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I will definitely give it a go and let you know what I think :)

I read this after reading Middlesex which I loved. I found Middlesex to be complex and provocative in the way it relates to other fiction, especially Woolf's Orlando. However, I was deeply disappointed with the Virgin Suicides. I didn't feel that it was a bad book as such, but it didn't...

I am currently reading Karen Joy Fowler's 'We are Completely Beside Ourselves' which was shortlisted for this year's Booker. I am really enjoying and was thinking about reading Richard Flanagan's Narrow Road to the Deep North too. Has anyone read any of the other shortlisted novels? What do you...

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are really what started me with the reading bug. I read WH when I was 13 or so and it was the first 'grown up' book I had read. I instantly fell in love with it. I think the love of these books has as much to do with happy memories as the books themselves:) I...

I have read three books by Ishiguro: Remains of The Day, Never Let me Go and An Artist of the Floating World. Ishiguro's work is beautiful in its subtleties. I would definitely recommend these books to anyone. They are not difficult to read and yet are full of complexities at the same time. I...

Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books. I must have read it twenty times or so since being a teenager. Have any of you read Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea? The story is told from Bertha's point of view. It is amazing :) Not so sure I could handle a zombie Jane Eyre though :p

Thanks for the welcomes :)

I reread books all the time. I have read To Kill a Mockingbird, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, Wuthering Heights (and many others) dozens of times. Good books get even better with rereading. You notice so much more detail on repeat readings :)

Hi I am new to this forum, so thought I would say Hi. I have always loved to read. I especially love Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson. Reading is very important to me. I joined the forum so I could chat about books I have read and to discover new books.