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What Book or Kindle Book are you reading ??
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AnninGlos | Report | 4 Feb 2015 17:24 |
Vera 'damning with faint praise'. I don't think that sounds like one for me, given that yous eem to be able to persevere with books that I can barely cope with. :-D |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 4 Feb 2015 16:49 |
I've been ploughing through "Music and Silence" by Rose Tremain and found it very hard going. The book is set mostly in Denmark in the 1600s where an English lutenist joins the orchestra at the court of King Christian IV. There are love stories, schemes and plots yet the narrative doesn't seem to go anywhere and the chapters dodge about over a 50 year time period and between Scandinavia, Ireland and England so I was forever having to remind myself that what I was reading about had happened before stuff I had already read. Does that make sense? Some characters were fictional, others had existed, but none of them seemed real to me and they all seemed to be touched by madness to a greater or lesser extent. |
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Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") | Report | 31 Jan 2015 21:52 |
Hi all |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 29 Jan 2015 16:54 |
Still haven't looked on their bookshelf, so don't worry ;-) |
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AnninGlos | Report | 29 Jan 2015 16:44 |
Det, due to finger trouble I had the wrong name it is Sophia not Sophie. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 29 Jan 2015 12:50 |
I think we've got Sophie's Secret somewhere upstairs - it was one of the offsprings when they were children. If I'm mistaken, there was a book with a similar name. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 29 Jan 2015 12:25 |
Finished Sophia's secret and really loved the book. Was sorry to finish it really. |
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Pammy51 | Report | 25 Jan 2015 15:58 |
Just finished reading Longbourn by Jo Baker. It's set around the events of Pride and Prejudice but concerns the lives of those belowstairs. I found it very entertaining as well a giving new insights into P and P. |
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Mersey | Report | 24 Jan 2015 14:39 |
~~~~s to Ann, I think it was me that was a bit slow at the time of reading :-0 :-D <3 |
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AnninGlos | Report | 21 Jan 2015 17:09 |
~~~~~ Mersey. I wouldn't say it was slow, more that she puts a lot of the historical detail in that takes time to digest. Or..... maybe it is my age and I like slow :-D :-D I am actually glad I am reading this one in paperback form as I think I might get a bit confused if it was on kindle as I do like to re-read the historical references. :-) |
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Mersey | Report | 21 Jan 2015 16:33 |
~~~~s Hi Ann, I have read that one.....very enjoyable but for me abit slow :-S mind you dont think I was in the right frame of mind when I read it LOL....... |
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AnninGlos | Report | 21 Jan 2015 15:15 |
I am really enjoying Sophia's Secrets, besides being a book told on two levels, an author who when she starts to write and chooses one of her Scottish ancestors as her heroine finds she is writing without thinking because she is being led by characters from the past. Set on the East Coast of Scotland it also covers a lot of Scottish history concerning the Jacobites and the Union (or not) with England. |
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Mersey | Report | 21 Jan 2015 15:10 |
~~~~~s to Emma, im just going to take a look and I may follow suit and download too :-D <3 |
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'Emma' | Report | 21 Jan 2015 14:30 |
Just purchased Anne's Song by Anne Nolan £2.62 |
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'Emma' | Report | 16 Jan 2015 12:51 |
Have finished the King's Sister by A OBrian. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 16 Jan 2015 09:55 |
I have just started Sophia's Secret by Susanna Kearsley. (I loved the Rose garden and Season of storms by her) This one looks as though it will be a good read. Set in Scotland with plenty of links to the past and flash backs. |
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Mersey | Report | 15 Jan 2015 23:10 |
Hi to all our lovely readers <3 <3 |
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AnninGlos | Report | 13 Jan 2015 17:44 |
I have just read Love and Loss by Alexandra Sage, the sequel to Love and Lemoncello. A good book for curling up with in the warm, not very heavy, a romance with the background of Sorrento. |
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'Emma' | Report | 13 Jan 2015 17:25 |
Just downloaded The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 11 Jan 2015 17:16 |
I've finished The Book of Gold Leaves at last. It took me a while to get through it and I've put my review on the Genes thread. |