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Wow..I loved this! I laughed out loud and my heart was in my mouth on more than one occasion. Absolutely brilliant.

I Love this - I hope you all will too:)

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively and volatile expatriates, including F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound.

Ernest and Hadley are thrust into a life of artistic ambition, hard liquor and spur-of-the-moment dashes to Pamplona, the Riviera and the Swiss Alps. But Jazz Age Paris does not lend itself to family life and fidelity. As Hadley struggles with jealousy and self-doubt, Ernest’s ferocious literary endeavours begin to bear fruit, and the couple faces the ultimate crisis of their marriage - a deception that will lead to the unravelling of everything they made for themselves in Paris, their ‘great good place’.

hey everyone :) Hope you are all ok and busy reading! I have added 'The Rosie Project' for us to read May/June/July. I hope you all enjoy :)
I have also added 'The Paris Wife' which is a book I have already read but loved so much so I hope you all will too. Happy Spring!! (Unless your in Australia - then Happy August!)

Meet Don Tillman.


Don is getting married.


He just doesn't know who to yet.


But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman.


One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie.


Absolutely, completely, definitely not.





Telling the story of Rosie and Don, Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is an international phenomenon, sold in over thirty countries - and counting.





Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is, Don has rather high standards and doesn't really do flexible so, despite lots of takers - he looks like Gregory Peck - he's not having much success in identifying The One.


When Rosie Jarman comes to his office, Don assumes it's to apply for the Wife Project - and duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes, drinks, doesn't eat meat, and is incapable of punctuality. However, Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman and is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father.


Sometimes, though, you don't find love: love finds you...

Hello everyone...I hope like me you are enjoying some unexpected early Spring sunshine :)
I just finished The One Plus One and foe me Jojo Moyes can do no wrong! I have been riding a rollercoaster of emotions finishing it this morning.

I found this somewhere and I like this explanation - (view spoiler)[“The author wants us to think the Odalie/Ginerva/Rose are all the same person, but that’s a red herring. I believe Odalie and Ginerva are the same person and framed Rose. Early in the book you can see that Odalie is almost “auditioning” the other typists to see which one is easier to manipulate. Rose is her pick and the fact that Rose also is obsessive and possessive of her friends is a bonus for Odalie. I believe Odalie always planned to make Rose the fall guy for whenever she got into some sort of jam. Initially I think it was to protect her speakeasies. Then Teddy enters the scene and poses a more formidable threat. So in one stroke, Odalie kills Teddy and Gib (whom she probably planned to dispose of at some point) and frames Rose.”

http://booksaremyfavouriteandbest.wor... (hide spoiler)]

Terry wrote: "I found the author's descriptions very interesting:
"It was a husky voice, with the kind of low rattling timbre that made you watch the childish curl of her lips very closely to ensure you'd caught..."

the whole writing style of this book was beautiful. It made me want to bob my hair, mix up a martini and learn to Charleston immediately.
This book has made me think so much!! I think I need to read it all over again :)

Hi Terry (view spoiler)[ I was a bit confused with the end. I think it is sort of up to the reader to make up their own mind. Personally I couldn't see Odalie and Rose being the same person...I also read something saying the Lieutenant was also not real and one of Rose's personalities??
I think that Odalie was a con artist but then that doesn't explain the part where Rose describes pushing Teddy over the balcony!
So frustrating but also genius! (hide spoiler)]

I've just finished this sparkling book and nothing I say could do it justice.
Highly recommend to everyone - just so we can discuss the ending!!

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition. In a police precinct on the lower East Side young typist Rose Baker coolly records the confessions of killers and gangsters. But when a new typist arrives - the captivating Odalie - Rose finds a true partner in crime. Flitting between sparkling speakeasies by night and their work at the precinct by day, the girls are drawn further into a dark, glamorous world. Soon Rose's fascination with Odalie and her glittering life turns to obsession. But does she know the real Odalie, and what will happen if she dares to find out?

Hi everyone. I'm just getting started on City of Bones because my Daughter loves these and I like to keep up with the things she's into so I can stay young lol. I also have Uglies series to get stuck into for the same reason.
Does anyone else read a lot of YA? I might be 41 but I love YA books!

Finished ....brilliant! Harper is soooo creepy and scary!
Once i got my head around the story i was hooked and couldn't put this down.
If i had one criticism it would be the love interest part of the story as it felt unnecessary but other than that i thought it was so original.
The time travel is never explained but i think this adds to the mystery.
A compelling read..made me sleep with the lights on though, late night reading alone not recommended!

Terry wrote: "Kate, can we please, please read "The Talented Mr. Ripley" sometime in the next few months?? That is my all time favorite movie and I just found out it was a book, written as a trilogy! I've watc..."

I LOVE the film Mr Ripley .... It is just genius :)
Would be a good one to read....going on the list :)

did you know there is a film of the second book "Ripleys Game"? With John Malcovich...i havn't seen it though.

Terry wrote: "Kate wrote: "and this is my youngest enjoying a bit of Summer Camping :)

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Very cute kids!!"

Thank you Terry :)

and this is my youngest enjoying a bit of Summer Camping :)

Hi everyone
I am in holiday booking mode at the moment...anyone else?

We are going to Paris for a week this year - with a day trip to Euro Disney for the kids thrown in.

Not our usual beach holiday so will be a change!


This is a photo of 2 of my kids on Coniston Waters in the Lake District - we had very rainy week there!!


happy holiday hunting !!

It is definitely one of those "what would i do?" books and like you Terry i loved it.
I think i would open it straight away...i can't wait for anything...what i would do after i'd read it though?? Freak out
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Hi Victoria....i'd love to know what someone else think as i found the start so hard going....now about half way through and hooked!

I have had a difficult start with this...i feared our relationship was doomed to fail at the starting blocks.....but 100 pages in and i get it!
It's VERY Gillian Flynn...but nastier