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Nov 10, 2013 05:10AM
Lol yes so far it's very good
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Although it doesn't number the chapters wich is annoying-I have no idea how much ther are, about 25-28 maybe
I love the idea of the ghosts of the Princes in the Tower being in it - let me know if they dish the dirt on who actually bumped them off!
I read a good book by Alison Weir about the Princes in the tower but I'm ashamed to say I can't remember what her conclusions were!
I hope it wasn't Richard, but I think it probably was.
Finished Mr Fortune's Maggott (liked) and We Need New Names (loved) ,1/2 way through the War of the Worlds and have just started A Journey Around My Room - written by Xavier De Maistre , a young officer, while under house arrest in 1790 for taking part in a duel. it's highly enjoyable so far and Mr De Maistre is really quite loveable - I've just left him cleaning his shoe and dropping a repentant tear on it after being rude to his servant.
By you have got through a few lately!
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Just finished The Collector Collector which is just as weird as you'd imagine a book narrated by a pot would be - and also very funny.
Just started True Grit which begins "People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen everyday. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Worth, Arkansas and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus 2 Californian gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band"
Good eh?
I'm also dipping into The Little World of Don Camillo as recommended by Hilary. Don Camillo is a village priest who with sometimes help and sometimes hindrance from the communist Mayor Peppone and the advice and admonishments of The voice of Jesus does his best for the well being of the local community. Here's a little flavour: Don Camillo is getting the feeling that he's being stalked and asks Jesus for advice "Nothing Can damage a clear conscience, Don Camillo". "I know that Jesus" sighed Don Camillo, " the trouble is that people who do this sort of thing don't shoot you in the conscience but in the back"The Little World of Don Camillo
Just started True Grit which begins "People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen everyday. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Worth, Arkansas and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus 2 Californian gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band"
Good eh?
I'm also dipping into The Little World of Don Camillo as recommended by Hilary. Don Camillo is a village priest who with sometimes help and sometimes hindrance from the communist Mayor Peppone and the advice and admonishments of The voice of Jesus does his best for the well being of the local community. Here's a little flavour: Don Camillo is getting the feeling that he's being stalked and asks Jesus for advice "Nothing Can damage a clear conscience, Don Camillo". "I know that Jesus" sighed Don Camillo, " the trouble is that people who do this sort of thing don't shoot you in the conscience but in the back"The Little World of Don Camillo
I do hope you like Don Camillo, Lee. I've always loved it.
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I'm reading The Woman in White (very slowly - puppy is still pretty attention grabbing). I'm enjoying it so far.
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Loved the Woman in White, hope you enjoy ivy too. Just got back from my second soaking walking my pooch. The joys of being a dog owner!!!!
Ooh I haven't read The Woman in White for ages - I must get a Wilkie Collins Bio sometime - I gather he led a very interesting life..
Lee wrote: "Ooh I haven't read The Woman in White for ages - I must get a Wilkie Collins Bio sometime - I gather he led a very interesting life.."I've just googled him and found that he was a friend of Charles Dickens.
Still reading The Good Earth as I am so tied up with other things but hoping to finish it tonight and move on to Sense and Sensibility then.
Finished The Good Earth and moving on to Sense and Sensibility. I enjoyed the book but it left me feeling a bit unsure of its purpose. It's a simple story of a poor Chinese peasant and how through a an opportunity grabbed by his wife he becomes rich enough to buy enough land to become a rich man. It's very simply written and a familiar story of suffering and perseverance but I expected it to end with "and the moral of this story is..." but it didn't. It left me feeling a bit sad.It's interesting for me as I'm reading it at the same time as Mao's Great Famine which takes place about 30 years later but has the people suffering in the same way except the disasters that befall them are man made not natural.
I looked at The Good Earth but got put off as a number of people said it depressed them!
Finished True Grit - I really enjoyed it - Mattie is a unique narrator.
Onwards with Sense and Sensibility and I'm starting " Ariel or a Life of Shelley" - penguin number one. Oh and this weekend is devoted to Mason and Dixon (well a bit of it at least)
Finished True Grit - I really enjoyed it - Mattie is a unique narrator.
Onwards with Sense and Sensibility and I'm starting " Ariel or a Life of Shelley" - penguin number one. Oh and this weekend is devoted to Mason and Dixon (well a bit of it at least)
Oh dear - Ariel - A Romance of Shelley is awful. It's written in a annoyingly arch, and affected way - and Shelley is portrayed as a spoilt, selfish, incredibly irritating idiot.
The blurb on the back of the book says it stopped Shelley being taken seriously by critics for 50 years - they should have done what I did and abandoned the book after 3 chapters.
I was reading it (or rather not reading it) as part of my penguin a month challenge and it's a bit upsetting as this this was the 1st one (for me and for penguin).
Never mind on to The Lepers Companion by Julia Blackburn.
The blurb on the back of the book says it stopped Shelley being taken seriously by critics for 50 years - they should have done what I did and abandoned the book after 3 chapters.
I was reading it (or rather not reading it) as part of my penguin a month challenge and it's a bit upsetting as this this was the 1st one (for me and for penguin).
Never mind on to The Lepers Companion by Julia Blackburn.
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I started reading The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng on my kindle earlier and it is beautifully written. Lovely so far...
I've just today finished The Woman in White. I liked the first half very much - I thought the author used different narrative voices effectively and the mystery was intriguing. However I felt it went downhill (view spoiler). There was a lot of repetition in the later part of the story too - the plot points re-hashed in case you'd forgotten the logic of the outcome!On the whole I think I preferred The Moonstone
Just finished The Lepers Companions by Julia Blackburn about a woman who after the loss of a loved one some how retreats to a small village in the 15th century - it's a beautiful, magical story and I loved it.
Just about to start Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman.
Just about to start Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman.
I me almost finished Restoration and hoping to continue straight on to Merival. I'll give my opinion of both of them together!
Now started Merival and find that for some reason the author has started to randomly use capital letters in the style of Mason and Dixon!!!!! I think Ellie commented on this is a previous comment on the Mason and Dixon thread. However, she didn't write in this style in Restoration and Merival is simply a continuation of the same story, written in the first person as was Restoration, so why the change? I find it even more annoying as there is not even the excuse of this being the style of writing at the time as she didn't use it previously! Grrrr! Or am I being a bit too picky?
I didn't know Restoration hadn't used the Capital Letter thing. I initially found it annoying, but I did get used to it after a while in Merivel, I think I just stopped noticing it. Thankfully the rest of the writing is fair more logical and understandable than M&D. And a lot less dull.
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There was a 16-year gap between the publication of Restoration and of Merivel. Just enough time to read M&D!
Haha like the idea it took her sixteen years to read and agree it probably sent her mad.
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I fancy that one and The Library at Night . I am comfort reading The Dark is Rising at the moment " The Walker is Abroad, and this night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining, for the Dark, The Dark is Rising"
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Me too!! The reviews seemed to say that you could start with this one and not the first in the series. Would you agree or should I go back and buy the first one too?
Definitely start with this one - it's hardly connected with the first one at all, and it's much better :0)
Finished The Dark is Rising and loved it just as much as usual. On to The Hogfather now.
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Nearly finished Period Piece by Gwen Raverat - this book of childhood memoirs by one of Charles Darwin's Granddaughters is the literary equivalent of a hug. It's full of lovely anecdotes about her eccentric upbringing and relatives. a totally loveable book.
To hope and back by Kathy Kacer
I finished my first Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Am now on The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane.
Both awesome reads! :)
I've just skim-read a very unsatisfactory Regency romance - I feel like I've eaten far too many meringues. I'll stick to Georgette Heyer from now on.
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@ Angela - the Night Guest sounds amazing - it's not been released here yet but I shall be getting it when it is.
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