want some recommendations please from some older ladies?

[chloesmumtoo]

I was wondering as my mil loves reading whether it may be a good idea to buy her some books for xmas. Noticed a large collection in the school link mag for only 9.99 for 10!! Called Miss Read Collection - anygood or not? What would you recommend honestly. No time for reading myself these days so have not got a clue on books now. Throw me some ideas please. What do you like to read?

If you think she is more of a traditional older lady, there is a collection of Maeve Binchy short stories with a Christmassy theme called This Year Will be Different. Older ladies though are like everyone else and hard to categorise in reading tastes!

My mum & stepmum both devoured The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by Maggie McFarrell(sp?). Worth a try.

lol at older lady and miss read how grim is that

and a book on the menopause...horrific idea

I'd give you a slap

last book i read was bedroom secrets of the master chefs by irvine walsh

atonement ian mcewan

I'm at least 10 years away from the menopause, I hope(!) but just thinking about it makes me

I'd be gutted if someone gave me a book on it. Or anything else to do with getting old.

the very last thing on my mind is the menopause lol

Are you pg, Zippity?

pg?

Pregnant

If I received a book on the menopause I would:...

1. Go shove the book up the backside of the person who bought it for me...

2. Go buy them a book on how NOT to be quite so thoughtless buying it in the first place....

and

3. Quietly cry and crawl into a corner and think to myself...'why?'...

Have you got something to tell us zippi?

I like Miss Read! (well, some of her stuff)

It's like saying 'here's a book on how to deal with getting older, I think you need it, you certainly look like you need it and this book will help you ease into old age, you decrepid old fart'...honestly, some people just have no idea at all on how to help someone who simply wanted to buy a present for her MIL NOT how to insult them!

what like i had a very hot date last night and we certainly weren't reading anything...I'm fifty, but he isn't lol

hopefully there are a few more to come too

The OP didn't suggest she was going to buy a book on the menopause for her MIL.

Good for you zippi!

Well not pg then but having great sex would definitely banish all thoughts on menopause!

mercy....no, I can see that, but there was a reply suggesting it.

Yes, you're right!

I need a book on the subject though

I think the answer is that she will have her own taste

I'd like some dkny be delicious perfume, a dvd of raise the red lantern, some jeans as mine are too big and keep showing builders bum at college

and the ipod i was supposed to have got for my birthday

there is a book set in paris that i want to read....suite something

someone mentioned kate atkinson never fancied her books but i am reading the good turn at the moment...haven't decided if i like it..it was highly recommended by the author of the rebus books and is also set in edinburgh as was bedroom secrets so giving it the benefit of the doubt

what the menopause or great sex?!

Both actually.

I'm over 50, belong to two book groups and we read the sort of books that anyone from 16 upwards might read (when we aren't busy having great sex - not with other members of books groups! - or drinking wine). I'm loving Anne Tyler's book, Digging to America at the moment.

mercy.... !!!

Me...menopause: not yet please but probably around the corner....

great sex: wouldn't mind but far too tired, thank you.

DH.....menopause: what's that??

great sex: what's that???

If not a book on the menopause - what about a pack of Tena Lady?