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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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...and to show my level, I've just finished Jodi Piccoult's latest work: Wonder Woman Issue 6. It's OK, but she's saddled with a silly set-up and it all feels a bit dated in a post-Captain America world.
(I'm also ploughing my way through Wicked, but more on that later...) |
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belinda
Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 63
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences
Richard Pryor.
I have to stop occasionally to either wipe away the tears or to lift my jaw up from the floor. _________________ Yours Sincerely
Belinda |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Fred - biography of Fred Dibnah |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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marietta honeybun wrote: | 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. |
Yes I enjoyed that one too. I've just finished The Tenth Circle by Jodie Picoult. Normally her books end up with a lengthy legal process being enacted - this one was different. And an interesting slant on Eskimo life too. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Am now reading The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver. So far so excellent. It's a Lincoln Rhyme crime story. I think JD's books are very gripping and extremely well written. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Just finished "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. An interesting scenario - woman gives birth to twins, the girl with Downs Syndrome, the boy healthy, and father (the doctor who delivered) tells her the daughter was stillborn whilst secretly consigning this child to a home - to spare his wife's suffering.
All this happens in the first few pages - the rest of this slow-moving story charts the lives of all those involved in this tragedy. Not one I would whole-heartedly recommend but still very readable. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Finished Jeffery Deaver's The Cold Moon which was excellent, gripping and not the ending I expected. How does he do it?
Am now reading one of Katie Fforde's books Living Dangerously. Nice comfy read, humorous. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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marietta honeybun wrote: | Finished Jeffery Deaver's The Cold Moon which was excellent, gripping and not the ending I expected. How does he do it?
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He's brillaint, fantastic writer. I have a signed copy of that book, he came to Cambridge last year during his short Uk tour.
Because the queue wasn't very long we had quite along chat, he's a really decent fella. A couple of weeks later I emailed him though his website and much to my suprise he personally replied saying how much he had enjoyed his visit
He has a new book coming out in July called 'The sleeping Doll' |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm waiting for that too. Have ordered it .... _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? |
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I am reading Andy Summers's autobiography One Train Later. His writing on his life before The Police is excellent so far, and his time as a skiffle fan just reminded me of my brother! _________________ 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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Red Baron
Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I read JW's autobiography last week. It was excellent - I couldn't put it down!
RB |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Katie Fforde's book Living Dangerously was really a nice romantic read. After that I read James Patterson's Beach Road. Very good, gripping and fast paced with a nice twist in the tail. I am now reading Marion Keyes book Anybody Out There which is, by turns, funny and very sad. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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'The Ultimate Bogart' by Ernest W Cunningham.
'Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade' by Richard Layman.
'Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir' by Eddie Muller.
I like anything along the lines of the Private Detective , Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and the like. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Red Baron wrote: | I read JW's autobiography last week. It was excellent - I couldn't put it down! |
Yes I have just been given it by my wife as a present and it really is very good. I like the chapter that has been written by his wife tiggy and the stuff whre he explains how ginger-top nicked drivetime from under his feet. |
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Red Baron
Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I haven't said too much as I know I read it before a lot of people - but it just shows how two-faced Lesley Douglas really is! Though I'm sure some people will excuse it as 'it's business'
Tiggy's chapter is very moving.
RB
firewirefred wrote: | Red Baron wrote: | I read JW's autobiography last week. It was excellent - I couldn't put it down! |
Yes I have just been given it by my wife as a present and it really is very good. I like the chapter that has been written by his wife tiggy and the stuff whre he explains how ginger-top nicked drivetime from under his feet. |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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What I admire about johnnie is that he bears no grudges and is a very pragmatic kind of bloke. Although I have listened to him for years and years I learned a lot about his character. Money well spent. |
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Red Baron
Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Just listened to an interview with JW on Radio Devon with Judi Spiers. It was on Tuesday's show, about 11.15 if anyone wants to 'Listen Again'
RB |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: |
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Read quite a few books recently whilst on holiday - too many to list! I have just started The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd which is, so far, excellent. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: |
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John Peel, Margrave of the Marshes. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Have just finished Ed Stewart's autobiography, which came out in 2004. A very good account of his origins, radio and TV life and favourite music but rather a lot of golfing anecdotes and, as I don't play the sport, I skipped over quite a few of them.
More biography on the go now with Barry Johnson's Round Mr Horne, which covers the late Kenneth. So far, so very good--KH was evidently a more complex man than was immediately apparent. Did you know, by the way, that his father, Charles Silvester Horne, was a Congregational minister, hymnwriter and MP? Two of his hymns, Sing We the King and For the Might of Thine Arm, are still well-known to older Methodists.
Ian. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Finished The Mermaid Chair which was really excellent. Have been reading since then and have now finished The Lesson of Her Death by Jeffery Deaver. Not one of his Lincoln Rhyme stories but still a very gripping story and a good read. I have just started reading The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. So far, so funny!! _________________ 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: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: |
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I've just got the new Terry Pratchett 'Making Money'. So far, Mr P is on form. _________________ 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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essexlady
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 348 Location: Essex
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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I've just started reading "Frozenlight" an autobiography by Colin Betts who grew up around the music scene in the 60s. So far I'm enjoying it very much - especially the chapter telling of the time he spent with Nick Drake in Aix-en-Provence. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Have read a load of books since my last posting ... in no particular order they are:
Yours Faithfully - Sheila O'Flanagan (very good)
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon (excellent)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (rather boring)
What Came Before He Shot Her - Elizabeth George (excellent)
The 5th Horseman - James Patterson (haphazard story and not very good)
Miracle - Danielle Steel (too sugary and perfect)
Blue Smoke - Nora Roberts (good believable storyline)
The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes (not terribly good) _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? |
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I'm currently reading Mike Oldfield's autobiography, Changeling. I was particularly interested in his family background and how his mum came to be mentally unbalanced through his teenage years.
I liked his writing about the time he and his sister Sally were in the duo Sallyangie. I've known times like that where the elder sibling wants to be the centre of attention! _________________ 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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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Redemption Song - biography of Joe Strummer |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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'Things do go wrong' by Spencer Leigh. The story of the ill fated 1960 tour of the UK by Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.
'I only wanna be with you' by Chris Dickerson, a Hollywood based screen writer and fellow Humphrey Bogart fan. |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Rage - Jonathan Kellerman. The story of two "just teenage" boys who abduct a 2 year old girl and murder her and the subsequent effect on all the people involved; the police, the families and friends.
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson. His return to America in search of the "perfect" small town. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Touching from a distance - Ian Curtis & Joy Division
Very interesting |
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Have read quite a few books within the last month. The latest was The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly which was very good. Have now just started reading Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon. Another crime novel but this time set in Venice. _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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scorpio
Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 148
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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I am reading "Enduring Love" by Iam McEwan at the moment. Hooked me in from the first page.
I discovered Ian McEwan by reading Atonement by him, which along with "House at Riverton" by Kate Morton are my favourite books this year.
Very Poignant.
I read "Touching from a Distance" too! I have read another book about Ian Curtis , can't remember who it was by.. ..but it was from a different perspective than Deborah Curtis' book. Both very moving reads. |
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pickle
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 252 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: What are you reading at the moment? |
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I have just finished 'Spike - An Intimate Memoir' by Norma Farnes. She was Spike Milligan's agent and then manager and saw that he could mean well and yet be completely horrible to people at other times.
There is a dreadfully embarrassing moment where they're at Peter Sellers's funeral and Harry Secombe goes up to sing 'Bread Of Heaven'.
Milligan creased himself laughing on the line 'feed me till I want no more'. I am just as bad with 'All Creatures Of Our God & King' because I can't hear the 'oh praise him, hallelujah!' bit without thinking of the Mr. Bean scene where he's in a church and he only knows the chorus of that! _________________ 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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frank
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: calais france
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I like Adolf Hitler - my part in his Downfall, thats one of my favourite books. |
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quickssandra
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 158 Location: Scotland
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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I'e just finished 'The Return', Victoria Hislop's second book.
Another good book.
QS |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Mel Tillis..... |
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I am reading 'Stuttering Boy' the autobiography of Country singer Mel Tillis. Though Mel stutters when he talks this does not affect his singing. Mel has written some classic songs such as 'Detroit City' and 'Ruby don't take your love to town.' The book gives a good insight into the constant touring life and temptations of a singer in any field of music. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19385 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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I've just finished The Island by Victorian Hislop.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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frank
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: calais france
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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I am reading some beano and dandy annuals i have found in the loft. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Recently enjoyed The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. Started it once, and gave up then was recommended by a friend so went back and persevered. A good read, written in the persona of "death" and covering Germany during the war. Well worth persevering. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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I am reading Watchmen - the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I've vowed not to read anything else until I've finished it. Which, sadly, means I read nothing for months as it's rubbish and I can't bring myself to finish it off. |
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Clive55
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson. an astonoshing book!!!
I am also reading lord of the rings |
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