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Thanks, Andrea. I'm in the process of finding series to read so I might check out this particular one!

Hi, just curious how far in is everybody reading this book?

Here's my updated list. Finished: - March, Geraldine Brooks. Beautiful writing. - The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Bleak yet hopeful. Beautiful father and son relationship. -Of Mice and Men. A good read. A 5/5 week! Reading: - Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra. - Blood Memory, Greg Iles So far so good! Somewhat decided future reading: - The Library Window, Margaret Oliphant - Turn of the Screw, Henry James - Out, Natsuo Kirino - Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin - Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt - L'assomoir, Emile Zola - Cannery Row, John Steinbeck - Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen - Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut - The Echo Maker, Richard Powers - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys - Skipping Christmas, John Grisham And these are shelved. Another time perhaps? - Good Earth, Pearl S Buck - Bouvard & Pecuchet, Gustave Flaubert - The Birth House, Ami McKay - Next, Michael Crichton - Utopia, Lincoln Child

Thank you! I really needed to reduce the list so really appreciate your suggestions! I'm currently reading Of Mice and Men. The relationship between Lennie and George is so cute!

Needs immediate attention! - March, Geraldine Brooks (due 25th, wait, that's 2 days ago!) - The Road, Cormac McCarthy (oh my 25th as well...) - Atonement, Ian McEwan (30th) - The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls (31st) - Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (31st) Not-so-urgent - Come to me, Amy Bloom - Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck - Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra (got to check out their library due dates soon) Undecided - The Library Window, Margaret Oliphant - Turn of the Screw, Henry James - Out, Natsuo Kirino - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides - Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys - Cannery Row, John Steinbeck - Good Earth, Pearl S Buck - Skipping Christmas, John Grisham - Bouvard & Pecuchet, Gustave Flaubert - Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut - L'assomoir, Emile Zola - The Echo Maker - The Birth House, Ami McKay - Next, Michael Crichton - Utopia, Lincoln Child - Blackwater Lightship - Angela's Ashes - Northanger Abbey (Help please! Which titles do I need to axe out, and which would you recommend from this list?)

Wow, thanks for all your welcomes! I feel at home already. I look forward to reading your posts and discussing with everybody as well!

Oh I love Celia Rees books, particularly The Soul Taker. Also read The Bailey Game and The Vanished if not wrong. Maybe you could check them out too Kell. And wow thanks for the list of YA books. I'll keep the list in mind while browsing the YA section.

I'd be interested to know why you hated The Alchemist Kylie? Veronika Decides to Die is a book I hope to read in the future.

Virginia Woolf is another author I have yet to explore. I have heard that readers have problems with her streams of consciousness. Does that bother you Liz? How do you find Woolf?

I have March by Geraldine Brooks with me. Has anyone read it? Do I need to read Little Women before reading this book?

I'm always tempted to do more than browsing in a bookstore. But here is the time I exercise some self control! A suggestion, if you can't resist buying, don't bring cash with you everytime you're going to a bookstore. It works for me!

Thanks for editing my post Kell.

Hi everybody! I'm really not good with introductions. Hmm, I'm open to all kinds of genres. Contemporary, classics, young adults. I read non-fiction a couple of years ago, but currently fiction has taken the reins! Some books in my list: Out by Natsuo Kirino, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Atonement.

I can't edit my post can I? Anyway the book is Caught on a Train by Carlo Gebler.

I would be interested to know what is your favourite young adult/children book. So please share with us. The most memorable book for me is this : Caught on a Train by Carlo Gebler I read it a few years ago, (or is it a few more years back?? my memory's playing tricks!) and it totally enchanted me with its bizarre, magical stories. It has 3 short stories captured in one main story. It's about a 14 year old boy who experience the most extraordinary train journey across Ireland. Unusually, there are only 3 passengers that day and he is supposed to judge which of the three tells the best story. So commence the Irish fairy and folk tales storytelling which includes visiting the seabed, visiting the moon on an eagle's back. Hope that gives you an idea of the book. All I know now is that just writing this has spurred a desire to revisit this book again! But let it wait. Because I have 8 more books waiting!