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I've been to Mr. B's in Bath, it's pretty good. My boyfriend and I liked the atmosphere - warm, personal environment, complimentary coffee and cake too if I remember correctly. I haven't been to the Toppings in Ely but I have visited the Bath store and was very impressed. They seemed to have...

The only book I've read in one sitting was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, and then I felt like I hadn't savoured it enough so I read it again, but slowly :lol:

If I find I'm struggling to get through a book because it's not holding my interest I always try changing the situation in which I am reading. For example, if a book isn't working for me when I'm reading it in bed at night, I might have more success sitting up in a chair in the middle of the day...

It's interesting that this thread is in non-fiction - Plath wrote it as a novel and published it under a pseudonym but it is definitely autobiographical. I'm reading this now, will post again when I'm done.

I've read this! I think I posted a thread about it but didn't receive any responses, possibly because not many people have read it - but they should! I absolutely loved it and suggest it to those of my friends who I know will cope with it. I'd like to read more of Darrieussecq's work, one...

The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood

why do you never show up on my friends list... is there something you're not telling me :(

Thanks for the recommendation :)

I absolutely loved Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and have recently purchased Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd to see how they compare. I'm going to read Jude first because I'm looking forward to seeing just how dark it really is. I can't say I've read much of Hardy's poetry. Some...

I read it in January 07 when the weather was harsh; I spent most days by the fire dreamily turning the pages and loving every word. I would say that Wuthering Heights rekindled my somewhat waning interest in classic literature (at the time I was bogged down with piles of coursebooks). As a...

Hi :) I just did a module at uni called "Reading Animals", we only read one book written from the perspective of an animal, that being The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy, which follows a herd of elephants on their quest to find the white bone which will lead them to a safe place where there is...

nah, more of a cat person :D

I agree, I don't pick up books just because they've got a famous face attached to them (though I can recognise that famous faces encouraging people to read can only be a good thing) but if it promotes authors as fantastic as Morrison seems to be, and gets more people reading them then that's...

Right, I'm definitely putting Beloved and Sula on my to buy-list, I've read the blurb of both and they've both come highly recommended :D

Farewell to Arms for me too, BOTM participation here I come!

:D heheheee... thanks for sharing

Hey Rodney! Welcome to the forum. A reader and a writer is always nice to see :) I had to read Ulysses for one of my university subjects and just didn't get on with it, I had difficulty with the whole stream of consciousness thing, but good luck! Let me know how you get on, maybe I should give...

What an interesting thread :) I too have a book-buying addiction - I just can't help it, I can't pass a bookshop and not go in, and I can't go in and not buy something...I've run out of room for all the books I haven't read but am intending to. I can recognise the feeling of not having enough...

I love those last two lines :)

I have to read somewhere I can sprawl easily, so I read most often in bed. However, my favourite place to read is on my own in my garden when the sun is shining, maybe with some incense burning....bliss :D