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Post by cookie on Jul 6, 2007 1:42:49 GMT 12
I've jsut read 'The Pact' by Jodi Picoult ...it as an interesting read. Just start the 4th book of Wilbur Smiths.... The Quest! The Egytian series. That series sounds cool cookie, I'll keep an eye out for that one!! I read the Seventh Scroll (I think it was by him) ages ago and that was set in Egypt. Would that have been part of the series? Yes it was part of the series... Taita one of the main charactors is still alive... he was they they call a longliver... he has outlived everyone so far. |
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Post by yollie on Jul 24, 2007 5:30:28 GMT 12
I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in under 24 hours. It was great!! Anyone else read it?
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Post by sparrow on Jul 24, 2007 18:54:52 GMT 12
I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in under 24 hours. It was great!! Anyone else read it? Lol! Me Yollie! One of my best friends left for Scotland on the weekend and I felt a bit "aaaaagh" about it. On the way back from the airport, I spied Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Thought: "A-ha" I can bury my sadness in there. I thoroughly enjoyed it and romped through it in about 24 hours. Go Harry! I'm now reading some other stuff for work which is not nearly so exciting as Harry Potter. ;D |
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Post by maire on Jul 27, 2007 5:44:31 GMT 12
I saw a large display at the Warehouse yesterday and a big notice saying all books were presold. I haven't read any of the HP books, but have seen the movies, which I enjoy 
I used to read a lot of Young Adult books, some of which were excellent.
Coincidence Sparrow!! One of my nieces left to go to Scotland in the weekend as well. Poor mum and her 6 sisters were really upset. Another is leaving next month for there as well, so they will have to go through the heartwrenching airport drama all over again 
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Post by sparrow on Jul 27, 2007 11:29:44 GMT 12
I saw a large display at the Warehouse yesterday and a big notice saying all books were presold. I haven't read any of the HP books, but have seen the movies, which I enjoy
I used to read a lot of Young Adult books, some of which were excellent.
Coincidence Sparrow!! One of my nieces left to go to Scotland in the weekend as well. Poor mum and her 6 sisters were really upset. Another is leaving next month for there as well, so they will have to go through the heartwrenching airport drama all over again Hey Maire Yeah: airport goodbyes suck.  As for the HP series: I'd read the Order of the Phoenix (and even the Goblet of Fire). The first couple of films stick really closely to the books, but there is a marked difference between the films and the bigger books later on. Order of the Phoenix is probably my favourite of the HP series. Go on ... you know you want to! Lol. ;D |
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Post by maire on Jul 27, 2007 19:50:11 GMT 12
I've got a stack of books I've bought here & there, whenever one catches my eye, so heaps to read. I might get into the HP books when I've read some of what I have here, eg those Martin Middleton ones I spoke of a few months ago, are still waiting to be enjoyed. Nearly finished Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith, very lightweight and it does a good job of putting me to sleep at night  |
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Post by yollie on Jul 29, 2007 5:56:54 GMT 12
Bit of light reading at the moment: Sheila O'Flanagan "Anyone but him"
Quite nice for bedtime reading, sort of Jill Mansell kinda book.
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Post by ringdove on Jul 30, 2007 14:51:05 GMT 12
Hi everyone!
I made a rediscovery. When I was at school I had tried to read
J B Priestley's The Good Companions and found it a trifle boring.
But recently I found Priestley's "Salt is Leaving" which is a kind of detective novel.
It is an absolute delight.
Ringdove
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Post by sparrow on Jul 30, 2007 17:07:08 GMT 12
Hi everyone! I made a rediscovery. When I was at school I had tried to read J B Priestley's The Good Companions and found it a trifle boring. But recently I found Priestley's "Salt is Leaving" which is a kind of detective novel. It is an absolute delight. Ringdove Hello you! Nice to "read" you on the boards. ;D I'll have to have a look at Priestley now. Sounds interesting. |
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Post by ringdove on Jul 31, 2007 5:06:12 GMT 12
Dear Sparrow
Priestley had a long writing career - from the 1920s onwards, if not earlier. His later works are perhaps more fun. In one two-volume work written in the 1960s probably [ I forget the name of the first volume, the second one is called The Image Men or something similar], he created a character called Prof Saltana who conceives of an Institute of Social Imagistics. It's
concerned with how images are projected in society. It's half serious, half hilarious!
Trust all goes well with you.
Ringdove
Ringdove
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Post by sparrow on Aug 1, 2007 20:37:24 GMT 12
Hey Ringdove
All is well with me. Glad all is well with you. I'm going to check those books out. I've got some "free" time coming up soon and feel like putting my nose in a few books.
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Post by yollie on Aug 13, 2007 3:30:07 GMT 12
Looks like I killed the bookclub section, lol. The last post was 3 August by me, sigh.
Anyway I'm halfway through the latest by Tess Gerritsen called The Mephisto Club. Very good read so far. I've read a few others by the same author and this one features detective Jane Rizzoli again, if that rings a bell for anyone!
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Post by maire on Aug 13, 2007 6:34:52 GMT 12
We've all been a bit remiss in posting Yollie, too much on elsewhere probably.
I'm reading the 2nd book in the SF series that I have been looking for, for years.
What a disappointment. My tastes in reading matter must have changed, as I find it boring
and have skipped quite a few pages. It's mostly about war and killing.
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Post by kokonutwoman on Aug 13, 2007 15:57:27 GMT 12
How's this for BORING "The Underdevelopment of Development" eds Sing C Chew & Robert A Denemark. When I get pass the words that are 100 miles long I promise I won't write a review. ;D
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Post by maire on Aug 13, 2007 20:29:31 GMT 12
Oh goody Koko .... lol I think we will appreciate that |
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Post by kokonutwoman on Aug 14, 2007 7:53:22 GMT 12
Thought the readers might ;D
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Post by jadzie on Aug 24, 2007 18:29:14 GMT 12
I'm reading " The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss. its a goregous book so far. beautifully written. its like it takes the thoughts and feelings you've always had and put it in written form only with such incredible beauty, that it makes you want to read the sentences over and over again.
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Post by yollie on Aug 26, 2007 20:15:34 GMT 12
Just finished a book called Funny valentine by Amy Jenkins.
Its a chick lit book, bit of light reading for a change. Quite funny, good style.
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Post by kokonutwoman on Aug 27, 2007 11:28:40 GMT 12
Up to my armpits in old press articles. Crazy how journo style and attitudes haven't changed much on 20 years.
The colour red is quite prominent.
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Post by Lux on Aug 27, 2007 22:13:39 GMT 12
I'm reading 'House of Masks' a whodunit set in New Zealand.
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Post by kokonutwoman on Sept 11, 2007 9:22:10 GMT 12
Six more weeks to go then I can read a REAL book.   |
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Post by Lux on Sept 11, 2007 17:04:47 GMT 12
Yayyyyyyy Koko |
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Post by yollie on Sept 12, 2007 4:38:30 GMT 12
I am reading The Divide by Nicholas Evans (author of the Horse Whisperer).
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Post by maire on Sept 12, 2007 7:50:15 GMT 12
My current book is Wideacre by Philippa Gregory. So far the main character Beatrice has had an affair with the gamekeepers "lad", aided and abetted with him into killing her father, she then lured him into a mantrap to try and get him killed. She is now she is having a steamy incestuous (manipulative) affair with her brother  ..... all supposedly for the love (obsession) of the family estate. It's set in the 18th century when women had no right of inheritance and she is not at all happy with that. It's a bit too Mills & Boonsy for my taste and unluckily, I also have the sequel which I had bought at an earlier time and forgotten I had. |
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Post by yollie on Sept 13, 2007 20:19:44 GMT 12
Actually I think the Horse Whisperer was his best book so far, the others I have read of his have come nowhere near as good.
I'm about halfway through, and, whilst the beginning was pretty good (finding a wanted (female) killer frozen in ice) now he goes back to the beginning of how her parents met and split up and there is not much (yet) relating to what went wrong with her life. I guess it will eventually get there, lol.
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