General Chat

CMD you have not missed the vote the thread is on the board until tomorrow.

Ann
Glos

sorry Ann,
I just got in from work.....
I dont mind what you vote for...its ok by me....
I'll just go with the flow....
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Out of time!!!! Vote thread just going up.

Ann
Glos

N

Yes, we will vote at 5pm. Don't know where Jeanette is, not like her to miss it and I have PMd her too.

Ann
Glos

nudge

I think we are voting this evening

Gill

nudge for the last few Greaders

Gill

N - I'll vote as soon as I can, 5 pm there is 4 am here :-)

This is really hard work this time. The vote will be held at about 5pm today regardless of whether or not everyone has voted.
I am out for the day so please somebody keep this thread nudged. Thanks

Ann
Glos

nudged for late shift....lol

Fine Jill, thanks

The Accidental Housewife by Rowan Coleman


How do you know if your life has taken a wrong turn? Alison James thinks she might be living the wrong life. She loves her husband Marc and their three children but somehow, in the process of building a perfect life for her family, she seems to have lost herself. And sometimes she worries that she's being punished for how it all started - for the day she ran away with her best friend's boyfriend. Catherine Ashley knows she's living the wrong life. She adores her two daughters, but she'd always thought that at thirty-one she'd be more than a near-divorcee with a dead-end job.In those dark middle-of-the-night moments that come all too often these days, her mind still flicks back to the love of her life: Marc James. And she still wonders whether Alison stole her life as well as her boyfriend. Alison and Catherine have been living separate lives, a hundred miles apart, for fifteen years - since Alison and Marc ran away together. But now Alison's moving back to Farmington, the town in which they both grew up. And they're about to find out just how different both their lives could still be...

Hope this is OK

x Jill

Still at least five to come.

Jill, we did Shadows and strongholds sorry.

Ann
Glos

Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

Synopsis
On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals on her deathbed that Ken is still alive, and shortly afterwards Sheila disappears, the cracks start to show in his landscape again. But it is only when he finds that Sheila herself is wanted for a savage double-murder that his life actually starts to fall apart...

Hope this has not been done before

Shadows and Strongholds by Elizabeth Chadwick

Description
A Mediaeval tale of pride and strife, of coming of age in a world where chivalry is a luxury seldom afforded, especially by men of power. An awkward misfit, loathed by his powerful and autocratic grandmother, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family to be fostered in the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Here Fulke will learn knightly arts, but before he can succeed, he must overcome the deep-seated doubts that hold him back. Hawise FitzWarin is Joscelin's youngest daughter and she befriends Fulke. As they grow up, an implacable enemy threatens Ludlow and as the pressure mounts, their friendship changes until one fateful day they find themselves staring at each other across a divide. Not only does Fulke have to overcome the shadows of his childhood, he faces a Welsh threat to his family's lands, and the way he feels about Hawise endangers all his hard won confidence. As the menace to Ludlow intensifies, he must either confront the future head on, or fail on all counts, not knowing if Hawise stands with or against him.

x Jill

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Thanks Ann,
Yes I want to join in this month,,as missed last selection....
I have to admit...I also chose them because they were thin books..and would not take to long..ha ha
love cmd x

thanks CMD, yes I did know you had a lot going on but thought you might still want to join us. The choice of books is fine. I always nominate books on my shelf waiting to be read!!!

Ann
Glos

Dear Ann,
thanks for the pm to remind me....as you know I am a bit busy lately...
I hope you dont mind..I have nominated two books from my bookself that I havent got around to reading yet, so I hope they have not been read already..

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Moshsin Hamid

'Excuse me, sir but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...'

So speaks the mysterious stranger at a lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out.........
shorlisted for booker prize 2007
(back cover)

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
In July 1962 Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrived at a hotel on the dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms thay struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...
(back cover)

cmd xxx

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