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belinda
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Yours Sincerely
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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ta nat _________________ I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't this thread used to be longer? |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: What are you reading now? |
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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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belinda
Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 63
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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American Psycho.
Loved the movie so decided to read the book, wished I hadn't! _________________ Yours Sincerely
Belinda |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Tony Benn was never a hate figure with me and Mr. Sailyour. He's worthy of more respect than almost all other government politicians.
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Pies and Prejudice! |
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treasure
Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 133 Location: over the rainbow
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hello anyone...new joiner...wanting to join in...
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. _________________ treasure
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
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jennyw
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Cardiff
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: What are you reading |
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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. _________________ I like cats and music |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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FLYBYNIGHT
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Has anybody read "The Island" by Victoria Hislop?
It's really lovely.
FLY |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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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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FLYBYNIGHT
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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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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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:39 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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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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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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AndyAndy2 RAJARed Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 548 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Some say he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp and that all his potted plants are called 'Steve'.....all we know is, he's called 'The Stig!'. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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It's strange--I like written humour but have never read a P G Wodehouse. Any suggestions as to where I might start?
Ian. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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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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AndyAndy2 RAJARed Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 548 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: |
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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?
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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!). _________________ Some say he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp and that all his potted plants are called 'Steve'.....all we know is, he's called 'The Stig!'. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: |
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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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treasure
Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 133 Location: over the rainbow
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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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
I'll lend it to you... _________________ treasure
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Peter de Meteor
Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Bristol
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: "I've seen in your eyes . . ." |
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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. _________________ . . . From The Asteroid Belt, Peter de Meteor |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Anna Karenena - bit hard going!
any good romance novels people could recommend - and not Jane bloomin Austin please!
maybe however I have just answered my own question - Anna Karrenena!
(please excuse my poor spelling) _________________ I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 790
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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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' _________________ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Just finished "Keeping Faith" by Jodie Picoult. Quite good, though I think her best was "My Sister's Keeper". |
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Fog on the Tyne
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1096
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ The wheel keeps on turning...
This fool made it round. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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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? _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Fog on the Tyne
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ The wheel keeps on turning...
This fool made it round. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I hope you enjoy them both. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? |
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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. _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard |
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Natasha Little Miss Lovely Smile
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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pickle
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:22 am Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? |
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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'. _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
'The Good Don't Last', Spock's Beard |
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marietta honeybun
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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