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Sláinte Mhath to all those celebrating ol' Rab's 250th birthday tonight!:)

Fair point, well made.

We have a list of our local book club reads but as for me personally, nope I don't really keep a list of what I've read. That said, I did get so many diaries for Christmas that I've kept one solely for noting down what I'm reading and when I start and finish it.

I love the work of Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy - they're fab contemporary poets imho.

Oh, there are so many...but I feel like posting this one right now: Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways...

I second A Walk in the Woods by Bryson Also, not sure if you can really call it 'non-fiction' (maybe, I dunno) but I LOVE Letters From A Nut and More Letters From A Nut by Ted L Nancy

I read this several years ago and loved it. Funny, moving, gross, fascinating... I've recommended it to a few people but they just give me strange looks.

Yes, definitely... I bought The Illustrated Man when I was 17 and loved it. I lent it to a friend and never got it back. My favourite story from that book was The Veldt. After that I read Farenheit 451, Machineries of Joy, I Sing The Body Electric and Long After Midnight - all dusty old...

One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister. Howards End - EM Forster

I like to mix it up, although I suppose I do lean towards contemporary 'literary' fiction. I do get suckered into wanting to read the bestsellers and the prize winners. I will give anything a whirl though and can't imagine only reading one genre or type of book. That's why I'm so pleased I am...

Oh yeah, and after I finished studying for my exams I read Polo by Jilly Cooper, which I should really have hated...but it was fab.

I like some chick-lit now and then if we're reading something 'highbrow' for book club. Just gives my brain a rest, you know? I like a bit of Kathy Reichs and Minette Walters sometimes. I'm sure they'd hate to be referred to as 'fluff'...

How can you be suspicious of someone listing Dickens as a favourite?? He's the master!!!

I had two on the go: Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown and The Stone Boudoir - Theresa Maggio Brown's book was quite interesting - covering topics such as hypnosis, NLP, psychic ability etc, but toward the end I found Brown really smug and irritating. I have seen his show live though and he's...

I'm in London (mainly) in the early 1900s. (Howards End - EM Forster):flowers:

Really? Miss Read? Are her books good?? We have loads in the library where I work and they don't appeal to me at all. Tell me about them! My cosy books are the first couple of Adrian Mole books (Secret Diary and Growing Pains) - they really make me laugh and remind me of when I first read...