Marie H

Wow! Such a blast from the past, I'm right back there listening to this one!!

Having to put my reading mojo on the back burner for a while, because my artistic mojo is going really well. But I have to read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for the time being, as I have only 3 weeks loan from the library. It started slowly, with reading it as a stage play, but it is good now

I would recommend Robert Graves Goodbye to All That, is an anti-heroic memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. It is a remarkable book of the Great War.

Ooh, that's great to be reading Dracula for the first time. Hope you like it Wow, I hope that you like this one! It was a slow burner, for me, but then everything suddenly clicked, and it was a very memorable book.

Hello and welcome to the BCF

Hello and welcome to the BCF Edit:Sorry about the double welcome; the computer seems to having a senior moment, not me!

Hello and welcome to the BCF

Hello Emma, and to the BCF. *and a few moments silence for the demise of your charred cardigan*

Alain seems to have aged in the past 16 years.... I didn't know he had any TV series, until recently; just a few articles on the BBC.

. Antonia Fraser's biographies are very good, but boy are they incredibly detailed! . i tried reading The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England nearly a decade ago, but it's soooo long at 704 pages, that I only read maybe 10%, before I gave up! I think you are doing really well ready 62% of Marie Antoinette!

Oh yes, I am a fan of Alain too! . I find that his writing style is beautiful! If you haven’t read of his philosophical books, I recommend The Consolations of Philosophy, as that was the first book I read about philosophy, when I had no idea to start on the subject, and this one was ideal. This little blurb was just great, just what I was looking for. “ Alain de Botton, bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and the pressure to conform. “ Philsophy: A Guide to Happiness is basically his TV series on Channel 4 of this book, and all episodes are free to watch online through their All 4. His book Essays In Love is another good read too. Hope you enjoy reading Alain's works.

My reading mojo is as slow as a slug with a gammy leg, at the moment...... . And that's only reading light reading styles! Hopefully things will get better, after the Olympics have finished. Yes, I looked up The Daughter of Time first, as it had some good reviews, then saw that it is later in the Inspector Alan Grant series. . Hopefully the first one will be good too. It's a 620+ page beast, and I've only flicked through it so far, it looks very dense stuff. This one will take a long time!

Beautiful rain! Cool, steady rain. That means that the empty waterbutts around the bungalow will refill. I love rain

Glad that you loved The Essex Serpent . I'm not sure that I will get on with the writing style, but I will keep it on my library wishlist.

Oh dear, I wandered into Waterstones on Monday, and bought 3 paperbacks . The Silk Road: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant #1) by Josephine Tey Oh, I've always been too skittish of Bukowski's novels , (so far anyway) but I do love his poetry! Ham on Rye is on the wishlist now

The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott are excellent (as was the 80s TV adaptation The Jewel in the Crown ) There is a book I must recommend (though the timeline is earlier than the 20th century) is Matthew Kneale's English Passengers , as this is a type of big adventure, but a wonderful book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14258.English_Passengers#

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson, and Armistead Maupin's : Tales of the City 4 (not such as a serious subject )

Watched the last two episodes of The Musketeers. Reasonably happy endings too , and I loved the twist at the very ending!!

. I had forgotten that I had the free Ghostly Paws already , but I bought two Kindle books, as I was feeling generous too

Ooh, I have looked at Ghostly Paws recently, the I have just found the Leighann Dobbs Cozy Mystery Collection Kindle Edition - 4 novels for free!

Need some reasonable light reading today, so I'm going for Jacqueline Winspear's Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs # 4)

Kung Fu Panda 3 . Not the best of the series, but still makes me laugh, especially the joke about his Dad didn't tell Po that wasn't his father until he was 20!! A good in-joke about the very first Star Wars.

Hill Street Blues was (and still is, for me) wonderful!! Now that I have found the whole 146 episodes of HSB on Channel 4's All 4 for free, I can watch them all again Ha ha, it really was the Stone Age then, in the early 80s, compered with now .

Watched the pilot episode of Hill Street Blues, and it was so good! As good I remembered it in the 80's . I look forward to watching the other episodes too. Ditto for St. Elsewhere. Both were ground breaking series.

I'm a fan of Alan Bennett and Maggie Smith, but this film just annoyed me for some reason.