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What would it be?
Im currently making a list of books to read on good reads and I want to broaden my selection as I have been stuck in a rut reading a very similar genre for a long time.
So please hit me with your best books and help me get out of my reading rut with some fantastic books to read during our middle of the night breast feeding sessions :)
Oooh great thread!!
My all time favourite book is Anne Frank's Diary. I have read it more times than I can count!
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Adore it.
I think you're a bit mean saying we can only pick one :rofl:
Aurion by Maggie Furey
That's so tough to narrow it down to one but probably The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
If I can only pick one it's going to be a long one. War and Peace.
The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid-Banks
1984 :)
One of my all time faves - Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The balloon tree. Favorite of mine since a little girl...
But grown up one - the trilogy of a boy called it, a man name Dave (and one other one)
Cat xox
Sararose - does reading in the middle of the night keep you awake longer after the feed is done? It would wake me up!!
I feed lying down :lol:
I am reading non-fiction, "last child in the woods". Not really into fiction books yet but want to one day.
LOVE this thread - but sooo not ready to narrow it down to a single book. :think: Need to contemplate before answering.
I did however want to give a plug for some in-the-middle-of-the-night-book-reading aids: get yourself a clip on book light and (best one of all) a book beanbag. It's like a pyramid-shaped pillow with a ledge and a thing that holds your book open so you can read hands free! (I sooooo needed one of these when I was bfing). It's squishy too so you can adapt it if you're lying down reading.
Ooooh books. I have so many favorites but my current is Rosamund Lupton's. She only has 2. One is 'Sister' and the other is 'Afterwards'.
It would have to be Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Balloon Tree!!!! Was my fav as a little girl also :loveshower::
Journey Of Souls by Michael Newton - A must read for every soul on Earth :D
I loved April Fools Day by Bryce Courtenay, it's about his son.
Tough to narrow it down to just one...in the last few months my all time favourite has been When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman, beautiful book, a bit like Cloud Street another excellent book :)
My all time favourite book is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. Has been since I was a young teenager.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I cried, I laughed out loud. One of the funniest and saddest books I have ever read.
Soo many books, thanks everyone for your reccomendations Ill be adding them to my list :). I know one book is so hard to narrow it down to, Im torn between three and cant decide the answer to my own question :rofl: the one I keep going back to is alight historical romance but there is something about it that draws me in every time, Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon. Generally though I read mystery/thrillers or action books by authors like Tess Gerritsen, Lee Childs, Kathy Reichs, Vince Flynn and lately Alex Kava
Shanti: I was feeding lying down but DD3 seems to need to be upright to feed or she gets hiccups and then wont settle. Im able to get to sleep quickly after reading, the biggest problem is if I get to a really captivating part of the story and want to keep reading and bubs is ready to go back to bed. Dont tell my DH sometimes Im tired because of reading not because Ive been up all night with our DD :lol:
MD: Im using my iPad and either iBooks or kindle so dont need a light but I might be suggesting the beanbag thingo for a mothers day idea :) where do you get them from these days, I remember seeing them in bookstores but they all seem to have gone bankrupt (guess the ipad might be partly responsible there:()
I loved 'A piece of cake' by Cupcake Brown, its a biography about a girl growing up in foster care and her troubled life. Has a great ending :)
Sararose - you can't beat a good "Jack" for a read!
I got my DH one of the beanbag things from Dymocks. Agree with MD - they're fantastic.
Hands down;
* Silence of the Lambs
*PS I LOVE YOU
*Tiger Eyes
I couldn't put either down until they were finished. Xx
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- On the West Coast beach using DP's iPhone :-)
Hmmmm for flat out quality, I'd have to say Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.
Anything by Jilly Cooper is a good fun read.