Angel
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Thanks rwemad and welcome to the forum. I do like a wide range of books although I tend to stick to my favourite genres . I must confess that I do enjoy Jill Mansell- fantastic for when you do not want / can't concentrate.
Moving onto Kate Morton - The House at Riverton. I must start to tackle the growing TBR pile and get out less library books at a time !
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Poor little mite, but I do remember those nights so well!! The smallest ends up with the most of the bed, spreadeagled like a star and often the only one sleeping peacefully in the end
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Louise - there have been some evenings I haven't got beyond 10 pages recently:lol:
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I hope you really enjoy this one!
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Although Ferney is good it's taking me ages!! Life keeps getting in the way or I just keep falling asleep.
Hope to finish it this weekend
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I like a couple of others here can't remember a time when I haven't read. I read for a variety of reasons:-
to escape
learn new things
relax
forget about my own problems
learn about other groups of society
to see how characters behave and interact with each other
because I want to
appreciate our heritage and history
to allow my imagination to 'see' the scene
because I am naturally bookish and love my own space
and mainly because I enjoy the sheer pleasure of just reading!
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James Long - Ferney
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How I agree Kernow-reader! I think that this is exactly why Hardy has such enduring power as the reader is taken back as to how life used to be like - far from today's fast paced must have it now society. Life back then was hard and far from easy. Although one can see how the plot will develop Hardy is so clever in the way he critisizes society , in a similar way to Dickens did, how society treated the poor and anyone who did not conform to society's standards.
Hardy has caused massive controversy - take Jude the Obscure - this was publicly burnt by a Bishop as it was deemed as going too far. And how I cried with that book - pure passion and heartbreak. Never think that Hardy's novels are just 'a walk in the country' and predictable especially his later novels because they are not!
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Loved the Captive of Kensington Palace by Jean Plaidy, the first of the Queen Victoria series.
Just starting Charlotte Bingham - The Land of Summer
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My challenges will remain the same - as many as possible within a year, include my love of the classics and the chunky challenge. Whilst it's great for people to take on some of the other challenges, I personally don't like doing them as I find for me, it takes the spontaineity away - I like to read whatever takes my fancy, I don't like being too structured (unless I'm doing a course) it makes me want to rebel. I guess I must have a bit of a free spirit in me - LOL!
Good luck to others on the bigger challenges
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About 60 - as soon as it starts to go down I get new books. I would panic if it got too low ie below 40!!!!
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Rach - you have some excellent titles in there! I've read all those Philippa Gregory and Jodi Picoults and you won't be disappointed. Jane Austen are also very good and Thomas Hardy is my all time fave classical author so I'm a bit biased there - Tess is sheer beauty to read. Happy reading!
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Mount TBR
Brian Lynch - The Winner of Sorrow
Susan Howatch - Penmarric
Philippa Gregory - Meridion
Victoria Holt - The Shimmering Sands
Ian Rankin - Set in Darkness
Ian Rankin - The Falls
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen Persuasion
Emma Blair - Goodnight Sweet Prince
Emma Blair - Wild Strawberries
Barbara Taylor- Bradford - A Woman of Substance
Barbara Taylor Bradford - Hold the Dream
Barbara Taylor Bradford - To be the Best
Jim Lynch - The Highest Tide
Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
Maeve Binchy - Quentins
Marcia Willett - The Dipper
Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
F. Scott Fitzgerald - -The Great Gatsby
Elizabeth Jenkins - Elizabeth and Leicester
George Eliot - Middlemarch
R. D Blackmore - Lorna Doone
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
W. M. Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Samuel Butler - The Way of All Flesh
Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
Catherine Cookson - Rosie of the River
Anne Bronte - Northanger Abbey
John Galsworthy - Forsyte Saga
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
James Ruddick - Death at the Priory
Henry James - Turn of the Screw
H.E. Bates - Love for Lydia
Virginia Woolfe - To the Lighthouse
Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Charles Dickens -David Copperfield
The Great Writers :- Stories for Summer
Ruth Rendell - Vanity Dies Hard
Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
Ruth Rendell - Secret House of Death
Jed Rubenfeld - The Interpretation of Murder
Jill Mansell - Head Over Heels
Jill Mansell - Perfect Timing
James Patterson - 1st to die
Barbara Taylor Bradford - Dangerous to know
Danielle Steel - Zoya
Audrey Howard - A Flower in Season
Clare Francis - Deceit
Joanna Trollope - Girl From the South
Peter Tremayne - Whispers of the Dead
Kate Mosse - Sepulche
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden
Joanne Harris - Llollipop Shoes
Ken Follett - World Without End
Jo Carnegie - Country Pursuits
Titania Hardie - The Rose Labyrinth
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
Val McDermuid - The Distant Echo
Christopher Ransom - The Birthing House
Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
Jean Plaidy - The Widow of Windsor
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Ooh haven't heard of that Henry VIII one before, that has now been added to my wishlist!
Oh do get it - it's an excellent read. I promise that you may even end up liking and maybe even feeling sorry for Henry as it attempts to put his version of events forward
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Wishlist for 2009
Richard Montanari - Broken Angels
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Currently Reading
Jane Borodale - The Book of Fires
Books Read
Jean Plaidy - The Captive of Kensington Palace
Charlotte Bingham - The Land of Summer
James Long - Ferney
Kate Morton - The House at Riverton
Alan Titchmarsh - Love & Mr Devon
Cecelia Ahern - Thanks for the Memories
Kathy Reichs - Bones to Ashes
Ellis Peters - Dead Man's Ransom
Jean Plaidy - Queen Jezebel
Richard Montanari - The Skin Gods
Kathy Reichs - Devil Bones
Ronan O'Brien - Confessions of a Fallen Angel
Adele Parks - Larger Than Life
Susanna Gregory - The Devil's Disciples
Kirsty Scott - Mother's Day
Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods
Penny Smith - Coming Up Next
Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead
Mary Higgins Clark - Where Are You Now?
Cathy Kelly - Once in a Lifetime
Mark Mills - The Savage Garden
Jean Plaidy - The Hammer of the Scots
Julia Quinn - How to Marry a Marquis
Jean Plaidy - The Queen and Lord M
Ann Bartlett - Knitting
Melanie Gifford - The Spaniard's Daughter
Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care
Jean Plaidy - The Queen's Husband
Richard Montanari - Play Dead
Susanna Gregory - The Westminster Poisoner
Wendy Holden -Beautiful People
Anne Bronte-Agnes Grey
Richard Montanari - Broken Angels
Penny Vincenzi - An Absolute Scandal
Maeve Haran - The Lady and the Poet
Veronica Henry - Just a Family Affair
PD James - The Private Patient
Caroline Rance - Kill Grief
Jane Moore - Perfect Match
Adele Parks - Tell Me Something
Penny Vincenzi - Almost a Crime
Elizabeth Noble - Things I Want My Daughter to Know
Philippa Gregory - The White Queen
Ellis Peters - Bother Cadfael's Penance
Richard Montanari - The Devil's Garden
Mavis Cheek - Amenable Women
Pat McIntosh - St Mungo's Robin
Rose Tremain - Restoration
Kathleen Kent - The Heretic's Daughter
Emma Darwin - A Secret Alchemy
Jean Plaidy - Madonna of the Seven Hills
Christi Phillips - The Devlin Diary
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden
PD James - The Monster in the Box
Rory Clements - Martyr
Zoe Barnes - Special Delivery
Ariana Franklin - Relics of the Dead
Jill Mansell - Rumour Has It
Julia Llewellyn - The Model Wife
Hilary Mantell - Wolf Hall
Jane Borodale - The Book of Fires
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Overall a very good year with some fantastic reads, I haven't had too many 'bad' reads. I've managed to read 80 books but life keeps robbing me of reading time
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That's hard narrowing down to 1!
Revelation - CJ Sansom
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Now reading Jean Plaidy - The Captive of Kensington Palace
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I love Cadfael - I've got most of the books! I have read some of the Sister Fidelma booka - they are very good, but for me - Cadfael
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Not sure what to think of that one. A very disappointing end - a bit of a cop out really
Peter Ellis The Hermit of Eyton Forest (a Brother Cadfael mystery)
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To tell the truth I'm struggling on this one - it's not holding my attention much! Not sure if it's my frame of mood or the book- but I won't give up yet
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1) I'm absolutely terrified of spiders. I would not travel to any country that has those huge ones!!!
2)I am not a trained chef but I love cooking. I am not afraid to try anything
I love eating fish
4) I drive everyone mad at work asking for the place to be kept tidy. The house is 'lived in' as nagging falls on deaf ears
5)I could not bear to live in-land. I've always lived within 3 miles of the sea
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Me neither, though I dont usually go to such length to prove my point. *laughs*
My sense of smell is so bad that it could be potentially dangerous. I once bought some fish, lovingly cooked it and when my husband walked into the kitchen started to retch as it was off!!!
I also don't smell food until food is almost on fire!- fortunately for everyone that doesn't happen very often 
Richard Montanari
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I've read The Rosary Girls and now I've added the others to my wishlist