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Like you I`ve enjoyed the last two Mitch Albom books, I found them both very moving at times, I`ll be starting For One More Day very soon I hope I enjoy it as much as you did.

Enjoy, it`s an amazing book.

I`m looking forward to reading this book, I`ll be picking it up from the library tomorrow.

Scottish short bread.

That is so awful, I couldn`t believe what I was reading. How could so many people be so neglectful of basic needs. I`m speechless.

I`ve never read Karin Slaughter, but I think I should give her a try she sounds like my kind of author.

11. Is there a particular passage which has haunted you, even after some time has passed since finishing this book? This is the part that really got to me: She saw Aziza kicking in Zaman`s arms as he hurriedly turned the corner, heard Aziza screaming as though she were about to vanish from the face of the earth. And Laila saw herself running down the hallway, head down, a howl rising up from her throat. I can`t imagine how it would feel to leave your child in an orphanage, or how it would affect a young child to be put through it. I found this so sad both for Laila and for Aziza. I cried when I read this part of the book.

Hello Emily

Tuesdays With Morrie ~ Mitch Albom from the back of the book: Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who helped you when you were young and impassioned, helped you to see the world as a more profound place, and gave you sound advice to guide your way through it. For Mitch Albom, it was Morrie Schwartz, the college professor who had taught him nearly twenty years before. Perhaps like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as the years passed, the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn`t you like to see that person again, to ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, and receive wisdom for your busy life the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom got that second chance, rediscovering Morrie in the last months of the older mans life. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class"; lessons in how to live. Tuesdays With Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together. My thoughts, Tuesdays With Morrie is a work of non-fiction, and tells of the final months of a unique man, with an incurable illness of the neurological system. Morrie refused to feel sorry for himself, instead he continued to help others, by doing what he did best talking and listening and sharing. I found this book thought provoking, happy and sad all at the same time. What an amazing man Morrie Schwartz was, in an ideal world we would all live by his principles. I really enjoyed reading this book although there were times I couldn`t see through the tears. This was the second Mitch Albom book I`ve read and I really like his style of writing, I`ll be looking out for more books by him.

I finished Tuesdays with Morrie last night, I thought it was equally as good as The Five people you meet in Heaven (both are written by Mitch Albom) but I shed more tears with Tuesdays with Morrie probably because it`s a true story. Now I`ve made a start on Third Degree - Greg Iles I`ve enjoyed the other books of his I`ve read, so it should be good.

Hello Gemz

I hope you like it as much as I did.

I bought and started Tuesdays With Morrie ~ Mitch Albom nearly finished it, it`s so good. Also picked up Third Degree ~ Greg Iles, from the library.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven ~ Mitch Albom On his eighty-third birthday, eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. I bought this book after reading so many good reports on it. It was a lovely, thought provoking work of fiction, but having read it I for one hope it turns out, at least in part, to be true. The story makes us think that everything happens for a reason, something I do believe anyway, and it makes us think about how our actions have a knock on effect. I would love to believe that there`ll be five people waiting for me when I die, to explain my life to me and to tell me why certain things had turned out the way they did. I`ve spoken so much about this book at work I`ve got people queuing up to borrow it, including one person who never reads! I hope they`re not disappointed. 10/10 recommended.

I wasn`t convinced of Tariqs death either so it wasn`t a surprise that he returned to find Laila - I breathed a sigh of relief at his return any way! Although I knew what sort of man Rasheed was, I was surprised at the lengths he went to to decieve Laila, perhaps I shouldn`t have been though because I wasn`t surprised he knew about Aziza being Tariqs child.

No I haven`t read it yet but it will be added to my "must get" list! I really like his style of writing. Thanks for the tip. Sorry your struggling with Keeping The Dead, hope it picks up.

I think I`m going to have to get Tuesdays with Morrie now, I liked what I read and as you enjoyed it ........

I`m not sure but I think Laila liked the fact nobody would recognise her when she wore the burqa, her friends expected her to do something with her life unlike them who expected to be married with children at a very young age. I think Mariam and Laila both had different reasons for liking the burqa.

Recently I`ve read, So Many Ways To Begin ~ Jon Mcgregor. David Carter cannot help but wish for more; that his wife Eleanor could be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter`s arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mothers friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie. This is the second book from Jon Mcgregor and once again it`s written in his distinctive style which I find almost poetic, Mcgregor seems to bring beauty to even the seemingly mundane things he writes about. I`d wondered whether I would enjoy this book as much as I did If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, and I very quickly found out that I wouldn`t be disappointed. The characters are very real and I really felt for Colin, his mother and Eleanor. The story is one of ordinary people leading ordinary lives but raises issues of what happens when things buried in the past surface unexpectedly. I thought this book was great but if you didn`t like, If nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things you probably won`t like this either, it`s not everybody`s cup of tea

I finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven, such a lovely book, but then I made the mistake of reading the extract from Tuesdays With Morrie at the end of it, and now I want that book!

When I read that part in the book I was surprised and spent a while thinking about it. I could only imagine it being true of a woman severely lacking in confidence and self esteem - which maybe Mariam was at that time? I didn`t give a thought to the fact a man had written it or whether a woman would have thought differently.

1. Who was your favourite character and why? I think Mariam was probably my favourite character, she endured so much from the time she was born until the day she killed Rasheed, despite everything she`d been through and the bitterness she could have lived with she loved Laila and her children, Laila was the daughter Mariam never had. I also admired Laila for the sacrifice she made for her unborn child, she gave herself to Rasheed for the sake of her baby. 2.Was there a particular part you enjoyed/disliked more than the rest? I found the part where Mariam went to find her father and slept outside his house because he wouldn`t see her so sad, she had so totally believed in him and was rejected. I also hated the part when Mariam, Laila and the children were returned to Rasheed after their failed escape attempt, and the way they suffered in the days that followed at Rasheeds hands, it was so sad especially worrying about Aziza, I thought she was going to die. 3. Was this the first book you`ve read in this genre/by this author? I had previously read The Kite Runner. 4. Were there any parts/ideas you struggled with. I sometimes found names and places hard to remember and the fact that girls like Mariam were married to much older men even against their will and the way women were treated generally hard to accept. 5. Overall was reading the book an enjoyable experience? It wasn`t an easy book to read because of the issues within it, but I did enjoy reading it. 6 & 7 I`ll return to these questions later.

Thanks for that but I bought it and I`ve nearly finished it now. I have enjoyed it so far ( not too many tears either!) I like the idea that that`s what I`ll find when I die.

The Olympics - the 4 man bobsleigh.

Yes she was born loving books. I`ve read good reviews about The 5 People you meet in Heaven and I`m looking forward to it, I think I might need to keep the tissues handy though.