I did however find the book engrossing, and finished it in two days so it is definatly a good read. I read somewhere that a director was going to make it into a movie has anyone else heard that?

Secondly, a few books from my library which have gone unmentioned:

Possibly a little trashy, but I do enjoy Christopher Rice’s novels The Snow Garden and A Density of Souls.

More literary, At Swim, Two Boys (Jamie O’Neill) is an excellent book. Set in Ireland around the easter uprising (which I knew nothing about really so don’t worry if you don’t) it tells the story of two boys and the love between them. I found I had to read it in large chunks because I had to slip into understanding the dialect the characters were speaking, which I couldn’t do in shorter sittings. Other than that, a really good book I’ve now given myself a prompt to re-read.

Gents Warwick Collins is interesting. Set in a gents loo which is used as a cottage and the various pressures the attendants come under. Can be an amusing read and very quick.

Then there’s the plays – are you counting them as fiction?

Alex
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“No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street.”

Absolutely anything by: T Cooper, Cherie Moraga, Michelle Tea, Felicia Luna Lemus, Octavia Butler, Jeanette Winterson, Eileen Myles, Carson McCullers.

I clicked on your link for the “Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast” comic. The picture on its splash page made me wonder. Can the author eventually REMOVE stupid-ass tattoos from a character because he has the ability to edit it? Or, is he committed to keeping those awful tats permanent, just like in real life? Just wondering.

And I went to Publishing Triangle’s list. “Little Women”? “To Kill a Mockingbird”? “The Turn of the Screw”? Did I not read these books closely enough?