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It is probably A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I was wary about reading it as I didn't like or finish The Kite Runner, yet I really enjoyed it. I still find myself thinking about it. Very well written and engaging - plus haunting and sad

I've started reading On The Brighton Beat by David Rowland. Only read the introduction and my first impression is that he is a bit moany

I'm reading Boozy Brighton at the minute - a history of the city's pubs and drinking habits!

I've been to the library and taken out more books! Harbison: Shoe Addicts Anonymous Slater: Mr. Darcy's Diary Ahern: If You Could See Me Now Matthews: The Chocolate Lovers' Club Harrison: Brown Owl's Guide to Life

128. 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber 8/10 129. 311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber 9/10 130. History of Brighton and its environs by Richard Sickelton 7/10

204 Rosewood Lane Waterstone's Synopsis: Welcome to Cedar Cove - a small town with a big heart! Grace Sherman's life was happy and untroubled - until her husband just disappeared. She's spent the last six months desperately searching for an answer. What could be so awful that a devoted husband and father would go without a note or a warning?But life can - and does - go on. Cedar Cove is abuzz with talk of weddings and babies. Justine - the only daughter of Grace's best friend, Judge OliviaLockhart - recently eloped and is blissfully happy. Grace's daughter, Kelly, just had a baby. And it looks like her older daughter, Maryellen, is seeing someone new, someone she's keeping a secret...Then there's Jack, who's been pursuing a romance with Olivia, and Zach and Rosemary Cox, who're having a few problems. And Grace's own mystery - will she ever find out what happened to her husband? This is the second novel in the Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber and as with her other work, I enjoyed this book. In this series Macomber has kept story lines open at the end of books and continued them on the in the next. In this particular novel the story of Grace and her missing husband is the main storyline continued. I like howMacomber doesn't wrap everything up in one book, because I sometimes find this a bit rushed. Doing it this way allows Macomber to explore the story more. That said, there were stories in the novel that I felt were not explored sufficiently enough. In 204 Rosewood Lane, Charlotte is taken ill with cancer. She has her surgery, and a few pages later is up and fine. For a big topic like cancer, it is breezed over and that bugged me. I felt more could have been made of it - the illness and its affects could have been looked at and included more than it was. I was surprised by the reason of Dan's disappearance. I wasn't expecting it at all. I think Macomber hid that outcome well, and it really was sad. I felt Grace's pain as she experienced it. With other Macomber novels, she has written some lovely characters - people I can relate too and believe in. This book was no exception and I really felt for Grace as she is so easy to like. And of course, Macomber leaves the book with another mystery waiting to be solved...I found that made me want to read the next novel in the series straight after I had finished this one. I found this another enjoyable Macomber novel. She is my favourite chick-lit author, and I was not let down. 8/10 311 Pelican Court Synopsis from debbiemacomber.com: Now divorced, Zach and Rosie Cox are struggling to adjust to Judge Olivia's unusual custody agreement

My secret santa book has arrived, thank you!!

I finished 311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber this morning. Currently reading History of Brighton and its environs by Richard Sickelmore for my dissertation. Went to the library on Sat and took out Jane Green: Beach House, Jeffrey Deaver: Bloody River Blues and Kai Meyer: The Flowing Queen. Think I'm going to start the latter later

I've sent mine off through Amazon

You could try Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens

I've been reading 311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber

Hey! Welcome to the forum

Are these still Discworld novels? Or a stand alone series?

I have to agree that they made him more likeable in the films; I guess to appeal to the viewers. I'm still not on his team but he seemed more caring in the film, not so persistent, desperate and just irritating in the book

126. Destinations by Sheila O'Flanagan 8/10 127. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett 10/10

No I haven't. I will look for them now

I'm really enjoying them at the minute. As soon as I've finished one I'm straight onto the next one

Synopsis from www.terrypratchatt.co.uk: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg ... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. Carpe Jugulum is Terry Pratchett's twenty-third Discworld novel - but the first to star vampires. As the synopsis says, this is the 23rd book in the Discworld series, and the stars of this book are the Witches. In this adventure they are fighting vampires - or vampyres as they wanted to be known as. These are modern vampires, who want to fit in with the population, until they need to fed of course. Influencing people with mind tricks they are set on domination. Except they picked a fight with Granny Weatherwax. Seemingly old and weak, how will Granny fight back? I love the Witches novels. Nanny Ogg is my favourite. She has a vast collection of rude jokes and carries everything she could possibly need in her knickers. She is practical, blunt and just hilarious. I had to laugh at Agnes as well, with her second mind. There is a lot of humour in this book. Pratchett is very good at writing books which make me laugh. I loved the idea of modern vampires and them learning how to become immune to things such as garlic. The Count and his enthusiasm made me laugh. Pratchett also writes a good adventure and great fight scenes. This book had me gripped and I finished in within a couple of days. I loved it. I laughed and cringed, enjoyed the characters, loved having vampires in the book and alongside Death, the Witches are my favourite Discworld characters. I have no complaints about this book. Top marks from me. 10/10

Waterstone's Synopsis: Two eavesdropping train passengers learn more than they bargained for about their own love lives; an office-party fling has unforeseen consequences for a young woman and for a marriage; a suburban housewife is forced to face her past when her estranged mother, famous and exotic, makes contact after many years; an office worker who imagines herself an undercover agent finds her commute to work livened up by the daily sightings of a handsome stranger...whose life she decides to investigate; an adopted woman journeys to meet the woman who gave her up all those years ago, and finds that all is not what she imagined! This is a book full of short stories. Each story focuses on a passenger of the Dart. Some stories involved people from other stories, others were stand-alone stories. None were very long but I found them all readable, making this a quick read. I have never read Sheila O'Flanagan and I will read her work again. I found the book enjoyable and easy to read. All the stories were gripping but I did find that some of them were not finished to my liking. There was one story about domestic violence and I thought that the resolution was too predictable and that the issue was not really looked into. There were other stories I would like to read as long stories too. This is chick-lit and was enjoyable. I would have liked more depth in some of the stories but this was a quick book to read and I liked how O'Flanagan wrote. The stories are generally full of love and friendship and they were nice reads. If you want a quick, chick-lit book to read, this is for you. 8/10

I am happy to say I finished 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber. Now listening to The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

I finished Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett this morning. Hoping to finish 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber today too

I've spent the day listening to Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. Really enjoying it.