift...

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fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:03

these books seem a little "old" for me i'm only a baby

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:04

What sort do you like fairydust?

popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:04

FD i first read owen meany at 23......
you are around that aren't you!!
it really is an easy read....

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:05

what about john grisham???i like him...he has anew one out i think?

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fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:05

i don't know - not telling my last read as i will sound a right baby

Hulababy · 14/12/2003 21:05

DH read Birdsong and says it is very good. However much of the book is set in the first workld war and even DH felt a lot of it was very very graphic.

fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:06

i am quite a good reader - i will blow my own trumpet here

surpose i din't know till i try them1

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:06

Was just looking at one of his popsycal - called Skipping Christmas...is he a thriller writer??

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:08

L'Affaire by Diane Johnson - This one looks good as well..anyone read it?

popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:08

he is a thriller writer - i have a feeling he may have been something to do with the law in a previous life as that is what he tends to write about.........maybe a read that somewhere ?
a time to kill is good - better than the film....

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popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:10

fairydust - the last book that i read was michael j fox's autobiography!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
but maybe you don't know who he is

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fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:10

right heres one i enjoyed ---

ben eltons maybe baby

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:10

Yes I liked that one as well FD. All his books are good

fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:11

he was in spin city n back to the future

3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:12

Are you having trouble finding some popsycal or do you have loads to choose from?

Hulababy · 14/12/2003 21:13

FD - not read the book but seen the film. Enjoyed it but watched it at a difficult time for me as I was struggling to concieve.

popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:13

right - if i had to recommend a book to you all it would be a prayer for owen meany,,,,,,
but i also want to choose one which i would like to read.......

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3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:15

Would it be better to try and find one that none of us have read so all reading it for the first time?

fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:15

i saw the film then read the book - couldn't put it down

popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:16

3GM - that sounds like a better idea yes!!!
right!
am no further froward though!!!!
just as an aside, and to juxtapose our literary ramblings,,,dh is downstairs wacthing a dvd - the hulk!!!!!!!

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3GirlsMum · 14/12/2003 21:19

I have found a good list here:-

GOODBOOKS

Dont know if this helps you at all.

fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:22

the count of monte cristo -- if it's anything like the film then thumbs up from me

popsycal · 14/12/2003 21:23

3GM - hehee owen meany beast lord of thre rings
dh loses!!!!

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fairydust · 14/12/2003 21:23

the lion the witch n the walldrobe

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