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Devi

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  1. I thought you might find this book interesting - it's on my to purchase list. On Radji Beach by Ian W.Shaw synopsis from the publishers site: "When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded a coastal freighter named the Vyner Brooke. They only made it as far as the waters off Muntok Island near Sumatra. There, Japanese bombers sank the small ship. Those who survived the sinking drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Muntok. A group of about 60 shipwreck survivors, including 22 nurses, gathered at Radji Beach. They voted to surrender to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death, but the Japanese patrol that found them did not accept their surrender. Instead, it divided the Europeans into three groups and killed them all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked, abreast, into the sea. Miraculously, there was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, who brought the truth about this appalling atrocity to light, and who went on to experience the internment camps, starvation and disease that took away many of her friends."
  2. I picked up two more books from the library today - The Reapers - John Connolly and The Kingdom - Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. My bf has been nagging me to read a Clive Clusser book for ages, so I finally picked one up!
  3. I need to stay away from the library I think! I borrowed two more books on top of pied piper!
  4. I picked up pied piper from the local library, and was surprised to find it is a very old copy with no year of when it was published within, and no blurb on what it's about.
  5. Hello and welcome! I do love a good thriller/crime novel!
  6. I'm pretty excited! I got my mum back into reading again and it all started with memoirs of a monster hunter. We watched the road together and I happened to mention that I had the book from the library, and so she asked to read it after me. Now she is reading one of the five books I bought today - Midnight in Sicily. My mum is the one who got me into reading at a very young age.
  7. Yes they did, and I didn't know they were apart of a trilogy! Do you happen to know what the last book is called?
  8. I couldn't help myself, I went back to the book barn today, I only had 10mins browsing before it closed yesterday. I came out with five books: Peter Robb - Midnight In Sicily David Whitley - Children of the Lost Bernard Cornwell - Harlequin vagabond Theodore Judson - Fitzpatrick's War G.M. Hague - Voices of Evil all for $14
  9. I got the 'the complete and uncut edition of Stephen king's the stand' for $2 at my local book barn! It's one of my many TBR books on my list. This will be my first book I have read of his, but I have seen a couple of the movies some of his other books got turned into.
  10. All my books turned up in the mail, but not one had a free bookmark I also put my name down for the pied piper at my local library. I'm not sure what I will read first, but I think it will be the pied piper, mainly because it's a library book.
  11. Neither have I I started to read the first, but didn't make it past chapter 1. I was just too excited and skipped them to continue on with the tawny man, I wanted to know more about the fool! He/she (I can't remember if they ever estashblished that in the end) is one of my favourite characters. I think I will get to them eventually though.
  12. Well for me, I had seen the story a hundred times or more as a kid. It was pretty much a rip off of two favourite childhood movies of mine. I'm all for taking a story and adding a modern twist to it, but something about avatar made me want to leave halfway through the movie, and I was counting down the minutes till it ended lol. I would of probably left if I wasn't with friends.
  13. Yes, all my friends nearly disowned me because I disliked Avatar so much.
  14. I really really really disliked Avatar! There I said it Oh and the Harry Potter movies - mainly because of Daniel Radcliffe!
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