Jessi

Emmerdale

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I have begun Dear Fatty by Dawn French. I think it is the funniest book I have picked up in a long time.

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I have begun a Home For Rose by Jon Katz

Eastenders

The Tudors

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John Adams soundtrack

I am pushing on with Vanity Fair tonight, which I begun months ago! I will get to the end!!!

He’s just not that into you – Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (3/5) Ok so stupidly I picked this up thinking it was going to be a novel of the film, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Instead when I begun reading I found it was a lot more self help about guys. It was a fairly interesting read, but not what I expected but that’s my fault (I saw it on a stand and uni and just picked it up with Starting over for 50p). It did make me laugh a few times but objectively, I think Behrendt is a little up himself. At times he gets it bang on – other times, I think he could be a bit off the mark...

I literally just finished Bright Young Things and I LOVED it!!! I might be a country girl at heart, but I love her novels about New York society!!!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did - I think it raised a bar on Burned again so I can't want to see how good Destined (I think thats what its called) is going to be

Awakened – PC and Kristin Cast (4/5) This book was brilliant I found, no other word for it and it has managed to secure a place in my heart for the House of Night series for good. I feared a few books back it had lost its way but this disproved that theory. Though I do not think I am ever going to take to Stark, there was even good development for him and Zoey in this book. Raphiem and Stevie Rae though... Awww, they are just simply too cute. As for the ending it has left me hungry for more!!!

I am going to start 'Bright Young Things' by Anna Godberson today

Remebering you - Steven Curtis Chapman

The Kings Speech - Mark Logue and Peter Conradi (4/5) After seeing the film of this, I really wanted to read the book and was not in the least disappointed. As ever, there was far more detail in the book than the film and it really gave you a warm insight in to the relationship between Logue and the king. very enjoyable! Three Whys of the Russian Revolution - Richard Pipes I read this for uni and found it very useful for my essays.

I have now began Divine By Choice

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy – Sofia Tolstoy (4/5) Whoever said that when a couple wed, the passion died, clearly has not read the story of Tolstoy and his wife. Sofia’s diary reveals a very strong, fiery woman who knew her own mind and wished she knew her husband’s. As much as Tolstoy obviously wound his wife up something chronic, and I think Sofia at a time tried the patience of a saint, there was a genuine love story between the two of them. Her thought provoking journals give a insight not only into the private life of one of the greatest novelists of all time, but also the country and the century they were living in. really, very interesting, even though some of it is grating at times when Tolstoy often wrote of her desire to die in what seemed to be moments of madness. However I think she was a overall sympathetic character; her grief for her youngest son was heart breaking to read.

Light on Lucrezia – Jean Plaidy (4.5/5) Oh I once again adored this and was not disappointed at this book as a sequel to Madonna. Once more there was complex relationships as well as emotional depth. Lucrezia’s much questioned relationship with her brother and her father were written with such brilliance. Ceasre was such a interesting if sadistic man. The way he and Lucrezia was written was very believable. My only criticism is that the books were not long enough!

I am really enjoying the Kings Speech at the momenet