Favourite books and authors

My favourite book is The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. A bit boring at first, goes into a lot of detail about each character, but once the story gets going, just couldn’t put it down. The Green Mile by Stephen King, excellent, 10 times better than the film. Favourite authors, Cathy Kelly, Sidney Sheldon, Danielle Steele and the above Stephen King.

Anyone recommend a really good book that you can lose yourself in, at present it is much needed, would like to get away from reality for a while.

Love K

One of my favourites is “I don’t know how she does it” by Allison Pearson. I read it whilst on holiday a couple of years ago and it made me laugh out loud and also made me cry. If you have young children you can really relate to it.

Love Diane x

I’m really not into books all that much but I do love the 2 Bridget Jones ones by Helen Fielding. I just found them really easy going, ideal for someone like me who has a short attention span!

Kelly
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The best book I have read in a long time was “Scott” by Sir Ranulph Fiennes i.e. Scott of the Antarctic. It was very moving towards the end and I had a real lump in my throat

If you want something “topical” then Kate Carr’s “It’s Not Like That Actually” will resonate with BC victims who have young children.

If you liked the Thornbirds, you might like Victoria Hislop’s “The Island” - it’s a very moving story about Greece’s leper colony on Spinalonga an island off Crete. It’s about 3 generations of women and secrecy about the past. It is one to get really involved in.
Sarah
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I have just read “The World Below” by Sue Miller. The many generations of women in the same family take some sorting out as the novel dashes about in Time but you soon feel you are living amongst the characters - I love that.

A Mighty Heart by Marianne Pearle was a great, sad, read and I hear the film has now been made starring Angelina Jolie.

Would always opt to read the book - films never capture the quality in the same way.

Same goes for Dead Man Walking - brilliant read, sad and thought provoking but would never watch the film as Helen Prejean wrote so movingly and convincingly about the death penalty.

Jackie Collins for me, I have them all and just finished reading her latest one, they are so glam and mafia…but good.

Carole Matthews I do like they are fun.
Sophie Kinsella, Her Shopaholic books are so funny, and even the one Domestic Goddess was fun. But highly recommend the shopaholic ones, start at the first one and finish with the latest one with Baby. If you love shopping you will definately relate to this ones, and the character writes letters to banks and shops and the replies she gets are so well done.

I read loads of books, they have to be funny, so if anyone can recommend any that would be great, (I might have read them but let me know anyway).
I have severe nerve damage, so it is good to read on the days that I have numbness in arms and cannot do much.
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If you want an easy read that has a bit of humour then try Jill Mansell. I also love Anita Shreve who writes unusual books have not read two of hers that are the same, often authors have a set way of writing. For one that is gripping and tells of East End life I love Martina Cole although can be a bit graphic at times. A lovely trilogy by Nora Roberts about three women and there lives and struggle with understanding who they are. A sad but lovely author is Cecelia Ahern, loved PS I love you.

Sorry I love reading and will read almost anything, have loads more ideas if anyone wants other suggestions.

Treakle xx

Hi

Just back from a week’s escape and read Lance Armstrong’s It’s Not About The Bike. The first 40 pages or so were a bit much - he is extraordinarily close to his mother - and I was going to leave it at that but persevered and glad I did.

Also read Seeing The Crab (a memoir of dying) by Christina Middelbrook - excellent and so much of what she said resonated with me, I was quite choked by it.