Wow! What a response. Now we need to whittle the suggested books down to 4 or 5 of the most popular before we make our final choice of purple prose.
Please put your 1st choice and 2nd choice of book in the comment box. Bear in mind the book needs to be currently in print and readily available to all.
I’ll publish the 4 or 5 most popular on Children, Chocolate and Wine. Then we can vote for the book we want to read this time.
Purple Prose Book List 29/05/07 (in no particular order)
Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegg.
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Into the Wild John Krakauer
Unless Carol shields
Redemption Joseph O’Connor
Star of the Sea Joseph O’Connor
Diary of an Ordinary Woman Margaret Foster
Running for the Hills Horatio Clare
Falling Angels Tracey Chevalier
The English Passengers Matthew Kneale
A Monstrous Regiment Terry Pratchet
A Scandalous Life (biography of Jane Digby) Mary Lovell
My Dirty little Book of Stolen Time Liz Jensen
The Historian Elizabeth Kostovo
On Beauty Zadie Smith
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nature Cure Richard Mabey
Holberts Gift Saul bellow
Day A L Kennedy
How to be free Tim Hodgkinson
13 comments:
My choice is:
1st Into the Wild by Jon Karkauer
2nd English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Jane Eyre Chalotte Bronte
Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegg
Blossom
Shadow of the Wind as I have it to read next anyway. Toady
My little book of stolen times as it so clever and unusual amd a scandalous life.as I love women who break the rules.
On Beauty as Mike and I have got that one to read as part of booker job lot we always read and discuss.
otherwise am open to any, some I have already read but will whip through and refresh myself.
Rachel
The Time Traveller's Wife and My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time.
1st choice= Dairy of an ordinary woman
2nd = English Passengers
First Unless
by Carol Shields
Second Redemption
by Joseph O'Connor
1st-Fallen Angels
2nd Jayne Eyre
I don't think I will be able to keep up with the book club (don't get enough time to read as much as I would like) but if either of these 2 come up as favourites count me in for 1st reading at least-I have both books here on the book shelf unread and it might motivate me to get on and read one! I always get distracted by something else.
warm wishes
1. Unless
2. Redemption
I havent read either of these
Oh heck....TT Wife was OK, but not stunning - Shadow of the Wind - WONDERFUL!! - English Passengers v good - On Beauty excellent....can't remember the rest!).... I'll happily pitch in on any of those....
My not-read choices would be:
Into the Wild and Redemption
1st Unless
2nd Dairy of an ordinary woman
some of the others are great but have already read them so would like encouragement to read something new.
I'd probably go with Redemption and Star of the Sea, not my original recommendations but I haven't read those.
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