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Just read, Bonkers by Jennifer Saunders, was a bit boring actually, but passages about chemo and radiotherapy helped me understand more about cancer.
Half read Dawn French fiction, when in WA.
According to Yes, hate it, threw it at the wall and there it will stay. About a woman from UK, being a nanny in USA, and spoiler
- I chucked when she had fucked the family father, and then the teenage son...

I love both of these women - and the books were a major disappointment.
I am OCD with books, always have to finish, whether it is crap or magic.

Now reading, Ian, Molly, Meldrum - by Meldrum, and he is very entertaining.
 
I have just read The Girl on the Train - I really enjoyed it - first time in a long time I made reading a priority!
 
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Still on The Rivers of London series. Slowed right down - probably bc it's the last one available at he moment. I'm on Book 5 Foxglove summer. Still finding it fun.

Read JOjo Moyes a while back - you before me and me after you or whatever they both were called (different titles here). Liked them. Rivers of London is welcome though as being silly and funny and intriguing (wierd plot twists. Random facts about London) without any really heavy issues to stress over..
 
You Before Me
By Jojo Moyes

Totally recommend it to anyone wanting to escape with a beautifully written and unique storyline which leaves you feeling inspired to live your best life.
 
Getting Rid Of Matthew
By Jane Fallon

Great girly read written by a women with a very obvious sense humour. It is seriously laugh out loud funny.

Totes recommend.
 
Read two more Ellery Queen novels. First was Player From The Other Side. That was ok. Second was Calamity Town. That was no Christie.
 
I have decided to read every single Agatha Christie book in a month. That is all books that I can get my hands on. I shall keep an update on my progress by rating and reviewing all the books once I have read them.
 
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I have decided to read every single Agatha Christie book in a month. That is all books that I can get my hands on. I shall keep an update on my progress by rating and reviewing all the books once I have read them.
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I'm just reading some Christie myself. Just finished 'The Peril at End House', now on to 'The Mystery of the Blue Train'.
 
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I'm just reading some Christie myself. Just finished 'The Peril at End House', now on to 'The Mystery of the Blue Train'.
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Those are good books.

I have just finished 'Crooked House', 'Lord Edgware Dies', 'Problems at Pollenesa Bay', 'Murder at the Vicarage', and 'One, Two, Buckle My shoe.'

All about 5-7 out of 10 Tina Arenas.
 
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I bought this book for someone for Christmas and ended up reading it myself, even though I'm not an Aussie bloke. It's an easy read with some useful info and tips if you want to quit junk food, sugar, smoking, drinking etc. Peter sometimes comes past my workplace because it's near a restaurant that he goes to. I had to smile when he said in the book that he often gets mistaken for Hulk Hogan because one of my colleagues saw him one day, ran up to me and said 'look it's Hulk Hogan!'. :biggrin:

https://penguin.com.au/books/the-great-aussie-bloke-slim-down-9780143781868
 
Light on the Water
By Lonrenzo Olga

A mystery about a missing autistic girl, who was lost in bushland, and the story is told from the mothers perspectice (who is also the number 1 suspect).

It was beautifully written and I loved the fact it was based here in Australia.
I give the story a solid 9/10.
 
Interesting article about reading habits of males/females


Men And Women Don't Read From The Same Page On Books
We try to dissuade our children from falling into gender stereotypes, but what about our own?

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In general, women are more likely to read books at all than men, with the average woman reading 14 books a year, compared with nine books for the average man. Women prefer to read fiction, while men are more likely to read non-fiction books.

There is also a gulf in the more specific genres that men and women choose, with men tending to read history, biographies and memoir and science fiction, while women are more likely to choose mystery, thriller and crime, romance and other fiction.

I have to admit that while I might try to dissuade my children from falling into gender stereotypes, I fail to challenge the gender stereotype in my own reading habits; I love fiction and rarely read any other books. The idea of picking up a history book (other than historical fiction) or biography is foreign to me, and although I am open to science fiction, I don't usually choose it.

All of this will not come as a surprise to anyone who has read a bookshop or department store Mother's Day or Father's Day catalogue, in which the differentiation between 'men's' and 'women's' books is stark. But it might surprise many readers that it is not just the choice of genre that differs between the sexes -- it is also the gender of the author.

A survey of 40,000 members of Goodreads book review website exposed a sharp gender divide, finding that both men and women leaned almost entirely towards selecting books by writers of their own gender. Male authors accounted for 90 percent of men's 50 most-read titles in 2014, while of the 50 books published in 2014 that were most read by women, 45 were by women.

Editor-in-chief and co-founder of Goodreads Elizabeth Khuri Chandler said some men reported that they read more male authors because they believed men were more likely to write the type of books they like to read, in the genres or about the topics that interested them.

So, why do the differences between the reading choices of men and women exist? One clue might lie in a study about the impact of fiction on men and women. Queen Mary College asked men to nominate the books they felt to be most notable, with the results revealing a stark difference between the choices of the sexes. Men nominated books of alienation and indifference (Camus's The Outsider and JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye), while women chose books of passion and connection, by the Bronte sisters, Margaret Atwood and Jane Austen. While men were far more likely to choose books by dead white men, women veered towards female writers.

Even the researchers were surprised by the results and their suggestion of gender stereotypes, with women citing emotional, more domestic works, and men preferring novels about social dislocation and solitary struggle.

"We found that men do not regard books as a constant companion to their life's journey, as consolers or guides, as women do," said researcher Professor Lisa Jardine. "They read novels a bit like they read photography manuals."

Professor Jardine suggested that women, in contrast, used much-loved books to support them through difficult times and emotional turbulence, and often employed them as metaphorical guides to behaviour, or as support and inspiration. Given these insights, is there any wonder that men and women might prefer books of different genres?

However, some signs point to a shrinking of the gap between what men and women choose to read, with reports suggesting that women are increasingly reading fantasy fiction, as they have grown up enjoying series such as Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Divergent.

"There's been a real sea change in the past five or six years. Not only are more women buying into and reading fantasy but we're also seeing more female fantasy authors get recognition," said Julie Crisp, editorial director at Tor UK, Pan Macmillan's science fiction, fantasy and horror imprint. She said that shows such as 'Game of Thrones' had also made an impact, along with social media playing a part in introducing women to the genre.

The genre is also becoming more attractive to women as it increasingly features women as heroines, rather than the male-centric stories typical to fantasy in the past.

But are the differences between the way men and women read a problem?

I think that as long as people do not feel confined to any stereotype of what they should or should not be reading, it is not. We could try to challenge ourselves to read beyond the stereotypes, or we could just continue to read what we like, for whatever reasons we like.

And as long as our boys' and girls' bookshelves and local libraries are lined with a diverse range of books, they will have the opportunity and confidence to choose their own preferences, free from pressure or prejudice, just like in the toy box.

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Is this true for you?
Not for me, I read more like a male....read more female stuff as a kid and teen...
Women prefer to read fiction, while men are more likely to read non-fiction books.
There is also a gulf in the more specific genres that men and women choose, with men tending to read history, biographies and memoir and science fiction, while women are more likely to choose mystery, thriller and crime, romance and other fiction.

Hasn't everyone male or female read all of this????
Men nominated books of alienation and indifference (Camus's The Outsider and JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye), while women chose books of passion and connection, by the Bronte sisters, Margaret Atwood and Jane Austen.
 
Isn't The Catcher in the Rye on most school reading lists?

Anyway i read a mixture of male and female like.

I like non-fiction stuff. Things like history.

But i also like the fiction stuff. With a favorite of course being mystery.
 
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