What are you reading?

A book I cried at once was Lucas by Kevin Brooks... and I mean cried. It's a teen fiction book and I was only about thirteen at the time but I cried throughout the entire last chapter and then crawled into my bed and wailed for at least fifteen minutes after.

I might read it again this summer and see if it still has the same effect, or if age has lost that.

my favourite book when I was a teen was The Suitcase Kid by Jaqueline Wilson, it's about a girl whose parents divorce and it's really hard for her because she doesn't feel at home at her mums house or a dads house, when my mum and dad split up it wasn't so bad but I think it was nice to read about it since all my friends and I were too young to talk about things like that when theirs and my parents split up.

I LOVED The Illustrated Mum when I was a kid, I thought that book was the best thing ever.

I need something to read or I shall go maaaad!

I loved the Summer of My german Soldier, we did it in School, but I remember liking it. One book I loved as a 12 year old? I cannot remember the name of, it was young adult book(in the library) and it was about a nuclear holochaust and the survivors and then the mutants outside, it was very very good, I would love to find the name and read it now, to see if it stands up now I'm older

i quite liked to kill a mocking bird, we did that in year 10 or 11 no one understood the moral message! I think I'll take back my library books early and go find one of the books on my reading list!

I read To Kill a Mocking Bird for the first time within the last year. I'd seen the movie ages ago, but somehow missed reading the book in school. It was so amazing. I know I'll read it again every couple years.

I've made a list of books i want to read including quite a lot from this board. Out of 35 books I can only find 5 in the libary and 1 or 2 on the records there but they have gone missing. Any ideas where else I can track down these books?

sometimes libraries will borrow copies from other libraries for you but I dunno if they do that over there but you could ask!

Betty got me Charlie Brooker's Dawn Of The Dumb which is fantastic from what I've read. I also got a book called Bad Girls And Wicked Women, which is about powerful (and often sexual) women throughout history, which is really interesting because basically all these women have been villanised purely because of the social context they gained power in.

I've also asked for Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, We Need To Talk About Kevin and The Bloody Chamber for my birthday =)

the book about the women sounds interesting

so yet again I'm reading another Patricia A McKillip book and I'm boooooooooooored of it it's always the same kinda stories written in the same way but I have some books about doggies coming in the post (mike bought them for me ), one about breeds one about dog psycology so those should be interesting.

The first time I skim-read that, I thought the books were about dogs that got posted! I thought that sounded like an odd book.

Next year for English I have to read Tess Of The D'Urbevilles (I've probably spelt that wrong), The French Lieutenant's Woman, Hamlet (easy, my favourite Shakespeare) and loads of War Literature, including Birdsong by Sebastion Faulks. But it's great cause we can read any books we want to do with war, real or fake or whatever, so I can read Catch 22 again, as well as a few other books I've had on my shelf for a while.

Soooooooooooo much to read.

lol! they came today there's some really cute photos of doggies I really want an irish setter my mum won't let me!

I just bought Russell Brand's biography (half price at Waterstone's, NOT RRP at Waterstone's!? It's just come out in paperback though that's probably why) and a book based on what happened with the characters Hiro and Charlie in Heroes.

My Booky Wook? It's an amazing book.

I've read the dedication to his mum and his report from school so far can't wait to read it! I like biographies, I've only read Ruby Wax's and Mark Oliver Everett's from Eels but they were good, biographies are weird, if no one liked it you'd be like 'erm that's my life!'. I don't think I'd read Jordan's or Rooney's though!