Trisha's 2017 challenge

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Rosemarie wrote: "Trisha, I agree that the book was both funny and sad. Have you read Room With a View? I thought it was funny, and not sad."

I read it a while ago, but didn't enjoy it as much - possibly because it was my first Forster book. Some time I must read it again.

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Finished I See You - Clare Mackintosh, for Bookopoly contemporary. A very clever book, particularly scary for those of us who travel alone on the London Underground!

Finished Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome.

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Finished A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. Bird. Definitely not for me, I was really bored by the endless tedious descriptions of everyday life. A series of letters? I felt sorry for the recipient.

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Finished Last Week of May: The Number One Bestseller - Roisin Meaney.

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Finished The Dress Thief - Natalie Meg Evans.

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Finished The Blue - Lucy Clarke.

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Finished The Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy. I loved it!

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Finished Love, Lies and Lemon Cake - Sue Watson. Ok, but more "chick lit" than expected from the preview sample.

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Finished Late Summer in the Vineyard - Jo Thomas for Travel (Europe).

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Finished The Mistake I Made - Paula Daly.

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Finished The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim. I thought this was her best book of those I've read so far.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

The movie of The Enchanted April is lovely too.

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Finished Never Look Back - Clare Donoghue & The Last Telegram - Liz Trenow.

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Finished The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd for Rainbow (yellow).

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Finished The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe.

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Finished David Copperfield (Centaur Classics) The 100 greatest novels of all time - #64 - Charles Dickens, my 100th book this year.
I have updated my challenge to aim for 150 books.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

You are making fantastic progress, Trisha.

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Finished The Accident - C.L. Taylor.

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Finished Kicking the Bucket List - Cathy Hopkins for Bookopoly, Theme: love. A fun read - a bit "chick lit" perhaps, but also a clever & unusual story.

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Finished The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe, & In the Year 2889 - Jules Verne for Bookopoly Travel Ahead.

Both were only short, thankfully, as I didn't enjoy either of them though the poem had a lovely rhythm & some of the ideas for 2889 were very creative.

Also read The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (different edition), which I enjoyed more.

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Finished Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy. Very disappointing, not like his other books.

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Finished The Honeymoon - Tina Seskis for Summer at the Shore & for Wilderness, nature & heat.

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Finished One Step Too Far - Tina Seskis.

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Finished The Confectioner's Tale - Laura Madeleine for July Vive la France.

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Finished Her Last Breath - Tracy Buchanan. Quite good, but I preferred her previous books.

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Finished Between the Crosses - Matthew Frank.

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Finished The Secret by the Lake - Louise Douglas which completes Fantasy Faire level 2, Fly with dragons. I loved this book, which a friend lent to me.

Finished The Schoolmistress, and other stories - Anton Chekhov which includes The Bet.

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Finished Disclaimer - Renée Knight.

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Finished Under an Amber Sky - Rose Alexander.

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Finished Discover Someone New: Free Sampler - Cecelia Ahern. An introduction to 10 authors that I hadn't read before. Boring, there was only one I would consider reading again.

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Finished Heavenfield - L.J. Ross.

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Finished No Place to Die - Clare Donoghue.

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Finished The Potter's House - Rosie Thomas.

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Finished Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott. Not to my taste.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Trisha, I hope you like your next book better.

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Thanks, Rosemarie - I was surprised I didn't enjoy Eight Cousins more.

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Finished The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths. Loved it - & it ended in a way that I am longing to read the next in the series!

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Finished The Separation - Dinah Jefferies, for Travel the world (Asia).

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Finished Miss Garnet's Angel - Salley Vickers. An unusual but fascinating book.

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Finished Bay of Secrets - Rosanna Ley.

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Finished Dead Woman Walking - Sharon Bolton.
Finished The Cradle Will Fall - Clare Donoghue, a short story that introduces characters in a series of books.

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Finished I Know My Name - C.J. Cooke. For most of this book I thought it was a 5* read, but an unexpected twist near the end ruined it for me.

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Finished Trust No One - Clare Donoghue

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Finished Sneaky Snow White - Anita Valle for Rainbow, grey.

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Finished The Rose Garden - Susanna Kearsley for Fantasy Faire.

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Finished The Millionaire's Wife - Shalini Boland.

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Finished The Friend - Dorothy Koomson

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Finished Persuasion - Jane Austen

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Sonia wrote: "Persuasion is my favourite book in the world!! Did you like it?"

Oh Sonia - no, sorry, I really didn't enjoy it at all.

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Sonia wrote: "Oh never mind. That's what makes this group interesting though. What didn't you like? Was there anything you did like?"

I struggle with Jane Austen's books, but quite like the films of them as good actors bring them to life. I think many of the women seem irritating & spineless by modern standards, though perhaps they were forced to behave that way then. But they didn't do much except gossip & look for husbands - how would they have coped with full time jobs, doing their own housework, etc?