Donna's comments (member since Mar 20, 2009)

Donna's comments from the You'll love this one...!! A book club & more group.

I'll throw a cat amongst the pigeons here and say Anne Rice's Lestat. I'd let him bite me!

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Listening to Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay."

Oh, I just started reading that last night. Only just finished Chapter 1 though! Never seen the TV series.

So does that mean you consider a hardback to be more precious than a paperback?

That sounds a bit like bookmooch.com

In 1605, someone called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Paliament with a load of gunpowder. It was known as the Gunpowder Plot and we now celebrate on November 5th every year by having fireworks and a bonfire where an effigy of Fawkes is burnt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_P...

Sam wrote: "How about books with fire/fireworks in the title since it's Bonfire Night next month :-)"

oooh, good one!

British crime/thriller

I read this last month, so it is still quite fresh for me.
1. I really do not like Jane Austen, it is far too flowery. I thought this book was nothing like that, I really enjoyed this one.
2. It felt like it was around about early 1900 to me, wasn't there a car in it?
3. Not cliched maybe, but a typical ghost story of the era. I thought the author did a very good job of making it feel like it was written a lot earlier than it actually was.
4. I didn't really notice the birds either, it didn't add to the story for me.
5. I'm not sure what you mean by gender issues either. It did seem male dominated with the females being weak or vengeful.
6. I wasn't going to say it scared me but at one point (the bit with the upstairs door) it was all getting a bit creepy and a text message came on my phone which was right next to me at the time. Did I jump? I nearly took a chunk of plaster off the ceiling!!

A great choice for this month's read. A quick read but very enjoyable. I gave it 4 stars.

I know! LOL!! Now I'll have to choose which one to vote for!!!

Just picked up a copy of Woman in Black in Oxfam for £1.49, hurray. (Just in case, you know what I mean!!)

If cookery books are allowed here I'd highly recommend The Silver Spoon. Its the definitive Italian cookery book.

I'll nominate The Keeper by Sarah Langan.

Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . "something." And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror. Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.

Fiction but with a real life person as a character

I have it on my TBR pile. I may read it next after I finish The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver.

Theweebarrell wrote: "just reading 'After The Fire' by Karen Campbell the second book of her's . It is based in Glasgow and enjoying it as much as the first "

I'm 100 pages into Sharp Objectsand its alright so far.

Jo wrote: "I am now loving this book - it has grown on me and is so funny with different descriptions of the 'unmentionables'! I agree with Kipahni the wordiness is in keeping with the original Jane Austen no..."

I'm so glad that someone is enjoying it, I don't feel so bad now!

Whoops!
Last night I got A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Girl Who Played with Fire

Then this morning I have ordered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because I didn't realise the other one was the sequel when I got it , Socks from the Toe Up Essential Techniques and Patterns from Wendy Knits and Sharp Objects A Novel

I've just remembered one of my favourite authors Matthew Reillyis Australian so I'll suggest one of his. I'll go for Temple

"Deep in the jungles of Peru the contest of the century is underway. It's a race to locate a legendary Incan idol - one carved out of a strange kind of stone. But a stone which in the present century could be used for a terrifying new purpose. Now rival groups are assembling their teams to hunt the idol down, at any cost. The only clue to the idol's final resting place is to be found in a 400-year-old manuscript. Which introduces Professor William Race, a mild-mannered but brilliant young linguist who is unwillingly recruited to interpret the document that could lead to the idol itself. So begins the mission that will lead Race and his companions to a mysterious temple hidden in the foothills of the Andes. There they find a carefully contrived sanctuary seething with menace and unexpected dangers. But it is not until the silence of the temple is breached that Race and his team discover they have broken a golden rule ...Some doors are meant to remain unopened." amazon description.

It is a fast paced adventure story, a bit far fetched but good fun

Think I'll keep my mouth shut this month!!

Heather wrote: "Oh help me for I have sinned again!! My friend wanted me to go to Book-Off with her on Friday since we both had the day off....ACK!! I've added 12 new ones this weekend alone! And here they are:

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Oh dear Heather! Never mind eh?
I only acquired one book this weekend, Eclipse, from greenmetropolis, and I sold 2 books on there so basically it doesn't count!