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Thank you Pammy, I have it on my book shel;f and will read it next. :-)

Nudged for Bridget

David Mitchell is on our National Radio right now talking with our Saturday morning interviewer.... very interesting ... lot about stammering and how he thought the King's Speech was excellent.

Take care all

Persie :-)

Nudges again for Bridget.

It is Bridget Here, sorry I haven't replied previously and hope that I will not be doing the hiding away with paint brushes, gardening equipment etc again.
Well I did not manage to get the book that I said I would, Bad bad start! Sorry!
So instead I took one off my bookshelves, a very small but interesting book called The Shepherd by Fredrick Forsyth.

This is a very small book which has wonderful sketches inside and I bought it years ago in a secondhand shop, because it is a first addition and signed by the author.

A pilot sets off on Christmas day to go to Lakenheath from Germany and hopes to arrive in time to celebrate with his family. Within a short space of time things are going awry and he realises that the equipment is behaving very oddly. The compass is drifting lazily passing all direction, his ear phones are not working and he is unable to contact Lakenheath for assistance.
He describes the emotions he feels and the courses available to him in a very clear manner whilst at the same time he is aware that he has to be positive. He recalls times when he has been in danger
and suddenly understands that he is not on his own, there is at least one plane below him. .( I will not give the plot away) surfice to say that when he sees a plane below him he realises that this is a plane from another time.)
It is a taught story, beautifully written. The explanation of how he manages to arrive at a base safely in dreadful conditions,is tightly written especially when he realises that he has been brought there with the guidance of a plane and people who had all died some years earlier.

This is set in Lakenheath and Norfolk, so if anyone lives near these places, which I know well I am sure that they would enjoy this book even more, even if it is not the type of story they would normally read.

Sorry this is only a short piece but comp has gone down twice while I have been writing , we are having dreadful weather the sky is black and the rain is pouring down...

Bye for now

Anninglos, Mea Culpa for not adding before.

Bridget in Spain!

17.25hrs Spain










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No Problem Bridget, a beautifully written review and the book sounds very interesting. Shall watch out for it.

Just looked and if anyone is interested it is available on Amazon.

Lol Bridget, for a moment there I thought that Anninglos was another bit of Latin!!


I think that I need a break.

As Ann say, your book sounds really interesting. I will look out for ir.

Tess

Ann and Tess, thank you for your kind comments. I am now much more inclined to stay on here, I was ...........scared about taking this step, wanted to in my head but terrified in my hheart because I love writing and reading.
I am hopimg now that I only have one more hurdle to ob=vercome and then I will be back to whatever is considered nervous.

Where is the thread which one can submit ones own stories...I would like to start writing again

I am away from around the 10th to the 18th as will be in UK for an important event in the family.

Bye for now

Bridget

13.06 hrs Spain :-)

I will nudge up the writyers thread Bridget. But you don't submit your stories to the thread, if you remember, we send them out via e mail, you should have had a list. If not check with Rose on the thread.

I have just finished a very good book that was a £1.99 one I picked up in The Works shop.

The Railwayman's daughter by Dee Yates.
A novel about a young girl, the daughter of a rail ganger in 1875 on the York Doncaster railway. Her home is crowded so she goes to work for the station master who doesn't treat her well. She runs away to York, has a baby, lives with Quakers, tragedy allows her to return to her home village.

There is a lot of social history within the story, a lot about the railways and the life of railways workers, and also the lives of agricultural workers. And something also about the use of herbs as medicines and the treatment of scarlet fever for example.

It was a very interesting and quite gripping story and I was shocked when I studied the cover afterwards to find it is actually published by Mills and Boon. No way is it as trite as most of their books that I have seen.

Well worth a read. :-)

Review The Last Juror by John Grisham
I have read at least one book by John Grisham before and enjoyed it, but he is not an author who leaps to mind when I want to buy a book.
I actually found this one quite gripping, set in the seventies, a small town newspaper, a family who are rich enough to buy their way out of trouble. a murder committed by a member of this family and the consequential trial. Then we have desegregation, the small town being in the South near Memphis and the friendship between the editor of the newspaper, 23 year old Willie Traynor and Miss Callie a Christian black lady who loves to cook.
JG writes with authority regarding the court room scenes and with sensitivity with sad scenes. I definitely would not rule out reading more of his books.

Glad you enjoyed the Last Juror, Ann.
It's always a bit of a worry when you recommend a book as tastes differ so much!

Ann, I am delighted that you read The last juror and enjoyed it. I managed to read this by borrowing it from my sister whilst in the UK very recently. Having read manny of Grishams books, often for relief from important work related reading, I found this story a change from his usual style.
The Court Room scenes were excellently portrayed, and then the description of Miss Callie and Willie Taylor represented, for me, the changing attitudes about mixed race relationships in the USA.

I will try to stay on here even if I cannot read the chosen books because I find it one of the more interesting threads and enjoy talking to people who

have the love of reading that I have.
Bridget

08.35hrs Spain
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I really like the Greaders threads but I don't like all the books we have selected including one that I recommended. LOL

Persie

Perse, I don't like them all either, but at least it tells us which authors not to read again. :D :D :D

Maybe we should have a greaders thread 'Authors we have not enjoyed'???

Problem is some authors write really good books that you thoroughly enjoy and then they pop in the odd dud.

P xx

Problem is some authors write really good books that you thoroughly enjoy and then they pop in the odd dud.

P xx