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Right now I'm reading Stewart Lee's 'How I Escaped My Certain Fate' It makes me laugh out loud, the only thing is it's digital and so I can't read it in the bath.
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Steward Lee, I still can't decide if I like him or not! I watched a bit of his TV stand up show last year and kind of enjoyed it, but hhhmmmmm, not sure!
Maybe you should get your kids to read it to you whilst you are in the bath!
Right now I'm reading Wild Swans and it's so good I felt compeled to come here and say so : )
Rivetting!
Thanks bubblegum, I remember when that book came out, I never got around to reading it though. Now you have recommended it, I shall go and seek one out at a charity shop 
I am currently reading The Storyteller and absolutely loving it! It has been very poignant timing as I have just visited Auschwitz!
I find anything by do with survivours of Natzi Germany, the holocaust, world war two stuff interesting.
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I got my copy of Wild Swans in my local charity ship : )
Me too bubblegum, myself and a couple of friends finally visited Krakow and did the tour of Auschwitz and Berkenau last weekend. It was jaw dropping and I would highly recommend everyone visited to witness the atrocities that happened.
Off to the charity shop at the weekend, I think they all have a copy! 
They always have a copy of Jaws :)
Yes, and several copies of 50 Shades of Grey, haha.
Haven't read Wild Swans, it looks fascinating.
Did you read The Book Thief, Bubblegum?
No I haven't, I like biographies mostly : )
Ok well they have made a film of it recently, I don't think it looks as good as the book.
When my sons were little and we used to go to the library, the lady behind the counter was always saying "Girls choose storybooks and boys choose non-fiction." I bristled, rather, at the sexism but I suppose she generally found that to be true though my boys loved stories.
I'm about to watch the film : )
I used to read nothing but Science Fiction when I was a kid, until I read a Richard Pryor Biography in my late teens and then I started to read more and more non fiction, Death plus Ten years sticks in my mind, it's about a chap sentenced to death plus ten years (?) in Iran for suposedly spying. Another book that sticks in my mind is An Evil Cradling by Brian Keening, when he writes about how they (him and John McCarthy) were transported around from place to place wraped up tightly completely in tape so they could not move and then secured underneath trucks, it makes me shudder thinking about it, the clostraphobic horror of it.
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Yes I read the Brian Keenan book too, it was an intense experience just to read it so very hard to imagine just how terrifying to live through it. I remember how struck I was by the aversion he developed for his fellow-captor, although that might have been a handy way to project his hatred in the terrible circumstances.
Let us know what you think of the film. There is an epic movie about Noah about the arrive in the cinema and I am looking forward to that.
I watched 'The Book of Eli' instead... which was OK, it had 'Miss Jones' (Frances De La Tour of Rising Damp) in it.
It was Terry Waite that Brian Keening didn't like wasn't it, too winey or something, I've read his biography of the kidnapings too and John McCarthy's, but Brian Keenings is the best : )
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Noah as in two by two into the ark? That Noah?
OK yes that Noah, Russel Crow! It's based on Noah the graphic novel aparently and not Noah the chap from the Bible so much. : )
Morning! I keep hearing that the film of the Book Thief is very slow, but the book was very slow I thought, so they have kept it in line with that I guess.
I just googled Noah, it looks very dark, although I guess it would be if it is about "a world ravaged by human sin" 
Don't think I could read about the kidnappings you guys are talking about, it sounds horrendous.
I finished my lovely book The Storyteller on Saturday and although I do have a queue of books waiting to be read, I don't feel ready to start a new one!
Does anyone else feel a little bereft at the end of a book that you have really enjoyed?
I've made a start on the Hunger Games trilogy. :-)
Ooh well done sparklinglime, my daughter has them, but I haven't ventured onto them yet. I will be interested to hear what you think of them. I imagine they are quite a lot darker than the films.
The films did surprise me though, I thought I wouldn't like them, but I actually did!
I like it when I come across a book that I just cant stop reading, those ones that make you feel sad when they end, the first book that ever made me cry was called 'Destiny Doll' by Cliford D Simack, I was about seventeen and I felt like my heart had been broken, that sort of teenage heart broken loss, I dont mean because it had finished it was the story that was sort of sad in a happy sort of way.
It made me a Clifford D Simack Fan and I read all the books I could find by him, a few of them still stick in my head. they are sort of like lost loves in a way as I know if I was to go back and read them they would not live up to the memories in my head.
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Best kept in the past as happy memories : )
I have never heard of Clifford D Simack bubblegum, but I do agree that sometimes these things are best kept in the past! I have often heard of men becoming emotionally scarred by a book in their teenage years, I have to say I didn't read 'deep' books at that age, perhaps that is why I don't share that experience.
I have ventured into a new book of a completely different genre last night,called the Elephant Whisperer, I couldn't put it down! I love elephants and one day you will find me roaming the wilds of Africa working with these amazing creatures. Their intelligence far surpasses ours and they have capabilities that we either know nothing about, or we are too embedded in modern life so we don't recognise them. Can't wait for bed to read more!
Clifod D. Simack! There were lots of his books about when I was growing up : )
I don't think I've been emotionaly scared by books I read as a teenager, they were mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy, though I did read Brett Easton Elis' American Psycho in my late teens or round abouts, that was a bit disturbing : )
Elephant Whisperer looks good : )
I love hearing about what everyone reads. Anna you have convinced me to have a look at The Storyteller.
At bookclub, our new book is The Elegance of the Hedgehog!!! and also someone recommended Jo Jo Moyes to me so I have downloaded one of hers.
ThePhoenix, it was Will Grayson Will Grayson, brilliant! It has a great twist in it, that I had to figure out for myself. I finished it last night. I am hoping someone in work today will have brought in a new book, as bedtime just isn't the same without one!