What was the last book you read? Last month I read The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling). I really enjoyed it.
Of your favourite books, which one do you like to recommend to people? I generally try to recommend books to people according to what I think they will personally enjoy. For example, I picked out The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé for my wife recently, because she has a dark sense of humour.
Which ones do you NOT like to recommend to people? There aren't any books that I dislike recommending that I actually like. In fact, I'm not sure that there are any that I dislike that I wouldn't necessarily recommend. For example, my friend Clare enjoys Russian history and politics, so I suggested she might enjoy Snowdrops, whilst I'm not enjoying it all that much at the minute (I'm halfway through).
Do you still own any books from your childhood? Just one - I Don't Want To by Bel Mooney. It was given to me by an old school teacher when I was 5 who said that I was just like the girl in the book. And I was!
It's a dark comedy set in a alternate universe where everyone is depressed - the shop caters to selling items to enable suicide and instructions on how to best kill oneself. Everyone hates life, except Alan, who is rather optimistic.
Last month I read The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling). I really enjoyed it.
Of your favourite books, which one do you like to recommend to people?
I generally try to recommend books to people according to what I think they will personally enjoy. For example, I picked out The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé for my wife recently, because she has a dark sense of humour.
Which ones do you NOT like to recommend to people?
There aren't any books that I dislike recommending that I actually like. In fact, I'm not sure that there are any that I dislike that I wouldn't necessarily recommend. For example, my friend Clare enjoys Russian history and politics, so I suggested she might enjoy Snowdrops, whilst I'm not enjoying it all that much at the minute (I'm halfway through).
Do you still own any books from your childhood?
Just one - I Don't Want To by Bel Mooney. It was given to me by an old school teacher when I was 5 who said that I was just like the girl in the book. And I was!
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General recs really are hard to come up with, aren't they? It depends so much on people's individual taste.
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