Lose yourself in a good book....

Tallulah · #1 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 04:57 PM

Well, hopefully those long hot days won't be long in arriving for us here and if any of you are like me, a cold glass of wine, lazing in the sun for a few hours with my nose in a good book is my idea of heaven.

Just wondering if any of you are reading a good book at the moment that you would recommend to others on the forum - be it educational/fiction/non-fiction/chicklit....etc etc. Something to lose oneself in whilst soaking up a few rays.

Tallulah.xx

Chica · #2 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 05:11 PM

One of my favourite books is Cannery Row by John Steinbech. A nice easy read. Very descriptive without the use of jarring flowery english, if you get my drift. A lovely story.

Tallulah · #3 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 05:18 PM

Thanks Chica. My parents are driving over to see us this summer, so along with bits and pieces (marmite, teabags lol!!) packed up in the boot of the car, I'm looking for some good book suggestions that they can hopefully bring with them and I can lose myself in when we take a bit of time out this year......(and to escape from them, they're gonna be here for a month!!!).

Tallulah.xx

jojo · #4 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 06:56 PM

I'm not a book reader, I dont seem to have a long enough attention span! Altho I do quite like non fiction or factual books!

However, my daughters all read and are heavily into some guy called "Stephen King", interestingly they always bring at least two with them, maybe to escape from their mother??

Jo xx

griz616 · #5 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jojo

I'm not a book reader, I dont seem to have a long enough attention span! Altho I do quite like non fiction or factual books!

However, my daughters all read and are heavily into some guy called "Stephen King", interestingly they always bring at least two with them, maybe to escape from their mother??

Jo xx

I think Stephen King Used to be better, he seems to have started writing very weid stuuff over the last few years. I must admit I am an avid reader, I tend to follow authers, Jim Patterson, Wilbur smith, Clive Cussler, Dick Francis,, Robin Cook, James clavell, to mention a few..griz

Tallulah · #6 (**permalink**) 18th May 2009, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by griz616

I think Stephen King Used to be better, he seems to have started writing very weid stuuff over the last few years. I must admit I am an avid reader, I tend to follow authers, Jim Patterson, Wilbur smith, Clive Cussler, Dick Francis,, Robin Cook, James clavell, to mention a few..griz

oh yes, Wilbur Smith - didn't he write those dynastic novels about a family in South Africa and also a series about Egypt?

Patrica Cornwell is a very good author as well - I've devoured every one of her Kay Scarpetta forensic pathologist novels.

scharlack · #7 (**permalink**) 19th May 2009, 07:22 AM

Good day everyone,

I have not read these books but I have seen great reviews on them:

"LOS HOMBRES QUE NO AMABAN A LAS MUJERES" - Stieg Larsson

"LA SOLEDAD DE LOS NUMEROS PRIMOS" - Paolo Giarodano.

Cheers

Deewok · #8 (**permalink**) 19th May 2009, 04:01 PM

Apologies, this is totally aff topic (how original you say!), but when I saw this, XT came to mind immediately......

Mini mule may be smallest in world - Yahoo! News UK

Anyway, back to books. "The Dirt" by Motley Crue, sold 3 millions copies, amazing read and if it was a soap opera, people would claim its was too tabloid, unbelieveable and unrealistic!
Worth a badgers IMO

Suenneil · #9 (**permalink**) 19th May 2009, 04:07 PM

I love reading when I get the chance - and since living in Estepona we decided against getting sky tv .. so limit ourselves to dvd films etc (its supposed to create a better environment and encourage other entertainment! but I do miss it sometimes) ... anyway it means I get the chance to read a lot more ... and after spending loads on ordering stuff from Amazon we discovered the Cudeca and Help the Aged shops in Estepona ..... they both have pretty good libraries of books, most probably donated by holiday makers past etc etc ...

But its brilliant! I go in every other weekend and "buy" 4 books for 50 cents each!!! which satisfied my book lust and contributes to the charity ... and when I go back to "buy" more I "re donate" the ones I bought the previous weeks and have now read .... feel like Im doing my bit !

Anyway ..... I have read some fabulous stuff and a couple of crappy ones - but Ill start to keep a note of the better ones and let you know. I read so many at weekends sometimes I forget who the authors were!

Almost forgot the question! Ive never liked chick lit - usually factual biographies etc - but have developed a taste for thrillers / murder etc .... which I wasnt in to before .. but there is some good stuff out there Ive found.

Pesky Wesky · #10 (**permalink**) 19th May 2009, 09:01 PM

Everyone's taste is sooo different, but I've read two great books lately, that were also an easy read and very moving
Cometas en el cielo/ The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. The story of a friendship of two young boys growing up in Afghanistan when the Talibans came to power.
Chocolate by Joanne Harris. Mother daughter relationship. Mother opens up chocolate shop in small town in France. I can also recomend any of her novels except coastliners which I thought was very weak
Both have been made into films. Chocolate stars the totally delicious Johnny Depp...!!
Always good to go back to for light reading The diary of Adrian Mole and Driving over Lemons
Any more ideas?