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Don't feel guilty! Fill that pile!
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I've currently got old Jimmy Smith on random (Root Down is a favourite of mine). He's pretty cool.
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I bought my first copy of An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and got halfway through when it jumped about 80 pages backwards, even though the numbering continued correctly. I was gutted, because the book was brilliant. I raced back the 40 miles the next day to swap it for a proper copy, only realising that it would have probably been cheaper to nip into town and buy a new copy after the deed was done. And I ended up buying another two books whilst I was there!!!
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Right-oh. I'll get it. You are directly responsible for my diminishing bank account, lady!
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You've got some great books coming up, Marcia. Some great ones! That emoticon has no relevance at all, but I thought it looked funny. XX
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These sound intriguing, Kelly. Are they something I could enjoy (you know my tastes well)? I have enjoyed certain YA books like His Dark Materials and...erm...oh, yeah, I enjoyed Holes, too but not the Charlaine Harris books that much - what do you reckon? The premise sounds pretty cool...
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The MA sounds grand, Nic. My summer's been busy, really - full of scouts and DofE and all that jazz. Back to school on Monday, which I'm a bit bummed out about, but I have plans to set up my own business here in the Peak District. Maybe two years and I won't have to work with naughty kids! What have you been up to? 'Owt good? xx
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I have just started reading Nemesis by this fella. I won the book in a pub quiz (there were four books as first prize and there were four of us in the team, as luck would have it!) and I'm already really enjoying it. Harry Hole seems like a character I'll enjoy and, as usual, I enjoy the Scandinavian style of writing. I'll get cracking with it and let you know.
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Funnily enough, though, I count stuff n'all. Like when I'm coiling up an extension lead, I count how many wraps it takes. I often think that I'm a little tapped. But then, it has been suggested that the lift doesn't always reach the top floor with yours truly.
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Giotto's Hand by Iain Pears General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major thefts has aroused the scoun of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue. In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando's colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk...only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead him to the greatest art find of his career. This is very different from An Instance of the Fingerpost, the first novel I read by Pears. I enjoyed that so much that, when I discovered through Marcia that he'd written a whole bunch of stuff, I actively sought them out. This does not disappoint. The writing is fluid, fun and witty, with characters coming to life within the pages. There's an air of sophistication about the novel, not purely because of the higher-brow subject matter, but because Pears doesn't dumb his style down. Saying that, he makes his subject matter accessible and interesting and his antagonists very human. Pears, it would seem, is a great author. Versatile, bright and accessible, I look forward to reading many more. 9/10
