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Wow - a really productive month for me: Keeping Secrets - Andrew Rosenheim Cents and Sensibility - Maggie Alderson Little Lady, Big Apple - Hester Browne Kissing Toads - Jemma Harvey Damage - Sue Mayfield Endymion Springs - Matthew Skelton Snowbone - Cat Weatheril The Mephisto Club -...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne. About an 8 year old German boy, set in the 1940s. Certainly not aimed at 8 year old children though - more the 11 and up audience. Very serious, and well written while meeting your "educational" criteria. Once - Marris Gleitzman. A very popular...

For childhood books, I read and re-read The Worst Witch books by Jill Murphy, alongside all the ones already mentiones and the Greene Knowe books by Lucy Boston. More recently, I tend not to read series per se, just dip in and out as and when I need something reassuring and familiar. I'm not...

I have a TBR pile and a TBROD list. TBROD = To be read One Day, ie when there is nothing left on the pile - yeah right!

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. Read it nonstop on a 2 week holiday once and only got about 1/3rd of the way in. Really annoying as my main aim for reading it was to find out how it ended having missed the last half an hour of the TV series. If anyone can let me know how it ends I will be...

I am a Librarian. I have a degree in Library and Information Management, and since graduating 4 years ago I have achieved my Chartered Librarian status. While I absolutely love my job, I am beginning to feel quite disillusioned with the future of Public Libraries in the UK. There are a lot...

I cried recently when I read a book called "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. I've a friend who has had to go through chemo recently so this book really brought home a lot of stuff to me. It's about a 10 year old boy called Oscar who is in hospital with Leukemia. He is...

That Anita looks nothing like I pictured her! Far too muscle-y and curly haired!

My first thought about this thread was the Jodi Picoult books. The defence attorney is generally defending the main character/s, so is often more likeable than in other books. They very often challenge the stereotype as well - I'm thinking of Jamie (?) in The Pact, and the woman in Plain...

If you like American Forensic-type stuff, have you tried Tess Gerritsen's "Jane Rizzoli / Maura Isles" series? Or Alex Kava's "Maggie O'Dell" series (criminal profiler)? Or Janet Evanovich's "Stephanie Plum" series (bounty hunter)? I like my thrillers to have strong female leads and these are...

Definitely Cornelia Funke and Anthony Horowitz. I also really like Philip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo and Kate Thompson. I recently read John Boynes "Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" and will be looking for some of his "older" adult stuff! I, too, could go on for a long time with my list of favourite...

I'll put you out of your misery - Thursday Next is the main character in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, so I thought I would borrow her identity! Thanks for the greetings!

I created the Access database myself from scratch. I wasn't too hard to do once my other half did his ISBN searching thing! As well as adding the cover image, it did most of the searching and filled in author/title etc as well. Once we had the main stuff added I manually input the new...

I went through an Alex Kava phase recently. I read 3 of her books in about 6 weeks. I was working my way through the start of the Maggie O'Dell series. I read: A Perfect Evil Split Second A Necessary Evil Every time I finished one I felt compelled to read the next. I thought I had escaped...

I read far too much crime (gory thrillers) for my own good. To the extent that I sometimes start seeing things in real life! That said, crime is a great break for me, as it is so different from the rest of the stuff I have to read for work and reading groups....

I read "incorrigible" in a book recently. It's a word that I have always wanted to work into a conversation. I think it must be commonly used in classics, where I came across it in my teens.

I read almost everyday. The exeption is when I HAVE to read a book, in which case I dig my heels in and don't want to read. Even then though I tend to find my senf reading a magazine or something to pass the time. I read most when I have a bath or on a Sunday when I canread in bed first...

I read Lolita many years ago. It was one of those books that I was told was "unsuitable" but that my dad had a copy on his bookshelf. At the age of 14 I think I missed a lot of what was going on, but remember being very disappointed, in the same way that I was with Lady Chatterley's Lover...

I have an access database. My other half (techno whiz that he is!) even managed to write a code that means I can scan the ISBN's online to get an image of the cover for the database! I like my access db as it means that I can have custom columns (and add to it as I wish), such as a checklist...

I love my TBR pile. It has books that have been on there for at least 15 years (and I am only 25!). The only point at which I will say stop is when I have far too many library books on the pile. I am currently at about 12 library loans and 2 have been renewed to their limit of 6 renewals...