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Gave up on and now part way though which I'm really enjoying. Read over 30 years ago and it is still memorable. If you like the latter you could try by a new author Dan Smith. It's tagged as a thriller but it is so much more than that - really beautifully written.

Must give that a go then Ian. I like a recommendation!

I know about 5 people who have read it and all gave it a high rating

Just finished In the Blood, which I enjoyed. Just started Wishwhich i had free some time ago on Amazon, but did not realise till I started it that it was a teenage/young adult book. I am enjoying it so far though

Janet wrote: "Just finished In the Blood, which I enjoyed. Just started Wishwhich i had free some time ago on Amazon, but did not realise till I started it that it was a teenage/young adult book...."

I downloaded Wish as well ages ago but haven't got round to reading it yet, so I'll be interested to hear how you get on with it.

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i have a feeling i downloaded wish! I love books for teenagers or preteens

Just finished Dear Cupid- read in about 2 hours last night - a good feelgood bit of chick lit. Now reading Take No More which is good so far but just need to brush on my art - no pun intended. Off to google Leda and the Swan.

I've finished and enjoyed The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches, there were a few typos and formatting issues though - the most confusing was whenever there was a 7 instead of a 9, so events were happening in 1717 - I kept thinking that they were referring to older historical events!

I don't know what to read next - will do some browsing later. I have too much choice!! :0)

I've yet to read the Harry atch book as I bought it as a hardback before I purchased my Kindle. I look forward to reading it.

Have you read Tear in Time yet Karen? It's a very good time travel / history novel.

Just finished Take No More which I really enjoyed. Just about to start [book:The Bronze Horseman|83144. Just received a £10 gift voucher for doing surveys online today and I was trying not to download any more books as I have 308 to read!!

Karen (Kew) wrote: "Janet wrote: "Just finished In the Blood, which I enjoyed. Just started Wishwhich i had free some time ago on Amazon, but did not realise till I started it that it was a teenage/you..."

I finished Wish last night and really enjoyed it. It's got a magical element to it and is quite poignant. While some of it covers standard teen stuff like boyfriends and hanging out with the 'right' crowd etc, it was actually really well written. Definitely worth a read in my opinion!

Just finished Wish as I've just said and planning to start . I'm enjoying this series of books and even better I think I had this in the Summer sale!

Jud (judder) wrote: "i have a feeling i downloaded wish! I love books for teenagers or preteens"

Worth a read, better written than some other teen stuff I've read :)

Hi everyone :D,

I have just finished Brilliant story, heavy book so i would definately recommend the ebook version, but mine was bought as a pressie so i ended up with the hardcopy!.. and a very achey neck as it went everywhere with me!
Not sure what to read next so in the meantime think i may try and eliminate some kindle samples!! as its it seems to be mounting up fast!

I have around 17 samples which is a lot, considering that some of them run to around half-an-hour's reading. I particularly enjoy that aspect of having a Kindle; after all, how many bookshops would allow you do to as much reading for free? I enjoyed the sample for The Passage and it's on my (enormous) wishlist.

I've just started Sea of Poppies which I bought as a paperback, a couple of years ago and long before Kindles went on sale in the UK. If only I'd known! It's a good book, but I think I'm going to miss the ease of the e-book format. Only six weeks into this malarky and I'm already ridiculously hooked.

I just finished It was brilliant. Would definitely recommend if you dont mind reading books for kids! I'd be surprised if this was aimed at teenagers Its def a preteen book but I wass still hooked, its also the second in the series the first being . I have the 3rd one on my kindle but i think i'll wait a while cause the final one comes out in November so I'm going to read next since I have borrowed it from my friends mum.

hoping that I have this link business right....
I have just finished White Fang which I really enjoyed, and started The End of Marking Time

I just added to my tbr list! It sounds really good you'll have to let me know if its worth it.

I've read it - good story and quite gripping.

I read it when I first got my Kindle.I really enjoyed it.

Have just finished The Return of the Dancing Master which was enjoyable but not great and now just startedHelmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie

Sharon4 wrote: "I have around 17 samples which is a lot, considering that some of them run to around half-an-hour's reading. I particularly enjoy that aspect of having a Kindle; afterall, how many bookshops would..."
I have 23 samples to read that doesnt include any one my tbr list! lol of course I dont think being on goodreads helps as i am always seeing new books and think ooo better try that! yes definately read the passage i would highly reccomend it!

I really enjoyed . I can recommend it and it has some relevence to some of the issues surrounding rioting and sentencing....

Direct Amazon link

I've just finished reading A Seal Pup in My Bath which took me a while to get into but once I did I found it very interesting. It is a memoir of the early years of the career of an RSPCA inspector in the 1970s.

As I'm on a run of memoirs I've just started An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, And the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.

Glad to hear the recommendations of Wish - I'll bump it forward on my tbr list.

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Just finished White Fang, and it's going to be a few days before the new book is selected so I thought I'd read Pandemonium ()
Friend of mine read it and spoke really highly of it. Hopefully I'll read it within a few days of the new book being announced so I don't have too much to catch up :)

The new book will be selected this Saturday Lorraine. No prizes for guessing the most likely winner of the vote though.

It's ok Simon, I am going through a book a week at the moment, so I'll have plenty of time to read the new selection :)
It's a bit tight at the moment, wonder which one will be the chosen book? Don't forget to vote everyone !

I'm finding it difficult to get into An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, And the Fight for Seadrift, Texas as it is written in colloquialisms which I'm finding a bit difficult to follow. I will try again later as she has an important story to tell; I think that it is quite fitting for her to write in this style but as a non-american it will take a bit more concentration for me to read it.

Going to start the latest group book read instead!

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Me too, only read 6% of Pandemonium so far (no reading yesterday sadly) so I think I'll leave it aside for a mo until I have read the new group read :)

Yep, I have been really busy at work and this group seems to be taking more of my time than I expected. I have totally failed to read so I am going to have a go at instead. (Looks like a bit of sunshine too, so I might be in the pub garden later!)

Finished Chrysalids last night. The book grabbed me from the first few sentences. So well written. I needed something else well written after this - couldn't read anything second rate after such quality writing as Wyndham - so I started The Help this morning!

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Loved The Help and it was hard to believe that it was not that long ago in America. Not sure if I want to see the film as they are never the same as I imagined the book. In two minds about the film of One Day.

Not sure it is my sort of thing but I have been surprised a few times since I've had my Kindle.

Here is the Amazon direct link :

And the other one :

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We read The Help about 4 months ago in the village book club. Stunning book. The darkest thoughts were that it was in my lifetime. Ok I'm a bit superannuated now but I've still got a parent alive. I'm treating her well. She's all that stands between me and my being The Older Generation!

For some reason I had it in my mind that the Help was standard chick lit, tempted now that I've looked at following the above comments!!

Janet wrote: "For some reason I had it in my mind that the Help was standard chick lit, tempted now that I've looked at following the above comments!!"

I've only read a few pages so far Janet - but it certainly isn't chick lit! :0)

just downloaded a sample

I just finished and have now started . I don't share Katy's sentiments on the great gatsby I really enjoyed it, was surprised how short it was too

I finished White Fang towards the end of last week and I now feel like I'm going back hundreds of years as I'm reading an Inspector Rebus novel in Paperback.

This seems so weird.

Jud (judder) wrote: "I just finished and have now started . I don't share Katy's sentiments on the great gatsby I really enjoyed it, was surprised h..."

I enjoyed the film of Gatsby - but I did see it first before I read the book. I thought that it portrayed the book quite well. The only thing that annoyed me was that although they had the costumes and settings correct for the period - the put the actresses in 1970s hats!

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Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "I really enjoyed The End of Marking Time. I can recommend it and it has some relevence to some of the issues surrounding rioting and sentencing....

Direct Amazon link The End of Marking Time"

I have just finished it & yes, without saying too much, thought it was a good read. Agree with the relevance to the rioting etc

This has been a bit of sticky week so I have been reading the trashy stuff I had downloaded for holidays. Next week is my soggy camping trip (unfortunately not entirely as planned due to a midweek break to return home for a funeral :( )

I am reading slowly and savouring which I was lucky enough to win in the first quiz.

Of course I will be starting as soon as I have been into the loft and found my old copy.

on my way back from Romania i managed to finish Out of Time...its been an interesting reading, i enjoyed it more than i thought i would. i can say i admired the writing style, the use of neologisms and complex sentences.
its a good holiday read
my next book might be something i got in Romania, called Narcotics in Romanian Culture...i am quite thrilled about it...

I finished reading The Help and it was excellent! The story of three women during the 1960s and the civil rights movement. That makes it sound heavy going but it isn't - it will make you laugh and make you angry. Very enjoyable and thought-provoking read.

Now I've started Tiaras and Tantrums: Twenty-five Years in Service at Kedleston Hall but it's a bit early to comment on it, hasn't grabbed me yet but will persevere for a while.

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I knew you'd like The Help, Kew. I think the film is coming out soon...

I read Tiaras...etc a while back. It was okay but not quite what I was hoping for. I'm interested to hear what you think.

Patti (P E) wrote: "I knew you'd like The Help, Kew. I think the film is coming out soon...

I read Tiaras...etc a while back. It was okay but not quite what I was hoping for. I'm interested to hear what you think."

i'm not sure whether I would want to see the film or not... think I'll wait until lots of others have seen it and can tell me how close it is to the book, I hate it when story lines get changed. It's one of my pet hates - if a book is a classic (I know, but it's classic status already) there is a reason, so don't mess with it!

I'll let you know about Tiaras, I'm not very far in yet but don't feel overly enthusiastic about reading some more....

I'm the same about the film. I'd rather not see it than have my good memories of the book destroyed. Felt the same about Time Travellers Wife. I did eventually watch that one and it was good but not nearly as good as the book.

Patti (P E) wrote: "I'm the same about the film. I'd rather not see it than have my good memories of the book destroyed. Felt the same about Time Travellers Wife. I did eventually watch that one and it was good but no..."

A film rarely is as good as a book. Sometimes I've seen a film first and then read the book. I watched The King's Speech yesterday and really enjoyed it. I'd read The King's Speech some time ago but as it wasn't a book of the film but a biography of Lionel Logue, I personally found that it added to my enjoyment of the film. :0)

Just finished The Radleys. Saw this one being reviewed on the TV Book Club a few weeks ago. Initially the vampire fiction genre put me off. I read all of Anne Rice's vampire books about 6 or 7 years ago and loved them. At the time I went searching for more vampire fiction, but I have never been able to find anything up to Rice's standards. It's either all "young adult" books or filled with pointless and cringeworthy sex scenes.

This book was very good though and I enjoyed it.

Just started Even the Dogs. Another one that I got from the TV Book Club (been catching up with older episodes on 4OD).