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DisneyDreamer
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Status: offline |  Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 06:55:41  
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You can always pick up a good Mary Higgins Clark, Sidney Sheldon or Norah Jones from Publix or Walmart.
We are hoping to get a bit of a library going at the villa where guests will leave books they have read and perhaps take one home hat someone else left behind.
I love to go to a villa and find a selection of books....I often find myself reading something I would never have chosen for myself - and really enjoying it! | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Deb
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 08:18:32
| There is a second hand book shop @ the Berry Town Centre along the US 27. I have bought many books from there to leave in the villa for guests. If they take them home thats fine as they cost anything from $1 depending on condition. Some books look like they have only been read the once - they are about $3.50 -$4, so excellent value. You do need plenty of time to browse as there's loads to choose from.
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Debra
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E. Cosgrove
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 09:02:46
| Which direction is that along the 27 Deb?
Any landmarks?
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There is a second hand book shop @ the Berry Town Centre along the US 27. I have bought many books from there to leave in the villa for guests. If they take them home thats fine as they cost anything from $1 depending on condition. Some books look like they have only been read the once - they are about $3.50 -$4, so excellent value. You do need plenty of time to browse as there's loads to choose from.
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Ray&Sarah
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 09:37:28
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Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
You can always pick up a good Mary Higgins Clark, Sidney Sheldon or Norah Jones from Publix or Walmart.
We are hoping to get a bit of a library going at the villa where guests will leave books they have read and perhaps take one home hat someone else left behind.
We do that too Liz, when we went to the villa in February I had several new books to read. |
Sarah
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Deb
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Deb
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 10:51:51
| I have just read this from 'Richard & Judy's column this morning in the Daily Express:
'At the British Book Awards, which Judy has also written about, the winner in the category "Richard & Judy's Best Read" was, deservedly, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Our viewers narrowly preferred it to runners-up - The Shadow of The Wind and The Time Traveler's Wife.
'Anyway, I can thoroughly recommend Cloud Atlas. It is really a collection of six short stories or novellas, all with cliff-hanger endings. You gradually realise that all the tales are subtley linked through space and time, beginning in the 19th century and ending in the far, far future. Friends who started it at bedtime say they couldn't put the light out until they had finished it. You have been warned.'
What good recommendations - we'll never run out of great books to read, another addiction!!!
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Debra
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Ray&Sarah
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Apr 2005 : 12:44:19
| | I have just finished reading "my Sisters Keeper" by Jodi Picoult which was also on the Richard & Judy books list. Not usually one I would have chosen but thought it was a good read with a surprising outcome. |
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Deb
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Apr 2005 : 09:22:48
| I am an avid John Grisham fan and have been waiting for 'The Broker' to be released in paperback. I couldn't even find it in Florida recently. Yesterday I was in Waterstone's and checked the date it was due out. 'Sometime in December' - the assistant said the publishers had delayed it due to the hardback and large paperback selling so well. Just out in time for the Xmas market. That man is an incredible and rich! author. Wish I could write that.
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Debra
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jo carroll
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Thorogoods
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E. Cosgrove
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DisneyDreamer
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Status: offline | Posted - 13 May 2005 : 16:37:27
| When I was younger I loved Jackie Collins books.....then as I got a bit older I thought I had grown out of her writing and haven't bought her books for years. Someone has just given me a copy of one of her more recent books.... Hollywood Wives....I can't put it down!!!!!! It's certainly a much lighter than The Time Travellers Wife, good though it was. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Pluto
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Status: offline | Posted - 22 May 2005 : 17:48:46
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Jemima J is wonderful!!
I'd love to do a Jemima and reinvent myself
I've read all of Jane Greens books except her latest, which I'm waiting to come out in paperback. Spellbound is good as well, sort of Jemima J in reverse!! And a lovely New England setting as well.
That was the first Jane Green book I've read, but I did notice she has a lot more to work on.............more for my pile!!!
The new Jane Green book, called The Other Woman, is now out. I bought it today. Only problem is, I want to read it on the plane but don't know if I can hold out for 5 weeks. If I get a new book I have to start it straight away then if its's good I wish I hadn't started it |
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E. Cosgrove
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Susan J
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 May 2005 : 09:59:55
| Penny Vincenzi Books are a good read, especially the ones all about the same family - mind is a sieve today, so cannot think of a single title, or the name of the family - runs around a publishing house and generations of family. Anyway, they are good for a read in the sun, and then for a mindless read, I like " Miss REad" books about a village - they are a comforting book from the past, I still re read Agatha Christies and the like, and often pick up a Sandra Brown book to read on a sun lounger. Have read everything of Steven Kings [ some twice] and think they are atmospheric, although I wasn't sure about Bag o' Bones.
I have had the pleasure of re reading all Enid Blytons with my son, who loved the famous Five, Secret Seven, " THe Mystery of......" with PC Goon in, and the ones with Barney and the Monkey, like THe rub a dub mystery, and Ring o bells. Oh happy days :)
And now I have found all the Harry Potters good - full of words - daft though that sounds
All time favourite - I uusually say -To Kill a Mocking Bird - I really enjoyed that book. |
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kazandloouk
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Status: offline | Posted - 10 Sep 2005 : 21:06:44
| I really like Martina Cole so will definately give that a try.
Has anyone here read Funny Bones ? (sorry if its been mentioned before), its a really sad but nice book and well worth a read | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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