Someone suggested “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer and since there was such a long wait list going with the library , I put my name on it hoping that many poeple can’t be wrong. Finally after almost 2 mos it was my turn. Started it Sunday night and after the 2 chapters I thought maybe it wasn’t for me, but gave it another couple. Glad I did. I’m 1/2 way through now (Tuesday morn) and it pulls you in. Not sure why the connection with the child is so strong (I’m use to romance fluff), but find his ‘need to know’ & amazing thoughts/conversations a magnet. The author has an interesting way of introducing and telling the ‘history’ of the people in this child’s world too. Has anyone read this? I have a feeling it must be part of more than a few reading clubs.
I might give it a try Claire, you certainly sound like you enjoyed it.
At the moment I am reading ‘Two Little Girls In Blue’ by Mary Higgins Clark. It’s easy reading but I’m not too impressed with it but I will stay with it to the bitter end:-D
Just finished The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly brilliant he wrote the Lincoln Lawyer, really good courtroom dramas.
Now I have Tom Sharpe and I shall be trying him.
I’ve just finished reading Nefertit by Michelle Moran…excellent read, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks for the short synopsis. I don’t want to know all about a book but sometimes it would be good if we gave more than a title and author, just to whet our whistles a littl.
Update on this book: “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer
Oh man, I cried more than once. Sobs. Next book needs to be fluffy.
Well, it certainly is an instruction manual. Not nearly as funny as I’d hoped.
Quite graphic and informative, with little bits on the history of the toilet…eg Crapper
Instructions for the climber and how to do it on the climb, kayakers too :shock:
Where not to do it features greatly and thank goodness it does. :surprised:
‘Packing it out’ which confused me at first…in other words, how to take it home!
The one thing I realise, is that we should all be thankful for those who found the subject interesting over the years …or we would all be knee deep in the stuff.
I’m glad you said you cried and sobbed Claire…well, not glad 
but it means that it is not the book for me. I can’t do sad books, or books about children, they keep me awake, I just can’t turn the brain off.
I like Michael Connelly, so I think I’ll give The Fifth Witness a go.
Another book I was given was deja dead by Kathy Reichs, I don’t know this author but she is supposedly better than Patricia Cornwell.
I have just had notification that the Drop by Michael Conelly is waiting for me at the library.
I have been reading Tom Sharpe’s Wilt on High. This book is the most politically incorrect book I have ever read. It reminds me of a late 70s 80s sit com. It is hilarious and although a little dated makes me laugh out loud even when I am reading alone in the car when it is raining and hubs is taking our dog for a walk. It really is very naughty of me to find it funny but I do.
I picked up The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo this week but it starts off slow and hasn’t grabbed me yet. Perhaps all the hype over the movie set my expectations high… will stick with it and see how it builds.
Pleased Tom Sharpe made you laugh Cate. If you wan’t some more, try Riotous Assembly and/or The Throwback. 
I like the sound of Tom Sharpe - will check my library for his books.
I started re-reading Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up this morning. First read it decades ago and it’s as depressing as the first time. Might set it aside.
I have Riotous Assembly waiting on the bedside cabinet.
I am also read an American book by Joanne Fluke it is the oddest book I have ever read… It is a Murder/mystery with recipes.
What ever food stuff has been mentioned in the chapter like say cookies, carrot cake, brownies or even cassaroles the receipe with tips is at the end of the chapter.
The mystery isn’t so good rather Miss Marple like but I find the recipes very interesting.
I’m halfway through Dara O’Briain’s book - I must be hard to please at the moment, I don’t find it funny at all.
I might give up on it and put all my other books away too, for a few weeks.
In fact I might buy a couple of gardening magazines, nothing too heavy in that
I’ve gone back to my early childhood, I’m reading The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley. Oh what memories it brings back.
I love Dara as a comedian but I too had to give his book up halfway through. Same with Steven Fry really disappointed that these funny chaps can’t write funny stuff. Dawn French’s book was downright boring. Once I tried to read I think it was Freddie Boyde’s book ended up in a corner because I couldn’t get through the unnecessary swearing and cursing.
I am reading Dan Browns Digital Fortress at the moment, i seem to think i have read it before because lots of it i seem to recognise, but having said that it is a captivating book.
I have read three Dan Brown books did he only write 3?
I’m halfway through another Peter James novel - Dead Man’s Footsteps - really liking his books lately. 
I love Peter James too - his books are both intriguing and unsettling.
Just now I am reading something quite different - Lawrence Hills; “Someone Knows My Name”. This is a book I really can recommend. The topic may scare some of you - but it is an easy read & a really heartbreaking story…