Favourite book ?????

I love reading too (there was a thread like this last time I was here proper(!) wasn't there?)
It's great to see books that I don't even know about & now think about trying.
I have to confess though there is something I've never understood - what is all the 'bookclub' type talk that comes after reading a book? A couple of books I have had, have said at the end 'Questions for discussion....' To me I just enjoy the book. Maybe that's why I only did English Language and not English Literature as O levels, :o Btw, that's an old school exam to those of you not old enough to realise. (where's the 'old-man' smiley gone?)
I love watching the book clubs on tv & used to enjoy Richard & JUdy's book club and can sort of understand what they're saying but do you (sorry, 'does one' lol) have to look for hidden/dark meanings in everything.

Anyway, sorry to digress folks. I love...
Sherlock Holmes - should say Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Catherine Cookson
Patricia Cornwell
Dick Francis
Ruth Rendell

Really into M.C. Beaton at the moment, Simon Brett quite good too.
So I'm pretty much a lightweight reader but have enjoyed serious ones too such as 'A Boy Called It', Flowers in the Attic.

The one & only I can remember from being a child was about a 'roo and learning the word 'kerchief, which meant 'handkerchief' but was actually knotted around his neck???? Don't know why that sticks in my mind but it does. Can picture it now - how weird!

cheers