A GREAT SITE FOR FINDING BOOKS

Just found a great wee site that if your in doubt what book to read next ... This wee site will give you the answer ... All you have to do is type in the name of a book or author and it will come up with suggestions that you can read next ........ Brilliant ......... If I didn't have enough books to read :) .... The site is called "What books should I read Next" ........ Enjoy :)

Are You A Book Snob ???

When I got a phone call from a fellow book club member asking if I would like to accompany her to a book store .... I thought for a WHOLE second ..... And said LOVE TO ........

So with a short list of books that I would like we headed on down .... We excitedly headed on down to the Young Adult Section to locate Shannon Hale and Susanne Collins books ... To find to our horror that there is only one HARD BACK version available and we would have to order them in .... The shop assistant asked if we needed any help which we gratefully answered YES PLEASE and began to run through the books that we require ...

Up on the screen is the book titles but with different covers ...... OK what is it with the different covers .... The book covers in the store where terrible so we asked if we could order a different cover ... YES she replied but it will be dearer and we would have to get it shipped in for you ( OK - No surprise there ) ... The books appeared on the screen in paper-back and I asked her to scroll down until she came to the HARDBACK version ... To which she replied "That will be more expensive" and to which my reply is "YES I KNOW BUT I AM ABIT OF A BOOK SNOB - I LOVE MY PRETTY COVERS AND ADORE HARDBACKED BOOKS IF POSSIBLE " I glanced over at my friend who was nodding and smiling at me ........

Which begs the question then .... Am I there only one out there who is a sucker for a nice cover and would buy a book which you already have IF there was a prettier cover :)

books to movies

Well there is a heap of movies that are out at the moment that where books .... Have you read any of them .....

Nights in Rodanthe

Angels and Demons

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
City of Ember
Confessions of a Shopahollic

Inkheart

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Secret Life of Bees
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Quantum of Solace
The Road
Twilight
Coraline
The Tale of Despereaux
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Defiance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marley & Me
Revolutionary Road

I have also read Harry Potter and Angels and Demons and planning on reading The Road ... What about you !!!

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (5)

A royal fable celebrating the transformative properties (and a few of the unsettling consequences) of reading as an obsession.In a country of commoners, the uncommon reader is the Queen. She has never been a reader, because reading isn't something that "one" (as she invariably refers to herself) does. Yet an unlikely incident involving her dogs and a mobile library making its weekly appearance outside Buckingham Palace moves her to borrow a book. And then another. And another, until reading has become her life's focus. Perhaps the keenest insight here concerns her difficulty with Jane Austen, whose novels pivot so frequently on class distinctions that the Queen herself has never experienced. Those who love reading will recognize the process of the Queen's enrapturing, how one book inevitably leads to another, and so many others, and that the richness of the reading life will always be offset by the recognition that time grows shorter as the list of books grows longer.

This was a surprising book to read .... My husband had been at the bookshop and purchased me a vast aray of books and the lady behind the counter ( Because my husband had spend a few dollars) Give my hubby a FREE BOOK ... And this book was THE UNCOMMON READER ....

It is a short book only 121 pages long but boy it is a wee gem .... Not only because I got it for nothing but because it is so funny .... Loved it ....

It is a fictional story about Queen Elizabeth when she discovers books .... And how falling in love with reading books can be seen as a bad thing especially when it comes to the Queens Secretary ...

There are so many funny wee moments in the novel as you can totally envisage the Queen not only saying but doing ... I loved the whole book apart from one sentence that was crude and felt that it just didn't need to be put in the book .... So if I could tip-exed 7 words out the book it would be perfect ...

You could easily read this book in an afternoon and love it .... There is a surprising end which is so funny ...

A great wee book to read and one that I will read again ...

I rate this book 5*****