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up we go again!

Hi I'm a bit tied up at the moment with illness in the family, so I won't be suggesting any books this month. As such I don't feel it appropriate to vote! I'll fall in with everyone else if that's ok - if I can. At the moment I don't know when I'll be on the boards over the next few weeks, so don't hold anything up because of me. I'll be back ... hopefully soon! AL

Thanks AL, hope you will join in the reading anyway but appreciate your problem. Hope all i well with your family soon. Thank you for letting us know.

Ann
Glos

Another good morning nudge

x Jill

thank you jill. Just two to post now.

my suggestions...

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'For one more day'
by Mitch Albom

Charley Benetto is a broken man, his life destroyed by alcohol and regret. He lose his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he wont be invited to his daughter's wedding, And he decides to take his own life.

What follows is a day many people yearn for.... a chance to make good with a lost parent....

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also another book by
Mitch Albom

' the five people you meet in Heaven'

On his eighty third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteren, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, With his final breath, he feells two small hands in his.... and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it.. These people may have been loved ones or distance strangers, Yet each of them changed your path forever.
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Ideal and quick books to read if you are a bit short of time, thought provoking, and I have heard this is going to be made into a film....


this is my first contribution to this 'club' so hope its ok..
cmdxxx

Hi
Sorry have'nt been on the computer over Easter.
Here are my suggestions

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Charley Benetto is a broken man, his life destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life.
Chrley takes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened.
What follows is the one seemingly ordinaryday so many of us yearn for: a chance tomake good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.
(From the backcover)

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Life in London's docklands in the 1950's was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites - this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions. often with no running water.
Jennifer Worth describes the romance and beauty of the great port of London, the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the sense of community and the incredible resilience of women who bore more than ten children. Funny,disturbing and moving, Call the Midwife brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure.
(From th back cover)

Cathy

Cathy and CMD you have both strangely suggested the same book (must be good), would one of you like to come up with another one in place of one more day please. if neither of you see this I will pm one of you.

Ann
Glos

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Hi Ann

I will change One More Day to The Interpretation of Muder.
Manhattan 1909, On the morning after Sigmund Frud arrivs in New York on his first and only visit to the United States, a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment, high above Broadway. The following night, another beautiful heiress Nora Acton, is discovered tied o a chandelier in her parent home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or to recall her ordeal.
Soon Freud and his American disciple Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her mmory, and to piece together the killers identity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit, an lead them on a thrilling journey into the darkest places of the city and of the human mind.

Cathy

Cathy is that the same author? No, looked it up Jed Rubenfield

It's a differnet author Ann. Although I can't recall this author's name I have read the book, but not for Greaders

*scurries off to look*

Jed Rubenfeld

thank you Jeanette.

Better wait until after 5pm although I think everyone who is interested has added.

Soz,
thanks cathy,(for changing your choice)
I'm busy popping on and off, as trying to arrange surprise flowers, visitors, and food for mom and dads suprise, get-together, 60th wedd ann.(tommorrow, and stretching till friday) so I'm sorry if I disappear,
xcmd

Better try and make my mind up then. There's some good nominations again