[What are you drinking just now?]

Water + raspberry syrup 

[Your Book Activity - August 2013]

All this book are on my to-read list too! I guess that we have similar tastes 

 

I would go for North and South, I have read wonderful comments on this book. 

Philippa Gregory is also one of my favourites, I read The Kingmaker's Daughter some months ago and I loved it, even more the more famous The Other Boleyn Girl. I definitely want to read all the books both of the Tudor and the Cousin's war series. 

 

I just finished The Secret Keeper, by Kate Morton

 

Now I am trying to decide what to read next

 

It's between

 

North and South - Elisabet Gaskell

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruis Zafon

Gone with the wind- Margerath Mitchell

The Red Queen  - Philippa Gregory

[How many pages do the books you normally read have?]

I think that a realistic average for me could be 300 pages. 

I do not find more difficult reading a long book. I have read books of 1000 pages and still I was not bored by them and I would have liked to have 1000 pages more to read. On the other hand I cannot reach the end of books of 200 pages if I do not like them.

I think that the more I like a book the longer I would like it to be, because I do not tend to get bored by stories that really catch me and flow on well.  

[The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith]

I love the Isabel Dalhousie and Bertie books.  I tried to read the No. 1 Ladies Detectives a couple of years ago, but couldn't get into it.  I might try it again, as maybe it was just the wrong time for me to read it. 

 

For me it is the opposite! I really enjoyed the series with Precious Ramotswe, while I was completely disappointed by the first book with Isabel Dalhousie. Soon or later I will give them a second chance ;-)

[Hello!]

Hi everybody! I just want to leave a short message to make my introduction.

I'm thirty years old and I love reading (not a surprise!), as well as swimming.

 

I am totally in love with Jane Austen, but I also like Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope. I definitely have a weakness for English classics! I'm also a passionate reader of chick-lit books...especially during the summer!

The last book I read was The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, and I am currently reading Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (so funny and entertaining!).

 

That's all, see you soon around here!