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[Aefondkiss]

[well I never have posted a thread here]

and wondered if I could just say hello, not really sure what else I should say?

I hardly ever read now, so hence my reluctance to intrude, keep starting books and getting distracted e.g ali smith's the accidental.... never got more than a third of the way through it

I have just finished reading John O'Farrell's "may contain nuts"

has anyone read it here?

were you compelled and at the same time repelled? I found it gave me a real catch in the throat at the end, like I was going to sob, though most of the way through I could hardly bring myself to read about such a middle class subject.

I like Kelman, Gray, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Muriel Spark etc

plus anything from Joanne Harris to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Flann O Brien

Hi.
I've just finished 'May contain nuts'. I know it was written with tongue firmly in cheek, but I recognised so much of it from visits to toddler groups etc. It really made me laugh.
I'm reading so much at the moment, but the pile by the side of my bed isn't going down at all. I want to read the latest Alexander Mccall Smith, but I've got loads of others to go first!

hot - I found it hard to read,(may contain nuts) , because it made me cringe. I remember reading only one AMcCS's books, I am not a fan, I think I was the only one at the book group that I went to who didn't like his writing.

What else have you got in your book mountain?

Harry Potter, The Girls, Half of a Yellow Sun, a Tracey Chevalier (can't remember the title), Never Let Me Go, Madame Bovary....
The list goes on. I started Madame Bovary but really struggled to get into it. I kind of feel I should read it though!

no life is surely too short to read books because you "should"? reading is supposed to be a pleasure?

Can I just completely crash here and recommend you bump Never Let Me Go to the top of your pile. It was recommended to me by someone on here and it was great. Very well written, understated, moving and a bit strange (in a good way)

Great KezzaG - I think I needed someone to help me prioritise them! Otherwise I end up buying another book and the pile just gets bigger!!! I love reading and have to read before bed, but somhow I seem to acquire books faster than i can read them

I have to read before I go to sleep too. I have lost count of the times that I have had to go back and reread the last few paragraphs as I have been too tired to take them in!

I also read books I think I should, but try to spread them out with some trashy chick lit, and then others I know I will enjoy.

Im just trying to decide whether to reread all the Harry Potters before the new one comes out or just pick up what I can remember as I go.

oh I have seen some Ishiguro(sp) books in one of the charity shops here, might just go and see if they have gone yet.

I've tried so many times to read War and Peace in the last 20 years. Each time I break off it's so long before I get back to it that I've forgotten who's who. Have to start again. I once made it all the way to the end of the first volume (2 volumes in my paperback edition). I know I'll do it one day.

I am impressed Roxy!