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Just started Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase which has been recommended by a couple of my friends, only 5% in so far but I think I'm going to love it!
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Just started The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent, from the Richard and Judy Book Club, it hasn't got very good reviews but my book group has chosen it. About 10% in and I can already see why it has bad reviews. I'd better put it in spoilers but....
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Are they doing Christmas deals for the kindle again this year, the '12 days of Christmas'? I hope so. |
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I'm on the library waiting list for 'The Turning Point' audio version, but I think I'm a long way down the list. Glad to hear it's worth waiting for!
![]() 'Hidden' is OK so far - nothing special, but interesting enough for me to stick with it. Quote:
Just started Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase which has been recommended by a couple of my friends, only 5% in so far but I think I'm going to love it!
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I just finished reading Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante. I've not seen the TV series before, but I am aware of it and did read the prequel Tennison by Lynda earlier this year.
I did quite enjoy Prime Suspect. I felt the story was a bit lacking, but Lynda carved out a strong central character in Jane Tennison and I found the attitudes towards women and the misogyny at the time interesting to read about. I'd give it a 7/10. |
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Currently reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang. I'm loving it so far, I live books set in/about the far east and the fact this is a true story about 3 generations of the same family is really interesting
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Spandex Ballet by Lee Kyle
It's a bit strange reading a biography by someone I actually know personally and therefore know a lot of people mentioned in it, but an enjoyable, funny read. |
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Right I've finished Naked in the Albert Hall by Tracey Thorn. Thoughtful, a little dull but I'm glad I got inside her er mind for a few weeks to read this.
Its been part of a series of books I've read on music in recent years David Byrnes How Music Works and after that Lucy o' Briens She Bop which told the stories of so many great and also too many unknown female performers. |
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As Good as it Gets - Fiona Gibson
"Warm, funny and poignant" says the blurb on the cover, and this was what I needed. .About a family and the the mother, trying to help her teen daughter with her problems, and worrying over her husband's unemployment and attraction to a new neighbour. |
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I've nearly finished 'I Saw A Man' by Owen Sheers. Reading the back cover, I thought this would just be a lightweight thriller (nothing wrong with that) but it has turned out to be so much more.
The characters in the story are really well crafted, with plenty of light and shade to each of them. The event that happens doesn't occur until a fair way into the book, but it's held my attention up to then and has pulled the story into a new direction. Really enjoying this and would definetly read more by the same author. |
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This was one of my favourite books in a long time. Enjoy!
![]() ![]() I am now reading The Litigators by John Grisham. I haven't read any of his books for a good few years but this one is brilliant and more light hearted than I remember his other books to be. |
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I'm currently reading The Dark of the Sun by WIlbur Smith, which is........good enough to keep my interest.
Next up will probably be The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell. Requested it from the library ages ago, but still waiting. If that doesn't arrive in time I'll read Wings On My Sleeve by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, which I just bought today.
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Phew! I've read all my Christmassy books, just in time to see this year's end:
Village Christmas and Other Notes On the English Year - Laurie Lee Carols From King's - Alexandra Coghlan The Father Christmas Letters - J.R.R. Tolkien The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories - P.D. James Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie |
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Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself.
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"Caribbean Crisis" by Desmond Reid (1962).
Reid doesn't exist, This novella was the first published book by Michael Moorcock, written in collaboration with Jim Cawthorn for the Sexton Blake Library. The editor changed Moorcock's pro-Castro sentiments. Available free online (with Moorcock's blessing): http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespis...ck/crisis.html |
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Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight - a school girl falls or jumps from the second floor of her school building and her mother investigates how this can have happened. It has mixed reviews including some saying it is more like a YA book and although I am only 12% in I tend to agree.
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Set The Boy Free • Johnny Marr autobiography
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Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas
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If that doesn't arrive in time I'll read Wings On My Sleeve by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, which I just bought today.