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Read it Boopy.


I'm reading A Certain Age by Rebecca Ray which is a kind of coming-of-age story about a 14 year old girl, who loses her virginity to a 27 year old man. Well at least that is what the blurb says, really it is about the girl's self-loathing and relationship with her parents and school friends. So far I hate the dad, and think that the whole mess is completely down to him, but I;m hoping he will redeem himself. It is a pretty disturbing read in many ways mainly because it seems to have such a ring of truth about it.

I've ordered it from the library at your request ellie!

I finished the Kite Runner and thought it was really moving. Not all gushing happy ending stuff but still a touching ending I thought.

I am now reading ''How to kill your husband and other handy household hints'' by Kathy Lette. I don't normally go for humerous books but this one looks to have some good one liners.


my favourite so far being


''what if PMT is a myth and I'm just a bitch? ''

Oh Kathy Lette is great with one liners and puns Boopy, but she is incredibly repetitive and takes an idea and runs and runs with it, until you get thoroughly bored. Imo of course.

I'm reading Crosscut by Meg Gardiner. It's one of those badly-written thriller types with a cross-dressing serial killer running around. I only got it because the blurb on the back reminded me of National Lampoon's Class Reunion and I thought it would be funny.

I've finished A certain Age. Wow! What a rollercoaster. But I don't want to say anything more about it yet til Boopy has read it.

I'm now reading Labyrinth by Kate Moss (Is that really her name?), but not sure if I will stick with it. It doesn't seem my kinda book, but it may be too early to tell.

I thought it was Mosse with an E but I may be wrong. I was dissapointed with Labyrinth.

Two thirds of the way through this book (how to kill your husband) I remembered why I don't like chicklit. I get bored. However there have been some funny bits in it. I was reading it today in the gym (propped up on the cross trainer) and the guy next to me read the title and said ''I wouldn't want to by your husband'' The sight of me sweating in a gym I can hardly blame him

Currently reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - wonderful stuff! It's part of my attempt to read more of his plays as we didn't really study them much at school. Macbeth was the only one we read and I feel like I'm missing out!

Just read Breaking Free by Saira Bronson. It's about a muslim woman forced into an arranged marriage who escapes because her husband is a threat to children and she is told this by social services just after she gave birth. Anyway she ends up falling in love with Charles Bronson the notorious prisoner not the actor! just by looking at his photgraph in the paper she went on to marry him while he is in prison. All in all an odd book, as the first half and the second half seem to conradict each other. I think she burned her bridges and lost all her friends when she married Charles and now the marriage has broken up anyway. Interesting what makes people tic

Finished Digital Fortress although it helped having a competition with a friend to see who finished first, but I thought it was a really good book and it finished not how I expected it to, it was a real page turner!

I am now reading ''expecting Adam'' by Martha Beck. It's the true story of a woman who is told when she is pregnant that the baby has downs syndrome and she is strongly advised to abort. She chooses to go ahead with the pregnancy and writes of her pregnancy and life with her son. It's beautiful and very moving and I'm not that far into it yet, but the little boy seems an absolute darling I keep wanting to cry

you seem to like more factual/biography based books... is that right?

yes Milly I enjoy a lot of non fiction. I like fiction too but I enjoy reading about peoples lives and how they have coped with things in life stuff like that.

Actually I do too - I like biography and autobiography.. although I do enjoy a good story too

That about sums me up too

I am currently reading Cliff notes on Middlemarch.