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Merflerher

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  • Birthday 09/19/1956

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  1. Happy birthday!!

  2. Hope you have a very happy birthday! :)

  3. Did any of you read the Abbey Girls books? I've recently bought some of the titles I read over 40 years ago, I'm wallowing in nostalgia:D
  4. Ooh, Ngaio Marsh, yes, I started on her round about that age, and Agatha Christie - they're such easy adult reads and it makes you feel very grown-up to be reading that sort of book as a child. But I also loved Enid Blyton too, 'specially the 'Five Find-outers and dog' series - I really liked Fatty.
  5. We used to have 'computer-free Wednesday' at school - no computers available all lunchtime - and a lot of kids came in to the library to read. But the sixth form objected because they have coursework all the time and can't guarantee that a teacher won't insist on them using the computer that day, so we had to stop doing that.
  6. Today was the first day of term, and I opened the school library at lunchtime to our new yr 7s. They haven't got their log on details for the computers yet, so instead of sitting Googling they were lounging on the new beanbags and reading...the Deputy Head came in and said to me 'Are they real or dummies? and he went over and prodded one to make sure they were real:lol: Just goes to show what an unusual sight it is...*sigh*
  7. I love poetry, I used to carry a copy of Palgrave's Treasury around with me when I was in my teens, you know, one of those books with the very very thin paper and very close print? My favourite poets are Blake, Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, who was a Jesuit priest who invented a new system called 'sprung rhythm'. His poems are difficult to read because his style is very odd, but one of his best poems is Pied Beauty: Glory be to God for dappled things
  8. I liked the Cordelia Gray stories very much and wish she'd written more with her as the central character. I find Adam Dalgleish a bit too good to be true sometimes - does he have any faults?
  9. Have none of you read Felidae and Felidae on the Road? The author is Pirinnci, I think. About a cat who investigates the murder of another cat. When I was a child I read the Mr Twinks books, again about a cat detective (can you see a theme here??). I tried tracking them down on Amazon and Abebooks and they are selling at over
  10. I read Claire Tomalin's biog a couple of weeks ago, highly recommend it, it's very readable and I feel I understand Hardy better now. My favourite of his is Return of the Native.
  11. I've read The Eight, good thriller, I've seen it on sale in a few shops but it doesn't seem to have been as well distributed as other titles.
  12. I went through a horrible period a couple of years ago when I was on antidepressants and one of the side effects was that i just couldn't concentrate enough to read anything...which made me feel even more depressed:roll: I was eventually diagnosed with underactive thyroid and although I'm now back to normal (debateable!!) I still get times when I just can't read. I find going for a walk sometimes helps.
  13. Have you read Compulsion by Meyer Levin? - very good novelisation of Leopold/Loeb case. Out of print I think but I managed to track down a copy via amazon and you can probably find it in libraries.
  14. Captain Corelli - ugh! I really can't understand what people see in this, I've tried reading it three times, got three quarters of the way through last time but gave up in disgust.
  15. I've just bought Naming of the Dead. Haven't read any for some time, I read most of his Rebus books in quick succession about five years ago, so quickly that I can't distinguish them! In fact my son who was still at primary school then, drew a picture of me reading an Ian Rankin book with the caption "Mum's always reading"!! I started reading them after I saw the televisation of Black and Blue, with John Hanna playing Rebus - I reckon he was much better than Ken Stott, in fact I always visualise Rebus as John Hanna when I'm reading.
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