madcow
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I was always a chick-lit/Catherine Cookson kinda gal until I picked up a copy of Martina Cole's The Ladykiller and loved it, as Kat says it is a bit gritty as are most of her books but it got me hooked on crime/thriller books.
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Linda was one of our featured authors, and she oftens pops in.. she's a lovely lady too!
I'd highly recommend Linda Gillard too, I was hooked with all 3 of her books
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Starting Turning For Home by Sarah Challis today.
A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her last royal retainer, out to grass, her one remaining racehorse, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married - still her dearest friend.
Into this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firework. As open warfare settles into a wary truce between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorse, Irish Dancer, out of retirement, and everything changes...
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I finished The Story Of Forgetting this morning, it's not my usual sort of read but the blurb intrigued me. I started off enjoying the book then I have to admit I struggled with the middle bit but then really enjoyed the last part of the book so on the whole it was good.
Not sure what to read next...off to browse Mt TBR....
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Touch wood since I was prescribed the triptans I haven't had a migraine! I've had a few headaches but they were because I was tired and not sleeping properly.
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I watched tonights show and cried laughing at some of it but I loved the sax player (I think he was called Julien) and the 12 year old lad at the end Shaheen, he had a great voice.
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Hello and welcome joe
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My mojo upped and left just after Christmas, I have loads of books I wanted to read but just couldn't be bothered, I could walk in book shops and walk out again without even picking up a book to read the blurb on the back! so I decided to give reading a complete break, I was over tired and stressed which didn't help. After a few weeks I started going to bed an hour earlier and reading just a chapter at a time then slowly my mojo started to return. It's still not fully back but it does feel better knowing that I'm reading a bit a day
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Hello and welcome dreamyflo.
prepare to become addicted....Couldn't have put it better myself
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We have loads of vinyl LP's and singles unfortunately we don't have a turntable to play the LP's on but we do have a jukebox for the singles, it's awesome and has a brilliant sound
99% of our vinyl are all 50's and early 60's not sure if any of them are worth much, more sentimental value.
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The Forgotten Garden was an easy enjoyable read. Very similar vein to The House At Riverton flicking between the early 1900's, 1975 and 2005, the story flowed easily.
Next up The Story Of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block.
Fifteeen year old Seth Waller is devastated when his mother is diagnosed with a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's. When he was growing up, his mother always brushed aside questions about her past and family, and Seth realises that soon he will lose his chance to find out any more. He decides to uncover the truth about her life, their family history and the condition, and what he discovers is more surprising than he ever could have imagined...
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Hello and welcome Hobgoblin
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Hello and welcome MissWhitlock and yes your TBR pile will soon be a mountain!
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I quite like watching horse racing but the Grand National is the one race I can't watch, I hate it when they fall
This is the first year that I haven't had a little flutter, I forgot oops.
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I finished Sarah Challis's that Summer Affair last night and although an enjoyable, easy read it was not as good as Footprints In The Sand.
Next up is The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.
Before her eyes the garden changed. Weeds and brambles, decades in the growing, receded. Leaves lifted from the ground, revealing paths and flowerbeds and a garden seat. Light was permitted entry once more...
1913 - On the eve of the First World War a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace.
1975 - Now an old lady, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst manor, which had been owned by the Mountrachet family. What has prompted Nell's journey after all these years?
2005 - On Nell's death her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritance. Cliff Cottage, in the grounds of Blackhurst manor, is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets it holds - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is at Cliff Cottage, abandoned for years, and in its forgotten garden, that Cassandra will uncover the truth about the family and why the young Nell was abandoned all those decades before.
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I hope to have some good news for you soon about a 4th book. It's too early to say yet, but things are looking hopeful...
Ooo can't wait
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Hello and welcome from another Twilight non reader
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I've read one other by him and I've got his new one on Mt TBR, I've also read a few books by his wife Faye Kellerman which were good too.
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The Murder Book was a great read, it had me hooked from the beginning, and it has kick started my reading mojo
hopefully I will now be able to keep it going.I am now reading That Summer Affair by Sarah Challis.
When schoolgirl Jodie Foot goes missing from a sleepy Dorset village, the shockwaves that reverberate through her community are as far-reaching as they are devastating.
When Rachel Turner finds out her husband has lied about his whereabouts that evening, she is shattered. All she's ever wanted is a secure family life, an now it's about to be torn apart. Henry Streeter, Rachel's neighbour, is overwhelmed by old feelings of misery and loneliness as he struggles to stifle painful memories of his own childhood. And Juliet Fairweather arriving in the village on the evening of the disappearance, is involved in an unexpected personal drama, while her mother, Bobbie, so often a bystander, is drawn inexorably into other people's lives.
For everyone involved, one ordinary summer's day will bring extraordinary consequences and the need to examine their own sense of loss and longing...
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Thanks Michelle, I'll get the prescription dispensed tomorrow (not been able to leave the house since Sunday!) and keep them on me. I've only been given 6 to try as they are quite expensive but if they work I'll be happy.
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I don't get an aura but I find I can't concentrate on things, i.e. if someone is talking to me I can't look them in the eye, my eyes are darting round all over the place. I've just been prescribed Triptans, I think they are called Maxalt, to try, fingers crossed they will help.
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Top 5 English footballers ever.
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There's only one for me...
Sir Tom Finney (bows as she types his name)