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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 11:11:32

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Humble Pie is excellent Jean it explains a lot

Yes , agree on this one CDV very good !
Bill Brysons Neither here or there was good too. Now about to start on the Meatloaf To hell and back will report back !
Perhaps we ought to start a paperback swap ??

Glad you liked it Jean.

I thought about the swap thing but it's the postage of books and you can pick up some good prices in the likes of Asda.

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 11:15:20

Just read another two Martina Cole novels

Mauras Club and Two Woman, both the Eastend of London gritty woman/gangster family etc. Ok for the beach or p;ane I suppose.

Just bought the newest Tess Gerittsen and Fredrick Forsyeth so will let you now what they are like in time. Looking at Sleeping Doll next, you read it yet Rose?

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 11:38:52

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Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
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Originally posted by Genie
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Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
Humble Pie is excellent Jean it explains a lot

Yes , agree on this one CDV very good !
Bill Brysons Neither here or there was good too. Now about to start on the Meatloaf To hell and back will report back !
Perhaps we ought to start a paperback swap ??

Glad you liked it Jean.

I thought about the swap thing but it's the postage of books and you can pick up some good prices in the likes of Asda.

The ones I got off ebay were only £3.99 for 2 including postage, one book I bought the woman lived locally so she brought it round and gave me my postage back ! so that one only cost me 99p

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 13:48:13

I have just started reading THE HOUSE AT RIVERTOWN and enjoying it very much it also won the best book on RICHARD AND JUDY so looking forward to reading more from them .
I like VIRGINA ANDREW books when she was a live and now someone else is doing them as she left plenty of scrips to gon on with PETALS IN THE WIND WAS GOOD .
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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 15:13:01

Just finished The Deathly Hallows........fantastic read.

I've only read the last two Harry Potter books and they were brilliant, only sorry I didn't read all the others.

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 15:21:05

I'm enjoying reading Lynda La Plante novels. I read Bella Mafia on hoiday by the pool and I'm about half way through Royal Flush. Good gripping stuff.

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 15:32:34

Oh Helen I read that book years ago and really enjoyed it, still got it somewhere! Royal Flush is good too.

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 18:26:42

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I've read the Sharon Osbourne one - it's quite an eye opener and the language is colourful, as for some of the stunts she has pulled over the years - YUK!

I read the Sharon Osbourne book last year and I must say I thought the title was very apt "Extreme" it seems to have always been flying high or down in the dumps for her, no middle ground, just both extremes of the scale

I make no apologies for just having finished Jilly Cooper "Wicked" and I feel almost bereft

After Riders, Rivals and Polo her books seemed to lack that spark, but in my opinion this is Jilly back to her best

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 19:48:00

Well as I am enforced rest I am reading alot, but my brain is still awol so only something fairly light. I particularly enjoyed The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy and will now be getting his other novels. This was a beautifully panoramic book set mainly in the 40's and 50's - very evocative of former times. Couldn't quite believe it was written by a man which is very sexist of me! Still I also enjoy Nicholas Evans books too. I also love Bill Bryson books which are hilarious.

Yesterday I read The Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans which was everything it says on the cover! Heroine behaves so ditzy you want to knock some sense into her, but all comes right in the end.

Have the new Maeve Binchy lined up next, and when my brain can concentrate enough was halfway through Brick Lane by Monica Ali which is superb so far.

Liz glad to hear Jilly is back to her former glory, I thought her recent stuff has been absolute tosh and have given up reading them never mind buying them, ditto Katie Fforde whose entertaining and funny books I really used to enjoy.

Will be adding Marley and Me to my list from Amazon - can't even go shopping so thank goodness for the net!

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 20:39:26

I'm also reading Getting Rid of Matthew at the moment. I picked it because of the title my son is Matthew and is nearly 30 and still living at home !!!! I keep leaving it on the coffee table but it doesn't seem to have any effect

. I read Wicked by Jilly Cooper a while ago and agree she is back to her best with this one. I have also got the new Maeve Binchy to take on holiday and also another one can't remember what it's called but it's written by Dorothy Koomson who also wrote My Best Friends Girl which was a great book !

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 21:32:29

Recently finished "Lisey's Story" by Steven King. Hard to get into as it seems disjointed and self-indulgent for the first few chapters, but well worth the effort.

Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" is an excellent read and was a Richard & Judy Bookclub book.

If you're into fantasy then get hold of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy - I really loved these books and read them one after the other.

Dean Koontz - "The Good Guy" is out in hardback, so am desperately waiting for it to come out in paperback. Don't you just love Odd Thomas?

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 21:40:21

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also another one can't remember what it's called but it's written by Dorothy Koomson who also wrote My Best Friends Girl which was a great book !

"Marshmallows for Breakfast" I haven't read it yet but I intend to as I really enjoyed "My Best Friends Girl"

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 21:44:59

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What is everyone reading two years on?

Thanks for resurrecting this thread CDV, lots of great ideas for the future

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Posted - 30 Aug 2007 : 21:45:22

Just finished reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards which I enjoyed but was rather sad. Am now about to start "Our Betty, Scenes from my Life" by Liz Smith (She played the gran in The Royle Family).

Have read quite a few Steven King novels but find that a few of them are a bit disjointed, takes much longer to get to the end as I have to keep looking back to see whats gone on where.

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Posted - 31 Aug 2007 : 00:02:25

I'm so pleased others find Stephen King slightly reader unfriendly - years ago I bought Bag of Bones, I eventually started reading it last summer and keep dipping in and out of it, I've got about 60 pages left to read - I can honestly say that I have NEVER taken so long to read a book

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Posted - 31 Aug 2007 : 10:40:26

Thanks for resurrecting this thread CDV.

Like Liz, I used to really enjoy Jilly Cooper's books - an easy summer read when you didn't want to be too challenged

, but I thought she had gone off the boil a bit, and so I haven't thought to pick up any of her recent ones. However, maybe when I have got through the pile of books I already have (why do bookshops have this magnetic pull, that means I cannot pass one without going in, and why do they have these piles of gorgeous looking, brand new, shiny books just inside the door tempting me to add to my already large unread collection??) I will think about Jilly Cooper's latest.

I have just been reading some 'chick lit' recently, and enjoyed my first Marian Keyes book, Anybody Out There, and Melissa Nathan's Waitress, but now I am reading Atonement by Ian McEwan. It's been in my pile to read for ages and, with the film coming out soon, I thought I'd like to read the book first.

I agree with Carla about Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy - fantastic.

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Posted - 31 Aug 2007 : 16:22:36

Also read the Husband by Dean Koontz on our last Florida trip that was quite good to. Everyone else read a book called something like Ukrainan Tractors and were hee haw and lauhing apparently it is about an old fellow marrying a gold digger? Not braved it yet as I prefer thrillers/crime novels and as girly as I am I don't like girly books generally.

What I really love is a book you can't put down and stay up into the night, it's been a while since I have had a book like that!

I am engrossed in a couple of USA travel books at the minute planning and plotting away.

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Posted - 31 Aug 2007 : 17:03:40

I started A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, but didn't finish it - it just didn't do it for me, I'm afraid. I can't remember what it was I didn't like about it though, it was a while ago.

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Posted - 31 Aug 2007 : 17:34:43

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Thanks for resurrecting this thread CDV.

Like Liz, I used to really enjoy Jilly Cooper's books - an easy summer read when you didn't want to be too challenged , but I thought she had gone off the boil a bit, and so I haven't thought to pick up any of her recent ones. However, maybe when I have got through the pile of books I already have (why do bookshops have this magnetic pull, that means I cannot pass one without going in, and why do they have these piles of gorgeous looking, brand new, shiny books just inside the door tempting me to add to my already large unread collection??) I will think about Jilly Cooper's latest.

I have just been reading some 'chick lit' recently, and enjoyed my first Marian Keyes book, Anybody Out There, and Melissa Nathan's Waitress, but now I am reading Atonement by Ian McEwan. It's been in my pile to read for ages and, with the film coming out soon, I thought I'd like to read the book first.

I agree with Carla about Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy - fantastic.

I haven't read the wiatress Emm, but if you enjoyed it you would probably enjoy " The learning curve", also by the late Melissa Nathan, it's about a teacher!!