Lush Library discussion

Here we go again - it's time to nominate your books to be our group reads for May.

We're following Kirsty's rules set last month, so please nominate at least one classic and at least one recent book, published in the last five years. Each book nominated gets one point and the top three go into the poll, which opens on the 8th. You can change your vote up until the 7th.

After a glowing recommendation from Lildancer, I really want to read this. It's supposed to be a good weepie.

I changed my vote to this, because I really want to read some of the books on the Orange Prize longlist and I enjoyed Room.

I've got a beautiful hardback edition of this but I need a push to actually read it!

- I love these books, they are just gentle, kind stories.
- bit of a cheat really as it's been republished - but actually 20 years old.........
- this one looks like an easy read

I have taken a great interest in this since watching the series and would love to read it

Won lots of awards and sounds interesting

Everyone has probably already read these (might lend to good discussion?) but I only just bought the trilogy today :)

P.s. why don't mine have images?

Aimee wrote: "P.s. why don't mine have images?"

You select bookcover, rather than book Aimee. You can change them manually by editing the bit in aquare brackets from book to bookcover :-)

Kerry wrote: "Aimee wrote: "P.s. why don't mine have images?"

You select bookcover, rather than book Aimee. You can change them manually by editing the bit in aquare brackets from book to bookcover :-)"

Aha! Thank you :)

Pretty cover! I love Alice in Wonderland and I've read other works by Lewis Carroll and about his life. How much of this is based on truth, I'm not so sure ... but I would love to read it.

I'd not read about this before seeing Sophia's nomination, but I quite like the sound of it.

Classic that I've had on my must-read-soon list for a while.

Cutting for Stone - again.
"An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others"

One Hundred Years of Solitude - again ;) "Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía and his father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands.

Through plagues of insomia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendía household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds"

Alice I Have Been - same as Ness but I love this cover. "Part love story, part literary mystery, Melanie Benjamin’s spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole, to tell the story of a woman whose own life became the stuff of legend"

Oh yes that's a nice cover too Kirsty ... and looking on Amazon I think it's the only one we can get in the UK. Glad you like the sound of it x

Ness wrote: "Oh yes that's a nice cover too Kirsty ... and looking on Amazon I think it's the only one we can get in the UK. Glad you like the sound of it x"

Up visiting my family in Scotland but had to pop on and vote - it's mandatory ya know ;)

I like the sound of so I'll go for that one too.
Also, because it keeps coming up on my recommendations list

okay, I'll nominate and (again). but I can't think of a third one right now, so I'll have to have a little pondering.
I can still add and/or change my mind until the 7th, is that right? (oops, I just re-read the first post, it says it right there, d'oh!)

- my favourite ever book. Was thinking of re-reading it.

- I love the look of this one too.

- I picked this up at the library and it looks really good.