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At school we read Kes, Elidor, Death of a salesman. We also read the Joan Lingard series of books: The Twelve Day of July Across the Barricades Into exile A proper place At school we read the first two and I read the rest of the series myself, I am pretty sure there is another one but I have forgetten the title.

It as really good, I enjoyed it...

Sounds really good, thanks for sharing. I read 'Everything you know' which is also by Zoe Heller... Here is some info.. Willy Muller has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, years of hate mail from the public, and, most recently, the suicide of his daughter, Sadie. While recuperating from a heart attack, he finds himself drawn into the lonely world of his late daughter's dairies.

I haven't, no...but I will certainly be on the look out for them. I guess I like the diary because it was true and Anne was a typical teenager which at times I found funny, even with the situation she was in, she still had the odd 'rant'...

I keep certain books but the rest I just pass them on...

Hi Michelle Great topic... Unfortunately I can not cook - at all, but my sister is a chef so I will get some receipes from her and post them.

I think you would enjoy it Liz...

Hi Katie... I have lost count how many times I have read Anne Frank's Diary and I have enjoyed and been saddened by it, it is a wonderful story, more so because it is true. You are correct there are not a lot of deep details, its just the world according to Anne, a world in which she hopes that the war will end soon. It is always saddens me when I read the last entry and then a few days later Anne's family, The Van Pels, and Mr Pfeffer were all captured, then you find out what happened to them all. The way Anne's life ended and the rest of them (apart from Mr Frank) was a waste of life.

Paul, It is a classic to so many people because Holden as a character will always be rememberable, the way he thought and felt about life were very singular and something to be behold...but I still that Holden was nothing special, as much as he wanted to make his mark on the world, he just did not do it, but at least he tried. I very much believe if you going to do it, just do it... I think I am going to read 'Catcher in the rye' again Paul...

I see a book I like, I buy it. My taste is varied so each book is different.

Following on from my rather blunt reply before (apologies to all). I just found Holden a bit empty to be honest, granted he was surly teenager with various different issues. 'Catcher in the rye' is and always will be a classic but Holden was nothing special and lets face it he did not claim to be.

Birthday: 21st December Age: 33 Starsign: Sagittarius Single/Married/Other? Married Children? No (its a working progress....) Where do you live? Glasgow, Scotland Do you work? Yes for the NHS Favourite author? Clive Barker Favourite book? Little Big Man by Thomas Berger How did you get here? I googled 'online book club' and here I am..

I avoid Catherine Cookson books and books that are Catherine Cookson type of books.

Hello There... I have read series wise... The Dark Tower Sophie Kinsella (all of the shop-aholic ones - patiently waiting for 'Shop-aholic and Baby' to be released) Some of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett..

I could read when I was about 3, I used the newspaper..

Hello There... I also read 'Catcher in The Rye' at school and I found Holden Caulifield just plain annoying...

Hello There.. I remember reading 'Elidor' by Alan Garner and thinking Wow...

Thanks for your reply, it must have been very difficult for you to read, I don't have children and it was hardgoing, very sad and tragic for me. There was a film of 'Sophie's Choice' which starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.

I always liked this: 'True joy is a profound remembering, and true grief is the same. Thus it was, when the dust storm that had snatched Cal up finally died, and he opened his eyes to see the Fugue spread out before him, he felt as though the few fragile moment of epiphany he'd tasted in his twenty-six years - tasted but always lost – were here redeemed and wed. He'd grasped fragments of this delight before. Heard rumour of it in the womb-dream and the dream of love; known it in lullabies. But never, until now, the whole, the thing entire. It would be, he idly thought, a fine time to die. And a finer time still to live, with so much laid out before him'. - Clive Barker, Weaveworld And this: 'After my religion period, I took up with a swindler: Allardyce Merriwhether. After Mrs. Pendrake his honesty was downright refreshing'.

Hello there How are you all doing? I finally finished 'Sophie's Choice' by William Styron. This book was readable but I was slightly disappointed by it, the characters were good but not rememberable, and you actually did not care what happened to them. Parts of the story were sad but this sounds really awful, but Sophie really annoyed me and that was even before I found out what her choice was, which I found very difficult to read. It was a well thought out story but I don't think I will read it again.

I loved it, absolutely adored it, it was sweet, funny and very sad...

Hello... The last cd,well cds I bought were: The Black Keys - Magic Potion Jet - Shine On I have to say both are great albums!

I think you are saying, sorry I am a bit rusty, 'will bring forth Dread Cthulhu, and you can't stop me!'? They were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape...but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for them.

I enjoyed 'The Historian'... But I did find the ending very rushed as well, I felt there could have been more to do it, if that makes sense?