> champdogs book club

Kim that has been suggested before but when it came down to it nobody could suggest a book!  It would have to have a spoiler warning on it too!  I went to a book club once and ended up lending my copy of 'We have to talk about Kevin' to the woman who was running the course.  She then went off on the sick and never gave me my book back!  So have never discussed it either!  

My favourite books that i pick up time and time again , when i've nothing else , are Maeve Binchy's ' Firefly Summer ' and ' The Glass Lake '  .

> now there is an idea! an champdogs book club!
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I started one about 18 months or so ago & we read some great books think Kite Runner was the first, We need to talk about Kevin & Snowflower all came out of it but it did fizzle out when we couldn't find a book we all wanted to read & hadn't read before.

Would be great if it could get up & running again, any suggestions for a first book?

Crime its a crime I have read Lord of the Rights about 50 times and my son was brought up on it !!!  a bigger fan than me, I think he has read it about 20 times and I started him on it at about 11.  I can read S. King but I could not watch it its to scarey!!!

Charline Harris I adore Betsey!!! a vampire with a shoe fettish.

If you like black humour mixed with a bit of crime/thriller check out Christopher Brookmyre - the titles alone are worth a look.

oh, i don't know... never been in a book club... um. the constant princess? (phillipa gregory)

Take Me With You by Brad Newsham? Gembo's just ordered it and I have it LOL.

(I will get more people to read this book, I will!)

M.

> I have read Lord of the Rights about 50 times

sorry, i tried and it was just rather dull...

sorry...

I'm up for this but can we start it in a few weeks as I've just started Cry, the beloved country.  It's only a thin book I might be done in a week!

I have three at the moment Attilla the Hun, the new Patricia Cornwall plus the Robert Morans book on Winston Churchill. Between me and my OH we have three book tokens so i off to Waterstones on Friday.
I also have one called Old Wives TAles in the loo and OH has the Jeremy Clarkson book by his bed.

A really good book, ummm,  I think is Of Mice & Men a John Steinbeck and Never Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (I think) all classics worth a read. Plus The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsaratt - a bit dated but a good story. But I have a degree in History & English so i am a bit biased and I just cant read Mills & Boon and love stories. Saying that I have read all the Austen & Bronte novels but they are historical as well as "love stories".

Thats the BAldwin one ? made into a super film as well.

> Cry, the beloved country

I read that many many years ago!  Would read it again now.  Probabally had it from the library though because it is not amongst my book collection.  Hate throwing books away in case I want to read them again.  I am afraid there are quite a few that I have passed on in recent years because I know I will never want to read them again.