gooner.girl Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I'd take it everywhere with me to if he was on the front cover... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Point taken! Is just such a specialised sport is nice to see someone else interested in reading about it! I'm probably more interested in reading about him and not so much the sport Helen. I love Biographies...... especially of ordinary people and their day-to-day lives, but I also read biogs. of well known people, if they(the person) sound interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I am sure most of you know about this, but there is a wonderful website called readitswapit, where you can register your books and search their library for books you would like to have. If you see one you like, you click on it and the owner is sent a link to your library and they can choose one from your list to swap (or decline if there's nothing they wish to have). All it costs is the postage. I always send my swaps second class, so it costs a minimal amount. I LOVE this site, and have swapped 56 books! Of course, I keep the ones I love, but am happy to swap on most of what I read. I can thoroughly recommend it. http://www.readitswapit.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druids57 Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Annie what a fantastic idea that site is I shall log on and have a look Thanks a Million Druidx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McChook Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 This really is a fantastic subject! I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, and as a child I read and re-read the Famous Five series (in fact, I've recently come across my eldest daughter's copies of the Famous Five and have started reading them again). My most dog-eared book is On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony - the first in the Incarnations of Immortality series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baby bears mum Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I had two favourite books as a child the first was The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe which I loved but the one I loved most was 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. It had a pink cover with dalmatians running up it. I've been trying to find a copy for Baby Bear. I have really enjoyed the Harry Potter books lately and have re-read them. Other than that to relax Freya North or anything in that genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clur Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 My favourite book ever is 'Of Mice and Men' by Steinbeck. Had to read it at school and it was probably the only one I really enjoyed and re-read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FORENSICA Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 The Bone Collector - I know it it gory but I just loved the speed of the book and the 'must not stop reading moments' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 The cat who came in from the cold By Deric Longden I love all of Deric's stuff but his cat books are particularly excellent - his commentary on life is fabulous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I am sure most of you know about this, but there is a wonderful website called readitswapit, where you can register your books and search their library for books you would like to have. If you see one you like, you click on it and the owner is sent a link to your library and they can choose one from your list to swap (or decline if there's nothing they wish to have). All it costs is the postage. I always send my swaps second class, so it costs a minimal amount. I LOVE this site, and have swapped 56 books! Of course, I keep the ones I love, but am happy to swap on most of what I read.I can thoroughly recommend it. http://www.readitswapit.co.uk that's a good idea as when i sell books on ebay i only get a pittance for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazygal Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 thinking off the top of my head- as a child I loved " The little princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett about a girl who lived a life of luxury in India and was then orphaned and sent to live in London and work as a scullery maid. She lived in a garret and while she was sleeping her room was transformed by "magic" with the luxury to which she was accostomed (by an Indian gentleman who had seen her). I also loved all the Narnia books (I've still got all 7, and then I absolutely adored Judy Blume books. My absolute favourite book of all time has to be "The adventures of the little wooden horse" by Ursula Moray Williams. I remember having it read to me at infant school, and got my parents to buy it and then I re-read it. It is the most magical fantastic story about a little horse travelling the country, it is superb for reading to children as each chapter is a story in itself. I have been reading it to my 5 year old lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druids57 Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 AnnieP that swap it booksite is brilliant I ut on two I had to hand that evening and within half an hour had an offer and am reading the "Swap" now BRILLIANT Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Louise - since you mentioned it I am now reading The Stand (uncut version) I love this book as well and hadn't read it for ages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMitch Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Laws yes I've got to agree with Louise.....M...O..O...N..... that spells moon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 As a child I loved Teddy Robinson & Peter Pan, as an adult I love little women, Jane Eyre, my lovely bones & the life of bees!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleredhen Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby also loved "Time Travellers Wife" although it made me cry too much! Chirdren's books -any Enid Blyton, those pony books "Jill's Gymkhana" etc and the "Sue Barton" nurse series, Ooh and "Seven Little Australians", I've just remembered that one, one of the girls dies saving her little brother from a falling tree and then they all carry her body down to the lake, omg was that really a children's book, it's a wonder I am not in therapy!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 AnnieP that swap it booksite is brilliant I ut on two I had to hand that evening and within half an hour had an offer and am reading the "Swap" now BRILLIANT Thank you You are very welcome! I have managed to get 4 books recommended from omleteers in this thread off the readitswapit site this week! So, I now have some seriously good reading to do! I cannot recommend it highly enough..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 My favourite as a child was Alice in Wonderland. There were lots of others through the years that I loved and read time and time again, but the most memorable one was War and Peace. My bedroom was one of the early loft conversions and as a result the windows were too high to see out of unless I was standing. My dad made me a desk and I used to sit on it to look out. I read War and Peace sitting on that desk one summer when I was 18, and occasionally looked at the view while imagining the scenes in the book. Oh for the old carefree days of a teenager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Ponies Plot! Can't remember who wrote it, but I loved it and read it again as an adult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Danny the champion of the world.I know its a kids book,but it left such a mark on me. Others: Charlie and the chocolate factory Charlie and the great glass elevator It by Stephen King The Langoliers (a short story by Stephen King) Stig of the dump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 As a child I loved Teddy Robinson & Peter Pan, as an adult I love little women, Jane Eyre, my lovely bones & the life of bees!! How could I forget Teddy Robinson, he is so cute, lovely stories I also loved the Little Women series, Lovely Bones and The Life of Bees. Snap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I also loved the Little Women series, I loved the Little Women stories and also the 'What Katy Did' series Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Ponies Plot! Can't remember who wrote it, but I loved it and read it again as an adult Somebody Parkinson? I may even have it still. If I do its in the hundreds of boxes of books I have in the attic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imo Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Eeee what an amazing topic!! I have to say, Teddy Robinson was a big favourite of mine. I think one of my favourite books would have to be 'I Capture The Castle' by Dodie Smith. It just really caught me. And for a really gripping book with great writing, it'd have to be 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
