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Oh I loved that book Janet. I am so glad you did too. It was one of my favourites last year.

Yes I saw the film earlier in the year HanD. I really enjoyed it and that is why I went on to read the book. I think you are right the ending had been altered, but both were still excellent. When I was reading I could hear Judy Dench

Barbara a lonely spinster who has a dislike for all of her colleagues in the comprehensive school where she works is the narrator of Notes On a Scandal. She is in her sixties and feels that she is superior to most other people that she comes across, so it is not a surprising that most of the characters are not particularly likeable since we see them through her eyes. The story is supposed to be about Sheba who has an affair with a 15 pupil by in reality we are learning more about Barbara. I absolutely loved this book and I could not help feeling rather sorry for Barbara despite how unlovable she seemed to be. I am now going to start on Animal's People by Indra Sinha. I picked this book up at Gatwick Airport when I went on holiday recently. It apparently has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, so I feel I should read it before they announce the winner. I expect I shall have to be quick. Blurb from book Ever since he can remember, animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened That Night when, thanks to an American chamical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty he leads a hand to mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his night fantasizing about Nisha the daughter of a local Musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid.

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The Woman Who Walked into Doors was a pretty depressing story about domestic violence. The thing that is interesting about the book is that although we hear the disturbing account of abuse from Paula the victimised wife

Thanks Korrie. I am going to bump the Red Tent to nearer the top of my huge TBR pile. Hi KirstyKat. Glad you could join us.

Hi Korrie! Glad you could join us. Middlesex is one of my favourite books and I recently bought the Red Tent and I am looking forward to reading it. It is always interesting to see what others are reading. That is what makes this forum so good - that and the very friendly members of course. Hope you enjoy it here.

I read Chesapeake a long time ago and really enjoyed it I have since read The Covenant, which I also enjoyed. I mean to read more of Michener

Well I eventually decided to read The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle. Blurb from cover I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn

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If I had read Atonement at the time I posted my favourite 5 books, then I would have definitely included it. I don

Despite having had The Sea by John Banville on my shelf for over a year now I was putting off reading it because I had heard some negative reviews. However I loved this book. It is beautifully written and very descriptive. I felt bereft when I finished it. Since reading The Sea I have also read On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. This was another really good read. It is the first McEwan that I have read but I will be looking for more shortly. I have also had The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood on my shelf for a while. I gave it a read on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I managed to get a copy of Atonement by Ian McEwan. I wanted to read it before I see the film. This was a wonderful book. Definitely one of the best books I have read this year. I also managed to squeeze in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd while away. This is a good easy read and interesting too. I am not quite sure what I will read next. I am ploughing my way through the 1400 posts that have appeared on this forum since I departed just over a week ago. That will keep me busy for a while I reckon.

Hi Katie and welcome. I am another Scot and a Diana Gabaldon fan. I like the sound of your book. Hope you enjoy it here.

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When I started Arthur and George I had not realised that Arthur was

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Well that is Exodus finished and I am glad I made it to the end of this book. It started off quite well telling the harrowing story of several different Jewish families and how they came to be on their way to Palestine. In my opinion however, later on the book got bogged down in historic detail and it seemed that Uris could not quite make up his mind whether he was writing a novel or a textbook. I know that this book was a bestseller when it was published but I am afraid it was not for me. My next book will be Arthur and George by Julian Barnes Blurb Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late-ninetieth-century Britain. Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer, George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events, which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

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I read Cloud Atlas last year but the copy I had was from the library, so I got my own copy this weekend so I could take part in the discussion.

I have had Exodus by Leon Uris on my shelf for quite some time, so I think it is time to give it a go. At 626 pages I expect it will keep me busy for quite some time.

A Spot of Bother was a very entertaining book. For me it was one of these books that keep you reading with no effort and before you know where you are you have reached the end. Very funny. I am now starting on Exodus by Leon Uris Blurb Exodus is an extraordinary novel of one of the twentieth century