ok i am rubbish at reading but i love Bridget Jones (a bit too much) - what else will i like to read?

[stillenacht]

Please help - have always been rubbish at reading - nothing really ever inspired or motivated me to read until i read Bridget. I try to get my DS1 to read (he hates it too) and my DH never ever reads bar the paper.

What other books/authors will i like - i am too scared to go into Waterstones and get something i will put down after 2 pages.

Thanks

See now I find the Sophie Kinsella series really stressful! I read the first few and recently tried shoppaholic and baby but got pretty frustrated by it!

Audio books for DS would be good. The only way my mum could get my bro to read was to buy him Beano type annuals every year, he would read them on the toilet

This sounds silly stillenacht but have you read Harry Potter? I was so against reading them, thought I would hate them, but I absolutely fell in love with them, they are easy to read but there are a lot of more adult issues in them to keep you interested. I'm obsessed by them and always listen to the audio books on long journeys in the car

I have tried reading Harry Potter but didn't like it/enjoy it at all. Sorry.

The Shopaholic books do get sillier and sillier: I read the first one because a friend lent it to me, then read another couple on holiday last summer because they were in the apartment and I'd run out of books. However, for a reluctant reader, the first one or two might be quite appealing.

thank you everyone

how about these for the alex rider cds book poeple - saw them the other day when searching for something else.

I'd also recommend Anita shreve for you.

Oooh, has anyone read Adriana Trigliani (I think thats how you spell it?), she writes some quite nice, if not a bit schmatlzy, stuff, usually centred around Italian families.

Have you read all 3 of the books? I have read 2, what's the third one like??

Was going to suggest the shopaholic series, but I see someone already has .

Jane Green also v readable and not yet mentioned.

Also very readable and charming - No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - about Precious Ramotswe who starts the first ladies detectiv agency in Botswana. You must have seen the series. Absolutely lovely but not chick lit at all!

If your son is a youngish 9 maybe Horrid Henry, Astrosaurs, Captain Underpants. Think they might be for 7/8 tho.

Lipstick Jungle, Shopaholic series, Queen of Babble. Any of the Stephanie Plum stories.

For your ds Astrosaurs and Geronimo Stilton.

Oh yes Stephanie Plum - good call 20p. A New Jersey gal, bounty-hunter on a good hair day, very very funny.

And can I just recommend to you all "Hens Dancing" by Rafaella Barker. I've given it to all my friends now so there's no-one else to evangelise to. Light, readable, Georgette Heyer meets Jilly Cooper as a single Mum in the Norfolk countryside. Perfection.

slummy mummy,yummy mummy,sophie kinsella,cecelia ahern,india knight,

i just go browse charity shop or libary.

There's another novel by Helen Fielding, called Cause Celeb, which I really enjoyed. Also Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination which was fun.