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**Beautiful Disaster** · May 17th, 2013, 07:35 AM

I just finished the 50 shades series.

Think I will re read the Tara Moss ones

**Rainbow_Mumma** · May 17th, 2013, 09:06 AM

a book called the birth house

**Gigi** · May 17th, 2013, 03:08 PM

i'm searching for fiction, set in historical times, when big pandemics were decimating populations, like black plague, cholera etc. When people got sick because they didn't have plumbing and sanitation or refridgeration, and no access to doctors. What they did to cope.

i loved this book, and am looking for more of similar historical setting Year of Wonders

sounds gruesome i guess, but i am fascinated by how people survived, in these conditions. Makes me feel so grateful to be living in the period of history, that is now.

**Miss.September** · June 26th, 2013, 01:51 PM

Gigi, if you don't mind reading young adult fiction, there's At The Sign Of The Sugared Plum and Petals In The Ashes, both by Mary Hooper. Sugared Plum covers the plague, Petals covers the Great Fire of London. Jackie French also does lots of historical fiction, but again, young adult. I'll come back if I can think of anything adult.

**peanutter** · June 26th, 2013, 02:49 PM

I'm reading a book called "The Natashas" which is about sex workers, and how and why they end up in that field. Then I've got the mirroring book called "The Johns" which is about men who pay for sex, and the general categories of factors which leads them to do so.

Very, very confronting, and very, very eye opening.

**Jennifer13** · June 26th, 2013, 07:57 PM

I'm going through The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Loved the TV series, books are really good too!

**Jennifer13** · June 26th, 2013, 07:59 PM

i'm searching for fiction, set in historical times, when big pandemics were decimating populations, like black plague, cholera etc. When people got sick because they didn't have plumbing and sanitation or refridgeration, and no access to doctors. What they did to cope.

i loved this book, and am looking for more of similar historical setting Year of Wonders

sounds gruesome i guess, but i am fascinated by how people survived, in these conditions. Makes me feel so grateful to be living in the period of history, that is now.

Gigi, I loved Edward Rutherford's 'London', if you want a good historical account in a novel-like manner. Very long, but a good, accurate read.

**AnyDream** · June 26th, 2013, 09:40 PM

I'm having a 2nd teenagerhood. Just finished The Host (maximum entertainment value from comparing the ways in which it was so like Twilight)! Now starting City of Bones, trying to beat the movie (Mortal Instruments) release. After that I'm reading another YA about mermaids.

Mermaids.

So there.

**Rowellen** · June 26th, 2013, 09:54 PM

I quite liked City of Bones MD. And mermaids are cool

Gigi, you have inspired me to read Year of Wonders. It's not my usual genre so fingers crossed I'll enjoy it. My first thought when I read your post was water for elephants but google told me I was wrong lol. What about Love in the time of Cholera?

I must have another look over this thread because I've resorted to reading vampire/werewolf porn :hides: It was cheap and not what I expected lol.

What age would you start reading Harry Potter to kids? I'm thinking DS is still a bit young. He's 4 but still quite immature compared to other 4yo's I've met. Maybe Enid Blyton would be better. I think he'd like the far away tree books.

**tippytoes** · June 26th, 2013, 10:18 PM

I'm reading 'I'll be seeing you' by s Hayes and l nyjan. Dh got it for my birthday. I'm loving it. It's the tale of 2 war wives during the Second World War. They write letters to each other sharing their live and shanaigans while husbands are away. Can't put it down!

**Miss.September** · June 26th, 2013, 10:18 PM

What age would you start reading Harry Potter to kids? I'm thinking DS is still a bit young. He's 4 but still quite immature compared to other 4yo's I've met. Maybe Enid Blyton would be better. I think he'd like the far away tree books.

The concepts are quite mature. I worked in a primary school book supplier and the first three books were put into schools for the upper primary levels. The remaining books were then on a school by school basis - we would share the themes with them and then they would decide. The final book was shunned by most that we talked to due to what happens to Hermoine. I have read them all and have no plans to read them to DD1 for a few years yet (she's also 4) - not because I don't think she wouldn't grasp some of the story, but because I want her to fully enjoy it for everything that it is.

**AnyDream** · June 26th, 2013, 10:23 PM

My DD didn't get a handle on Harry Potter until she was in Grade 6 or 7. Whereupon she turned into an instant fan girl. LOL. We had a shot at reading it when she was about 8 or 9, but she watched the movie & then decided the book was boring. I would wait a bit because there are some big ideas in there.

My youngest DD is 5 now and I'm starting to think she might like the faraway tree etc soon. We got hold of an Enid Blyton bedtime story book and she listens to that happily, but it's still a stretch to get to the longer format of a novel (more words, fewer pictures) plus the language in blyton is more old fashioned. I'm thinking of trying her on some easy readers like Tashi or those rainbow fairy ones & see how she goes with those first.

**Rowellen** · June 26th, 2013, 10:36 PM

Thanks ladies, that is pretty much what I was thinking. He has some longer story books with heaps of pictures based on the cars movies. I might stick with them for now and see how we go.