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I've been in a reading group for a couple of years. It's a group of close friends (we were friends before we started the group). We meet once a month at someone's house. We talk about the book, eat nice food, drink red wine and then choose the next book. We either pull suggestions out of a hat...

I work in a library. We have a book sale on right now and I have grabbed loads of bargains for myself!

The heroine, Tita (?) is the youngest girl in a Mexican family with a strong matriarch at the head. Tradition states that the youngest girl must not marry but live out her days taking care of her mother. She cooks and cleans for her family (three or four sisters) and serves up exquisite Mexican...

I adored this book (and She's Come Undone) and lent it to a friend...who never gave it back!:sad: I would love to read it again some time. I haven't read his latest book yet, but firmly intend to.

I have read about 40 of them completely. Many on the list I've started and given up on, or have read abridged versions (as a child). Quite a few I have on my shelves, sadly unread...

The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly - I hated the way it was quickly 'wrapped up'...but then again I didn't like the last three-quarters of hte book anyway! As soon as it went 'fairy-taley' it turned me off. The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry - just far too obvious an ending. A...

Really depends. If it was something I have really loved and it's had a profound impact on me I'll leave at least a day before starting something else. Sometimes I can't read another fiction book for weeks and just dip into non-fiction or reference things, or just magazines or newspapers...

Yeah, for me that WAS a lot! I think it's more than I read in the whole first year of my twins' life!# Oops, forgot to say - Three Cups of Tea. Umm, it was good. I wasn't blown away by it like I thought I'd be. THe guy (Greg) is truly amazing and has done so much good work but I found the...

I couldn't agree more! I keep most books, however if I've brought something home from the library where I work that's from our 'withdrawn from stock' table, it's usually in pretty tatty condition so I tend to pass those on after I've read them.

'When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.' - The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold.

The last things I bought were: A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving. Not yet read this but looking forward to doing so. Running With Scissors (can't remember the author) - only picked it up cos I liked the title and cover. The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry. Read this for reading group...

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I haven't read this book or seen the film, but I really want to to find out how I feel about it. I work with people with dementia and see how families cope with loved ones slipping away from them as they lose their memories.

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Air Babylon - Imogen Edward-Jones One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson Words of the Year 2008 - Susie Dent

All Quiet on the Western Front - ? Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell (love it) Shakespeare's sonnets Romeo & Juliet The Owl Service - Alan Garner Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller The Merchant of Venice (twice!) A Doll's House - Ibsen The Cherry Orchard - Chekov Talking Heads - Alan...

As a teenager I read a lot of Stephen King and most of it gave me the willies! The Shining especially *shudder*... That said though, the most frightening thing I ever read was a non-fiction book about the West family from 25 Cromwell Street(Fred adn Rose)- Happy Like Murderers (can't...

Blindness - Jose Saramago Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie Wives of Bath - Wendy Holden 101 Ways To Get Your Child To Read - Patience Thomson Losing Clive To Younger Onset Dementia - Helen Beaumont The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly A Quiet...

I loved A Walk In The Woods and Notes From A Small Island. Laughed so hard I wet myself a bit. Too much information...

Lots of Bill Bryson Secret Diary of Adrian Mole/ Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Letters from a Nut/More Letters from a Nut - Ted L Nancy Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre Talking Heads - Alan Bennett Plays of Joe Orton Lots of chick-lit.

When my husband and I were DINKs we bought a lot of books and our house is now chock-a-block full of them. Since becoming a mum of twins, I don't work full time anymore and therefore don't have as much dosh to buy lovely new books. I now work part-time at the local library, however, and...