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    Book Tombola!

    in General Book Discussions

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    Being a writer, I go to a monthly writers' event in my area where everyone meets up and talks about what they are doing (for anyone, at any level) and there's often people there who take to the stage for a bit to talk about their own book or maybe it's a publisher, or a new magazine starting up... anyway, what does this have to do with books?

     

    Well, recently we've started having BOOK TOMBOLA which is amazing! They bring in a whole box of brand new books (2 boxes actually, fiction and non-fiction) and all the books are £1! You get a ticket, but you get to choose your own book. I walked away with about seven last time! I was just wondering if anyone else did this. Say if you went to a readers' meeting etc. why not have a book tombola there? It's a wonderful thing! Could even just manage it yourselves by providing a book or five you didn't want any more.

     

    So far I've gotten some great books from there, including 'The Amateurs' by John Niven and 'Tail of the Blue Bird' by Nii Ayikwei Parkes.

     

    I'd definitely give the experience a thumbs up. :D

    Has anyone read...?

    in General Book Discussions

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    Brida, I've read the novel and I really enjoyed it. Unlike Lucybird, for example, I thought it was totally hilarious at times. I would definitely recommend it, unless you dislike a bit of dark humour here and there :wink:

     

    I have that book, started reading it, didn't get into it the first couple of pages, really need to go back to it. I loved 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'.

    Your Book Activity Today ~ Thread 13

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    I am re-reading an excellent and hilarious book at the moment, called 'The Amateurs' by John Niven. It is a Scottish comedy based around the game of golf - I don't really know anything about golf, but I still love the book. The characters are wonderful, it's a little bit rude and there's some broad Scottish talk but it's so funny, sexy, violent and completely refreshing.

     

    I read it the first time a few weeks ago and then gave it to someone else for a loan. Only just got it back and felt like reading it again :rolleyes:

     

    ~B

    Featured Author - Bronwen Winter Phoenix

    in Author Interviews and Forum Visits

    Posted · Edited by Bronwen

    I do not think she was whiny in the slightest Bronwen, I think given the situation (finding out you are dead) she actually held it together very well, she was scared at first but as the story progressed, you saw her changing because she had changed, well I thought she had, she seemed more determined and resolved about what she wanted to do.

     

    Hope that makes sense ;)

     

    Maybe it's more of a female book, about understanding emotions etc.

     

    I have a male friend who read it and couldn't stand the character of Night, said she was whiny, although admitted that was because he recognised too much of himself as a whiny teenager for his liking :)

    Featured Author - Bronwen Winter Phoenix

    in Author Interviews and Forum Visits

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    I have one ~

     

    Bronwen, I found your ideas in 'Nightswallow' very insightful, especially spirits and death, etc, did you those ideas come to you in a dream? ;)

     

    Well, the part when Night wakes up dead, through to the relationship with Magnus, was all a dream. The rest I built on from those feelings, and it's quite a dark point of view, isn't it? I have no idea what happens after death but that's just how it happened for Night and the story just kind of got a life of its own. The dream and the feelings from that dream have not been easy to forget.

     

    There was a point when I actually cried writing it actually... maybe you can guess where :)

    These Are Only Words by Simon Biggam

    in General Fiction

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    After meeting the author I decided to buy his book, and I must say I really really enjoyed reading These Are Only Words.

     

    It's Simon Biggam's first novel, and it's really quite clever and witty, but also dark and just a little bit twisted! The main character is a deluded voyeur who works in a photography section of a shop (like Boots) and starts with his obsession with one girl and a group of friends. At first he sticks to photos, but before he knows it, things are getting really out of control and he takes more and more risks, basically invading the privacy of others almost like an art form, and that's what he describes it as! There are some funny moments, and some where it's more than a little creepy!

     

    The ending was rather abrupt, but I won't spoil it for any of you :D

     

    I'd definitely recommend giving it a go.

     

    8/10 snappy snaps :eek2:

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