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belinda



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since Julia and Rachel enjoy angels so much maybe they should read - An Army of Angels by Pamela Marcantel ...... maybe you could read it together Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Natasha wrote:
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http://www.leninimports.com/the_blue_angel.html


ta nat Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn't this thread used to be longer?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:15 pm    Post subject: What are you reading now? Reply with quote

A Long Way Down.
Nick Hornby.
I haven't warmed to his journalism and didn't like his book "About a Boy", but this is good.
I thought it was going to be the usual Aren't I clever stuff, but I am finding it quite gripping.
In an existentialist way.
Looking forward to the last Harry Potter and just about to sign up for counselling.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

American Psycho.

Loved the movie so decided to read the book, wished I hadn't! Embarassed
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tony Benn was never a hate figure with me and Mr. Sailyour. He's worthy of more respect than almost all other government politicians.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. It was a very strange book - not a bad story but a little weird. Not sure I would recommend it.

Have decided on a lighter read this time - the title is Alligators, Old Mink and New Money. Authors are Alison and Melissa Houtte. The cover blurb says "a treasure trove of gossip, advice and anecdotes about vintage clothing". Apparently Alison Houtte was a fashion model who opened a vintage clothes and accessories store in Brooklyn.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alison Houtte's book was quite good and I did enjoy it. It contained a lot of information in the back pages related to refurbishing and caring for vintage clothing and shoes.

Have just finished reading The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters, a crime thriller, which was really excellent. I am now reading Making Your Mind Up by Jill Mansell which although a light read has a good storyline and is very amusing.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pies and Prejudice! Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello anyone...new joiner...wanting to join in... Very Happy

I would like to enthusiastically recommend...

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Once you get your head round the time thing it is a beautiful story. I cried uncontrollably when I finished it. I have lent it to two friends who agreed that it was a truly good read. I believe it lasted well in the best sellers about eighteen months or so ago (it was published in2003). One that I was sorry to finish it was so good. Google the title and read the review.

A definite read again for me.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:40 pm    Post subject: What are you reading Reply with quote

I've just started reading Lee Child's The Hard Way. I've been waiting for it to come out in paperback for ages.

I've also got (library book) Robert Crais' The Forgotten Man, but had to read Child's book first!

My dad lent me a poetry/prose book yesterday, called Blodwen and Dai, by R E Bowen Rees. It's mostly about Wales and the Welsh and I'll read it on the bus to work.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Making Your Mind Up by Jill Mansell was very good and I was sorry to finish it. Funny and sad and a very believable storyline. Since finishing that I have also just finished reading Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas. An excellent book and I can thoroughly recommend it. It is about Cairo during the war years and present day. The relationship that develops between a troubled runaway teenage girl and her reclusive grandmother who lives in the heart of Cairo.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has anybody read "The Island" by Victoria Hislop?
It's really lovely.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I've read that fly by night, I thought it was really good even though it's not the sort of book I would normally read. I thought her descriptions of the leper colonly were incredibly vivid.
I hope she writes some more novels after the success of this one.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi TTS.
Yes, I'm enjoying it too, it was recommended to me by so many friends.
I remember reading a book about leprosy when I was a little girl and it scared me witless. For years, every night I would examine myself all over to see if I had any white patches!!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just recently finished reading All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve. It was not one of her best stories imho and rather boring. Far too long, far too detailed, mainly about one person's obsession for another. I really wanted to give up at times and just not finish it but I did persevere to the end. I wouldn't recommend it.

I have just started Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark. A crime novel about the abduction of identical 3year old twin girls. So far so good and quite exciting.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading Ring Resounding by Decca record producer John Culshaw (1924-80). It's an old book, first published in 1967, and I got it on ebay after enjoying Culshaw's autobiography Putting the Record Straight.

It tells of the recording from 1958 to 1965 of the first complete Wagner Ring cycle on record. This may sound a bit dry but the style is very funny and gossipy and the book should appeal to a wider audience than might be immediately apparent.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished the Mary Higgins Clark book now which was quite good but a little over-simplistic in style. Have just started reading The Lighthouse by PD James. An Adam Dalgliesh murder mystery.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm re-reading 'Do Butlers Burgle Banks?" by P.G.Wodehouse - very farcical, funny and gentle.

There's a great part where everyone who's intending on robbing this bank turn up on the same night to do the deed, people hide, a girl gets locked in the safe, one of the robbers finds religion...very funny.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's strange--I like written humour but have never read a P G Wodehouse. Any suggestions as to where I might start?

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am reading "The Devil Wears Prada", though frankly I don't know why. It seems to have got stuck in a time warp, every page just another endless repeat of the one before. Someone should have told this Miranda Priestley (the Meryl Streep character, I guess) where to get off way before now, and I could have moved on to something a bit more stimulating, or even cerebral, which this definitely ain't! How could a film of this tripe have been nominated for an Oscar..... beats me!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iwarburton wrote:
It's strange--I like written humour but have never read a P G Wodehouse. Any suggestions as to where I might start?

Ian.


Ian - Obvious answer would be Jeeves and Wooster but my money would be on PSmith, Journalist or the Ukridge books.

Take a look at their plots on Wikkipedia (think that spellings right!).
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have heard great things about PG Woodhouse - not read any though

at the mo I'm dipping into 'Birthday Letters' Ted Hughes' collection of poems with some very boring german 17th century sonnets on the go as well - and nearing the end of 'Pies and Prejudice' which I will still rave about to anyone who will listen!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not reading currently...read last year and have passed to friends since...Eva Rice...daughter of Sir Tim...took me a while to get in to but a lovely tale.


The book...The lost art of keeping secrets...Eva Rice. Give it a go Very Happy

I'll lend it to you... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished The Lighthouse by P.D. James which was excellent and no I didn't guess who dunnit!! Very readable. Have now started The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. Haven't read any of his books before but this one so far is very good. It seems to be about the relationship between an elderly uncle (who has survived lung cancer) and his nephew (an academic who gave up to be a taxi driver). Funny and sad by turns.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:19 pm    Post subject: "I've seen in your eyes . . ." Reply with quote

I'm reading "A Small Island" by Andrea Levy - which is this year's 'Big Read' (or whatever they call it) - where a book is available free of charge and as many people as possible are asked to read it.

It's about Jamaican immigrants to England in the early 1950's, but I'm currently in the opening chapters about their life in Jamaica before coming over. It's very descriptive and is forcing me to take my time reading it - which is no bad thing. I reckon it's fair to say I'm enjoying it so far, but I'll try to post an overall view when I've finished it.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster which was excellent. A good story with believable characters that you actually cared about. Next I read Café Tropicana by Belinda Jones which was a light chick-lit book about a single 30-something who goes off to Latin America to open her own coffee bar. In fact, it wasn't a bad story at all and I did enjoy it. Am now reading The Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anna Karenena - bit hard going!

any good romance novels people could recommend - and not Jane bloomin Austin please! Wink
maybe however I have just answered my own question - Anna Karrenena!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not a romantic - but to get you through EB, you may like to try. 'The Awakening & Other Stories' by Kate Chopin - 'feminist fiction from turn-of-the-century America'
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just finished "Keeping Faith" by Jodie Picoult. Quite good, though I think her best was "My Sister's Keeper".
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books:The Eyre Affair,Lost In a Good Book,Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten.Tremendously inventive and very funny.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished James Patterson's book Lifeguard which was good, gripping, page-turning stuff. Not the usual grim gore and bloodbath of previous books. Have just got a few chapters into Cold Kill by Stephen Leather and so far, so very good.
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Fog on the Tyne wrote:
Currently reading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books:The Eyre Affair,Lost In a Good Book,Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten.Tremendously inventive and very funny.


Foggy,
I am currently about half way through the "alternative" Fforde books ie The fourth Bear. Did you know that the Gingerbread man was a pyschotic assassin, and was a biscuit?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Geddon

I've started the Big Over Easy which is the first of the Jack Spratt and Mary Mary books -investigating the death/suicide/murder of Humpty Dumpty. Really good stuff.
I've got The Fourth Bear on my to read list.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope you enjoy them both.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:09 pm    Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? Reply with quote

Adam Ant's autobiography. I hadn't known he and Amanda Donohoe were a couple early on, but the man had lots of partners.

I was reading this to get a further explanation of how he came to be diagnosed as bipolar (manic-depressive). I know that he was constantly working, but I realise his father was an alcoholic who constantly beat up his mother.

Reading about young Stuart, as was, trying to cope with his dad's 'Jekyll & Hyde' like changes of mood had some familiarity as I knew someone close who had similar.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't forget to tune in, Okies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/diary-nobody.shtml
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished Stephen Leather's book Cold Kill. It was excellent. About the ongoing fight against terrorism, the difficulty of spotting terrorists, undercover police, the mind-set of those involved on both sides of this problem. I can recommend it as a good read and an eye-opener as to what is really going on.
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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:22 am    Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? Reply with quote

I didn't get on with Brenda Blethyn's 'Mixed Fancies'. Her account of childhood read like Monty Python/At Last The 1948 Show's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch at times!

So I've started on Jasper Fforde's 'The Big Over Easy'.
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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have just finished Jodi Picoult's book "Mercy" which was an amazing story. Set in New England. It's about a man who's wife has terminal breast cancer and he kills her (at her request) then has to go on trial for murder. Very thought provoking and a real page turner.
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