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Re: Good book
I love Stephen King.. Cell and Lisey's Story are fan-bloddy-tastic... tho my all time favourite of his is The Stand.. everyone should read it! Also I like Desperation and Needful Things.. I prob will stop there as I can wax lyrical about him all night!
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
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Re: Good book
I love Stephen King.. Cell and Lisey's Story are fan-bloddy-tastic... tho my all time favourite of his is The Stand.. everyone should read it! Also I like Desperation and Needful Things.. I prob will stop there as I can wax lyrical about him all night!
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
I have just read a fantastic book.
I was told to read Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper.
Wow what a book, brilliant, It is about Anna who has a sister called Kate who needs her Kidney, but Anna does not want to give it,,,,,, you have to read it now to read the brilliant ending.
Can anyone recommend another good one by Jodi.
Mrs Isle
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I love Stephen King.. Cell and Lisey's Story are fan-bloddy-tastic... tho my all time favourite of his is The Stand.. everyone should read it! Also I like Desperation and Needful Things.. I prob will stop there as I can wax lyrical about him all night!
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
I have recently read The Horse Whisperer.. now that is an excellent book (had seen the film, but the books is much better)...
Other recent reads have been chick-books.. read Lucy Sullivan got Married and Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keynes... very good!
Other recent reads were all the Jane Austin books (well, I had read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion and Mansfield Park before) but read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northhanger Abbey over here... I thoroughly recommend them... the stories have lasted so well for a reason, they are bloody good!
Am currently reading Jane Eyre (never read it, it was on my to do list for years) and am then am going to read Atonement.... will let you know what I think!
Em x
Ever read any CLive Barker???
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Re: Good book
Hi
I have just read a fantastic book.
I was told to read Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper.
Wow what a book, brilliant, It is about Anna who has a sister called Kate who needs her Kidney, but Anna does not want to give it,,,,,, you have to read it now to read the brilliant ending.
Can anyone recommend another good one by Jodi.
Mrs Isle
I have just read a fantastic book.
I was told to read Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper.
Wow what a book, brilliant, It is about Anna who has a sister called Kate who needs her Kidney, but Anna does not want to give it,,,,,, you have to read it now to read the brilliant ending.
Can anyone recommend another good one by Jodi.
Mrs Isle
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Re: Good book
I am actually reading New Moon at the mo and I don't care if it is a teenage book, Twilight was really good. Must be on a run at the minute as I recently read The last confession of Vlad, which was superb.
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Moonface used to really irritate me. I felt like smacking him one. Must have been the testerone in a small boy.
Always remember a story where one of the boys finds a plane in one of the worlds at the top of the tree. He flew it by pressing buttons marked 'Up', 'Down' et cetera.
As an 8? year old, was I miffed - every boy knew that aeroplanes had a rudder and elevators etc linked, usually mechanically, by a gear stick and pedals/bar...
Ha ha I like the sound of the bed with wings!
I recently started reading a series of children's books called The Lone Pine, set in Shropshire. Another good Shropshire set is the Cadfael series, about a sailor who retires to a monastery as gardener, and becomes a detective.
I grew up on William, Biggles, and the Swallows and Amazons series.
I recently started reading a series of children's books called The Lone Pine, set in Shropshire. Another good Shropshire set is the Cadfael series, about a sailor who retires to a monastery as gardener, and becomes a detective.
I grew up on William, Biggles, and the Swallows and Amazons series.
The series also came in handy ages ago, crossing the Atlantic, and more recently, down at Philip Island last year when myself and a mate of mine sailed his dinghy and almost capsized off the beach
"If not druffers, won't drown. If duffers, better off drowned."
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No.. havent read any Clive Barker.. am going to google it now.. have you any recommendations? My parents are always asking for birthday present ideas etc, so that would be good! Collecting books is a bit of a habit of mine! LOL!
Em x
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Don't you find that the way with most of Stephen King books? The end never seems to live up to the rest.. I thought the end of Needful things was pretty naff.. even The Stand was a bit of a letdown compared to the rest of the book.. I remember my first Stephen King (I am getting a bit nostalgic! LOL!) which was Christine.. I re-read it loads of times but still remember hating the end! The only one I really thought was excellent was Carrie.. the creepiness of that book has always stayed with me!
No.. havent read any Clive Barker.. am going to google it now.. have you any recommendations? My parents are always asking for birthday present ideas etc, so that would be good! Collecting books is a bit of a habit of mine! LOL!
Em x
No.. havent read any Clive Barker.. am going to google it now.. have you any recommendations? My parents are always asking for birthday present ideas etc, so that would be good! Collecting books is a bit of a habit of mine! LOL!
Em x
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Just thought I would mention that another book that I have discovered and bought about 3 times so far (!) is "Wombat Stew" by Marci K Vaughan and Pamela Lofts! Keep buying it and sending it to my neices and nephews! Have just bought the Limited Edition one (hardback this time, smaller size) to send to my best friends son for his 2nd birthday..
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What about those LIX though
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I'm not one for bleating about the accuracies of adaptions - I'm happy to judge both on their merits.
Speaking of which, would like to read 'The Reader'. Seen the movie, enjoyed it.