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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Upside Down Inside Out by Monica McInerney A lighthearted romantic novel set in Australia (Melbourne I think?), but written by an Irish author. The typical girl meets boy, girl falls in love, big disaster so they can't be together ...happy ending. Easy to read and quite amusing.

I don't know about everyone else, but I just love it when someone looks through my bookshelves and takes a book home to read. I am always saying to family and friends, 'I have a great book I know you will love'. It is especially good to loan my books out when it is something I really enjoyed...

Witch, I also am trying to read more fantasy, and by coincidence the one I'm reading at the moment is by a female author. Ship of Magic, which is book one of the series The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb. I especially like the strong and fearless female characters - it often takes a female...

I'm about half way through The Autobiography of Henry VIII - A Novel, by Margaret George.

I have the Satanic Verse by Salman Rushdie on my bookshelf which I have yet to read. I remember a lot of talk about it when it was published. Is it worth giving it a go?

Hi, Both my husband and myself have tried to read Ulysses by James Joyce. Neither of us have been able to get through it. We both read a lot and are not completely stupid:confused: Does anyone else have this problem with Ulysses? I think it's the rambling style prose, probably you have to...

Playing Beatie Bow--a young adult fiction--taught to Year 9 students.

Hey everyone, My name is Glenda and I live in sunny Australia (except not today-pouring with rain). I am a high school English teacher and have just started a psych degree. So in between Shakespere, Lord of the Flies, and my personal fav Playing Beatie Bow, I like to read comtemporary fiction...

Hi, I bought my first computer two days ago, and have consequently jumped head first into the technologial era!! I am interested in finding an online bookclub that prescribes books and "meets" to discuss them over the web. Does anyone know if this exists, and where I might be able to find...

My top 3 books came pretty quickly, but I'll have to think a bit longer for the last 2.... 1. Captin Corelli's Mandarin...Louis de Bernieres 2. The Blind Assassian...Margaret Attwood 3. The Fire on the Snow... can't remember the author of this factual play I read at school 4.Brave New...