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Post by lapourtaider on Sept 2, 2021 18:50:41 GMT 1
I am now very tired of the author's incessant use of similes. I'm so glad I reread this before posting. I thought you said smilies, and I thought, good god, in a book!
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Post by bubbles1 on Sept 16, 2021 21:23:48 GMT 1
Only one I have read so far - but will deffo read others by John Boyle
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Post by bubbles1 on Sept 16, 2021 21:29:43 GMT 1
The Masters Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch - a retelling of the story of Faustus. Loving it so far
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Post by FFS on Sept 22, 2021 16:34:59 GMT 1
I've started readng a Stella Rimington (The Moscow Sleepers), part of a series, but I hope it's a stand-alone type of novel.
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Post by Jo in France on Sept 23, 2021 17:37:19 GMT 1
Jean-Loup Chiflet - Sky my husband! Ciel mon mari! Guide de l'anglais courant/Guide of the running english - it's a bit funny and a bit bizarre! I found it in an Oxfam book shop about 20 years ago, it cost £1.99 and I've just dug it out to read! I read that about 15 years ago too. I still use bits of it! Love the way the translations are done!
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Post by Nifty on Sept 26, 2021 10:18:04 GMT 1
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Post by ForumUser2 on Oct 10, 2021 11:12:42 GMT 1
My 9-year-old granddaughter reads me a chapter of the Narnia Chronicles each time she visits. We're half way through Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Spectacular storytelling for readers of any age.
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Post by Seaboots on Oct 10, 2021 11:27:01 GMT 1
Currently reading the autobiography of Clem Cattini, a well known session drummer who started in the 50s on the road with Gene Vincent et al. He spent a couple of years with Johnny and the Hurricanes and then The Tornadoes (Telstar). He then did session work including forty no.1 s He was on the shortlist for the Led Zepp job but Jimmy Page chose Bonham. An interesting trek through the music scenes of the 50s onwards.
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Post by traveller on Nov 6, 2021 19:50:02 GMT 1
I’m powering through The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard, I’m not usually a fan of the family saga, and although these are a load of rich bods, the books do give an insight into what it was like to live through WWII, it’s hard for us now to imagine what rationing was really like, and the lack of new clothes, shortages of all kinds, obviously my parents, well my mum really spoke about it, but I think these books bring it to life. I’m waiting for book four to arrive in the post, I’ve read 1-3 in a week. Apparently some of it was on TV years ago.
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Post by houpla on Nov 6, 2021 20:19:23 GMT 1
it’s hard for us now to imagine what rationing was really like, and the lack of new clothes, shortages of all kinds, Haha....looks as though there'll be a whole new generation that's about to find out I started on Marguerite Duras's La Douleur (out of duty, really..local authoress and all that..) but no. Autumn's just not the time to read anything depressing, so back to Daniel Pennac...
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Post by FFS on Nov 7, 2021 10:42:54 GMT 1
Recently finished John Mortimer's Dunster, now into a Jonathan Kellerman.
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Post by Nifty on Nov 7, 2021 11:04:42 GMT 1
I read Clinging to the Wreckage years ago. I wish that I had it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2021 13:32:25 GMT 1
The forum you never know whats going to happen.
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Post by lapourtaider on Nov 7, 2021 13:37:11 GMT 1
Still reading The Second World War by Winston Churchill. Nearly at the end of vol 4, 2 to go. Truly fascinating. Finally finished all 6 volumes 2 days ago. Well worth it as I found out many things that I wasn't aware of. Now reading some "faction", V2 by Robert Harris, a story based around the actual V2 rockets that hit London late in '44. Already read about ⅔ of it.
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Post by lapourtaider on Nov 8, 2021 19:15:40 GMT 1
So now finished V2 in 3 days.
Moved back to factual accounts, James Holland's Normandy '44.
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