Kate’s Comments (group member since Apr 04, 2017)

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definately strange lol It wasn't at all what i was expecting when i picked it up!

How funny we all like cats - i think there is a definate connection between book lovers and cat lovers! My 2 are Mother and Daughter but they don't get on so well :(

Victoria wrote: "Hello! I'm Victoria from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I like that this group is still rather small and cozy. I just started reading Sharp Objects today, since joining the group. My c..."

Victoria wrote: "That's so sweet of you, Terry! Thanks for thinking about me."

hi Victoria :) we are a bit cozy...but slowly building! I'm just starting The Husbands Secret , really enjoying it.
I'm a bit of a crazy cat woman so i completely agree with reading with a cat warming your feet lol

Can't wait to read this! Will see if i can get hold of it on Saturday !

Terry wrote: "



This is the most beautiful scene - I didn't know England had mountains like that!
Kate, have you ever been there?
It is the Great Langdon Valley, Lake District National Park in Cumbria, Eng..."

yes ..i've been to The Lake District afew times :) When i was 16 i got sent to a hotel in Grasmere for a work placement that was suppose to last 2 weeks but got snowed in and had to stay for 6!! Also me and my Hubby honeymooned in Kendal. It really is a beautiful part of the world. A favourite place of ours is Beatrix Potters House and also Lake Windermere..gorgeous!

Terry :) - this bit of your quote

"If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book."

made me chuckle ... i read every lunch hour in my works staff room and if anyone comes in and starts talking to me i am usually just blatently rude to them to shut them up lol ..i've developed a reputation now that is, if i've got a book in my hands you best ..LEAVE ME ALONE!!

An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.


King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.


On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death.


Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.'


Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival . . .

Looking forward to starting this one. I am interested in secrets that couples keep from one another for whatever reasons...and the consequences if/when these secrets are revealed.




At the heart of the top ten bestselling The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty is a letter that's not meant to be read . . .


Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Written in her husband's hand, it says: to be opened only in the event of my death.


Curious, she opens it - and time stops.


John-Paul's letter confesses to a terrible mistake which, if revealed, would wreck their family as well as the lives of others.

Hi Terry - i know you've read but i'm going to add that for December too ..looks like a great read !

Hi Terry - i know you've read but i'm going to add that for December too ..looks like a great read !

I would also like to suggest for December

Anymore suggestions? please add :)

Craig wrote: "Hi I have just started The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen.. This will be the third book of his that I have read this year! (The last town on earth and The many deaths of the firefly brothers, being ..."

HI Craig - i havn't read any of these but if you've read three in a year you must be a fan. :)

Hi to everyone new!!! I've been away for a couple of weeks ...got my little one back from camp but lost my oldest to a school trip to Iceland for a weel - VERY jealous of that!!
I seem to be going through a reading dry spell - everything i pick up leaves me cold and i can't get into anything! I am off to get on Saturday so hopefully will get a least one of our reads read before the end of November!
Anyone else feel Christmas in the air yet?? It's creeping up on us!!

Hi Terry - i will add all these to our to read list. I like the look of "These Violent Delights"

I had to wave my little 7 year old girl off to school camp this morning - 2 nights :( Missing her already ...feel like i lost an arm!!

Paige wrote: "I am now reading "The Circle" by Dave Eggers it is really good! It is fiction about a large company that developed software programs to track everything you do, buy and say. It promotes cameras loc..."

There are cameras pretty much everywhere you go in Britain i think! and we all have these supermarket loyalty cards which basically track what we buy, how much we spend, how often we shop! It's all a bit 1984 Big Brother for me. My Husband has a dream of living in the woods in a little cabin and living off the land...sometimes i agree with him but i also love my home comforts too much...and as England isn't exactly a very big country i don't know where he thinks he's going to set up camp lol

Terry wrote: "It is pretty mild for October in New York, but I am absolutely freezing right now!! We moved our offices at work to a different part of the same building, but the building is old and it doesn't he..."

My office is alot like that Terry - either freezing cold or boiling hot!! I don't know how they expect us to get any work done ..that's my excuse anyway lol
Hot chocolate sounds like a great idea! :)

The temperatures over here in England have suddenly dropped and I'm feeling the chill! Brrrrrrr! Not looking forward to a long cold winter! What's it like where you all are? You know us Brits are obsessed with the weather!

Hi Terry..me too :)

Going back to the zombie theme earlier - i wastched 'Warm Bodies' and it was so good - although my teenage son was unconvinced and rolled his eyes at the thought of zombies being cured by love lol
I think i will read it now :)