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Readwine

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  1. My first memory of wanting to read is when my mum use to take my sister and I to the park; we rented bicycles and rode about and my mum sat on a bench and savoured a book. I remember seeing her, as I rode my bicycle towards her, and becoming aware of such serenity surrounding her. Ever since then, I wanted to have the same peace and I learnt that I could achieve it through reading as she did. The rest is history
  2. By luck I saw that the Swedish version of the film was playing close by and was leaving soon. Took off work (shhhhh!) and went to see it. Fabulous. The actress who played Lisbeth was superb; so like how I imagined her. It is so refreshing to see a European style film without all the Hollywood tinsel. The film itself was thrilling and the suspense wonderfully done. Whoever composed the music to it did a spectacular job. I would suggest to read the book first as not all of the backstories can be presented in the film. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommended it. I am now on the third and final book. Thoroughly enjoying it.
  3. Good Bye, Mr. Chipsby James Hilton. Has a good romantic theme as one of it's threads.
  4. Thief of Always by Clive Barker. The Holiday House is built by owner/architect. House is a central character I believe. Just a thought.
  5. Love Among the Butterflies - Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady by Margaret Fontaine. This is on my TBR pile
  6. On my TBR pile, Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco. Also I read Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez many many years ago and remember it was fabulous. I must reread it
  7. Luss, Loch Lomond, Scotland ( okay maybe not a city )
  8. Poppyshake. My recommendation is NOT to get Lacuna in audio if it is read by Barbara Kingsolver herself. I made that mistake thinking it would be great to have the author read it. It is absolutely terrible. She may be a good writer - not a good narrator. Just my two cents I am actually surprised she won considering the competition. At any rate, worth a read.
  9. I will reread a book when the story particularly strikes me and it becomes memorable or when the writing is so lovely that I want to savour it again. For example, I read Watership Down when I was in my teens. I absolutely loved it so it is on my TBR pile to be picked very soon. It will be interesting to see how I like it after so so many years. I recently read The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Small book but beautifully written. I will definitely have a reread to savor Wilder's use of language
  10. Since joining BCF, I've discovered historical fiction. For some reason, I always discounted such books as I had it in my mind that they were more like romances. WRONG!! So thank you. For example, I just finished Gone with the Wind and absolutely loved it. I had never picked it up before because the cover had Rhett and Scarlett in a passionate embrace. It was superb and gave the reader great insight to the Civil WAr. Also, I am reading A LOT more and my pile is probably three times larger since I joined . I think the reading blogs and challenges make me feel a little more motivated to read
  11. Three come to mind: The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton (on my wishlist): Darwin's theories have been under attack since he first published The Origin of Species in 1859, but this grandly ambitious novel goes a few steps further to intimate that he was a fraud—and a murderer. Told by turns from three perspectives, the story opens in the present on a volcanic outcrop off the coast of Ecuador where Hugh Kellem, a British field researcher, while tracing Darwin's research path, meets Beth Dulcimer, a beautiful scientist rumored to be distantly related to Darwin. A quick shift shows an ambitious young Darwin about to embark on the Beagle. A little further on, Darwin's youngest daughter, Lizzie, enters via her journal entries, written in the 1870s, decades after Darwin's famous five-year voyage. As the three perspectives unfold, Hugh and Beth find themselves trying to solve the same mystery that intrigued Lizzie 130 years earlier: what happened on the "nuit de feu," the night that transformed the confident, robust Darwin into a haunted near-invalid for his remaining years? Stilted dialogue, perfunctory romance and expendable subplots make for a rough voyage, but Darnton (Neanderthal) puts real passion into his historical imaginings and recreations: the revelation of the "true" origin of the theory of evolution is particularly inspired and more than enough to sustain another Darntonian bestseller. And Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Mosse's page-turner takes readers on another quest for the Holy Grail, this time with two closely linked female protagonists born 800 years apart. In 2005, Alice Tanner stumbles into a hidden cave while on an archeological dig in southwest France. Her discovery—two skeletons and a labyrinth pattern engraved on the wall and on a ring—triggers visions of the past and propels her into a dangerous race against those who want the mystery of the cave for themselves. Ala
  12. Don't know the ages of your children, but The Princess Bride by William Goldman is fabulous as is the Harry Potter series and The Hobbit (Tolkien)
  13. Solar by Ian McEwan Blurb from Booklist: Customarily, McEwan
  14. I recently read The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson and The Man from Beijing by Mankell (not part of the Wallander series). I particularly did not care for either of these books, but you might check out Mankell's stand alone novels or Eriksson's other books. Also, check out this website: http://www.scandinavianbooks.com/crime-book-1.html
  15. MG, I have not seen the film so I do not know how closely the movie follows the book. In my opinion, as you already know the twist, I would not waste time reading the book. There is so much more out there
  16. Blurb from Booklist: Customarily, McEwan
  17. Sound a little like David Drake's Fortress of Glass where there is a creature named The Bird that helps out the hero. Maybe that series????
  18. Read Lacuna, Wolf Hall and The Help. Pity Help did not get short listed. It was fabulous. Little Stranger is on my wish list. Thanks for the list. I shall research the others as I have not heard of them
  19. I am not a real thriller (tecno or otherwise) but off hand you may want to check out (I have not read them, just heard about them): Tom Clancy (Hunt for Red October) Joe Buff (re submarine technology) Dale Brown Dan Brown's Digital Fortress Stephen Pavlou (nanotech) Daniel Suarez Victor Grippi
  20. My first thought is Into Thin Air by John Krakauer - Unputdowable Princess by Jean Sasson. Bio of a member of Saudi royal family. Unbelievable - very very interesting
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