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polemole

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  • Birthday 08/06/1962

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  1. I enjoyed the Jasper fforde Jack Spratt - Nursery crimes Division books so much I have just started the Thursday Next series and so far so good. I like books that are a bit weird.
  2. Anne Tyler is one of the best contemporary fiction writers, I also love reading Christopher Moore who writes contemporary/fantasy fiction. I also read a book called 'little children' by Tom Perrotta which I loved so I also read the only other book by him in my local library 'The Wishbones' which I loved as well. I must go to Amazon and see if Tom Perrotta has written any more books.
  3. I have just finished this book and I am glad I persevered with it as I enjoyed the story in the end but I couldn't really take to any of the characters. I agree with Ruth about Claudia Rubin being a dislikeable and selfish character, in fact they were all pretty selfish and dislikeable. I couldn't believe how self absorbed they all were and how childish and nasty Claudias grown up children were. Maybe I needed to understand Jewish culture to feel any empathy with the Rubin family, the glossary certainly helped me with the Jewish words. Good story though.
  4. As a child I read most of my books over and over again some of the Enid Blyton books I could almost recite parts word for word. As an adult 'Dream house' by Alison Habens is the only book I have to read again every so often, I have lost count of the number of times. I love it so much. I also loved and intend to read the Adrian Mole books again.
  5. I am making my first post on this forum and I am going to upset you all straight away because I actually didn't finish this book. I love Jonathan Coe and I have read all his books. 'House of sleep' was the first and the rest followed in quick succession, I think my favourite was 'The Dwarves of Death' and I also loved the film based on the book staring my favourite actor Ray Winstone. I found the rain before it falls too descriptive as soon as Rosamond began to describe the photographs we were told the smallest details unnecessarily I felt. For example the details of clothing worn by characters in photographs not important to the continuation of the story. I read the chapter containing the description of the photograph of when she was evacuated to her aunt and uncles farm and I had the urge to skip the descriptions, so I decided to give up. I have since been told I should have persevered and maybe I will try it again one day because I was looking forward to reading it and so disappointed I couldn't finish it.
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