Kell Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Sounds interesting - I'll lok forward to hearing what you think of it when you're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 I finished Like Water For Chocolate this afternoon, it's not a particularly long book (200 pages) and it's a light read. The book is set out in monthly chapters, each referring to a recipe and the story is told through the recipes and what they represent. It's a very odd but interesting little story which I enjoyed reading. Next I will read Posie Graeme-Evans ~ The Innocent The story begins in 1450, when civil unrest sweeps England and the struggle for the crown is at its peak. Deep in a western forest, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne. Fifteen years later, England has a charismatic young king, Edward IV, and the country has begun to wake from the nightmare of the War of the Roses. When Anne is brought to London to be a servant in the household of a wealthy merchant, her unusual beauty soon provokes jealousy, lust and intrigue. But Anne has one special quality that saves her: her knowledge of herbs and healing. News of her remarkable gift spreads and she is brought to save the life of Edward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Ohh that sounds interesting too, might just have to add it to my 'to read list' (which gets longer by the week!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Me too. Looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Another one to get hold of for me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 I thought you might like this one mum It was recommended through an author like for like when I typed in Philippa Gregory. About 100 pages in and loving it so far. Very like Philippa but a bit more racy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Look forward to reading it ...eventually...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 I found another Torey Hayden book in The Heart Foundation today, it only cost me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Might have to borrow it when your finished Kat...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Finished the Innocent today. A great book and a fantastic build up to the next book in the trilogy. Really enjoyed it. Next I shall read Laura Wilson ~ Hello Bunny Alice In 1967 Bunny Girl Alice Jones met Lenny Maxted - one half of the brilliant comic duo, Maxted and Flowers - and fell deeply in love with him. But, like so many great comics, Lenny had a dark side. Their love affair ended when Alice found his body hanging from a beam in a Wiltshire cottage. Seven years after his death, in the long hot summer of 1976, Alice is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse when, out of the blue, Lenny's partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep. Alice has not seen him since Lenny's funeral, but her surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time, a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Very like Philippa but a bit more racy. Ooh.. sounds interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 21, 2006 Author Share Posted August 21, 2006 Put down Laura Wilson this afternoon, don't rate it at all. I was half way through and nothing of any interest had happened at all. Just couldn't be bothered turning another page, epsecially when there were more interesting books waiting to be read. Next book is Jim Lynch ~ The Highest Tide One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries are to come, indicators of the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter Angie go unrequited? Will his arguing parents divorce? Is everything, even the bay, shifting from him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 That's a shame about the Laura Wilson - it's always a bit of a disapointment when you can't get into a book like that. Better luck with the Jim Lynch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 The Highest Tide wasn't the best book I've read all year, it just didn't hold my interest. That could still have a lot to do with Hello Bunny Alice though, as I found I didn't really want to read anything new after that one Anyway, I'm off to the library in a bit, I'm not expecting much as I've already been online and seen that most of the books I want are out or on the otherside of the county Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 Back from the library, it went better than I thought but only because I got books that weren't on my list (naughty). I managed to get, June Hampson ~ Trust Nobody, Michael Owen ~ Off The Record, Jean Plaidy ~ Katharine, The Virgin Widow and Celia Rees ~ Pirates!. I was a very very good girl on the car boot, as I was looking at books the signs said 50p each and then the man made new signs saying 10p each. It took me all my might to only buy one book, Michael J Fox ~ Lucky Man. Then when I got home, I had two books waiting in the mat Albert Camus ~ The Outsider (OC) and Valerie Martin ~ Mary Reilly :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Ooh, I have Lucky Man - it's an excellent read! Michael J Fox is a very interesting person - hope you enjoy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 And a bargain at 10p, it's almost new Started reading June Hampson ~ Trust Nobody It is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty 16-year-old Suze, also sharing the house is Daisy's friend Vera, a prostitute who boards with her cat Kibbles, a male she can always rely on - not that Vera is anyone's fool. The three women share a strong, mutually protective bond. The Lane brothers were both abused by their father, but Eddie took the brunt of the beatings. He has grown into a handsome, resourceful villain with a streak of viciousness that leads him to commit acts of terrifying violence to get his way. Daisy prefers not to know the details of Eddie's 'business' dealings. But hardman Eddie has an Achilles heel - Daisy. He loves his brother Kenny but he worships his brother's wife. She resists him. Then Eddie overreaches and pulls a racket too far, venturing on the patch of a villain who is even harder and more territorial than he is ... Lovereading view... The publisher has created a new category with the publication of this novel, that of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 I finished Trust Nobody tonight, I quite enjoyed this book. Another author billed to be the next Martina Cole and although I liked it, she isn't a patch on Cole. Will probably read more by this author if she writes them. The story itself was gritty for gritty's sake, all hard lives and hard times but the underlying plot of bonding women is quite good. I am going to read Philippa Gregory ~ The Wise Woman next as it has been looking at me for a while now. Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. She uses witchcraft to win a lover but since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 Hello, my name is Kat and I'm a swap-a-holic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Uh oh! How many have you swapped this time? hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 I have four to post this morning.... It's probably my fault they put the postage prices up, all those overworked postmen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 I finished The Wise Woman this afternoon, I wasn't that impressed with it TBH. I cared very little what Alys did or what happened to her, although the herbs and witchcraft aspect was interesting. I just randomly picked up Albert Camus ~ The Outsider off the shelf, it's not very long and I should have it finished soon. In his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who is prepared to face the indifference of the universe courageously and alone. Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits an act of violence. His response to the incident challenges the fundamental values of society, a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an alien, an outsider. For Meursault it is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it is the absurdity of life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 I picked this one up off my TBR soon pile last night and I am enjoying it so far. Celia Rees ~ Pirates! It is the dawn of the 18th century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls (a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe) take to the high seas from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance. Not just any trading ship, the Deliverance flies black flags from its mast, proclaiming to all that the newly named, hijacked ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope. For Nancy, the Deliverance is her escape from an arranged betrothal to a controlling and devilish man. For Minerva, it is an escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship, and the chance to see the world not as women, but as bold and daring pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny. A powerful, thrilling, and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I've read a few books by Celia Rees & enjoy her style. She's full of really good stories & tells them very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 I really enjoyed Pirates!, a great story of swash and buckle Now I'm going to read Off The Record: My Autobiography ~ Michael Owen Michael Owen has a maturity beyond his years. At 24, Liverpool Football Club's youngest-ever goalscorer in the Premiership is already one of the most experienced players in the England squad, with two World Cups and two European Championships under his belt, and is recognised as one of the top marksmen in world football. To date, despite his well-documented accolades and achievements, he has rarely opened up to his fans and his legions of admirers around the world. Until now. Off The Record is his honest and forthright story of life both on and off the pitch - the bumps and bruises of his formative years; his Liverpool career including former Kop hero Robbie Fowler and new club captain Stephen Gerrard; England's David Beckham and Sven-Goran Eriksson; and the precocious talents of Wayne Rooney; his partner Louise Bonsall and how fatherhood has changed him; and his hopes and ambitions for a future career outside football. On the darker side, he talks about the gambling, alcohol and other temptations influencing the lives of high-earning youngsters in the game and how some go over the edge. For the first time, he reflects on his own complex world and the effect of the resulting media intrusion into his private life. An incident-packed 2003/04 season saw doubts surround his manager Gerard Houllier, Owen's own injury frustrations, the threatened strike by the England squad in support of Rio Ferdinand, and, finally, England's quest for glory in the European Championships Finals. Michael Owen's Off The Record will bring a refreshing insight into the highs and lows of a career in the highest echelons of football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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