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Sweet Heart is the only book of his that I don't have. I have the others and have read them. In my personal opinion, they were all very good, although Host remains my favourite

I stand alone then because personally I liked it. The uniqueness of writing through the eyes of the dead I found enjoyable. Watching through her eyes, the way her family coped with her death, I found touching. I agree, there are parts that are far fetched but in general I thought it was a pleasant read. As we've said before though, if we all liked the same things, life would be boring.

I have all of Mr Grishams books and I would say A Time To Kill is my favourite. Several of his books have become films and I would say this is also my favourite film from among them. The Client is also a good read/film. The only one I struggled to read was The Pelican Brief. I watched the film with no problems at all, just never could quite get into the book.

I went through the book like that as well Kell. I'll say no more except, jolly good writer Ms Slaughter is!

I had a kind of brunch of 2 egg mcmuffins lol

All PG's books are great Kell, but The Constant Princess was a particular favourite of mine. Such an underestimated woman was she *nods*

Brilliant isn't she Michelle I have good taste in authors *nods*

I had an omelette for brunch, stuffed full of cheese, spring onion, tomato and mushrooms. Yuuuuuummmy!

I just had 3 slices of fresh baguette, all with cheese, 1 with mayo/tomato, 1 just cheese and the other with pickle. I had 2 small (chinese) bowls of my homemade pepper soup with it. Yuuuum.

Well until I get round to it, I was debating using it as the chimney for my book house

I bought my copy today Angel. I've just started another one but I intend to get round to it fairly quickly

Charlottes Webb To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men They're the ones that really stick out and I loved them all.

I really enjoyed A Respectable Trade. Again, it's very easy to become so absorbed in her writing that you feel like you are there and it can be pretty scary. I went through feelings of guilt at how our ancestors treated people, disgust at what human beings had to endure, anger at narrowminded bigotry, love for a particular character...you name it.... Fantastic book.

:tyou: You is truly a hunny And yay that bagsy still works!!!!

I'm about a quarter through this now and really enjoying it.

Awwwww!!!! I've been after Steve Harris's Wulf but the place I ordered it from at Amazon sent it and it never arrived When you're done with it, if you don't want to keep it can I have first bagsy on buying it from you please!!! No hurry though, reading pile huge here lol

The only ones I've not read are: Fallen Skies, Perfectly Correct (which I have in my 'to read pile') and Bread and Chocolate. I'm not really bothered about reading her childrens books. Every book I've read by this woman has been brilliant. The only one that sticks out as not being quite as good at the rest was Zelda's Cut.

What makes a good historical fiction novel? One that has been well researched and is realistic. Is there any particular era you tend to avoid or choose above others? I haven't ventured much outside of Tudor/Elizabethan as it one of my passions. I do enjoy Egyptian history and I've enjoyed reading about the 17th century slavery. Which aspect of Historical Fiction interests you most? Or do you find it dry & boring? I find nothing about history dry and boring. I enjoy comparing certain eras to today, especially language, fashion, architecture. I find it fascinating to see how certain things influenced our lives today. Would you rather read novelisations of actual historical events with actual historical figures, or do you prefer fictional characters within a specific historical setting? Both. I think though, depending on how far back in history you are looking at, by putting it into fiction with good research, you can get a better understanding of what it was like to live in those times. Artifacts can tell you alot but it's nice to read through a persons eyes even if they are fictitional.

I'm guessing instant as I never actually saw her cook them

Yard brush? LMAO As for Dolly, Dolly's great! I drive my hubby bonkers on my Dolly days. One of my favourite films is called Rhinestone and it's Dolly with Sylvester Stallone where she has to teach him to sing, talk and walk, country style. It's hilarious. Keeping in the food theme, they ate grits too. *giggles* See, I didn't go completely off topic hehehe

I like the look of this author myself. You lot are just going to have to stop throwing new authors names at me!! I can't keep up

I'm guessing jolene cream is a hair remover? And thanks for putting Dolly Parton in my head now Jolene, jolene, jolene, JOLENEEEEEEE!!!!.....gotta love Dolly!

*hears the Twilight zone theme tune inside head* You'll be telling people I read......ooooo real deja vu coming up here

I eat stacks of celery and actually went and wrapped what I have in the fridge in tinfoil. I make alot of homemade soup and celery is always one of my core ingredients so I followed the Delia tip. :oops: *sobs* I'm just not a real woman!!

ROFLMAO!!!! I LOVE this thread Inanna!!! Hilarious!!!