Recommending books ?

[jackthehat]

I'm going to be housebound for the next few weeks........and can read without interruption, or guilt, or expectation that I ought to be doing 'something else'.

So, I shall be heading off to Waterstones soon.

Can you provide me with a list of books I ought to consider buying ?
A brief synopsis would also be useful.

Thankyou, matey-peeps :o)

[carmalee]

what sort of stuff do you like and don't you have a local library?

[joggerjayne]

Do you like a particular genre ?

[zzxxee]

the gruffalo?
we are going on a bear hunt?
peter and jane
the gingerbread man all classics lol

[alexanderd]

depends what type of book I can recommend lots of historical novels but you might not like them

[Bbbananas]

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
and
One Day by David Nicholls.

Both very different books (both fiction) but kept me absolutely riveted - especially the David Nicholls one (he wrote Starter for Ten).

[jackthehat]

I genuinely like all sorts.........some genres I prefer to others, however, a well-written book on a subject I wouldn't usually choose would not necessarily be dismissed.

I'd prefer to buy rather than use the library.

[ummmm]

A Drink with Shane MacGowan was interesting. I don't think I need to explain it much. His then GF interviewed him which made it more interesting than the bog standard biography. She was a journalist.

Round Ireland with a fridge - again, self explanatory. Very amusing.

[missnemesis]

It might help jth if we knew what kind of books you enjoy reading?

[jackthehat]

Please.........don't try and qualify your suggestions; just fire away with the titles and a brief plot outline.

[missnemesis]

i should have typed faster lol

[joggerjayne]

Well, I've just started the reading the Twilight series, and I'm enjoying that.

Synopsis:

Teen schoolgirl from Phoenix moves to live with her father in a crappy, rainy town. Some guys at her school turn out to be sexy vampires.

Err ...

... that's it !

[alexanderd]

Bill Brysons "notes on a small Island" is informative and fun

[ummmm]

Oh..the 'Round Ireland with a fridge' was a drunken bet.

[alexanderd]

Conn Iguldens Ghenkis Khan series tells his story from birth to death but as a novel Great author

[zzxxee]

plot hmmmmmmmmmmm ??
we are going on a bear hunt
they cant go under it
they cant go over it
can they go through it??
you will have to read it to find out !!!!!!!!!! pmsl

[Bbbananas]

I was persuaded to try the Twilight series. I quite enjoyed the first one... but then I thought they went rapidly downhill and soon lost interest.

Please try One Day by David Nicholls jth - if you don't enjoy it, I will eat my hat (turd-coloured wool. Very coarse. It would choke me.) x

[daftgrandad]

We know that in your own opinion,you are far superior to other subscribers,but surely you could let us mere plebs, know your likes in literature.

[carmalee]

the kindness of strangers by kate adie - most of wilbur smith - the seven lost trails of Africa by hedley chilvers - the story of an African farm by olive schreiner - hold my hand I'm dying and the land god made in anger by john gordon davis

[ummmm]

Daft....where did you get that opinion from?

[carmalee]

William Horwood wrote the wolves of time pt 1 & 2 - two books with a slightly surreal feel -absolutely enthralling - I thoroughly enjoyed reading them. check him out on the web, he has lots.