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Blackbird

By Jennifer Lauck.

This book is an ordinary girl growing up in the 1970s .

The extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost.

The house on Mary Street, Caron City,Nevada,

is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home .

It's where Jennifer lives with her older brother B.J., her father and mother, and their two cats Moshe and Diana.

It should be a perfect, peaceful childhood-but Jennifer's mother is ill, very ill, and a childhood is the last thing Jennifer is going to be allowed.....

Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of one young girl's unbreakable spirit- it is both profoundly moving and deeply inspiring

I read this book in one 1/2 days I could not put it down.

I have her second book on order and i will be picking it up from the book shop next week

Recommended by sulwyn , 6/28/2002.

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

By Arthur Golden.

This book is about the lives of geisha girls in japan, and is about a girl, Sayuri, who is taken as a little girl from her family to begin her training as a geisha. Its set in the quarter century from 1929. The book goes on to explain the culture of geisha 's in japan along with many of the traits exhibited by the japanese. Its sometimes funny, often dark and describes excellently the degredation felt by these girls.

I thought this was beautifully written, and absolutly absorbing if you like reading about different cultures and countries. Its absolutly engrossing and after the first few pages you find yourself desperate to find out if it all turns out right for Sayuni in the end. It brings out such feelings of empathy for others. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone, male or female.

Hope you like it

Recommended by krissie1 , 6/28/2002.

She's come undone

By Wally Lamb.

Recommended by Krissie

This is one of my favorite ever books, written by a man from a womans perspective, but i hadto keep reminding myself the author was male! Its a story about a woman and her sense of identity , i thought it was wonderful.

Recommended by Caz , 6/25/2002.

'The Church of the Dead Girls'

By Stephen Dobyns.

Cindy S

It's about some murders that take place in a town. but mostly about the impact on the town and the mob mentality that develops as they try to figure out who murdered the girls. I really enjoyed it.

Recommended by Caz , 6/25/2002.

The Poisonwood Bible

By Barbara Kingsolver.

This is set in the Belgian Congo and is the story of an american preacher , his wife and 5(?) daughters, each chapter is written from one of their perspectives, I found this a hard one to get into and wasn't sure about it on a first reading, but you know how you have to be in a certain mood for some books, well i guess this was one of them because i read it last time i was in hospital and i couldn't put it down, again this is beautifully written and really quite exciting at points

Recommended by Caz , 6/25/2002.

THEM

By Jon Ronson.

This is one for any conspiracy theorists out there, or even anyone who likes a good laugh. It s written by a journalist who has been investigating lots of conspiracy theories, and his travels and interviews in a bid to find out what really goes on.

I must admit i was a little sceptical to begin with as i'm not usually one to believe conspiracies, though neither am i one to believe everything i hear in the press. This book really had me hooked,

, honestly once i started i couln't put it down lol.

He covers amongst other things :

David Icke and his lizard men theory

Tries to locate the secrect room where the world elite decide things and ends up being chased by men in dark glasses , and when he phones the british consulatle is told he really shouldn't annoy these people lol

He gets unmasked as a jew in a british based jihad camp

finds politicians undergoing a bizarre owl ritual in north carolina

Meets the PR savvy Ku Klux Klan

Ian Paisley preaching in Africa

At points this book is hysterically funny, and has chapter titles such as 'the semi detached ayatollah".

I originally bought this book for hubby as he's really into these types of things, but started it when i had nothing else to read and loved it. It made me laugh out loud at some points and had me really worried at others,

Hope you like this, love krissie

Recommended by krissie1 , 6/28/2002.

WE WERE THE MULVANEYS

By Joyce Carole Oats.

We were the Mulvaneys starts out the ideal 'american family', they are respected, prosperus and well liked by all. But all this changes when their daughter marianne is raped. The story is set in the 1970's and catalogues the impact of this event on the small town in which they live and also the impact on the individual family members, it talks of unspoken truths and the effects of events and how they change the course of history almost.

Even though this book appears at first to just be really sad , it is really well written and you spend it hoping for a positive outcome, but as with all good books it involves the rise, fall and eventual redemption of the family.

This is an excellent book and Oates is a brilliant story teller, i found the characters really engaging and i desperatly wanted to know how things turned out. I would recommend this book to anyone, except if you really depressed lol.

It certainly worth a try anyway.

Recommended by krissie1 , 6/28/2002.