JudyB

Snap - just found out I'm getting that book also - can't believe I've managed to get another.

Hello and welcome. Hope you enjoy it here.

Hello and welcome Hope you enjoy it here.

Did it look good Supergran?

I read somewhere that they are going to televise The No1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier Synopsis: The new top ten bestselling novel from the much loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's new novel 'Burning Bright' sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly ****** French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring. (taken from Waterstones website) Review: I really enjoyed this - being thrust into London at the end of the 18th century and being able to understand the world in which Blake (and other writers and artists) lived particularly in the context of the French Revolution. It inspired me to read more about Blake so it took me beyond the story contained within the novel. I loved the descriptions - particularly of the walk through London - and I enjoyed the friendships formed between the characters. A good read. LibraryThing rating: ***** Other books I have read by this writer: Falling Angels*****

Welsh rarebit - yum.

Hi Leona Hope you enjoy it here. Do you visit the Literature Festival in Cheltenham? JudyB

Hello and welcome. I don't think I've read anything by Italian writers - can you recommend any? Hope you enjoy chatting with us. JudyB

I've tried it again in profile and it worked this time thanks. It's a nice idea.

Oh that's what it is! I clicked on mine and it didn't do anything.

Cod roe, fried tomatoes and a sesame seed bread roll, followed by creme fraiche with stewed rhubarb.

Roast chicken and all the trimmings.

Yes I've noticed the birds singing in the morning and the evening - I love this time of year. I'm sure our frogspawn is a month earlier than usual - my mum usually gets some in her pond ages before us.

In the garden today . . . . . . frogspawn . . . and lots of frogs in the pond.

Fair comment LovesReading but it was set in England.

I was totally engrossed in Boy A when I came across a mistake which really bugged me for ages - it's coincidently quite topical as it was about Mother's Day being in May instead of March -silly to get narked by it, especially when the book was so well written, but it did annoy me.

Headline Reading Circle Book The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose by Diana Janney Synopsis: Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naive, overconfident and has always felt she has something important to say. However, unlike most of her peers, her hero is Marcus Aurelius, in imitation of whom she has been composing philosophical reflections on life for some time. When Harriet's father dies, the urge to write these meditations is greater than ever. Then, on her fourteenth birthday, she receives a unique gift. Her doting mother and grandmother have had her by-now-substantial collection of meditations published. Having appointed themselves roles -- Mother: publicist; Nana: sales rep; Harriet: esteemed author -- they vow to get the book into the hands of a wide readership. Once this formidable team gets into gear, there's no holding back, and Harriet is hurled into a lifestyle that not even she, in all her infinite wisdom, could have been prepared for. Bookshop orders soon stack up, and Harriet is plunged into a whirlwind of launch parties, newspaper coverage and television appearances. But is all this attention exactly what she thinks? And, more importantly, can her happiness -- or her naivete - last? Review: This was a delightful read - light and uplifting with touches of humour. It

We get the New Books magazine in the library - I love reading it and jot down any books of interest that are coming out.

That could be the basis of your review Michelle, that's what I did with my 700 pages of philosophical meditations from them.

I'm not but the fish man from there visits our local markets - his fish is really good.

We'll be able to swap notes

Fish and Chip Special (which means we got bread, mushy peas and a cup of tea with it)

Not sure if it was the same book but the one I picked up by her was very childlike in style.

Cod roe (bought from a fishmonger from Fleetwood) with fried tomato and bread - and of course vinegar.