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Hi is everyone still enjoying their reading matter?

Me, I'm still getting through the autobiography,
nearly finished it and looking forward to next
book. :-)

Emma

Terry Wogan - an autobiography entitled 'Is it me'?

Early chapters are very funny.

Sir David Frost endorsed it as a challenging read. Jimmy Young claimed not to remember him.

Awwww Jane, that book is on my wish list...glad you enjoyed it. I am still reading Bring Up the Bodies but nearing the end. Emma once more has beaten me to it! :-D <3

Just finished reading 'A Week in Winter' by the beloved Maeve Binchy very light reading but a very good story about a lot of people staying at a hotel in the west of Ireland

Hi all :-D :-D :-D :-D <3

Tess stop overdoing things otherwise my waggy finger will have to come out and honestly no-one likes my waggy finger its known to be lethal ;-)

Well I finally finished The Seamstress....hidden yawn :-\

Just deciding what to read next will let you know :-)

Happy Reading <3

Just downloaded for the princely sum of £1.94,
'The French Orphan' by Michael Stolle.

Its about Pierre an orphan in a finishing school for
boys who will enter the clergy. Most of the boys are
from noble/wealthy families.

Cardinal Richelieu looks to play a big part in the story,
but the mystery is who is paying for Pierre's place at
the school? Not Richelieu.

Emma

I am okay Mersey, just trying to do too much and sometimes overdoing it.
Hope you are not disappointed in "The Train" I need to emphasize (spl) that it is a story from and about the husband, Marcel. The rest of the family don't get much of a look in.

Like Emma I have just startes reading an autobiography. Mine is by Julie Walters ( a local"ish" girl).
I had started reading it before but got distracted somehow, so back to the start again.

Will be trying to get up to the charity shop to get three more paperbacks for a pound later.

Have finished 'Bring up the Bodies' by Hilary Mantel last
night, a very good read.
Am reading an Autobiography which I thought i had finished
but had only read 50% of, so back into that one again.

Emma

Hi Tess now that sounds like my kind of book, going to take a look....

Hope your ok?? :-D

Have just read "The Train" by Georges Simenon (the Maigret author).

A shortish book (of around 150 pages), so nice and light to hold.

It tells of a fmily who leave their home in France, trying to keep head of the German Invasion in WW11. Told from the view point (and memory) of Marcel Feron, a thirty-two year old man whose wife is seven and a half months pregnant with their second child.

Shame my European geography is nearly non-existant, as Marcel tells of different places "The Train" travels through, on its journey.

Written in 1958, my paperback edition was printed in 2011.

I promise I will Emms..... :-) <3

Grrrrrreat news, now be more careful in the future. ;-)

Emma <3

Good Morning Emms

I dropped it, crash, bang, wallop , I only had half a screen :-(

Bf has sorted it out was still in warranty, so hopefully today or tomorrow my new one will be here, the broken one to be sent back. So a happy ending after all... :-D

How you manage that :-(

Ive broke my kindle GUTTED!! :-( :-|

Just finished reading "Hornet's Nest" by Patricia Cornwell (first published in 1997).

I don't often read this type of book. Lots of action (of all sorts), murder, mystery, lave and some humour.

Have just started reading "The Orientalist and the Ghost" by Susan Barker.

Was NOT grabbed by the first chapter, but am now hooked. Want to know what happened to the various people in the story.

I put loads of freebies on my kindle and have just finished a Kitty Neale very pink and fluffy :-D

Im reading the Seamstress by Maria Duentas....its quite an easy read but for some reason im struggling with it....im about 12 % through it, I dont like giving up on a book so going to give it a bit more reading and hopefully it should pick up....has anybody else read it ??

Just finished My dear I wanted to tell you by Louisa Young. Quite a long book, a lot in it about the first World War and the injuries and the first attempts at rebuilding faces etc. Quite graphic. There is a love story in there. I found it quite hard going but in retrospect it was a well written book, maybe just not my scene, too much war in it for me.

Anyone read 'The Darling Strumpet' by Gillian
Bagwell? Just downloaded it to my Kindle as
was on special price, read a wee bit of the intro
and looks good.

BC what you think of 'Bring up the Bodies?'

I am still reading it.

Emma