bookwormmum

Oh no, not a knitter at all, I don't know how. My mum was a big knitter when I was a child. Our wardrobe was always full of her creations, but she became ill when I was 10 and cannot control her right hand enough now to continue and I never had the patience before then to learn. Despite my lack of ability I can't get enough of knitting themed prose at the moment. In fact I started a thread on it because I'm looking for more reads. It all started when I read The Friday Night Knitting Club last year. I loved Divas Don't Knit and I'm currently waiting to get hold of the follow up Needles & Pearls from the library. I was a little bit disappointed by the Joshua Ferris. I wanted it to be funnier than it was and it was just a little depressing, but all the too true. I will have to have a look at your review hun.

The one that I really loved & still feel sad it ended was the 1st read. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice. I'm not sure why I loved it so much, but reading it was like wrapping a huge duvet round me. I have many that I that I have enjoyed, but I know this one will be a comfort read in time to come.

I'm new too and everyone has been really friendly.

Yep, eviction is tonight. I had it on in the background while I browsed the net. Haven't a got a favourite yet.

Oh dear, what kind of books??? I tend to pick fiction over non. It's very rare that I read crime/horror novels. I guess I enjoy tales that focus on relationships, be it romantic, historical, family etc. My favourite reads so far this year have been: The Lost art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff Girl with the Pearl Earing - Tracy Chevalier Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly Q & A - Vikas Swarup The Birds & the Bees - Milly Johnson I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith Things I want my Daughters to Know - Elizabeth Noble Divas Don't Knit - Gil McNeil Friends Like These - Danny Wallace The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood

I read this a while ago and enjoyed it as a quick light read. The only thing I couldn't get my head round was when it was set, as it follows a relationship over 30 years, but none of the technology changed. The couple were IM/emailing in their teens, but still doing 30 years later. There wasn't email 30 years ago, but if it was started in the present, then surely 30 years in the future how we communicate would changed. Sorry, it bugged me a little. I had previously tried to read PS I Love You but found that too sentimental and felt like it was trying to hard to pull on the heartstrings it put me off. I gave up on that my the 3rd chapter. I quite like books that tell the story through letters, emails etc. I can't remember what they are called... Anyone? Another in the same style I've enjoyed in the past were Mag Cabott's Boy books & also Holly's Inbox. They are great for when you need some quick, not at all taxing, fluffy but you feel it's tiny bit more substantial than magazine.

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hello & welcome. I'm new too.

I have a pretty notebook that I've been recording the title & author of each books I've read since the beginning of 2007. Part of me wishes I'd was a little bit more imaginative and added comments about what I felt about the book once I had read it. I have started to mark them with a little dot if they made a impact on me. I'm a newbie, but I've just also added my current 2008 list on here, so I also intend to update that now as I go along. As for Library thing, I know of it, but never ventured more than a browse.

Thanks guys. xxx I still trying to find my bearings round here. It's taken me ages to work out how to view threads from oldest to last!!! I don't know how they trust me with my computer at work.

Here are my reads so far for this year. I will update each month. Please feel free to comment on any. Jan 2008 The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman Wicked - Gregory Maguire How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell The Baby Trail - Sinead Moriarty Feb 2008 The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall Girl with a Pearl Earing - Tracy Chevalier A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly The Dead of Summer - Camilla Way Things to Make & Mend - Ruth Thomas Before I Die - Jenny Downham Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly Q & A - Vikas Swarup March 2008 The Only Boy For Me - Gil McNeil Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka 26a - Diana Evans The Family Tree - Carole Cadwalladr Stardust - Neil Gaiman The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen April 2008 Finding Violet Park - Jenny Valentine The Birds & the Bees - Milly Johnson The Matchbreaker - Chris Manby Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris Growing Up Again - Catriona McCloud I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith May 2008 Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Mrs Zhivago of Queen's Park - Olivia Lichtenstein Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons June 2008 Things I Want my Daughters to Know - Elizabeth Noble Knitting - Anne Bartlett The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank Just in Case - Meg Rosoff July 2008 Highland Fling - Katie Fforde What was lost - Catherine O'Flynn Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal - Lucy Cavendish The Observations - Jane Harris Odd One Out - Lissa Evans Divas Don't Knit - Gil McNeil Playing with the Grown-ups - Sophie Dahl Friends Like These - Danny Wallace Pay it Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde The Wedding Date - Liz Young Aug 2008 In My Sister's Shoes - Sinead Moriarty In the Wee small Hours - Gil McNeil Addition - Toni Jordan The Flood - David Maine Astrid & Veronika - Linda Olsson The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood Sept 2008 A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo Holly's Inbox, Scandal in the City - Holly Denham New Moon - Stephenie Meyer The Mother & Daughter Diaries - Clare Shaw The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The House at Riverton - Kate Morton The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller The Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin Oct 2008 Claudia, Daughter of Rome - Antoinette May Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday Needles & Pearls - Gil McNeil Spa Wars - Chris Manby A Small Part of History - Peggy Elliott A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, A novel - Nicholas Drayson By The Time You Read This - Lola Jaye Me & Mr Darcy - Alexandra Potter One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat

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Hi Guys I guess you know that I am a newbie as I'm in this section. I'm Vicki, 28 year old working mum to a preschooler. I'm a bit of a bookworm. I get through roughly 5-7 books a month and need a place to discuss the books I've read. I've been looking for a nice book forum to call home, as hubby is not a bit reader & hope this may be the place. I have about 200 TBR in my pile waiting to be picked up & yet I still go the library every week & pick out one or two!!! So many books & yet so little time. I hope you want to welcome me into your crowd.