i just finished stephen fry's 'making history' and liked it a lot.....i also love tove jansson's adult fiction, liked the book thief, the book of lost things, fingersmith....umm yeah, anyone read and liked any of those that can recommend a book i can't be arsed being sold rubbish by amazon/waterstones!

I read a book recently called room by emma donaghue which was really good.

Im reading a book just now called its your time your wasting by frank chalk - its like the diary of a teacher. its very amusing
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what genre are you into?

my genre is 'otherwise unspecified' haha er i dont know really thats the prob. not crime and not child abuse which seems to be quite 'in' at the moment!!!

at the moment after raking through the bookshelf i have found 'Tanakh - the jewish bible' and 'a world of difference' an anthology of short stories from 5 continents......um might give the latter a go the former sounds a bit heavy for a saturday night

I generally read fantasy geek type books

oooh what were those books called where you had to make a choice and it told you which number of page to turn to depending on what you chose?

oh yeah, like in Big? they were awesome..... but I never had one

I'm reading the Song of Ice and Fire series just now

hmmmm john was trying to get me to read a pratchett novel he has but im not sure. the stephen fry one was surprisingly good considering it was about history and time travel - not my normal subjects but i couldn't put it down

did you imagine him reading it? I love Stephen Fry

http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=1&oq=chose+your+o&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=choose+your+own+adventure+books#q=choose+your+own+adventure+books&hl=en&prmd=ivnsb&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=2fxGTvqWEsS0hAfSkdCrBg&ved=0CFIQrQQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7fe93be88bdc22ed&biw=1366&bih=667


Erm that link looks huge

i'm a romantic fiction reader, particially jilly cooper or danielle steel, but prefer the ones with the history in them,

just read "a good woman" about a priveledge girl and set in the first world war, quite enjoyed it.

you would probably quite like sarah waters then clare, very readable and actually good books (although, i will warn you they all seem to have at least one lesbian sex scene squeezed into it...not quite sure why i think think ms.waters has a point to prove!).

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did you imagine him reading it? I love Stephen Fry

i did!!! i couldn't get his voice out of my head til at least halfway through the book, but the main character was pretty similar to him (cambridge student writing a thesis) although he used words like 'cool' and 'dude' which i couldn't quite assimilate with stephen fry's voice!

p.s those are them snoops! i loved them when i was little, i used to re-read them and make different decisions so i had read the whole book haha

I like a lot of the books that you have mentioned. Have you read A thousand splendid suns by Khalid Hosseni (sp) it is a great book and i actually cried at it which i dont normally do. Also the Shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafon is a good book

oooooh i will have a look for them kate thank you

I just read the book thief - I'm not a huge book reader but this was good...but sad in parts

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I dont think yould like the books i read im into authors like Sophie Kinsella and Jane Green.

I love Cecila ahearn and her magical books as i call them x

Theres something about Kevin by lionel shriver

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Theres something about Kevin by lionel shriver

We need to talk about kevin even

oooh mario i just googled that - sounds rather appealing actually!

i rummaged last night and found 'the story giant' but ive nearly finished it already, its a nice collection of stories but not very involving really.

i really liked the book thief pepper, and the book of lost things, the book thief was one of those that i sort of wish i could read again but i can never do that with books!

i have also picked up tove tansson's winter book as i had forgotten (new baby at the time!) i hadn't actually finished it, i love her scandinavian world (minus the moomins in the adult books )