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I loved O'Farrell's debut, "After You'd Gone". It was one of those books that you race through in a day or so, not just for the plot but because it is such an intense experience. Her second "My Lover's Lover" gets a more mixed reception from the reviewers on Amazon.co.uk. Has anyone here read...

I hadn't come across Connelly or Bosch until reading this thread. So I decided to do some investigations of my own. There are only two of his books listed in the Library section of this site. One of them, "Chasing in the Dime", doesn't actually feature Bosch. There are no reviews for it yet...

Hello and welcome Plenty, What sort of thing do you like reading?

I've got a photo of Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe in Argyll, Scotland set as my desktop wallpaper. Its from a set of Scottish photos which I downloaded for free a few years back for use as a screensaver. I like yours, Martin, as its your own photo and therefore personal. For a while last year I...

Paperback It's paperback for me. As others have said, much better for the train and more cost effective. It's so annoying having to wait about twelve months for new books to come out in paperback. This is particularly the case with books on current affairs that can be dated even before they...

I think I rather liked Fanny Price, though I've seen the film more recently than I've read the book so perhaps that is based more on the cinematic version. My least favourite Austen heroine by a long way, and one of the first characters that sprang to my mind in relation to the title of this...

You got further than I did. I failed to make it past page 100 of Catch 22 - twice. I said more about the book here: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1159&highlight=catch

Now on to Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone". A little slow to start, but some good books often are.

This is new to me. Sounds worth investigating, so thanks for bringing it to our attention Raven.

Good to see I'm not alone. I can't even remember whether they did blow up the bridge or not!

A couple of books worth mentioning that are broadly related to this discussion: a novel called "Take One Young Man" by Vivian Kelly, and a non-fiction book called "What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson. I read the first about three or four years ago. It captures brilliantly how it...

Reading through this thread I've been reminded that romantic comedies are probably my favourite movie genre. I'm a big softy and proud of it. I too really liked "While You Were Sleeping". In terms of films not yet mentioned here, I would add "You've Got Mail" and - though I think it is...

Welcome aboard Raven and Dianne.

I'm not an expert in poety either. Indeed, I'm verging on the poetically illiterate, given that I read so very little of stuff. However, I really enjoyed reading these, particularly the first. They come from the heart. Thanks for sharing them.

"Great Expectations" isn't one of my Dickens favourites - "Two Cities" is, I hope you like it. When "Tale of Two Cities" featured in the Top 100 of the BBC's recent poll of the British people's favourite books, it was illustrated on the tv by scenes from a black and white film about the...

Thanks for the Doubletree presentation Ashlea. Very funny. Someone must have done something similar in connection with our railways here in the UK. A fellow passenger of mine got some very rude answers from a station employee this evening for daring to ask when the next Liverpool train would...

The current BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" (quaint I know) is John LeCarre reading his latest, "Absolute Friends". Tonight is part three, but you can catch up with any episode for up to one week after broadcast via the R4 website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 It seems promising. On Sunday...

Someone sent me this. It made me laugh out loud, so I thought I'd share it with friends here. --------------------------------------- The following letters are taken from an actual incident between a London hotel and one of its guests last year. The hotel ended up submitting the letters...

Hemingway? I loved "Farewell to Arms", but found "For Whom the Bell Tolls" rather heavy going. As for me, I'm currently reading both "Mortal Causes" - one of the Rebus books - and "Felix Holt, The Radical" by George Eliot. The latter is of interest to someone like me who has an interest in...

It seems there are now 6 million adults over 18 in UK still living in the family home; 2 million of them over 30 and 1 million approaching 40. http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1126905,00.html