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I'm reading The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader. It's historical fiction set in 1255. A seventeen year-old girl chooses to renounce the world and, after a ritual similar to a burial service, is incarcerated in a cell measuring 7 paces by 9 paces. She will spend the rest of her life in prayer for her sponsor and for the local community. Normal life continues outside her cell and it's impossible for her to isolate herself completely.
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Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - second novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy
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I've been totally grabbed by Stephen King again with his latest, 'Finders Keepers'. It almost annoys me how he can still do that to me!
He's still got it in him to create that essential intrigue and characters who you want to get behind.He did the same with the start of 'Revival' though, sadly, that turned out to be my least-favourite of his in a long time, despite it being bigged up in a huge way online as his supposed 'return' to horror, inspired by Lovecraft etc. (one passage near the end is definitely 'Lovecraft-ian', but I wasn't too bothered by that stage...) |
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Voyager (Outlander 3) Diana Gabaldon
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The Bleeding Land by Giles Kristian
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I am now reading 'Not Quite Nice' by Celia Imrie
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
I love, love, love this book so much! ![]() The latest film was excellent, too; beautifully portrayed. ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCm1XNVD_0c Shameless plug. ![]() I'm also reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (e-book), and I'm not enjoying this one so much. Rather boring imo. |
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I'm not reading it as of yet, but I'm a 34 year old rocker who has just bought a Mills and Boon novel.
To be fair, I know the author and want to read some of her stuff. Guess it's always a good thing to step out of your comfort zone occasionally. |
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One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The Hard Way - Lee Child
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Wheat Belly by William Davis
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Dark Lies The Island by Kevin Barry.
It's his second short story collection and very funny! Everything from a man obsessed with his teenage daughter's relationship with a 17 year old rugby player to patrons of a country pub convinced they're about to drown in a biblical flood, it's amusing and incredibly bizarre. |
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A Scent of New-Mown Hay ~ John Blackburn
"With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic" |
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Isabel Ashdown - Summer of '76
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I'm reading 'Spanish Steps' by Tim Moore. It's not often I laugh out loud whilst reading a book but this has made me laugh a lot.
Mr Moore walks the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrim way in northern Spain accompanied by a donkey. Once I've started it I can't put this book down. I do sometimes feel sorry for Shinto the donkey but admire Mr Moore for even attempting all of it. |
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Just finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, it was hard going but I quite liked it.
Next up to read is Greenmantle by John Buchan |
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Chavs - Owen Jones
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Finished Watch Me by James Carol, and moved onto Prey by the same author.
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I've just finished reading "The Kid Who Missed The Bus" by Matt McCoy. Quote:
In 1969, Lily and Nolan Doyle put the bombs and bastards of Belfast behind them and fled The Troubles in Northern Ireland to raise their family in the seclusion of small-town British Columbia, Canada. But firstborn son, Daniel, has troubles of his own... Danny Boy loves hockey but Danny Boy loves women too. And he can't seem to quit either. A tale that body-checks its way through Canada, Europe and the US, this is the story of the boy too big for his own skates, the teen with stars in his eyes and the man who discovers he is more than just a defenceman.
I'm a big ice hockey fan, and I know the author (he played in the UK for a year and stayed with us).
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Sailing Close to the Wind - Dennis Skinner
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Nick Hornby - Funny Girl
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Drums Of Autumn ( Outlander 4) Diana Gabaldon
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Brothers Fury by Giles Kristian
2nd in a trilogy set in The English Civil War |
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Totally different from the thrillers I have been reading recently, I am now reading When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman, an intriguing title if ever there was one!
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Just finished, Follow you Home by Mark Edwards. Seriously dark and creepy, wonderful stuff! Now reading The Fold, by Peter Clines.
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He's still got it in him to create that essential intrigue and characters who you want to get behind.


