Angel Posted January 16, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 Louise - you're zapping through those books at the moment! Have you got time to go to work?? Quote
Louiseog Posted January 17, 2008 Author Posted January 17, 2008 Louise - you're zapping through those books at the moment! Have you got time to go to work?? Knew I'd forgotten something!! Am very busy at work and am thinking very fast so just carries on at home!! Am taking a day off tomorrow sick as have a nasty eye infection, five bags of work bought home though!! Could not get into Needle in the Blood at all which was a shame as it pressed all the right buttons! So gave up! The Before I Die Jenny Downham, brilliant book, Tessa narrates the story of her death from leukemia, here is a review: Sunday Times Culture Magazine (10/6/07) Novels for young teenagers do not usually feature drugs and casual sex within the first 20-odd pages. But most books for teenagers will not leave an adult reader's eyes so blurry with tears that it's hard to see the final chapters. Jenny Downham's extraordinary first novel does both. That was me proper sobbing at the end but somehow managed not to be sentimental. Agatha Raisin and the day the Floods came usual and easy Quote
everydayxangels Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I loved Before I Die! I read the back and thought it would be like the novels of Lurlene McDaniel. But iit surprised me how great of a book it was. One of my favorite YA novels. I'm so glad you enjoyed it too. Quote
Louiseog Posted January 18, 2008 Author Posted January 18, 2008 I still have a lump in my throat!! Quote
Louiseog Posted January 19, 2008 Author Posted January 19, 2008 It was yesterday but I stayed off and worked!! Finished Agatha Raisin good Gervase Phinn Head Over Heels in the Dales James Herriot for teachers! Camilla Way The Dead of Summer: "By the end of that summer three of us were dead," Very creepy book which twists in a shocking way at the end. Good Now reading Meg Wolitzer The Position - what would happen if your parents had written and starred in a book about sex? Quote
Roland Butter Posted January 20, 2008 Posted January 20, 2008 I've heard good things about Dead of Summer. I'll add that to my list. Quote
Louiseog Posted January 22, 2008 Author Posted January 22, 2008 The Position was good but not what I thought it would be, not as funny somehow! Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon, think these are getting better! Kalista Buchanon Upstate Review from Fantastic Fiction This utterly compelling story of first love marks the debut of a startlingly fresh and original young writer. Harlem, 1985. Antonio has been seeing Natasha for a while now. Their relationship is full of the drama, the passion and the intensity of every first love affair. But their story is different. For Antonio is on trial for the murder of his father. This is Natasha and Antonio's story, one struggling to cope with life in jail, the other with life outside. Extraordinarily vivid and honest, their letters to each other narrate the rollercoaster ride of first love with stunning insight. Reminiscent of THE COLOR PURPLE, UPSTATE is a brilliantly compelling debut novel. Read in two hours, knew I should have gone to bed when OH did! Its in letters and so a fast read, and great! I thought I knew where it was going and suddenly it had gone somewhere else, the triumph of love really and goodness and decency somehow. Quote
Louiseog Posted January 23, 2008 Author Posted January 23, 2008 The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd I found this very similar to Secret Life of bees, power of women, secret Catholic not quite Catholic sect, not saying its bad just that I'd done the themes! 5/10 Ken Follett Pillars of Wisdom Very very fat! Good start though Quote
angerball Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 ^ Louise, do you mean Pillars of the Earth? Quote
Louiseog Posted January 28, 2008 Author Posted January 28, 2008 Still going ! Slowed down my reading frenzy which is good. Excellent! Quote
Louiseog Posted January 28, 2008 Author Posted January 28, 2008 You're slowing down Louise . Is it good? No cos I have hundreds I want to read! but am enjoying this one lots so not a chore Quote
Louiseog Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 FINISHED and it was great, roller coaster of a story with lots of twists and turns which meant that goodies won and baddies didn't! Quote
Louiseog Posted February 1, 2008 Author Posted February 1, 2008 Pricilla Masters A Plea of Insanity On a late summer Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at Greatbach Secure Psychiatrist Unit in the Midlands city of Stoke on Trent. Six months ago, her predecessor Heidi Faro was brutally murdered in her office by one of the inmates, Stefan Giulio, who suffers from brain damage. As Claire is adjusting to her new job, she becomes increasingly suspicious that someone else might have been involved in the murder... OK Quote
Louiseog Posted February 2, 2008 Author Posted February 2, 2008 Not bad! Susan Hill The Man in the Picture, spooky apparrently ( I can't spell that word) Enjoyed this, quite lilke The Woman in Black, with the same atmosphere of menace. Helen Dunmore House of Orphans Quote
Louiseog Posted February 5, 2008 Author Posted February 5, 2008 House of Orphans was good, it was about Finland in 1902 which was interesting, Russification and independence. Didn't really feel that it flowed very well, in that I never got the love interest bit and never engaged or worked out who was who. Not sure now, I have one by my bed but cannot remember the title Quote
Guest ii Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 House of Orphans was good, it was about Finland in 1902 which was interesting, Russification and independence. Independence? And set in 1902? Interesting... Quote
Louiseog Posted February 6, 2008 Author Posted February 6, 2008 Independence? And set in 1902? Interesting... More like moves towards it, when did Finland get independence? Quote
Guest ii Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 1917, which is why I was so confused. Finland did have autonomy under the Russian rule, though. Quote
Louiseog Posted February 6, 2008 Author Posted February 6, 2008 What it looks like is that this was part of the movement which ended in 1905 in Russia in which Russia was trying to Russify Finland, it also included the diffrence between Swedish speaking Finns and Finnish speaking Finn. Was Karelia (sp) part of Finland or Russia then? Quote
Guest ii Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Finland. Then later, during WWII when Russia attacked Finland (the Winter War) Finland lost some areas, including Karelia. Then Finland started the Continuance War to try to get those back. Didn't really work out that way, but it's huge Finland remained independent through all that, so I'm very proud to have some Finnish blood in me. Quote
Louiseog Posted February 7, 2008 Author Posted February 7, 2008 Thank you ii Ian Sansom The Delegate's Choice, third in the Mobile Library series good easy fun story. Quote
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