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Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard Synopsis (from Amazon) Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she'd hoped were long dead. Rose must decide whether she has in fact chosen a new life or just a different kind of death. Life and love are offered by new friends, her lonely daughter, and most of all Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own demons to exorcise. But does Rose, with her tenuous hold on life and sanity, have the courage to say yes to life and put her past behind her? Review I finished this last week (or was it early this week? I can't remember) so my thoughts may be a little hazy but I will try my best! It took me a while to get into, I wasn't too comfortable with the writing style because I thought it didn't flow very well, it seems sort of like bullet points. Thinking about it that probably made it realistic, and more like we were hearing Rose think than her talking to us. I guess it's probably a good stylistic decision but it did make it harder to get into the book. After a while the style ceased to matter really, as I got more into the story I noticed it less and less. I really liked Rose, and loved Callum and I was sad to see them go by the end. I also really liked the descriptions of the island. It made me want to be in a rugged landscape or by the sea (or both!). I tend to prefer that to the more polished country-side that is nearest to Birmingham. Not the best book I have read this year but certainly worth reading 3.5/5 I'm now reading (and have almost finished) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Have accepted it

Maybe I'm being soppy but it made me cry a little, but more from remembering the book. I do want to see it. It does look different though Rachel McAdams does look quite like I imagine Claire, except her hair is the wrong colour. And I agree with Kimmy, I don't know if the trailer would make me want to watch it if I hadn't read the book

I gave up on hunchback too but left my bookmark I still plan on going back to it at some point. I mentioned Rachel Ray on the last page, I did finish that one in the end, but never really enjoyed it

Usually Waterstones because the shop in Birmingham is what a bookshop should be, and the 3 for 2 offer calls to me! (especially at the moment with everything on 3 for 2!) I sometimes buy from amazon and charity shops

14 I think at the moment. I don't allow myself to buy more until I at least am in single figures, but I don't usually just buy one then. It's grown so much since I joined here though. I used to buy 3, read them, buy another 3.

Ah I thought it was probably someone from here!

30 but that's not my whole wishlist!

I don't know what else it could be at all

Did you restart? Sometimes updates need you to restart the computer for it to work

Roast dinner for me too. Chicken this week.

yeah I might get the others too...I will add them to bookmooch anyway

Thanks Dusky, I'll try and pick that up next time I'm book shopping

Thanks Mia...oh that Cass is a nasty piece of work. And I agree about Zeke however did he manage to make a popular radio show?!

Hia Dusky, to the forum. I've been hearing good things about The Dresden Files for years but never actually got round to reading any of them

I hope The Sun is wrong. I never thought bad of Yasmina for saying her interview had gone well when it hadn't. I wouldn't want people to know, especially if I was first and people I was competing against were in next. I wouldn't want them to think I must be really bad at interviews if their interviews went well. But if she hadn't acted like that they shouldn't have shown her that way

I'm a woman who has just moved to a remote Scottish island to escape my former life where I had been having some psychological problems

I'm reading Emotional Geology now too and I feel the same about the writing style

Hia Tiernan, to the forum

Songs of the Humpback Whale is the only one I haven't read (unless picture perfect is out here now...)

Can someone catch me up? I haven't seen Neighbours all week...haven't been getting back from work in time. I already have a back log of ER, Brothers and Sisters, The Big Bang Theory and Desperate Housewives to watch

oh yes Emily was great in that episode, as was Richard

I wasn't in the right mood for reading Emotional Geology so I went for the next book in the Thursday Next series instead. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Synopsis (from Amazon) Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday�s memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is �accidentally� eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'. Review Again a book which fails to disappoint. Funny and exciting. I found this one a little slower to start than the previous two but once it got going the action was at least as good. As always some great funny bits, I particually liked the was was conversation, which was both humourous and a little confusing. I don't think I really have anything to say much that I haven't said before. I did find this book, sadder in a way 4/5 Have gone back to Emotional Geology now