General Chat

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I'm afraid it will fold if there is not enough interest this time. Trouble is there is no way of knowing if people have pc trouble.
Maisie is not with us this month as she dropped out for two months due to holidays. strangely enough I am always pleased when i have a holiday as I do more reading then.
So there is only Angela, Theresa and A/L that can reply now. If two of them reply we'll be OK for this month, if not it wont work.

a nudge from me too

nudge - cos I would hate to see the group fold

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Not left - just in suspension while I try and catch up with my other books. lol Am watching was is suggested - in case I already have one of the winning books.

Jill's suggestions, she is having trouble getting into GR at the moment.

She has only given me titles so i suggest you look them up on Amzon for a synopsis.


The House of Lanyon by Valerie Anand
The Loop by Nicholas Evans


Ann for Jill

I have sent out reminders but Mary Jane Sue and Gill have both left us as presumably has Jeanette, one of our loyal long term members who has just disappeared with nothing to say why, I hope it doesn't mean that she is ill but I have tried without success to contact her. This doesn't leave many of us. If we don't get some new blood soon the group is not really viable.

Ann
Glos

Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth.

When jenny Worth became a midwife in the 1950s she joined an East End where many lives were touched by the shadow of the workhouse. For, although the institutions were officially abolished in 1930, in reality many did not close until several decades later.

In the follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There’s Peggy and frank who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died – until frank’s strength and determination enabled him to make a home for his sister. Jane was a bright, lively child, whose spirit was broken by cruelty, until she found kindness and love later in life. Then there is the match making nun, sister Julienne, and sister Monica Joan who ends up in the High Court…….


The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom

Comment: a stunning debut – swaddling the reader in dread from the very first sentence, and spiralling into a heart stopping climax.

When Conrad and Jo move to the historic Victorian house, it seems like a new start for them. With its fairytale porch, wooden floorboards and perfect garden, it feels as if they have finally come home.
But when Conrad is given an old photo album, he begins to discover what dark secrets the house is harbouring. Looking through the cracked, 100 year old pages, he finds a photo of a group of Victorian women standing outside his house. The women look scary, angry, all dressed in black with their arms folded.
And then his heart nearly stops when he sees that one of the women – raven haired and staring at him with hatred in her eyes – is his wife…..

In case anyone is puzzled by the deleted post it was by DET asking what Greaders is.

Red Leaves by Paullina Simons

From the back cover - On a New England college campus, the naked body of a beautiful student is found frozen in a bank of snow. Why had she not even been reported missing by her friends?

Spencer O'Malley, the police detective assigned to the case, is soon drawn into the disturbing world of four friends, Jim, Conni, Albert and Kristina. O'Malley finds that these children of priviledge who played, studied, and occasionally slept together also kept secrets of their own, secrets that must be pieced together to form an entirely new picture.

O'Malley is a stranger in this Ivy League environment, yet he feels an affinity with the victim. In her death, he gradually discovers the truth of her mysterious and complex life, and each revelation is more shocking than the last.

Suspensful, claustrophobic and utterly compelling, Red Leaves puts Paullina Simons in the very front rank of contemporary writers.

The River Knows - Amanda Quick

From Amazon - She didn't mean to kill the man who broke into her room. Especially since he was a member of Victorian England's nobility, a protected class that could, literally, get away with murder. Now Louisa Bryce feels compelled to fake her own death and assume a new identity. Her fine writing skills land her a job as intrepid investigative reporter I. M. Phantom, whom everyone assumes is a man. It was so easy for Louisa to feign her demise, she now wonders if two other recent drownings were actually suicides. Anthony Stalbridge is wondering the same thing about his fiancee's drowning. When Louisa and Anthony run into each other while snooping in the rooms of a likely suspect, he gets off on the wrong foot by assuming a woman has no business conducting a dangerous investigation, while Louisa is annoyed and fascinated by his alpha-male behavior. Louisa is the archetypal Amanda Quick heroine, an adventurous woman full of grit, gumption, and determination. And Anthony is the perfect hero, a man with an edge. The incomparable Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz and Jayne Castle) has once again penned a superbly tantalizing romantic suspense, replete with smart and snappy dialogue, witty humor, and fast-paced action

Please add two books with their sinopsis. If we don't get more than 5 people taking part this month I am seriously considering disbanding Greaders but we will see how we go.
Vote will take place when i have either heard or traced all who took part last month. Books to be read by 4 April 09

Ann
Glos