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Hello and welcome. Now I'm not the new kid on the block! :
I'd echo what others have said about Bleak House. It's well worth pressing on with. I read it in the dim and distant past when I was doing A levels. Admittedly there were those who went into the exam having not even finished the book...but those of us who did finish were postive about it. And I still remember with fondness despite having had to study it..which doesn't always help to improve a book for anyone. Happy reading!
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When I read this thread I first thought, 'Oh I don't treat my books with enough respect'...then I went and had a quick look at my book cases...and sure enough 95% of the books are sitting there looking pristine...no bent spines and certainly no dog ears (shudder).
However the books that do look a bit sorry for themselves are the few that have been read on a beach or round a pool...
This made me wonder if the quality of what is inside the book may influence the amount of care we take of the of the book itself?
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Oh...I'd forgotten all about Enchanted April...but I love it too. I really enjoyed the film of it too. What a glorious placethey used.
I love all your choices Red Alligator...except for the Consoled which I've never read...so that's definitely one for my list to be read.
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Thank you to all who have said hello. It's good to be here. I'm beginning to find my way around (I hope).
I prefer Far From Madding Crowd too (JudyB)...but to call myself Bathsheba would be a bit much I think!
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Think it's Pride and Prejudice for me...but Birdsong is a close second...and I also really loved Anglo Saxon Attitudes
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Ciao Valentina
I'm new to the book club today. I saw your thread as I seem to have a magnetic attraction towards anything Italian.
I have read a few things by Italian authors (in translation that is as my Italian is not great). I like Umberto Eco...particularly The Name of the Rose and I also enjoyed another writer whose name I have forgotten. Two of his books that I remember most are called (in English) 'The Sea' and 'Silk'.
I don't know what to recommend to you....but the most enjoyable book I've read recently is the Kite Runner. I also enjoyed 'The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett, but you may need to be English to 'get' this.
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It's my first day here, so I have enjoyed reading about all the staff. They sound a great lot and seem to be doing a really impressive job with this site. Thanks
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I'm Jude...and new here. So far I've had a browse round and at a guess I would think it will take me 6 months to work out how this all works...so if someone says hello or asks me something and I don't reply, then please put it down to incompetence...not lack of interest.
So what about books??? Well I used to be an avid reader...my necessities to sustain life were oxygen, food (ok chocolate), water and books...not necessarily in that order.
Recently life has changed and I've not had enough time...however, normality is beginning to return.
So I like Austen, the Brontes..Hardy (ofcourse)...more recently Louis de Bernierre, Sebastian Faulks.
The book that has moved me most in recent months is The Kite Runner.
The most recent book I read is about Michael Schumacher...the edge of greatness I think it was called....motor racing is another passion.
Oh yes and Italy....I'll read anything and everything about Italy and in particular ancient Rome.
So that's me.
Looking forward to getting to grips with the site and taking part.
Jude
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Elizabeth Bennett and D'arcy of course
Jane Eyre
and for some odd reason that I can't explain to myself....The Reddleman from The Return of the Native