Leaving for bookgroup in an hour.... suggestions for books please!!!!!!!!!!

[MunchedTooManyMarsLady]

Need a couple of suggestions for bookgroup please my lovelies. Can't let the fact that I have DTs been seen as a hindrance to my book browsing. We've just read Andrea Levy's Small Island and the Victorian House (interesting but not light or easy). So, can you help? Please?

Thank you from a lazy, should've got my act together me!

Yes, yes Miaou..Getting too excited me thinks!!
Also Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden...or Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale or Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma??

for non fiction i highly recommend any of alain de botton's esp The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life or The Art of Travel. He's brilliant.

Or Year of the King by Anthony Sher

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Or how about If This Is A Man by Primo Levi

Can you tell my computer is next to the bookcase?

I think I've gone off you lot. My poor bank account is going to take a hammering. I'm not one for libraries, cos then I have to take books back. lol

Many thanks. That's 15 books that we haven't read that I can suggest. I may not need to suggest anything again for a very long time indeed!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Right I'm off now. Thanks again girlies. Will let you know what we choose when I get back, though I may have a little wine to drink despite having given up for Lent (don't worry, I failed on day one)

anybody read any Rachel Cusk?

she has written a few books but 'a country life 'was the one that blew me away...her description of summer was tangible.

her book on motherhood was brilliant too.i read it before i had ds,then again when he was a few months old and just recently.each time i read it i discover some aspect i has glossed over.

shes great.

love alain too,spacedonkey

Got to bookgroup and it was cancelled. lol. Went for a drink with a friend instead, so have kept your suggestions till next week when we meet. I was so looking forward to it. Ah well... such is life

We have decided to read The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong. It's a nun who left her order and how she couldn't find her place in the world.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Have kept them for future bookgroups.

We've just done that. Mixed reviews. Enjoyable but too long. Implausible ending, too convenient. Bernard annoying. Will now read your post to see what you thought

We have just read Small Island, one of us wasn't keen but the other 5 loved it. tonight we have chosen to read Starter for Ten.

We take it in turns to suggest three and then take a democratic vote on the book for the month - our best one ever was The Soldier's Return by Melvin Bragg

Starter for Ten is really good, a good laugh.