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Rubbish weather here today...I opted out but hubby went to see Andy and Glendale....beaten 1-0 by league leaders....should have been a draw apparently....sitting 3rd bottom, not having a great season.

No U'16s game this weekend...few cup games on the go. Andy should get a game for Glendale on Saturday, weather permitting!

Enjoy Bookmonkey.....I was like that once I started it...whizzed through

My second Diane Chamberlain finished....really enjoyed 'The Bay at Midnight', and I have the Good Father on my shelf.

Just been to see 'The Railway Man'....thoroughly depressed when I came out . Colin Firth was very good in it though...as were all the cast. Harrowing movie to make I bet.

I'm sure you will enjoy it. I have another on my shelf 'the Good Father' but I'll keep that for another day....really need to get through some other TBR books first.

'The Bay at Midnight' by Diane Chamberlain This is my second read by this author and it won't be my last. I love how she writes a tale. A night in summer of l962 will be a night that won't be forgotten by Julie and her family. It is the night that her sister Isabel is found dead in the summer of 1962 when they are at their summer holiday home. Memories of that fatal night live with the family, but could the person who was convicted of her supposed murder have actually been wrongly accused when a childhood friend, Ethan, turns up on the doorstep with evidence that could indicate they were. This page turner takes us on a journey in the present and flash backs to 1962. Each chapter flits between the present and past and different characters tell each chapter. All intermingling to unfold what really happened on that night all those years ago. Secrets are kept over the years but things come to fore to divulge what really happened. Should the note be taken to the police and should the case be reopened? Will it all be too painful? Julie and Ethan decide they need to know what really happened. Truths come out and secrets told. I loved the characters/relationships. It was sad in parts when the secrets that had been kept are uncovered and how this affected relationship with mothers and daughters. There was a bit of a twist in the end and did come as a wee bit of a surprise but this brought it all to a tidy end. Stories of young love and tensions between neighbours and families. How one note could change everything you think you knew about the past. 4/5

Wow 8-0...good stuff. Bet you could do with more like that. Sounds like you reserve goalie is a cert for a start in your cup game then

Nothing to report here today Sedge...all games off due to frozen pitches...was a bit chilly overnight up here.

My book activity today consisted of going into Waterstone's and browsing...lifting up books that I had written in my wee notebook on my wishlist possibles, reading the back of books and being very good and putting them back on the shelf. I managed to walk out of the shop bookless...

I have no idea how many books I have on the shelves read/unread, but there are a lot. My reading for the year would just be to get through a many as I can and enjoy what I am reading... (hope to reach my target of 30) which doesn't sound a lot! And like others yes my shelves are creaking with books now thanks to all the recommendations on here.

Feeling better now and managed my first swim, since the end of November, Due to all the ear stuff/labyrinthitis and this cough splutter I haven't been. It was a bit slow and can feel the muscles achey I haven't used in a while again, but hopefully will get back in to the routine.

So so sorry to hear about your dad....

Really enjoying 'The Bay at Midnight' by Diane Chamberlain

Hiya...bet you fill this up with lots of good books

Hopefully footie up and running after the Christmas break....Andy having to take the U'16's team though so won't be playing...they did have a game Saturday after Christmas and again....another loss.

Lots of titles there to choose from Kat. Two I have read and recommend on your lists would be For One More Day ~ Mitch Albom (I love his writing and I got The Time Keeper this Christmas) Afterwards ~ Rosamund Lupton (I have also read Sister by her two...both good reads).

At last finished 'A perfectly good man' by Patrick Gale Starting 'The Bay at Midnight' by Diane Chamberlain (as I promised chaliepud I will pass it on )

'A Perfectly Good Man' by Patrick Gale I should admit that I have actually read most of this book in Dec '13, but have read that last 1/4 of it on 2014, so I am going to cheat a bit say this it my first book read/completed this year. I like the way Patrick Gale writes, quite descriptive in parts but it adds to his story writing. Sometimes this can annoy me in books. A gentle read and nice jumble of different characters, the main one being Barnaby Johnson, the local parish priest who is summoned by a local lad called Lenny, who was paralysed in an accident playing rugby. What Barnaby doesn't know when he goes to see him is that Lenny is planning to commit suicide and asks him to pray for him. What then happens turns the whole, quiet community into turmoil. Gale weaves a web of chapters in past and present tense to bring together all the characters and their relationship with Barnaby in one way or another. Barnaby also has to deal with his struggle with his faith and marriage and a secret of his own. I did enjoy this book and I should have read it quicker and it would have come together better, but I got there in the end. 3.5/5

Quite a size of a TBR pile there....lol....and see you have a few Diane Chamberlain...thanks to you so do I. I have one laid by that I have to read and then send on to you...Bay at Midnight I think it is.

Enjoy your reading in 2014 Ruth.

Happy Reading Michelle....will there be anymore 'giveaways' this year...

Good luck with all your reading...how will you squeeze them all in, plus life!

.....I'm now open, let the reading begin.....