Wonders disciple

Thank you to everyone for there kind welcome.

Rick Stein and Nigel Slater are probably my Two favourites. I love Rick's passion for cooking and ingredients, would love to be able to sit down and have a good chat with him. I love Nigel's writing, he also has recipes that you just want to cook. Real cooking i suppose.

I loved The Shadow Of The Wind. One of my favou rite books. One of the only books to make me laught out loud, I've read it Twice now and would love to read more by Zafon.

Just picked this up the other day for 25p, hoping to get around to reading it soon.

The Corrections was probably the first book that made it clear to me that i could love reading. Up until that point i had mostly read factual books. Ninteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm are other important books to me, but only in the sense that they reinforce what i already believe. The book that is really making me think about it's subject long after reading is Birdsong. The first world war. Which seems as if it has always been around, gets brought into sharp focus by Faulks. Soon realising that you have releagated it to an annual anniversary and the buying of a poppy, without ever giving it too much thought. Since finishing Birdsong i have bought, The Unknown Soldier by Neil Hanson and War Of The World by Niall Ferguson. Directly because of reading Birdsong

Can't quite remember if i have actually cried whilst reading a book, although i do remember that certain parts of The Grapes Of Wrath and Birdsong left me with a lump in my throat.

Lol. Thank you Bev, i have been warned:)

Four sitting on my shelf. I heard Ian rankin talking about him in an interview so i decided to give him a look. Found Four in a second hand shop, so just need to get around to reading them now.

Bought most of her books for my girlfriend, she likes what she has read so far of body double. I have read The surgeon, Body double and enjoyed both of them.

I always turn away from Jeffrey Archer. Too much perjury and missing millions in charity donations for my liking. Also anything by Jordan, Kerry, etc,etc. Why people would want to make these people, of very limited talent, richer and more famous is beyond me.

I have been using old Waterstone's receipts lately. They do the job, but i do like having a proper bookmark for some reason.

I just found this forum and thought i would say hello to everyone. I've really only started reading heavily in the last few years. I now find it impossible to go for any length of time without buying new books. Any free space seems to be taken up by more and more books to read, I have no idea why i buy so many books at the one time but after reading some of the posts here, it's now clear i am not alone and i am entirely normal:).