inspire me, I Desperately need good book to read., no horror, something fairly recent.....................

[katierocket]

Really want a good read but need inspiring. Hate horror, don't want anything really intellectual. here are some of my favourite books in no particular order to give idea of what I like.

Secret History
Wild Swans
Memoirs of a Geisha
Anything by Donna Leon
Pursuit of Happiness
Perfume
Wuthering Heights
Driving over lemons
Crow Road
The Beach
I don't know how she does it
anything by Marian Keyes

help please, otherwise I will be forced to try and finish sh*te cecelia ahern book 'where rainbows end' which is making me want to bite someone.

LOL

LGJ

Having more fun as Mrs Gordon Ramsay

dammit..just thought of one but can't remember the name..
it's the one where the daughter has died and is watching her family from heaven..anyone know?

oooh just came to me 'the lovely bones'..was a good holiday book, fairly sad, but easy going to read

kate atkinson Case Histories i finished it yesterday and really enjoyed it

Have just been on Amazon with some of your ideas - thanks .

How about Willa Cather, not at all recent, but if you haven't come across her. Or Geraldine Brooks? I loved "Years of Wonder" and "Foreign Correspondence".

oooo, didn't know Jung Chang had a new book. is it heavy going then?

the good women of China by Xinran should be up your alley if you like Wild Swans. or how about Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series of detective novels set in italy. Shade by Neil Jordan.
Geisha by Liza Dalby.

I haven't read it, but I've heard that Jung Chang's Mao biog is an easy read despite heavy content. If that makes sense.

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Katie in Spain...I LOVED Years of wonder, you are the only other person I know who has read it!

Didnt realise she had written another book...tell me more please....

[grin[

OR even...

which is the first one in the Aurelio Zen series?

FF - read that, liked it.

and have read Geisha too, loved it. WIll check out the other one you mention

spykid - "Foreign Correspondence" is an autobiography and I have just discovered she has also written another non-fiction book "Nine Parts of Desire", so it's back to Amazon for me - . Must go - kids due at nursery.

Not sure if this has already been recommended but I really enjoyed Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.

Has Notes on a Scandal been mentioned already? It was so unputdownable I read it in one sitting

yes donkey - read it, very good isn't it

has someone mentioned Anne Tyler?

dinner at the homesick restaurant her best and fabby

do you like Kazuo Ishiguro katie? The Remains of the Day is my favourite book

haven't read all thread so apologise if this has been said already but the da vinci code is a good holiday read if you don't take it too seriously. I've read that cecelia ahern book and it also made me want to bite someone! I am reading the new marian keyes and that is good fun you could try that?

would thoroughly recommend The time travellers wife. Lovely book. Easy read.
by audrey Niffeneggar