supergran71
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I have bought the Woman's Weekly for years and years and it has always satisfied me. Its a weekly and costs 80p. It has everything I like from knitting patterns to cookery recipes. there is also a letter page and pages devoted to topical news items; a medical page, often discussing something that has been in the news. Every week there is an article interviewing a celebrity (a real one, not one of your so called ones). Last week it was Helen Mirren. Inevitably there is the problem page.
Recently they started a book club and have asked readers to do reviews of book which they send to them. The also publish an excerpt of a book and then publish the reviews the following month. This month it was The Beach House by Jane Green.
All in all, it is a magazine packed with interesting and useful information, with a couple of short stories and a serial thrown in. Worth every penny of 80p
I recommend it, dont think its just for old ladies, give it a try I am sure you will like it.
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Obviously a typing error silly me
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If you are 60, you only need to read 40 pages. And if you make it to 100, well then you can judge the book by it's cover!!
Not quite sure where this leaves me ?? I am 73 this year I only need to read 27 pages??
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Thanks for that Andy, will look him up.
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I wouldn't normally. But, as with all genres, there is some brilliant stuff out there. The one that's really stuck with me is Lonesome Dove which is a stunning novel. Cowboys on a massive cattle drive north to Montana from Texas, and a properly epic sort of length (and, actually, one of those books where I've been sad that it ended).
That was serialised on tv some time ago and OH and I caught an episode on evening. We really enjoyed the storyline and carried on watching until it ended. I didnt realise it based on a book:blush: Who is the author Andy?
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It's always nice to know folks see the links on profiles elsewhere, and equally nice to see another "face" from Aberdeen (I swear, we're taking over the forum - LOL!). Good to see you here, Tambo.
Well I thought the forum started in Scotland, didnt it??
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Every door in my house has to be closed before I can settle down. I often have to get up in the night for the loo and I dont like seeing "black" spaces!! I dont like "black" windows either, so curtains or blinds have to be drawn over.
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Will we be getting a review Janet??
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For me its enough of a challenge to tackle the next book on my TBR pile:blush:
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I am enjoying Emma very much. I am finding it very amusing the way Emma manipulates people.
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I am using it Michelle. I keep a note of books that get good reviews on here that I like the sound of. Otherwise I forget them. I thought I had told me that I liked the idea???
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This is my second reading of Emma and I am enjoying it much more than before. I dislike Emma intensely and agree with you Kell. She really does deserve to fall on her face. However I am enjoying reading about her machinations and how she really doesnt get it, that she can't interfere with people's lives the way sge does. I remember that some things don't quite work out the way she imagines.
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Well there's a surprise!!
I saw that documentary Beef and as you say it was very interesting. It illustrated what I believe about all these scares of global warming etc etc, its not Earth we are destroying, but ourselves. I have always believed that the Earth looks after itself and adjusts to changes. Humans are just a blip in the history of the Earth. Its possible that after we have destroyed ourselves everything will begin again.
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4. I have a handbag obsession
Don't we all?
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
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Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
I was sent the proof form of this book by Nici. Hope this review is ok Nici.
Synopsis (from Amazon)
Roxanne Pellegrino's world collapses when her husband dies unexpectedly. The only way she feels she can deal with her all-consuming grief is to run away from her life. She leaves her home, her career and her friends, heading for Peaks Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine. A former psychologist, she finds herself taking a job as an animal warden and reinventing her past so it doesn't include the tragedy of her husband's death. But despite Roxanne's best efforts to cut herself off from her emotions and people in general, she finds herself drawn to her quirky new neighbours. And then Roxanne meets Lloyd. Lloyd is a stray dog, a large black Labrador retriever who clearly has been woefully mistreated. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded dog. And as both slowly begin to heal, Roxanne begins to deal with her grief and discover that happiness can be found in unexpected places...
Review
For the first few chapters of this book, I was a little doubtful, but gradually I became completely absorbed in Roxanne
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I will borrow Paula's:lol:
Not starting Book of Lost Things after all, will be starting Emma by Jane Austen to night.
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Just like Katie! At one stage I put gravy in all her food just so she would eat it.
At the risk of embarrassing my daughter, I used to do that too:lol:
We are having grilled Scottish salmon with potatoes and veggies tonight
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I watched the first one and thought it was very good. However I have been quite stressed out and depressed this week and just couldn't face watching it because I thought it would be depressing. I've been opting for light comedy and things instead. If I had been feeling more normal I would have given it a try. Perhaps I will watch the rest it if it gets repeated.
In that case I wont tell you what happened;) It wouldnt have been a good programme to watch if you were depressed F&C
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Finished Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan sent to me by Nici, review to come.
I have also finished The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith picked up at H&D's on Sunday. Review will follow in due course.
I will probably read The Book of Lost Things by John Connolley next.
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Thank you!
I've decided to review books I read now so that I keep on top of what I have enjoyed, otherwise I find I can forget books quite quickly, unless they have a real effect on me, but then I can sometimes be just left with the feeling and not much knowledge of what the book is about.
This is one of the reasons I like doing a review. I actually type it up first and save it in Word in a special folder before I transfer it to here. I too used to forget books as soon as I had read them and this helps a lot.
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Is anyone else watching this very good serial which began on Monday on BBC1 at 9pm. It finishes tomorrow night. Brilliant story and terrific acting.
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Can I join the circle. This is my first post on here so I don't know how to cover up spoilers etc (can anyone advise?). Therefore, I won't say too much yet.
I loved the book and got totally lost in it. It kind of reminded me of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and I noticed that Kate Morton mentions that book in her acknowledgements.
That's interesting Laa Laa, because I started to read The Blind Assassin a couple of months ago and couldnt get into it. I will have to try again methinks.
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The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
Synopsis on back of book
Summer 1924 On the eve of a glittering society party by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999 grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
Set as the war-shattered Edwadian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, the House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.
Review
I think the synopsis is a tad misleading - probably on purpose;).
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a spanking good read. A story cleverly woven taking the reader through the years after the first world war and giving a really great insight into society and the way each level of society viewed each other. It is an "upstairs/downstairs" story with the characters on both sides of the spectrum richly drawn. The two sisters are described in a way which illustrates their turmoil in the changes going on around them, particularly Hannah, who wants to break free from the old ideas. There is humour as well as drama in the story which flows along easily. Tension builds up in the last few pages and you are wondering what is going to happen. There are many puzzles and revelations which create surprises.
I liked the idea of Grace the maid looking back at the time she was lady's maid to Hannah and I felt great sympathy with her as she reveals the sacrifices she made and the dreadful tragic secret she has kept until the end of the 20th century.
A wonderful story, I would read again and again. I give it 10/10
What's for Dinner Tonight?
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Do you have a pressure cooker IC? A casserole takes 20 minutes in one of those and the meat just melts in your mouth.
We have grilled lemon sole tonight with pots and veg.