BOOKS

carola

In light of my Telly Habits thread revealing us to be daytime tv tat lovin' couch potatoes I think we should reveal what books we like to read (during the adverts, of course!).
I love to read lots of different stuff depending upon my mood therefore hope to discover a few new ones via your replies.

I read alot of auto bios and bios.
Thrillers.
Self aware books like The Monk whosold his Ferrari.
And of course, zillions of books on Lupus and Arthritis!

Carol

mellman01

Well I'm really sad and have read most books there are on the Indochina wars including the Vietnam war, to the point of obsession sadly, I also have a lot of books on the first and second world wars, I also have read quite a bit on modern US espionage and covert global operations and general skulduggery they like to get up to, stuff like the soviet Afghan war and the secret wars in Laos and Cambodia.

dreamdaisy

Thrillers. My concentration is shot to bits nowadys, I can't handle anything complicated. I am, tho, hunting for a small paperback of The Moomins, which I'm sure I have somewhere! I used to love Hardy, Dickens, Eliot, Austen, Brontes (for the classics), and Heyer, Jo Trollope and other lighter novelists for fun reads. DD

julie47

I am boring I read danielle steel books(mushy) dan brown (boring)

but my daughter likes Karin slaughter. (murder detective)
I tried reading one but didn't like it (too gruesome)

I liked it when she read tracy beaker and roahl dahl I could read them.

PF

frogmorton

Hi Julie

I love vile scary thrillers

Karin Slaughter I have read as well as Karen Rose Linwood Barclay Jeffery Deaver in fact - all things evil

Odd reallly as I cant watch even slightly scary films :oops:

Love

Toni xx

Who reads 'em dead quick too

Moomins....ah!!!

annie_mial

I'm a bit boring, too..........I now can't handle anything even slightly complicated, so stick to Golden Age detective novels, turn-of-last-century novels and novels up to 1940's. Anyone else like Angela Thirkell?

I do read some slightly obscure American authors, Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels and Charlotte Macleod.

When times are desperate though I revert to my childhood and read Violet Needham, Louisa May Alcott and Gene Stratton-Porter among others.

Annie

mellman01

Oh and anything I can get on atomic weapons and nuclear issues coz I use to work at harwell and it messed with me ed! Yip ping!, Wibble!*%#???

dreamdaisy

For you thriller people, ever tried Elizabeth George? Her detective is Thomas Lynley: forget the telly versions, they were rubbish. DD

beowolf

I love thrillers too and yes, I have read Elizabeth George and the books are so much better than the tv shows.

Also love a good scary Stephen King story... he is the master of horror :shock:

frogmorton

beowolf wrote:

I love thrillers too and yes, I have read Elizabeth George and the books are so much better than the tv shows.

Also love a good scary Stephen King story... he is the master of horror :shock:

Me to Beowolf - I have read loads of Steven King too....

what are we like??

A bit sick?

:shock:

Love

Toni xx

Gilly Cooper?? Gilly Coopere??? Reminds me of Bubbles off Kittle Britain

carola

I am writing lots of these authors down and going to look them up on the tinternet.

I am rarely able to get to a bookshop now which is one of my favourite pastimes as I can spend hours looking at books however I love the thrill of the buzzer buzzing with a delivery of books from the tinternet arriving

Although I like my lightreads like Thirllers and Chick Reads one book I read time and time again is by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. She wrote a poem called The Invitation and then wrote a book about it. She has brought out several others however The Invitation is my fav. You can look up the poem on the tinternet or her website. It brings out my Hippy Dippy side and just makes me feel good.
Carol

tonesp

I know she writes for kids but love the Charlie Bone books by Jenny.Anything by Terry Pratchett and Alistair Maclean

ailsarobby

I love reading and have read many ,many books. At the moment im into adult fanasy horror.....good authers are; Poppy Z Brite...Conrad Jasper....D.B.Shan...Rachel Vincent....I ve read all the Dan Brown books....Vampire diaries and twighlight books....I read alot of Martina Coles but got bored of her....and for some old time nostalgia..Helen forester is good...liverpool miss...and for propper weepys...Tory Haden books are real gut wrenchers..... happy reading ev1 :P :P :P

julie47

frogmorton wrote:

Hi Julie

I love vile scary thrillers

Karin Slaughter I have read as well as Karen Rose Linwood Barclay Jeffery Deaver in fact - all things evil

Odd reallly as I cant watch even slightly scary films :oops:

Love

Toni xx

Who reads 'em dead quick too

Hi tony and babycham

I have made a note of the books and will pass em on to my daughter. meanwhile I will buy moomines as nominated by was it DD

Leg still weeping (so am I ) but just got to be patient (again). Thanks for askin cham

love PF

Moomins....ah!!!

beowolf

Hi frogmorton

Stephen King is king

ok we may be slightly sick but what ho !!

have you read many of his? I think I must have read just about all of them but I think the older ones are best

have you ever read any John Connoly?

dreamdaisy

I'm not good at being scared. I have never read any of Mr King's oeuvre or works in a similar vein. I is a coward. :oops: DD

beowolf

DD you is definitely not a coward :shock:

Mr. King has also written some non scary books..The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and Dolores Claibourn....think i spelt the last one wrong :roll:

the books are sooo much better than the films

dreamdaisy

Ah, Shawshank. I'm not a film person but that one was wonderful, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, such a wonderful tale and I always forget that Mr K wrote it! Thanks for the reminder - perhaps I should cast my beadies over that one! DD

beowolf

i think, i hope, you would really enjoy it DD

he is such a people person....his characters all come to life

barbara12

I love to read true crime...especially murder..(I know) but I am fascinated with the people that commit them..and what goes on in there minds

dreamdaisy

Ooooh, not heard of them. Something gentle is always a good option. I llike Katie Fforde chick lit, predictable but a fun, relaxing read. Did I post that before? Oh God, need wine. DD

annie_mial

babycham wrote:

Reading crime at the moment but of a more gentle pace the R/Tope books set in the Cotswolds the heroine Thea does house sitting and a body or two always turns up xxxB/Cham

I like those, too.......have you tried the books by Ann Grainger?

Annie

annie_mial

Cham, if you like the Rebecca Tope books, you'll like the Ann Grainger ones.......look out for her Mitchell and Markby series. She does another series with a female detective as the heroine, but I'm not so keen on those.

Am I the only one who likes the books by Anne Perry? I love all her Victorian settings and she obviously knows her subject.

Annie

angel1

I loved the Stieg Larsson trilogy:-

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The Girl who played with Fire.
The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest.

Harlan Coben is a superb thriller writer.........Ange.

pixie01

angel1 wrote:

I loved the Stieg Larsson trilogy:-

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The Girl who played with Fire.
The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest.

Harlan Coben is a superb thriller writer.........Ange.

I,ve just order The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, they are making it into a film I hear. Is it any good?
I've read nearly all Charlaine Harris has written, Sookie Stackhouse, Auroura Teagarden, Lily Bard mysteries and Harper Connelly.
Also read Twilight series, Vampire diaries.

pixie01

babycham wrote:

Hi Pixie another early riser sometimes I am in bed listening to the dawn chorus and thinking about 4 nurofen plus a strong milky coffee and my latest book on the go the thing with the joy of reading we can go anywhere be anyone no chains or restrictions A..............r does not winxxxB/Cham

high babycham, sometimes early, work today, so had to have time to get ready.
Jo x