I liked the No 1 Ladies series by Alexander McCall Smith too. Heartwarming and easy to read. I read the whole series (about 7 books?) in one week after coming out of hospitalafter breaking my ankle last year. I needed something undemanding and they fitted the bill perfectly.

Wasn't so keen on Sunday Philosophy Club though - wouldn't recommend that.

Read A spot of Bother by Mark Haddon on holiday. Not really in same league as his first book The Curious Incident..but I enjoyed it and some of it made me laugh out loud. So would recommend it as a good holiday read!

Just discovered a new one (well new to me - they've been around for a fair while - not sure how I missed them!)

P N Elrod's vampire chronicles - set in the 1930s with a vampire private detective. The one I picked up is actually the first 3 books in one anthology so if you are going to take a look, keep an eye out for these - much more cost-effective! :)

Vampires?

<runs to bookstore>
<realises what time it is>
<Sets up camp>

Yep - vampires!

Bonzai Kitten Wrote:
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> Now that sounds good...
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> Although a bit of a busman's holiday for you isn't
> it?

Not really: it is mrs. SkidMarks who works with books. I work with computers and bad people who try to break them, steal from them or hide rude stuff on them.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Keep fighting those bad people. They deserve punishments above and beyond what is allowed by statute.

Oh and on the vampire tip --- Barbara Hambly's 'Those Who Hunt the Night' is verrrry good...

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Sorry Dist, but what do you recommend?


:p

The Golliwog what?

Clam, apparently.

Yes. I recommend clam.

What are you're feelings regarding the Holly Hop?

That it's not a patch on the Mistletoe Mooch :-)

sorry, i've been away a while....Skids is working now so I have to do dishes. (he used to do them while I was at work but he still washes, I dry.)
Anyway, if you like Vampires try Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St Germain chronicles, first one was Hotel Transylvania, I think, but you don't need to(can't) read them in order as she jumps about through every interesting period of history. He's a really old Vampire.
Also if you venture into kids books try The Various & Celandine by Steve Augarde. Basically the lead character finds the fairies at the bottom of the garden, or farm in this case, and they are really good, the books not the faiires. There will be a third one but it's not out yet.
And GOOD FAIRIES OF NEW YORK by Mark Millar is worth shouting about.

Try:

Tom Holt's books [www.tom-holt.com]

Robert Rankin, from whom wisdom sprouts

The godlike Terry Pratchett, who DISCusses many things in well written ways

Eric Frank Russell - who could put SF and humour together, although the SF is a bit dated they are still a good read.

Boccaccio

Sax Rohmer and the Fu Manchu stories, and because you are nearly all very young, and sitting comfortably, I should like to tell you of a telegram (Remember them) sent between Milligan and Sellers that read:

'Remember, all men eat but Fu Man Chu'

You gotta go 'OWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

Good night children everywhere.

MartinB Wrote:
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> Sabriel is awesome.


I loved Sabriel when I read it in high school, but I re-read it last year and wasn't all that impressed. I should have just left it as a good memory.

I really enjoyed Dark Song and Dark Fall by Isobelle Carmody. I read the first two in high school and re-read them last year thinking that the next one would be out by now but found out that I still have to wait (until possibly 2008) for the third book in the series. I recommend that if you haven't read them yet, you should hold off until after the third one has been published and read them all together.

Another great series that I highly recommend is Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist. I got Magician from My Fireman for Christmas last year. Building on the same world and characters: the Krondor series are good too.

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'Who looks after the animals?'

I loved Magician/ST/DAS and also the Servant of the Empire books.

But I do feel he's gone off the boil a bit now. The last couple of books are really just rehashing the same old stuff but this time it's a different planet that's the threat :( Shame really - but I guess he'll keep writing as long as there's a demand.

Another interesting Feistian book is Faerie Tale.

It's very different to his normal style and a great read!

The Land of Laughs
Johnathon Carrol (I think)

I'm obsessed by that book! lol. I think it traumatised me in a really good way as a kiddie.

Isobelle Carmody once said she was afraid of dying if she ever finished a series.

I like some of her books- I am still waiting for the last one of her Obernewton series- was meant to be ou t 3 years ago! It is coming out at the end of this year I think- Darkfall and Darksong will be a lonely two for a while yet I daresay!

There is one book of hers I find very scary- "The Gathering". Not such a fan of that one