Ooshie

Although I loved them years ago, I think they were probably pretty dated even then, so I can imagine what they must have seemed like

Hi Zumii, nice to see you around! Love your username:)

The first sentence of the introductory paragraph at the beginning of the Kinsey Millhone Mystery series by Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi etc) used to read: "For months I lay in bed and plotted how to kill my ex-husband. But I knew I'd bungle it and get caught, so I wrote it in a book instead." It changed after M is for Malice when she obviously remarried - but maybe it's a crime series you might enjoy! They are quite easy reading although, like lots of series, the earlier books seemed better than the last few. Welcome back, anyway, and I hope you enjoy being back on the forum!

I still have all my old Ladybird books, too! My parents are both big readers, and I was read to from a very early age, and I can't remember a time when there weren't lots of books around for me; mostly Ladybird books and Enid Blyton when I was small. Like Kell, my mother had taught me to read before I went to school, and some of my earliest memories are reading or being read to.

The World According to Garp - John Irving

Dance to the Music of Time

Class...

Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John

The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi "A hot summer's day. A crowded motorway. A split second that changes everything." The story of how a motorway crash affected both the people involved, their friends and families, and how they got their lives back together again afterwards. This was very easy reading, apart from the fact that there were so many characters that I kept forgetting who they all were! Thankfully, there was a character list at the front of the book so I was able to use that when I got confused. I thought the idea of the book was good, but at 880 pages it was just too long. I know Penny Vincenzi writes blockbusters, but I'm sure that if it had been a couple of hundred pages shorter it would have been a much better read. I enjoyed it well enough to finish it, but I don't think I will keep it to read again.

No group read just yet, then?

Finished The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi - all 880 pages of it!

Corrugated...

Barbara Vine

It would have to be Narnia for me

I loved the Chalet School series of books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer when I was young - although that was quite a while ago!

Penguins. Football or tennis?

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

Money...

Room At The Top

I enjoyed Odd Thomas. But I have always wanted to read The Secret Garden, and never got round to it You are very sensible moving on to another book when you are just not enjoying one!

I very much enjoy the Harry Bosch series - it's one of my favourites.