Leona

great idea for a thread! i used to obsessionally finish every book istarted even if it was really painful, in the last few years i've decided there are too many brilliant books out there to read and i don't finish a book unless it grabs me by the tonsils by page 100. i've chucked 'mr strange and dr norrell'(or is it mr norell an dr strange)- i just can't read fantasy. don't see myself ever going back to it. the first book i remember chucking was 'sophies world'. it was such hard work! did anyone ever read it?it was supposed to have this amazing ending and that was the only thing that kept me going for a while but in the end i gave up. i tend to get rid of a book if i've given up on it-i used keep them on my shelf inthe hopes that i'd read them someday but now i give them away because they stare down at me from the shelf making me feel guilty!

hey michelle, thanks for that, i feel less guilty now about flinging it!

i really enjoyed the memory keepers daughter too- i like those lists, at least they give you something to think about, i agree with whoever it was who said that if it encourages reading it's got to be a good thing-i'm paraphrasing obviously-i'm a bit of a technophobe and am scared of the quote thing! i think they've picked really good books- like other people have said, the time travellers wife(loved it), lovely bones, and 'the Star of the Sea'-fantastic read -i really loved it, and i don't think it's just cause i'm irish,anyway, am babbling now keep up the good work R and J!!!!!!

i love stephen king but rarely admit it-does that make me a book snob?!!! i loved the stand,shawshank redemption(the film is my favourite ever film adaptation-love that bit where they're all on the roof drinking beer),the green mile. loved that teenage/kids one was it 'eyes of the dragon'? i love the way he mentions characters from other books in passing IYKWIM-, i think that's so clever. loved 'needful things'- some dastardly friend snaffled it on me years ago i think some of his stuff's awful though, definately don't think he' s been as good since that head injury a few years ago

my sisters name is Niamh (Neeve). she spent a summer in LA when she was in college and had a total nightmare trying to tell people how to spell and pronounce it!!!she's always cursing my mother for giving her an unpronouncable irish name, and i'm so jealsous of her, i love irish names this thread reminds me of when i was young reading those enid blyton 'mallory towers' books- i thought Alicia was pronounced 'alicka'. it was years before i twigged it!!!

i'm not entirely sure how to do the quote thing from other peoples replies but i loved 'the thirteenth tale'. it's a pretty good story but what i really liked about it was all the references to reading and books and what a joy it is being a book addict. love this thread! has anyone read 'the glass books of the dream eaters' by gw dahlquist? i thought it looked like a thumping big historical read, i started it and wasn't sure,.it looks a bit fantasy-ish, and that's not really me' then i was going on holiday and flying ryanair-i didn't want to be done for excess baggage(seriously, this book weighs a ton) so i brought a few others intsead, now i'm looking at it and wondering 'is it worth the effort?-life is short, my list is long..... etc! would love to know if anyone else persevered.

hi all, thanks for all the cheery welcomes!!looking forward to the promised expansion of my 'to be read' list!

Hi There, i'm Leona,i'm from Dublin, i've got three children,i'm a doctor-working full time so life's pretty busy.i'd lose the plot totally if it wasn't for an hour or so of escape into a book everyday. i read fiction pretty much exclusively, i've so much factual stuff to read for work that fiction is a great break. i'm so glad i found this forum, very few people i know read much and i'm really looking forward to getting to know some like minded people!,looks like a very friendly forum!

very few books have made me cry, but i bawled at 'the book thief', 'the boy in the striped pajamas' almost did it but not quite. i think i cried years ago when i read 'little women', but that was probably teenage angst, oh and how could i forget 'the time travellers wife'?fantastic stuff, sobbed and sobbed....... wasn't the better of that one for a week