I can read everything if it is interesting.

I average about a book per week.  At this rate, I just a love a book that can surprise me. Like Cunliffe, I have a soft spot for Jo Nesbo. Love the series with Harry Hole. It just keeps getting better with each book. 

 

I love Jodi Picoult and Lisa Genova.  Not really suspense novels but they make you think and sometimes, the real ending of the book is the one the reader chooses to think it is.  

 

You should consult www.goodreads.com. You �ll find suggestions based on what you like and you can even follow friends. I �m Manonski. I know other members of this site are also on it. 

Thank you dale for bringing this topic!

 

I used to read a lot and for some reason, I stopped for quite a few years( 4/5?) . However, recently one of my "treacherous" friends gave me this book:!
The authors are Ella berthoud and Susan elderkin. It is in the trend of the "book therapy" thing. An  A to Z as it says on the cover of all the possible ailments and they advise one or several books to cure those ailments!Of course, I did find quite a few that sounded good for me . So I sent for them and since I can�t stop reading! Now my friend is quite happy! And me too!
One of them is "joy in the morning" by pg Wodehouse and is referred to as one very good cure when you are depressed! I think I have never read anything so funny in my life! So Dale, I do agree with you: he is a fantastic writer. And... I am not feeling depressed anymore!
Thus I have read or re-read some Steinbeck (Cannery row), some doris Lessing, Carson mccullers and i enjoyed them all! But what I loved most was, the fabulous epic of samurai: Musashi by the wonderful Japanese writer : Yoshikawa! 600 pages which I read in 4 days! The style, although a translation is incredible ... so well written ... A breathtaking novel!
Now  I have orrdered the "doorstop" The sea of fertility by Mishima which i haven�t received yet  and I can�t wait to get it!
So.... I am so pleased I have started reading again! What pleasure it gives you ! But I have almost given up knitting!!!  Where is the solution? Any idea?

Ps My partner is also crazy about the detective novels you mention Lynne! I have tried reading one or two but they didn�t really hold my interest
Thank you again for this post, Dale.

Mariethe,

I �m glad you mentioned my favorite, John Steinbeck. I can re-read Of Mice and Men countless times (and always cry at the end). I even love all three film versions of it, although the classic with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr., is still the best, because Steinbeck �s spirit is strongly evident in it.

 

I read every Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child as it comes out, and wish he could write one a month.

 

I like Steven King, except that he is horrible at endings.

 

Bruce 

I have taught �Of Mice and Men � so many times and however much I lead students, they never get this message without being told: Candy should have shot his own dog. I think unless people get this message, they haven �t understood the reason for the title. Just an aside. 

 

I have a load of Jo Nesbo books that I haven�t touched yet. I�ll have to give them a go.