Uhm, I am from the south coast of England I am 24 and here I am!
Right now I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, but I'm going through a book block so I'm reading really slowly. I like quite a wide range of books I'd say... but stay away from chicklit and anything to do with vampires.
I enjoy reading YA still and my favourite author probably of all time is Diana Wynne Jones who I first read when I was nine. Although in the past year I have not read so many. I have moved into crime and historicals lately and next year I want to read more YAs again and also concentrate on some classics.
I have loved Dickens, Gaskell, Dumas, Dostoyevsky and wish to explore those authors further along with many others!
I adore Harry Potter, not interested in Twilight...
These are some of my favourite books all of which I'd award five stars:
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Howls Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Dogsboy - Diana Wynne Jones
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Harry Potter (specifically 1, 3 and 5) - JKR
The Stand - Stephen King
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Four Last Things and the other two in the Roth Trilogy by Andrew Taylor
Shogun - James Clavel
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley Holland
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks (Extremely good by the way, I read it through my online book group thing and was blown away by Brooks' writing.)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Loop - Nicholas Evans
Maus I & 2 by Art Spiegelman
Stiff - Mary Roach
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Books I have HATED:
Atomised by Michel Hoolebecq
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
So hello to you all!
