Book recommendation please? Haven read for ages:(

[divamummy]

Hi all,
I havent read foooooooooor aaaaaaaaaaages, Im trying to get back reading.I used to be book worm. I have read Memoirs of geisha, The Broker since PG. I used to love mystery, sci-fi, adventurious books. Im not into Virginia Andrews style book, soo boring Loved Sydney Sheldon, read all his books. And Tom Clancy. Also i like medievel Chinese myth kind of books, couple years ago i read book about medievel chinese sisterhood. But i just cant remember the title and author
Hope some will recommend me something, as havent clue what to start
TIA,
diva

Amy Tan sounds like it might be up your street

My book group read The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey niffenegger and we all loved it.

oooh, i can reccomend you a book that is mystery, sci-fi AND adverture...

The Wind Up Bird Chronicles- Hayaki Murikami

i also liked never let me go, kazuo ishiguru, similar, bit sci-fi-y

Fantastic

second the amy tan thing. take it you've read wild swans and so forth?

do you know what, it is a GOOD book, there is no need to run away

Shadow of the Wind - fantastic

the red tent-my mom read it. Some sisterhood (think chinese but not sure) where women enter tent to experience lifes female rituals. NOt my cup of tea but it is well reviewed and anyone I know who read it, loved it.

haha, was just going to recommend Never Let me Go, I see I was beaten to it!

Also The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Very good, similar subject area.

My favourites recently have been Never Let Me Go, Short History of Tractors in Ukranian and We Need to Talk About Kevin. My favourite book of the last few years (and possibly of all time) has to be Life of Pi.

thanks all

Diva,are you the Mongolian in Staffs???

da, eta ya?

You changed your name a bit,so wasn't sure.
Remember I told you I lived in Russia,but my parents lived in Mongolia nad mother actually from near you!
Small world eh?.

and your sister married to korean man?
yes its small world

Yes

Am going to see them next week to eat some kim chee,bulgogoi and kimbap.

we had kimchee jigge last night, and korean curry today. we have korean meal week. just loe korean food. and we bought a box of aloe vera juice for 3.50 each.

Is aloe vera juice a particularly Korean thing then??

Seconding 2 books already mentioned:

wind up bird chronicle - murakami (and most murakamis) kind of dream-like and mysterious.

life of pi is excellent too.

i havent seen it in the uk, its korean bottled juice with aloe vera bits in it. once you drink it you want more. lovely dh loves it thats why we bought 12 in a box.

thanks dadonmn

I agree with all of MrsSpoon's choices, especially the Short History of Tractors.. which sounds and looksd unapealing from it's cover but is actually excellent, both funny and moving. I have just read Sleep with me by Joanne Briscoe and it is also good, if you liked Enduring Love by Ian McEwan then you would like this.

I second the Short History of Tractors... - very easy to read, funny and quite touching.

I read the red tent a couple of years ago and to my surprise, really enjoyed it. It is a sisterhood thing, but based on biblical characters & stories. Lots about women's rites of passage, life experiences, pregnancy, childbirth & female rituals.

Alexander McCall SMith (#1 Ladies detective agency) is an easy read too, although a bit dull sometimes. Then of course, there are things like Marian Keyes which, to me, are great plane/ holiday reads.

life of pi and time traveller's wife both fantastic. Also anything by maggie o'farrell

poisonwood bible, by kingsolver is fantastic

avoid on beauty my zadie smith, if i were you, its really not very good.

Have you read any of Stephen Koontz they are sort of horror cum sci fi come fantasy, very readable