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joe

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  1. Going to start reading Emotional Geology today by Linda Gillard and I am very much looking forward to it
  2. Archangel is an excellent read, I really enjoyed it
  3. Hello, it is lovely on here.
  4. That made me chuckle and is my only knowledge of Lolita too.
  5. There they go, two clever women of sixty, making their way through the wet towards the car.
  6. It depends what mood I am in but my all time favourite films are Truly Madly Deeply Taxi Driver While you were sleeping Sense and Sensibility Blade Runner
  7. I have started to read Reading in Bed by Sue Gee. I am only thirty pages in but I am already hooked and just know that I am going to enjoy it.
  8. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym Synopsis Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin. Once life's little humiliations are played out, maybe love will be returned, and fondly, after all.. This is the first Barbara Pym book that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I did not want the book to end as I had got to know the charcters so well, i felt that I actually knew them. I am certainly going to read Quartet in Autumn. 10/10
  9. joe

    Hello to you, hope you are having a good bank holiday.

  10. I will, I have ordered it from the library so might be a while beforer I can start it.
  11. Yes he is in next week's episode, cannot wait.
  12. The Time Travelers Wife is my all time favourite book and I am sure that you will really enjoy it.
  13. joe

    Newbie!

    Hello, I am fairly new here too. It is very friendly, welcome.
  14. I am wanting to read all of the books on the list. I am going to start with Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman. Scottsboro Ellen Feldman The Wilderness Samantha Harvey The Invention of Everything Else Samantha Hunt Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden Home Marilynne Robinson Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie
  15. I really struggled with this book from the very beginning. I thought it was very obvious that the stepdad was abusing the daughter and that Shay, in trying to protect the little girl, accidentally killed them both. For this reason I could not enjoy the book fully as I found both the narrative and ending predictable. However having said that I found it very easy to read.
  16. I love the character of Rebus and have read all of the books in the Rebus series. I will have a look at that site.
  17. I loved it from the very beginning but then maybe I am weird. Stick with it as I am sure that you will really begin to enjoy it.
  18. I love ER and have watched every single episode. I will cry when it ends and i want to see George Clooney again.
  19. Started to rread A Child's Game today by John Connor and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Friday 31 December, 1999. In the early hours of the morning in a luxury central Leeds penthouse, intruders douse a terrified victim with petrol, set him alight and throw him burning from the ninth floor roof garden. DS Pete Bains is on night duty with CID when the call comes in. The body is quickly identified as Nicholas Hanley, a wealthy property developer, but Bains' attempts to pull together an enquiry stall when he cannot locate Hanley's lover, Anna Hart. Unknown to Bains, Hart and her daughter are less than five miles away, kidnapped at gunpoint and struggling to stay alive. Meanwhile, the security services are looking for DC Karen Sharpe. Eighteen months ago she walked out on Bains without a word of explanation. Now she has disappeared for real. What Sharpe has been doing not only connects her to Hanley's death, but has placed her at the disposal of men for whom human life means nothing. The danger is greater than anything she has faced before. If she cannot pull her shattered personality together, the last day of the millennium will be the last day of her life.
  20. joe

    Hello

    Hello:smile2:
  21. I enjoyed the Pilots wife but i found the whole plot very predictable. I also did not enjoy it as much as bodysurfing which still remains one of my favourite reads recently. The Time Travelers Wife I absolutely love, I have read it about ten times now.I just find that it's a beautiful love story told incredibly well. I cannot wait to see the film.
  22. I will give it a go as I am enjoying this book so much
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