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Love Among the Butterflies - Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady by Margaret Fontaine. This is on my TBR pile
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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
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Luss, Loch Lomond, Scotland ( okay maybe not a city )
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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.
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Now when I finish a book the first thing I think about is getting on BCF
I have exactly the same thought.
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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
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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
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Yaxcopol, Yucatan, Mexico
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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
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Hauling Checks by Alex Stone details life of cargo pilot?
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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)
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Solar by Ian McEwan
Blurb from Booklist:
Customarily, McEwan
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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:
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I read it last year and I enjoyed it very much. I have never felt disappointed by PD James and I'm sure you'll enjoy them
Ditto, Ditto, Ditto
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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
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Blurb from Booklist:
Customarily, McEwan
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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????
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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
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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
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Dump him!!
Zero tolerance!!
LOL. Love it
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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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Borrowed these from the library ....
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbar Kingsolver
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
From the ones you borrowed, I've read three - my favourite being Poisonwood. Excellent book. Also enjoyed BR but absolutely disliked CA. I will be interesting to see how you like them Good reading, Poppyshake
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I don't know about the rest of the series, but in Dissolution it all takes place in a monastery on the south coast of England and it is your typical Christie recipe which I love (isolated place, suspects are all there, nobody comes in and out, all gather around for the solution, etc).
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Great question and thank you for your tuppence Bookjumper - I had no idea of the difference either.
Sci-Fi / Fantasy with architects in it?
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Thief of Always by Clive Barker. The Holiday House is built by owner/architect. House is a central character I believe. Just a thought.