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    easy books

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    Yes, It's good but when I'll have more level I want read new books because to read the same books all time is boring.

    Is your cousin learning spanish? I recommend to her "Sin noticias de Gurb" by Eduardo Mendoza, It's easy to understand and the story it's funny.

    It's nice to have a person who can you talk about books! :)

     

    Thanks :)

     

    Hi Elena, No she is Spanish but our tastes in books overlaps so she recommends a book she has found and I recommend one back and we look for it in our own languages :D .

    But I agree Roald Dahl is a brilliant author to start with and he has a wide range of books to choose from.

    easy books

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    Hola Elena

     

    I would say chose some of the books you have read in Spanish and read them in English that way you are not constantly searching for a translation and can enjoy the story you know. My cousin and I often exchange ideas of books we have read (her in Spanish and me in English)

    Your Book Activity Today ~ Thread 13

    in General Book Discussions

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    Tonight, or perhaps I ought now to say 'yesterday evening', I managed to complete the remainder of Moab is my Washpot. I make it sound as though it was a challenge; on the contrary, it was a page-turner. A book where I found myself refraining from hesitation and distractions. I've made a short review of it in my books thread.

     

    Now, I'm going to move on to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

     

    I am most of the way through that as well and you are right its very good

     

    I have had to come to work which means I had to with great reluctance put down The Passage - Justin Cronin its a fab read and I want to finish it before Christmas.

    Adverts you like/dislike?

    in Music / TV / Films

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    I love that Jumbone ad. Lovely white bedroom, lovely white bed.....huge muddy dog.

     

     

    That is a great advert my mum saw it the other day and worried about how they would get the sheets white again :giggle2:

     

    I hate the macdonalds advert where they sing to the drive through

    Anita Blake

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

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    I read up to about 10 and got fed up with the lack of story, the sex element didn't shock, offend or even suprise me its big in all the books but it seemed to become less about the development of the characters and more about who Anita was sleeping with and how many. But I know there are a number of people on here who have continued to read beyond this number and really enjopyed them, I might go back one day and read more but its not a high priority for me.

    Sara's reading

    in Past Book Logs

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    "Samarkand" by Amin Maalouf. The story about Omar Khayyams verses until they end up locked in a safe on the Titanic. Potentially interesting, right? Well, not for me as it turns out. But it gets an entry in my UN challenge list for Lebanon.

    "With this ring" by Amanda Quick. Now, I would probably have enjoyed the above mentioned story if Amanda Quick had written it. (Or, Jayne Anne Krentz, but I believe she uses Amanda Quick for her historicals). Lots of stereotypes in this book. The hero is tall dark and lonely, the heroine is all kinds of nice and just never gives up (loves stray dogs and orphans, you know her, you've met her before), in this case where both have been married before, it turns out their marriages were unhappy so this is the first time they REALLY fall in love, the mystery is more or less obvious.. And STILL I enjoy reading it.

    Now, it could be that I love all romance books, of course. But it's not that simple. I also just read "The conqueror" by Brenda Joyce, and this book is certainly classified as romance. And I didn't like a single thing about it. The male leading character very nearly rapes the female lead on the first page, then continues to treat her like garbage throughout the book, she gets away from him, and THEN on page 415 of 421 he finds her and tells her he wants her back- and the daft woman goes with him. No, I certainly do not love all romance books. Some I throw as far away as possible and hope they won't find their way back.

     

    I have read loads of Amanda Quick/Jayne Anne Krentz and her other pseudonym Jayne Castle and they are great easy escapism, nothing horrible happens the mysterious twists are laughable but done with great tongue in cheekness. but I also know what you mean about the other type of 'romance' they are really sappy and I end up shouting at the book

    Books that made you cry

    in General Book Discussions

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    Les Miserables

    Watership Down

    Silas Marner

     

    and a new one to this thread....Tarka the Otter :weeping:

     

     

    oh god you have brought back a childhood trauma, we had Tarka the Otter on audio tape and we used to play it in the car when driving to Spain (bear in mind this was when you had to stop and take the tape out and re-insert it for the next side) and the last three words were ....and 3 bubbles came to the surface....there was always hysterics from the back of the car at this point...hmm I wonder why mum and dad didn't throw the dam thing out :D

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