Need recs please - sorry!

[janeite]

What shall I look for in the library tomorrow please? I am currently reduced to re-reads of The Famous Five.

chin up girls...a book of obituaries of women with varying lifestyles...a real dipper of a book

life and times of the thunderbolt kid, bill bryson...on my second reading at the moment

oh and Harts War by john katzenbach...about a black american fighter pilot incarcerated in a stalag of us and british POW's in WW2, a black marketeer is murdered and the pilot is put on trial for it....meant to be a rubberstamp verdict but the POW law student detailed to defend him takes his job seriously....

Thanks. Have read the Bill Bryson -love him.

thinking about this thing of darkness that you recc'd (brilliant btw)have you read this fatal shore by robert hughes...a good read

Read it - loved it. Something else like that would be brilliant.

Bump please

Things I want my daughters to know OR anything by Mitch Albom

Thank you. Have read 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and 'The Five People You Meet In Heaven' and, to my surprise, loved both of them.

What is 'Things I Want My Daughters To Know' about?

Just googled it - think I'd hate it but thanks anyway.

what do you tend to read?

there is a new Bill Bryson out soon - might be a while for the library though
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What about Sum

I have just bought this

Thank you - the Bryson looks great. I will buy that, so no need to wait for the library.

I like lots of things but am very fussy - Austen and King are my favourites. I like Neil Gaiman, some Pratchet, history books, anything to do with long and dangerous journeys eg: Captain Cook, polar exploration etc, Evelyn Waugh (but have read them all)...erm..I liked Half Of A Yellow Sun recently.

basically anything that isn't chick-lit or literary pretentious fiction. Oh and I like old stuff - The Moonstone, Doyle etc.

Sorry no - I dislike him based on the two I have read - The Remains Of The Day and the one about breeding children for body parts, both of which I hated. But thank you anyway.

Other things I like include: CJ Sansom / Frank Tallis (although the most recent two have annoyed me) / anything to do with the history of food in fact, anything to do with food!

Oh dear. To be fair, I am the only person I know who has read it and not liked it.

Slightly left-field, but have you read Emma Goldman's autobiog "Living my Life" which is a favourite of mine (I like Austen & history books). It is amazingly readable and entertaining as well as interesting.

Never heard of her - will google. Thank you.

Have also just thought - assume you have read 'Diary of a Provincial Lady' & EM Delafield's various other books?

Nope - never heard of them either!

Forget Emma Goldman - read the Provincial Lady!!! I will eat my copy if you are a JA fan & don't like her

Actually - perhaps a better test - do you like Cold Comfort Farm?