scottishmags
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Hi everyone
I just wanted to move this post up the page a bit .. it's always great to hear what everyone's reading currently and get some new ideas
I've just finished life Class by Pat Barker, a beautifully written novel set just before and during WW1. It's written on a smaller scale, but if you enjoyed Birdsong I'd recommend this
Bizibee, I remember really loving Thornbirds as a teenager; wonder if I'd enjoy reading it again now?
Debz, I agree that Small Island is an excellent book and it's very relevant to the immigration issue today. Have you read The Road Home by Rose Tremain, about a guy who comes to the UK from eastern Europe and tries to make a life, without much English and working his way up through a series of menial jobs? It sounds a bit grim and worthy but actually it's a great read
aec13cat, I struggled with The Time Traveller's Wife too - I get confused when the clocks go back an hour so there was no hope for me with the time shifts in this novel!
Mags
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Lindaclk
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Reged: 12/01/2009
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Hi everyone,
I have just finished Cathy Kelly's Once in a Lifetime. I really enjoyed it and couldn't put it down.
Has anyone read The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness? It's a teenage novel. I have joined a local book club and this book is the selected read for next month. It's meant to be good but for some reason I'm not filled with enthusiasm.
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mimosa
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glad you posted scottishmags as I've just finished reading three books.I live in france so read what's around not always very new.1) Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris about some bottles of wine set in france and england agardener and a writer easy reading and an unusual book.2)A Florentine death by michele Giuttari a crime story written by an ex detective set in and around florence a bit gory at times but makes a change from american crime and you read about italy at the same time.3)second glance by Jodie Picoult I found it a bit confusing to start with as it goes back and forward in time but persevered and liked it in the end ,an interesting subject" voluntary" sterilisation of certain social groups plus afew ghosts and love affairs.am now going to read either captain corelli's mandolin as was in ceffalonia recently on holiday or the peppered moth by margaret drabble anyone readthem? I didn't finish the time travellers wife either
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BevRae
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Reged: 24/05/2009
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Loc: Edinburgh
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Hello,
I am reading The Cellist of Sarajevo at the moment. I think a few people have read this on the forum and I am really enjoying it. Well written and interesting. Am also just starting Ronan Bennett's Zugzwang which is a thriller set in revolutionary Russia.
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debz
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Hi Mags
I havent read The Road Home - will add it to my list of "musts" immediately, as we seem to have a similar taste in reading material (with the exception of TTW).
I have now moved on to a bit of mental bubblegum - a Jeffrey Deaver book. I love my crime novels and try to alternate a serious book with a bit of fluff (even though it is sometimes fluff liberally coated in gore :-) ) My OH reckons that I must be an expert in murder, I have read so much of this stuff, incl. all of the Kellerman's books, including their son Jesse's 3 books, Patterson's, North Patterson's, Coben, La Plante, Cole, Heller etc, etc....
The Thornbirds was a favourite for me too, might find my old copy in the loft and revisit.
Debz
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lynne
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I have just finished The Other Hand by Chris Cleave.
WOW
I won't spoil it by giving a mass of details......
Has anyone else read it?
Definitely has made me think, very hard, about some of my own attitudes.
I am SO pleased to have read
Here is the official take on it
"We don't want to tell you what happens in this book
It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it
Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it so we will just say that
"This is the story of two women
Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice
Two years later they meet again , the story starts there
Once youve read it you will want to tell your friends about it...when you do don't tell them what happens...the magic is in how it unfolds."
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Ginnie
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I've just finished The Piano teacher by Janice K Y Lee. Although I found the jumping between two decades a bit confusing at first I soon got into it and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is about Hong Kong in the war Nd also Hong Kong 10 years later. How different cultures come together aand what some will do to survive - or not- as the case may be.
Debz I hope you enjoy The Road home . I loved it.
Ginnie
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debz
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Reged: 18/05/2009
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Hi Ginnie
Read the 1st few chapters and I am gripped already. I feel such sympathy for the main character and sooo want to help him out!
Cant wait to snuggle down tonight for the next installment....
Debz
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Sula_Milly
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Reading "Guernica" at the moment but can tell already that I am going to enjoy it. I seem to be accidentally onto a Spanish civil was theme at the moment as I just finished "The Return" by Victoria Hislop which was good, although I think I preferred her last book, "The Island"
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Zib
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Reged: 12/08/2009
Posts: 139
Loc: USA
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Nothing too serious. Our "Friends of the Library" had a booksale last week, ending Sunday with the big sale price of US$6 for however many books you could fit in a bag. I got one on the early 20th century architect, Julia Morgan (who worked for YEARS on Hearst's Castle in California). A couple of cookbooks, Another about life in Victorian England, written by combining stories from diaries and memoirs, And one on Port.
So I'm spending my time perusing them.
I read on CD, "Barack Like Me" written by comedian/actor David Alan Grier. It was okay - I find David to be very funny in movies and in sketch comedy, so was a bit disappointed by this.
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I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I'm grateful every day that it isn't banned as a drug, that I don't have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there's no need to increase the intake. I can count on its stimulation 365 mornings every year. And thanks to the magic in a cup of coffee, I'm able to plunge into a whole day's cheerful thinking.
Anita Loos
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salome
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I am reading A Thousand splendid suns and loving it, have also just read The Vagrants and My Cleaner all worth a read. Interesting re The road home - I felt annoyed and let down that a scene I interpreted to be a barely disguised rape scene was under explored and brushed over,to me that felt irresponsible and disappointing of a women writer and really coloured how I felt about the whole book.
Sal
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Ginnie
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I've just finished The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale. Really enjoyed it. Two people meet up again after some years. They were together at Oxford but split up and have each ended as a carer for different reasons. Well written , not a difficult read.
Ginnie
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cinderella
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Loc: Fantasyland
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I have just finished "The piano teacher" which I enjoyed and "Eat.pray,love" which was very educative and am now reading " The gift" by Cecelia Ahern. Has anyone else read it?
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italian06
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Hi there I have just started reading Auntie Mame an Irriverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis first published in 1955.Can't tell you yet what its like.
I agree with Sula-Milly about the Victoria Hislop books. I think The Island was much better, I could not carry on with The Return I found it quite boring. I will pick it up again in a while and see if I change my mind.
I just finished reading for the umpteen time The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa
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