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I started to read one by Jodi Picoult called 'Handle With Care'
Basic story line: child born with Osteogenesis imperfecta ( bones that break at the slightest touch) mother chooses to sue her obstetrician, who just happens to be her best friend, for failing to diagnose it very early in the pregnancy when an abortion might have been possible.
Normally I really like her books, but I found this one difficult to deal with.
The ending as usual had a twist. :-(

Ann it was maybe because I had read another book about Elizabeth
and had enjoyed that one.

Am now reading 'My Turn' an autobiography by Norman Wisdom.

Emma

have just read paul ogradys the savage years. loved the way he slagged off cameron and co... now reading the forgotten garden.

Didn't have any "reading" books as such, but I did receive from daughter a copy of
"Three Good Things, on a plate" , by Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall, to accompany his latest series on Ch4.

Julia in Derbyshire

Didn't you Emma? I quite enjoyed it when I read it as it was about Elizabeth Woodville and I had read a couple of books about her.

Finished 'Lady of the Rivers' last night and must
say I didn't enjoy it as much as her others.

Emma x

Me too Ann...im spoilt for choice have written a few down I want to look at on Amazon.....

Didn't have any books but did have a couple of Amazon gift cards.

Just popped in to see what books you received as presents??

I havent had chance to read just waiting for my eyes to stop being blurry and to put a complete sentence together ;-)

Just finished The Haunting by Alan Titchmarsh. Well worth reading, I enjoyed it. Not a really deep book but it brings in genealogy and ties up two parallel stories, one in the 19th century and one the 21st. :-)

Hello Readers :-) I finished the book I couldnt remember the name of...Thursdays in the Park? and it was very good, easy reading. I would recommend it and at 20p for the Kindle it is a bargain.

Have started Nicci French's Blue Monday. It features a psychoanalyst called Freida Klein (who I think appears in some of her other books), and is about the abduction of a 5 year old boy. It is ok, I suppose and well crafted but I haven't 'engaged 'with any of the characters so far. Disappointing so far and will let you know how it goes on.

Happy reading <3

Hi Joysy...

You will really enjoy it hun well worth a look.....

Ssshhhhhhh dont tell anyone what I told ya lol ;-) ;-) ;-) <3

Sounds good and quite symbolic Mersey! Going to put that on my to read list.

I'm on with Daughter's of Fire at the moment, love the way Barbara writes her stories, and to think I've been on Ingleborough twice this year. It's good to read for leisure at the moment instead of for study.

Need you to fill me in with your fab weekend away ;-)

Luvsya

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Sounds good and quite symbolic Mersey! Going to put that on my to read list.

I'm on with Daughter's of Fire at the moment, love the way Barbara writes her stories, and to think I've been on Ingleborough twice this year. It's good to read for leisure at the moment instead of for study.

Need you to fill me in with your fab weekend away ;-)

Luvsya

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Im reading a great book at the moment "Francesca Pascal A World War II Drama by Frederick Nath..Its sinspired by a true story In France in 1942 a Nazi officer steals a Matisse painting which becomes a symbol of freedom against the oppressors....

The painting becomes the reason for fighting and an opportunity for revenge upon the occupying force by the resisttance....

Im hooked already, looking forward to reading her other books now :-)

I am well into The Haunted now and, contrary to what I first thought, I am enjoying it.

Thank you for yours too, Ann.

I do like Kate Moss Tess.

Thank you for your card by the way.

Have been to the local charity shop again. This time getting SIX books, authors include - Kate Mosse, Ruth Rendall and Colleen McCulloch.

Colleen's book is called "Angel" set in Sydney NSW in the early 1960's.

Interesting, includes a landlady/fortune teller and her various tenants.

What I found most amusing is that on the back cover of my paperback, the fortune teller has been given the wrong name!

A good read neverthe less.

Don't think that one is for me though.