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Sharpes Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Not the first Sharpe book written but the first chronologically |
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The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
WW11 story of the German occupation of France, involving 2 estranged sisters, fighting for their cause in very different ways. Very exciting and excellently written, but I was choked up, at the end. |
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The Three Musketeers.
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I started and finished Angel by LJ Ross yesterday number 4 in the DCI Ryan series, got to wait till the end of the year for the next one now!
I'm going back to old Rosamunde Pilcher's - one of my favourite authors- and started The End Of Summer last night, - I can't remember how long ago it was when I first read it!!! |
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The Three Musketeers.
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The Bishops Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison. Started reading The People versus O J Simpson but got bored by chapter 3 after watching the recent series on BBC so gave up and started reading this instead.
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CL Taylor - The Missing
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Fever of The Bone by Val McDermid
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Voices in Summer - another old Rosamunde Plicher,
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Ask him why - Catherine Ryan Hyde - I have yet to read a bad book by this author and although I'm only a third of the way through, I think this will be another good one. The story revolves around a soldier who has been discharged by the army for his contact in Iraq and the impact on his family, and is written from the point of view of his two younger siblings.
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Sarah Hilary - No other darkness
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re-reading 'Under the Dome'. Reminds me what a clusterf*ck the TV series quickly turned into.
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NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson
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Easily Distracted : My Autobiography by Steve Coogan.
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'Uprooted' - Naomi Novik I saw people talking about this on Goodreads so thought I'd give it a go - only 50 pages in but intriguing so far. Quote:
A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a enthralling, mythic fantasy by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series.
Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they value behind. Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked at the next choosing, for she's everything Agnieszka is not - beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes. |
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Luna: New Moon - Ian McDonald.
DNF for me. Such a hodge podge of ideas that don't really work together. And the writing style leaves a lot to be desired. |
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End of Watch - Stephen King.
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Whisky From Small Glasses by Denzil Meyrick
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What Sport Tells Us About Life • Ed Smith
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The Mystery of Mercy Close - Marian Keyes
I'm not really enjoying it like I have all her others, I'm not sure if it's because I read them when I was younger and have 'grown out' of this kind of book. I'll finish it though. |
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Sharpes Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Not the first Sharpe book written but the first chronologically |
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Tamar Cohen - The Broken
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I've just finished a couple of cracking books. I'd read Peter May's Lewis books (about the Isle of Lewis, not a detective) and they were fantastic, so I gave him another look. I didn't enjoy the China 'thrillers', so I didn't know what to expect from Entry Island or any of his others, but it's really, really good. It's partly set in the Outer Hebrides again.
But Runaway is superb. Far and away the best book I've read in a long time, and I do a lot of reading. I laughed and cried, and at some points both together. It's about a group of old men who have to go to London for a few days, and it's a re-run of what they did as youngsters (the two stories run parallel). The sense of menace, the sense of identity (I was only a few years younger than the old men when they first went in 1965), the eye-opening situations (I also ended up looking at those times from the perspective of someone who wasn't around then, eg my own kids). It also gave me some insight into the dynamic of my own family at that time, ffs. Peter May's characters - well, if there's ever been anyone who can dissect a personality and leave it flayed open and pinned to a board, it's him. I can't recommend him enough. (If anyone knows of any author who can do that well, I'd be very happy to hear. I don't like loads of sex in a book, though.) |
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re-reading 'Under the Dome'. Reminds me what a clusterf*ck the TV series quickly turned into.
And the kicker, "How far in is this? Have you found out yet what caused the dome?" haha! She switched it off at that point.
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Call the Doctor - Ronald White-Cooper
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