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Finished Being Emily tonight. Very enjoyable book. Next up... Star Gazing by Linda Gillard Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties. Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, the man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Keir makes no concessions to Marianne's condition. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, yet oddly and touchingly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?

Just finished reading this and I agree the scottish dialect was a bit of a struggle to begin with but after the first few pages as I got used to it the story started to flow. I quite enjoyed this book.

Same here.....just got to persuade your dad Ended up having bacon, eggs, potato cakes, mushrooms and beans.

Dunno can't decide

Hello and welcome.

Hello and welcome to the board

Hello Niranjan and welcome.

I agree and something should be done about the others most of it was uncalled for.

Hello and welcome Tambo, I'm sure you'll love it here.

Homemade pizza thanks to Hannah and her dad

Wow that's some going Kelly, I've read just over that in 6 months!

Hello and welcome Hannah, my youngest shares the same name and is also a veggie

If a book really interests me then I will read and read and read. I'm not fast I just ignore everything else when I'm engrossed

Most definately

I'll take a peek when I get home, the boss is sat next to me so I can't look whilst here at work

The library will reserve copies of books, I have just done it for A Lifetime Burning, it cost me 60p payable when I picked up the book. I also know that if there are no copies of a particular book (newish ones not out of print ones) the library will purchase it from places like Amazon they did this for Hannah when a book she wanted to read wasn't available anywhere in Lancashire.

Three of mine have personal messages in ner-ner-ner-ner-ner

Hello and welcome Jonathan, what do you like to read? Do you have any favourite authors?

I have 4 signed books: An Open Vein by J M Warwick (KW) - birthday pressie from Kat The Runaway by Martina Cole - bargain from Amazon Breeding Ground & The Taken by Sarah Pinborough - Competition prize here on BCF

Okay I finished COAUS last night, it was my first venture into this genre/type and I have to say I really enjoyed it. It was a different slant on the Cinderlla story from one of the stepsisters viewpoints. Next up... Being Emily by Anne Donovan Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Bronte's. But tragedy is not confined to Victorian novels. And life for Fiona in this happy set-up is about to change forever. Following the devastating events of a single day her family can never be the same. But - perhaps - new relationships will develop, built on a solid foundation of love....

Good for you Kitty

It would have to be Michel Faber's Crimson Petal and The White, I was gutted when I finished reading it I wanted to know what became of the characters and even though he brought out The Apple it answered some of the questions but not all.

Roast beef and all the trimmings.