nicola8989
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I am currently reading the third Hunger Games book and I love it.
I am a massive fan of young adult dystopian fiction. I do understand what you mean about Collins' prose, it is weak in places although of course a million times better than Twilight (I can't stand Twilight!)
I've also enjoyed Wither by Lauren DeStefano and Delirium by Lauren Olivier recently. There is definitely some great YA out there.
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Hello
yes I am so lucky to be a librarian, it really is a dream job! Unfortunately no he isn't my dog 
I do have a labrador though.I love Christina Rosetti and William Blake - my favourites are Pablo Neruda, Carol Ann Duffy, Sara Teasdale and Edgar Allan Poe.
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I had a couple of trick-or-treaters this year, not many though. Seems like university students get more into it than kids!
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hello and welcome
I'm a "newbie" too 
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and thanks for the congrats
I would love to have a novel published one day but that's probably just a pipe dream!! -
I am lucky I never had to read Ulysses! James Joyce was on one module but I just skipped him and wrote about other books instead, I'm not a fan of his writing style at all!
What other books did you read? I was quite lucky and had some pretty cool lecturers, in my third year there was a vampires module and one on dystopias and utopias
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I was given Someone Like You, another short story collection by Dahl, for World Book Night - I haven't read it yet but it does look good!
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I love this poem so much, heart-breaking
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The prose is difficult in a lot of classics I know - sometimes they use words that are out of practice, I always had my dictionary handy at university!
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and Nicola - I love your Anne Rice quote!
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Oh The Innocent Traitor, such an amazing book. Alison Weir is an amazing writer.
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I loved Wolf Hall so much. I have read a lot of books about the Tudors but this is one of my favourites. I agree about the "he" jarring at first but you do get used to it - I tried to think of it as using "he" instead of "I" so it was a bit like first-person - and "he" is generally Cromwell.
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Yeah I think Amazon tend to recommend them - The Weight of Silence is an incredible book by Heather Gudenkauf.
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Oh Jane Eyre, one of my all-time favourites. I read Wide Sargasso Sea as well and I did quite enjoy it but it's very different from Jane Eyre of course as they were written so far apart.
Wuthering Heights is another amazing book - and Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte,
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I really love Marian Keyes and the Walsh sisters books. I devoured this book in hardback as soon as it came out, it helped me with similar issues that I was going through at the time so that's perhaps why I engaged with it so much.
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Hi, I'm Nicola, I live in the North East of England and I'm a librarian - so erm, yes I like books!
I did my degree in English Literature so I've read a lot of classics but I will read most genres including YA, dystopian fiction, fantasy, contemporary, chick lit, historical, thriller.... the list goes on!
I've joined this site to speak to some other "bookish" people and get some good reading recommendations.
I'm also an amateur writer and have had a few poems, articles and short stories published.
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I always recommend Jodi Picoult to pretty much everyone I know! My favourites are My Sister's Keeper, The Pact and Salem Falls.
If you love Jodi Picoult you'll probably enjoy Diane Chamberlain and Heather Gudenkauf as well.
Stephen King - Doctor Sleep (The Shining Sequel)
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I love The Shining, I haven't read Dr Sleep yet but I bought it for someone who loves Stephen King, he's read every King book there is, and he loved Dr Sleep and gave it a 5* rating