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'Veronika Decides to Die' Paulo Coehlo'

Am half way through it at the moment, it's excellent. Has anyone else read it? I haven't seen a disucssion on it on these forums!

Thank you everyone for your inputs!

Oh my, how could I have forgotten about the brilliant Paulo Coehlo. I have that book, in fact, I think I started reading it at one time, but I think it was a time where I was quite stressed out and did really have time to concentrate on it. Must revisit it during the summer. Thanks for...

Audreybee, Thank you so much. That is very kind of you. I have saved that list to my 'favourites'.

....the titles of any other books based on Bible stories or characters/ As you may have seen from another post, I am almost finished reading Anita Diamant's 'Red Tent', and I loved it and would like to read more.

Thanks for that. Sorry, I'm still getting use to the workings of this place!!!

'Mourning Ruby' Helen Dunmore. Pure and utter drivel. Have read some online reviews and the majority of people thought it was good, but I thought it to be awful. No rhyme or rhythm to it - hard to understand. Online reason I finished it was I took it with me on a train journey and...

.....'The Red Tent', by Anita Diamant. I am almost finished it and it has become one of my favourite books. Very different style narrative and plot from others I have read -it does take a while to read though, but it is very insightful? Sorry if a similar thread has been posted. I'm...

I hate it when people, outside of my family, give me books as presents. I know they mean well, but we all have certain tastes in books and will not all like the same thing. My family knows what I like and even they just give me book tokens so I can purchase myself.

Hi I'm new here and this is my first post. I like the book crossing idea. However, I feel like the thread starter - some books are just to good or too precious for me to give away. However, books that I've liked read once, but know I will not read again, I will either give to charity shops...