I need a page turner to get me reading again.

[LowLevelWhingeing]

I used to read a lot, but since DC's I'm finding it harder and harder to concentrate on anything serious and I just end up MNing instead!

So can anyone recommend something really gripping, where you just have to know what's going to happen next?

I usually read Booker shortlist type books (as my mum always buys me the for my birthday) but they're just too serious for me at the moment. Saying that, I don't actually want complete trash either!

I've recently tried and discarded:

Stepehn Fry - Moab is My Washpot
Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother
Nick Hornby - Juliet Naked.

hmf.

I think my concentration span is too short.

I did quite enjoy Julie and Julia - the one about the woman cooking her way through the Julia Child cookbook.

I'm not drawn to chick lit type books. Don't want anything gory, but maybe a thriller could do it?

I don't know. Whaddya think?

concerns

The last book I really couldn't put down because I had to know what happened next was a gripping alt-history thriller about the Cuban Missile crisis, "The H-Bomb Girl" by Stephen Baxter. It's aimed at teenagers but I found it incredibly gripping. It's extremely well-written.

Thanks Effie, I've ordered the first discworld - may as well start at the beginning.

Thirtysomething - I read A thousand splendid suns whilst in hospital having DS2. It's an absolutely brilliant book but provided quite a juxtaposition between my hospital bed ad the CS without anaesthetic in the book!

Well, I've just ordered six books on Amazon:

Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Christopher Brookmyre

Terry Pratchett

The Pillars of the Earth

Scavenger

Nicci French.

They should keep me going for a long time and I'll keep this thread bookmarked for future reference.

thanks for all you help!

LowLevel
have read the Dragon Tattoo - its good too!

looks like you will be busy reading and not MNing

Loved all of the Stieg Larsson trilogy and both The Kite Runner and a Thousand Splendid Suns.

Larsson got me into Nordic crime so I can recommend Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland), Camilla Lackberg, Henning Mankell's Wallander books (both Swedish) as authors

Just finished The Time Traveller's wife and loved that too.

Ooh, my books have arrived from Amazon and I'm so excited. Can't wait til bedtime when I can have a read!