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Bernieboy Feb 6th 2012 11:36 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 9888448)
Finished The Vampire Lestat, now onto Queen of the Damned! :thumbup: yippee.

Typical bloodsucking scot:lol:

SillyOldBag Feb 7th 2012 9:47 am

Re: Good book
 
I'm reading Jasper Fforde's "First Among Sequels" which is living up to expectations and I'm really enjoying it! Although having said that every time I see the book, I get a bit peeved. When I'm buying a series of books I enjoy, I am a bit of a saddo and like to get them in the same size and cover editions, you know how they keep changing covers and that bugs me. Anyway, there was some problem I remember reading somewhere with the paperback edition for First Among Sequels which makes it something of a rarity unless you pay a premium, so I've been waiting for ages to buy it, I eventually did and it came in the wrong cover! I was going to send it back and grumble but I suppose life is too short ... so I've given in and I'm reading it but I'm going hunting for the right one when I eventually get back to UK - probably at the rate of my savings in about 20 years :rofl:

Pollyana Feb 15th 2012 12:32 am

Re: Good book
 
Any of you bookworms got anything to add for Sue's latest project?

See the announcement at the top of the forums at present,

She wants to start a list of Britishexpats recommended reading books.

So if you've read any good books about moving, living and working abroad, and think other people may find the book useful please send Sue a Private Message with the title of the book you are recommending and why.


:)

Scubaemma Mar 4th 2012 10:22 pm

Re: Good book
 
Just finished 'Before I Go To Sleep' by SJ Watson. It's about a woman who has amnesia and has to be told who she is etc every morning when she wakes up by her husband.

I really enjoyed it (although enjoy seems the wrong word!). It was her debut novel as well. Very good.

I hate finishing a good book! It's like losing a friend!

scottishcelts Mar 4th 2012 10:50 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by Scubaemma (Post 9936385)
Just finished 'Before I Go To Sleep' by SJ Watson. It's about a woman who has amnesia and has to be told who she is etc every morning when she wakes up by her husband.

I really enjoyed it (although enjoy seems the wrong word!). It was her debut novel as well. Very good.

I hate finishing a good book! It's like losing a friend!

What's it about again? :lol:

scottishcelts Mar 4th 2012 10:51 pm

Re: Good book
 
Now onto the next book in the Vampire Chronicles - Body Thief.

I'm hooked. :thumbsup:

Bernieboy Mar 4th 2012 10:52 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by Scubaemma (Post 9936385)
Just finished 'Before I Go To Sleep' by SJ Watson. It's about a woman who has amnesia and has to be told who she is etc every morning when she wakes up by her husband.

I really enjoyed it (although enjoy seems the wrong word!). It was her debut novel as well. Very good.

I hate finishing a good book! It's like losing a friend!

Oh imagine the fun you could have with yer missus every morning(dirty BE minds already whirring).

GilraenH Mar 5th 2012 6:03 am

Re: Good book
 
Tolkien, Lord of the Rings/Hobbit. (hence the moniker), any fantasy books; Wheel of Time series/HP/Twilight etc.

Desert Island books though are the Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett, I read them every 10 years since I was 16 years old. I think I have been in love with Francis Crawford most of my life..............:wub:

SillyOldBag Mar 5th 2012 8:26 am

Re: Good book
 
I've just read Kathy Reichs' "206 Bones" and then "Mortal Remains/Spider Bones" back to back. At a bit of a literary impasse now and don't know what to read. I have loads I could read but I can't decide what .... decision is pending while I ponder.

SillyOldBag Mar 10th 2012 2:53 pm

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I've just finished "Timeless" by Gail Carriger which is the last of the Parasol Protectorate series. I really enjoyed the series, lightweight entertainment but good fun. I'm not generally into vampire/werewolfy type books but these were so out of the ordinary that they worked for me.

Just moving on to Robin Hobb's Ship of Magic which should shut me up for a while :) Nothing beats escaping into a good book ... actually that's bullshit, plenty would be better but for now it suffices :rofl:

eddie007 Mar 10th 2012 10:52 pm

Re: Good book
 
Still trying to read The Bolyn Inheritance.. Or legacy... Three weeks in and I cant concentrate long enough to read more than a page... Its a bloody good book that normally I'd have finished in a day or two...

Having to stick to my quilting porn... Colourful pictures of beautiful quilts in magazines... Just uncovered another boxful in the garage that I'd marked for "out" because at the time I wasnt machine quilting... So revisiting with a new perspective...

Bernieboy Mar 10th 2012 11:07 pm

Re: Good book
 
I've just finished reading the Koran,you christians are in deep shit now:frown:

scottishcelts Mar 10th 2012 11:08 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by Bernieboy (Post 9947033)
I've just finished reading the Koran,you christians are in deep shit now:frown:

:sneaky: you were born a christian, so same applies to you. :p

Bernieboy Mar 10th 2012 11:11 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 9947034)
:sneaky: you were born a christian, so same applies to you. :p

Don't mess with me infidel,and put yer veil back on:sneaky:

PS,nobody is born christian :P

scottishcelts Mar 10th 2012 11:13 pm

Re: Good book
 

Originally Posted by Bernieboy (Post 9947040)
Don't mess with me infidel,and put yer veil back on:sneaky:

PS,nobody is born christian :P

According tae yer family - aye ye wur! :sneaky:


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