book for me to read over Christmas...

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...light and easy please - I want to fill in before I start on my next book group one which is Wuthering Heights
Suggestions please !

No suggestions, but am impressed you will have the time to read a book over christmas. WHat with all my guests, parties, eating etc etc I doubt I will have the time nor energy to pick up a book.

I only read in bed for about 2 pages though ! just felt like having something that isn't a book group choice for a bit !!

I've given up doing that as I read about 3 sentences then fall asleep only to try again the next day, read the same 3 sentences, fall asleep. Get the picture?

yep, I do that !

anyone ?

Have you tried any of those Philippa Gregory books (eg The Boleyn Inheritance) - they are def. light and easy, real page turners
Or I've just read a fab book - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - not light exactly but divided into short sections so quite easy to read - I loved it.

Dancing to the Pipers by Kate Fenton. It's very light, but entertaining. Or if you want something more seasonal The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.

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I'm planning on reading kids fiction, having ordered Swallows&Amazons for DD

I'm reading mother's day by Kirsty Scott. It's quite frothy but it's keeping me engrossed. Normally I skimread books.

the reading group ?

the reading group ?

www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Group-Elizabeth-Noble/dp/0340734701/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books& qid=1198167780&sr=8-1

This will be on my bedside table.
Highly recommended.

Anne Tyler novels-light reads but beautifully written.

Yes, Anne Tyler definitely, great books

I really realy couldn't get on with Cloud Atlas- I really like Anita Shrieve too and I think William Boyd is totally fab- the last one I read was Blue Afternoon- but all his are really well written but not heavy.

Oh Wuthering Heights is a good page-turner, don't dread it, it's quite gripping (if flawed, there may be some past threads on here if you can bear searching, or start one and then crib all the best MN quotes ).

I always recommend this one: Jonathan Coe, What a Carve-Up! (his exclamation mark). It's a bit of a whodunnit (but not really), a family history, a searing commentary on corruption in politics, it's got some very funny lines and a poignant ending. He writes wonderfully as well.

Yes the Philippa Gregory ones are quite fun; easy to read but not chick-lit-crappo. However, I think once you've read one or two they get very samey.

ooh,thanks all ! will look in library tomorrow,failing that Waterstones... like Jonathan Coe v much - Moondog, your recommendation looks unputdownable

Or if you can't get What a Carve-Up, The Rotters' Club, or my particular fave, The House of Sleep and to fellow Coe acolyte the prunester
A very different festive treat might be Robertson Davies' lighthearted collection of ghost stories for Christmas, High Spirits

I have just read through A Child's Christmas in Wales to get festive and the Christmas chapter of A Country Child !

Would second recommendation of Cloud Atlas. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant is great too and v easy to read when tired and frazzled.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - bonkers but fab, Sherlock Holmes on crack sorta fing

Ella Minnow Pea - a must for anyone interested in vocabulary and words

The Raw Shark Texts - almost impossible to describe, an amnesiac is pursued by a shark formed of text... really fantastic book in all senses!