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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:49 am
by Stan
My current read is 'bl**dy Foreigners - The story of immigration to Britain'
My wife bought this for me for Christmas. Maybe she was telling me something. Nor sure what as she is Czech.
I am halfway through and have got as far as the Victorian era. I have to say I'm thoroughly confused as to what British/English means.
I blame the French when they invaded in 1066. Still fresh in my mind.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:16 am
by Angela Woodford
Having a good Mitford read, so, Mary Lovell's book about the girls and Nancy Mitford's "The Blessing".
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:03 pm
by sport!
Just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, which I'd highly recommend and before that Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, my obligatory "now and then" classic, also very good IMO. Now onto something that I got for Christmas called Nemesis by Bill Napier which is poor, in fact I doubt I'll have the will to finish it.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:28 pm
by icomefromalanddownunder
Just finished The Palin Diaries - enjoyable in an indefinable way.
Half way through The Corfu Trilogy - My Family & Other Animals, Birds Beasts & Relatives, and Garden of the Gods, in one volume. Has anyone been to Corfu recently? I was last there in, er, about 1978. Is any part of the island still unspoilt?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:02 pm
by englishangel
I was there in 1984 and 1987, the pink villa was unspoilt in 84 and didn't get there in 87 as had a little one and we were in the far southwest.
I have no idea what it is loike 20 years on but the Greeks don'tr let anyone build too high.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:03 pm
by englishangel
I am reading 'Angels and Demons' bought by my younger son for me for christmas. Unfortunately it is all a pretense as I borrowed it from Jude and have already read it. OOps!
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:07 pm
by Mid A 15
englishangel wrote:I am reading 'Angels and Demons' bought by my younger son for me for christmas. Unfortunately it is all a pretense as I borrowed it from Jude and have already read it. OOps!
Where is (i.e not on here) and how is Jude?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:07 pm
by Katharine
I am reading Vikram Seth 'An Equal Music', I haven't got into it yet, it was very highly recommended but .... Do you have to be musical to enjoy it?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:15 pm
by J.R.
"Bomber Boys"
A collection of memories from the boys in Bomber Command in WWII !
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:23 pm
by blondie95
I really want to read the Palin Diaries and Nigel Havers autobiography which mum got at xmas.
I am ripping through Jilly Cooper's Wicked, although so far no where near as good as Riders, Polo, Man who and appassionata! Ohhh I love them
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:45 am
by englishangel
Mid A 15 wrote:englishangel wrote:I am reading 'Angels and Demons' bought by my younger son for me for christmas. Unfortunately it is all a pretense as I borrowed it from Jude and have already read it. OOps!
Where is (i.e not on here) and how is Jude?
http://journals.aol.co.uk/judicomber/cats-in-care/
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:10 am
by Mrs C.
I`m currently reading my way through several Jeffery Deaver books which I`ve picked up in charity shops over the last few months. Finished "The Twelfth Card" last night and starting "The Stone Monkey" today.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:27 am
by englishangel
As an aside, BucksCC has closed some village libraries rounfd here including our local one. I think they wanted to sell it for development but apparently the land was given only for 'education of the masses' or some such.
Several (including ours) have been taken over by local consortia and they have put out a call for books so today we are off to the library with a couple of boxes. I must admit most of them are my daughters 'Pony' books, she was going to get rid of them before Uni and decifded that if she gave them to the library at least she would be able to borrow them back.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:30 am
by MKM
Katharine wrote:I am reading Vikram Seth 'An Equal Music', I haven't got into it yet, it was very highly recommended but .... Do you have to be musical to enjoy it?
I really enjoyed it, and I'm not musical. I never really got into 'A Suitable Boy', though I did eventually finish it.
Blondie!
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:22 am
by Angela Woodford
blondie95 wrote:I am ripping through Jilly Cooper's Wicked, although so far no where near as good as Riders, Polo, Man who and appassionata! Ohhh I love them
Blondie, I am so thrilled to hear that you love Jilly Cooper!
I do agree that "Wicked!" is far more put-downable though. Although I enjoyed Uncle Harley.
I still retain a soft spot for the early romantic novels - Prudence, Imogen and Octavia particularly. Maybe because my dear CH friend Deirdre Hobbs sent me the collection when I was particularly down, divorcing my first husband. I thought at the time I would never laugh again, but those little novels were so fresh and funny.
And when I had a much younger boyfriend, I realised the research that must have gone into the Man Who Made Husbands Jealous!
See you in Waterstones, Maidstone?
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