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Thirsty

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No, not Bernstein or anything related to diabetes or health!

I love novels and generally get through two or three a week so, which books are diabetics reading and enjoying right now?

I've just finished the third of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle Trilogy, enormously entertaining and well-researched historical novels.

Currently, I'm trying to resist the temptation to finish Matter by Ian M. Banks in one go, as I don't want it to end.

What should I read next? All suggestions for books that have deeply moved you, made you laugh or changed your view of the world and the way it works gratefully received.
 
I've recently found a new author, J A Kerley. His books are very good my wife passes them onto me. I read about a book a week while sat in traffic jams or waiting to load/unload.
 
Picked up a new Alexander M Call Smith No 1 Ladies' Detective book today."The Miracle at Speedy Motors". I've read all the rest, except the new one(still only in Hardback) I find these books enchanting and first came across them on Radio 4. I used to work with a girl from Botswana and she said they are a very truthful portrait of the people.
 
I am a bookaholic. Nothing is too trivial, everything has some merit.

I read anything by Sir Terry Pratchett, Harlen Coben, Wilbur Smith and Isaac Asimov. The list is endless.
 
Alan Bennett's Untold Stories. For any of you who remeber "Talking Heads "on T.V., this was one of his masterpieces.
He talks about his childhood in a witty way and details all the family characters and exposes some of the family secrets. He also talks about his writings over the last ten years. Warm, funny and couldn't put it down.

Rock me Gently by Judith Kelly. An account of a child's horrific memories of an orphanage run by nuns. Years later she meets a Holocaust survivor and he gives her the strength to revisit her past.
 
Sarum by Edward Rutherford was an amazing read its centered around Stonehenge

Being a girly girl I still love and cannot count how many times I have read the Earths Children series by Jean M Auel.

All time favourite read though was A Town Like Alice.

Reading Paul O Gradys autobiography at the moment and it is hilarious.

Also find anything by Bill Bryson very enjoyable to relax with.
 
'Lottery' by Patricia Wood. Excellent; about an autistic-spectrum adult who wins the lottery and the reactions of his friends and family.
 
I'm reading Sophie Kinsella's 'Confessions of a Shopoholic'.It's an absolute load of drivel but I'm doing it in the name of research. :roll: I'm heavily into doing consumer competitions and there is a competition on Snackajacks at the moment, that calls for a slogan to be written in the style of the lead character in this book. So....hubby has to eat loads of Snackajacks whilst I work on appropriate entries. I've worked really hard on getting some wit into my entries, so fingers crossed for one of the cash prizes.
 
These days can't get in to anything serious, so at the moment I'm reading Mike Hardings The unluckiest man in the world, completely mad but my type of humour
 
Tom Holt - fantasy with a comedic twist.
Plus any girly chick-lit books - Katie Fforde, Catherine Alliot. Jenny Colgan, Wendy Holden, Freya North, Adele Parks..... ok, I'll stop now.
 
Sweet3x; you tried the Irish writers of chick-lit? Cathy Kelly, Patricia Scanlan, Maeve Haran? Then there's Erica James...
 
Have just finished Hawk by George Green and started Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell (book 3 of his Alfred the Great series). Next on the list will be World Without End by Ken Follett (my favourite author), Bones of the Hills by Con Iggulden (book 3 of his Gengis Khan series) and 2 books by Valerio Massimo Manfredi I just got yesterday.
 
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain By John O`Farrell, An humerous ireverant and un-pc look at the history of this wonderful mess we call home. I bought it for the flight to OZ in 2005 and still picking through it.

Dave P
 
The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George. Have loads of books about the Tudors. I fine them fascinating.
 
As a voracious reader since the time of the dinosaurs I read virtually anything that grabs my interest. I've also promised myself that one of my retirement tasks is to catch up on the classics that I've somehow managed to miss during all these years. So I can say in all honesty that over the last year I've read Wuthering Heights and Les Misérables among others. Right now I'm reading Elmore Leonard - the Complete Western Stories, and finding them surprisingly good. I'm not a great fan of Western novels but Leonard sets his tales in the Southwest, mostly Arizona, and the stories themselves are well-written and enjoyably suspenseful.
This morning I ordered Child 44 from Amazon which is a novel about a serial killer in Stalin's Soviet Union when the Communist state was deemed by the powers that be to be the perfect society. Thus, in a perfect society there can be no such thing as a serial murderer. Sounds intriguing.
 
Some interesting recommendations there, and thank-you; I shall have a crack at those I haven't already read, (except the really girly ones.) I've been stuck in a Sci-Fi rut for years and, while I love the genre, it's all starting to seem a bit samey.

Keep 'em coming!
 
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