Recommending books ?

[jackthehat]

I'm going to be housebound for the next few weeks........and can read without interruption, or guilt, or expectation that I ought to be doing 'something else'.

So, I shall be heading off to Waterstones soon.

Can you provide me with a list of books I ought to consider buying ?
A brief synopsis would also be useful.

Thankyou, matey-peeps :o)

[jackthehat]

Still smarting, DG ?

I'm busy compiling a list of all your suggestions. :o)

[daftgrandad]

You really are a smart little bovine jth
Perhaps you would be kind enough to let me know xactly what suggestions I have made.

[McMouse]

Mrs McM is on the last book of the Stig Larsson trilogy which starts of with "Girl with the Dragon tattoo" she says they're brilliant. I've just read Assegai by Wilbur Smith and was sorry when it ended.

[jackthehat]

As you so obviously haven't made any I'd have thought that even someone as 'daft' as you would see that my two comments were unrelated........

[jno]

I haven't read At Home yet but I've enjoyed Bill Bryson's other books (except the travel ones, he strains too hard at his jokes), so I'm looking forward to it.

[anneasquith]

whats wrong with the library .jth ?

[zita-green]

Booker prize winner 'Moon Tiger' by Penelope Lively. Story told by a journalist nearing the end of her life, covering her childhood, her time in wartime Egypt, the Hungarian uprising, her marriage, lover and daughter. An astonishing story of the nature of history, beautifully told.

[micmak]

Remember me by Lesley Pearce is about a young woman who is transported to Australia for stealing.

[daftgrandad]

jth.Please explain your last reply.I am sorry,but I did,nt realise you had made two
comments.
Re "are you still smarting" the answer is no.Having read your profile,I can understand
why my remarks,in the Gs and Ps threads and subsequent posts really touched a nerve with you.

[jackthehat]

Absolutely nothing wrong with libraries.
It's just that my nearest one isn't particularly.........and I'll be reliant (possibly) on someone else doing the 'return run'.

I tend to buy and keep books to read and re-read..............:o)

[Bbbananas]

One Day by David Nicholls..... oh, did I already mention that? There's a real twist at the end you just don't see coming. It's funny, touching & well written. About two people who meet at University, and follows their lives up on the same day for the next 20 years........

[jackthehat]

DG - Ah, bless you..........
Well, if you can understand......then you understand. Or have I missed something ?

I was referring to your username.

And calling someone 'a bovine', doesn't hide the insult.

[daftgrandad]

Thanks for the reply jth.May as well call it quits.
Re "bovine" it was not intended to hide anything.

[jackthehat]

Back now..........
I bought;
One Day - David Nicholls,
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (I enjoyed The Shadow of the Wind),
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer,
The Tent, The Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy.
They have all been spirited away from me, though, 'put away' until the weekend :o(

Salla - Hopefully you won't have to eat your hat..........I'll let you know. ;o)

DG - You don't say........!?!

[scotman]

"No Mean City"
Story of young 'hard man' growing up in 1920s Gorbals area of Glasgow.

for crime fiction
Any of Henning Mankell's 'Wallander' series. They don't really need to be read in sequence.
or
Ian Rankin's 'Rebus' series. These do benefit from being read in sequence.

[askyourgran]

The books by Reginald Hill of the Dalziel and Pascoe, humerous and entertaining murder mysteries, also Peter Robinson for his books on DI Banks a policeman also also Yorkshire, (who Stephen Tomkinson portrayed and made a pigs ear of last weekend on TV). The classic book by Erskine Childers "The Riddle of the sands" is one I re-read. A man invites a friend to join him on his boat exploring the Dutch/German coast pre-1914, to try uncover a possible route for German U-boats to cross the North Sea to invade England.

[boxtops]

Start something you never have time to finish normally - War and Peace, Dr Zhivago, if you like history of places then London or Sarum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarum_(novel) about the building of those towns from prehistoric times, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (or indeed the plays).
Get a CD and study a new language?

[boxtops]

^^ PS I'd buy off Amazon if I were you, really good quality new or second hand books at much less than you will pay in Waterstones....!

[bibblebub]

The dictionary is a good read but the plot's a bit all over the place and some of the words they use would make your auntie blush.