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Janet

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  1. Janet, any chance you could poke your eyes out before you have to read that?

    ;) I wish! I will attempt it because I really enjoy my night out at bookworms! The lady that picked it did so because we haven't read that type of book before (as a group).

     

    It certainly sounds grim Janet!

    It does, doesn't it! I won't drink gin whilst I read it or I'll end up doubly maudlin!

  2. I read the Dave Pelzer ones years ago - when every other person didn't have a story to tell. I read one of the Torey Hayden ones when I did Psych AS Level but thought it was dire.

     

    I have to read Escape some time this year for my 'bookworms' group.

     

    In the closed world of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, Carolyn Jessop was forced to obey her controlling husband's every demand. She had no money, no power and existed as one of six wives battling for her husband's attention. For seventeen years Carolyn suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she knew she had to do everything in her power to take her children and flee. At 35 Carolyn escaped. This is her harrowing - and ultimately triumphant - story.
  3. I read Kane and Abel when I was still at school and enjoyed it very much (that was about '81 from memory).

     

    I've also read The Prodigal Daughter (Kane and Abel's sequel), Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (which I really enjoyed), Shall We Tell The President? (Ditto), First Amongst Equals (I can't remember much about this) and As The Crow Flies (at which time I stopped because I didn't enjoy that as much!).

     

    Again, apart from the last of those I read the rest in the early 1980s when I was about 17 or so.

     

    I read A Quiver Full of Arrows too - that's short stories, as is the Red Herrings one (which I haven't read).

     

    Obviously my reading was done when Jeffery was less notorious!

     

    Actually, I might dig out my copy of Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less and re-read it one of these days!

  4. Does anyone read the Bond books? I finished Casino Royale a few days ago. I thought I'd post my review here rather than in a specific review thread as their are so many Bond books!

     

     

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    The ‘Blurb’

    Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and very deadly.

     

    This, the first of Fleming’s tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply ‘Le Chiffre’ - by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to ‘retire’ him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James - Le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond’s attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour.

     

    I’m not a Bond fan although I’ve seen quite a few of the films (not Casino Royale though!). This is our next Bookworms book otherwise I certainly wouldn’t have picked it up.

     

    I finished it a few days ago, but I’m not sure what to say about it, to be honest. First published in 1953, it was bound to be a bit dated, but I found Bond to be even more of a chauvinist than I thought…

     

    ”These blithering women who thought they could do a man’s work. Why the hell couldn’t they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men’s work to the men.”

     

    …leaving him looking a bit stupid when

    it turned out that she was a double agent - a fact I worked out - and Bond didn’t. He had to be told in her suicide letter!

     

     

    Then I thought - chill out - Bond’s not even a real person! ;)

     

    I didn’t hate it but I won’t be reading any more Bond books!

     

    4½/10

  5. Simon Brett, A Nice Class of Corpse, a Mrs Pargeter Mystery, a bit like Agatha Raisin

    I read all of those Pargeter books when I was pregnant and then when my son was born. It was about all my poor addled brain could cope with at that time! :)

  6. I got some squid half price in Tesco last night, so I cut it into rings (apart from the tentacles which I left whole), put some breadcrumbs on it and baked it in the oven with some sugar snap peas, spring onions and yellow pepper.

     

    It was yumptious - if I say so myself! :)

  7. Hmm - I read a Freya North book a few years ago and hated it. I can't remember which on it was though so I'll have a search on Amazon and see if it was the same one.

     

    What I found really annoying was that she kept drifting from first person to third person!

     

    ETA: Well, none of them ring a bell, although I think it was one of the 'girl names' ones!

  8. Doctor Who, Torchwood and QI.

     

    And anything starring the lovverly Gene Hunt. Even Janet's avatar.

    Hehe! He is rather lovely! I like Phil Glenister as well as Gene Hunt! :lol:

     

    I totally forgot about QI so good call (love Stephen Fry too!).

     

    I also forgot the wonderful Top Gear.

     

    James May is (to me) absolutely 'mwah'. I know I'm probably unusual in having him as a crush (everyone always prefers Hammond) but I think he's lovely.

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