NicolaJ

Very jumbled in time but this is as I remember..... The Secret Garden Little Women - Louisa M Alcott The Hobbit - JR Tolkien Most of Enid Blytons books Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold All Harry Potter up to the last one - still got to get into that one... Losing Gemma - Katy Gardner The Beach - Alex Garland Nicci French: Losing You What to do When Someone Dies Secret Smile Killing Me Softly Land of the Living Catch me When I Fall Beneath the Skin The Safe House The Memory Game The Red Room Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic and Sister Shopaholic Ties the Knot Shopaholic Abroad Shopaholic and Baby Confessions of a Shopaholic The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Can you Keep A Secret? What No One Tells the Bride - Marq Stark Baby Proofing Your Marriage - Stacie Cockrell The Best Friends guide to Pregnancy - Vicki Iovine Killing Helen - Sarah Challis Tell Me Where it Hurts - Dr Nick Trout Marley and Me - John Grogan Mothers Day - Kirsty Scott Not Without my Daughter - Betty Mahmoody (amazing book, but could not read it again now I have a daughter...) Shakespeare's Macbeth Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice My Take - Gary Barlow Lucky Man - Michael J Fox More later......

Ok I have read hundreds of books since I was wee so I will start with what I have read this year and then try and recall others later on....would like to keep adding to this as and when I read or remember more.......... Tell Me Where It Hurts - Dr Nick Trout Marley and Me - John Grogan Mothers Day - Kirsty Scott Destinations - Sheila O Flanagan Ooh that's not very many, am sure there are more since January! Will keep thinking......

I cried at the end of the book for ages - so seeing it in a film would be more heartbreaking!

My top five would be: White Teeth - Zadie Smith Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold The Hobbit - JR Tolkien Little Women - Louisa M Alcott The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgson Burnett

Thanks - will give that a miss then! Hubby wouldn't sit through it anyway....

I have got 'Why Can't Every Day be Mother's Day' at the moment which is the same genre too....

I'll third that - the depression example that is - very true. A couple of things that bug me, esp today: Putting the washing out and then it rains! Delivery companies who can't commit to a time for delivery so you wait in all day. Strangers who happily tell you you are hugely pregnant and must be due soon (nope, still got three months.... ) NicolaJ

I have noticed this too - but thought it was just because I am now a mummy, and the books just suddenly appeal to me! I read most of the wedding ones when planning my wedding but they don't appeal now. Have read some from that list and have noted down the others as ones to try so thank you! NicolaJ

Read this book last year and absolutely loved it! We had a labrador when I was a kid and he did most of what Marley gets up to as well. We have a beagle now and he is just as dozy, but labradors are more affectionate. Not sure if the film would ruin the book? NicolaJ