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Heyup Chickaliscious

Good to see your thread still going, keep it up!!

Doing lots of research still <<<<<<<<<<< big wink ;-) Hoping to go Martina Cole's book signing in September with her latest novel 'The Life'.

Watch where you're sticking that pin, you'll never know where our Mersey will blow !! :-0 :-D lol ...

Catch you later ;-) .... Muchos love <3 <3 <3

Awwwww thanks BC !! <3

Just becareful where you put that pin oooeeerr :-|

Congratulations Mersey! *pins metal on Mersey's pinny :-D :-D :-D

Yaaaaay my Ickle thread has reached over 500 !!! :-D :-D :-D

Thats a nice ickle record for me......

Thankyou all ....heres to the next 500 <3 <3

Morning all,

Just downloaded First Ladies: The Life and Legacy of
Mary Todd Lincoln by Charles River...£2.05 Kindle books.
Tells of her life and her struggles with mental health till
she was eventually committed to an asylum.

Emma

Hi all .... <3

I am now reading Northern Girl by Fadette Marie. Its based on a true story of the authors parents, and takes you from the battle weary fields of Northern France to the bleak village industries of North East England....

Im lovng this book and at the moment it is on a price special for kindle readers....a flowing , easy read :-)

Just noticed we're not showing (under Avatar) the starting date of our membership :-S....oh yes it is lol if you hover :-D

I've just finished and enjoyed 'The secret life of bees' by Sue Monk Kidd :-D

Finished "Farewell to the East End", took me just over a month:)) thats not too bad for me...lol

Started (3.08.12) "Among The Hoods" by Harriet Sergeant, very good so far.

If anyone wants to borrow the Trilogy (Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End) by Jennifer Worth, l will post them, provided l get them back:)))).

jude:) :-)

Will look out for abandoned women. thanks Emma

Have read London and enjoyed it. Have not passed it on to a Charity shop as I will read it again.

As rather inactive at the moment I have read quite a few books.

Among them are -

The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan Shades of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, but also addresses the serious subject of Partition in India. Sad, moving, informative and funny, well worth reading.
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Last Train from Liguria. by Christine Dwyer Hickey.

I found it gripping. Starts in 1924 in Ireland and takes you to London, different patrs of Italy and back to England and Ireland. Finishes in present day.
"Writing as deep and warm and soft as a kiss, a story as stark as a knife... Buy three copies at least, because this is the kind of book you press on your friends, and you'll want to keep one for yourself... I promise you, this is the best book of the year. It's extraordinary" GLASGOW HERALD


_____ Also read a Wally Lamb Book "The Hour I First Believed"
This is about The Columbine Shooting in 1999 and its aftermath.

Will be reviewing it on Ann Glos GReaders Thread. (when I see it).

Another book well worth reading, but NOT light entertainment.

Tess

Still reading "Farewell to the East End" Jennifer Worth, brilliant, sad and funny. Chummy has just got married:)

jude :-)

Maryanna Before I go to sleep is a good book. I enjoyed reading it.

Im reading the third in a triology of a series of books by Mary Wood....Tomorrow brings Sorrow......a lovley read as were her other two.....

Have just finished The Christmas Angel by Marcia Willett, good but not up to her usual standard, wondered where it was going in places and some people and happenings didn't seem to have a reason. I usually enjoy her books though.

Have just started The Ghost of Lily Painter by Caitlin Davies and have The Beach Hut by Veronica Henry, Before I go to Sleep by SJ Watson and Fallen by Karin Slaughter to take on holiday with me.

I remember bawling my eyes out to White Fang !! M

Is that a coincidence BC.
I saw the cover of Gail's book and heard her say para and I've not long started it. First of Jo Jo Moyles I have read.
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I enjoy Dilly Court and have read all her books. Like light reading.

Barb

I am reading another of Jo Jo Moyes book, can't remember the name but will look it up. I noticed on Coronation Street the other night that Gail was reading the book I mentioned. 'Me Before You', but she said it was about a paraplegic and it's not, its about a quadriplegic! :-D

Miss Nitpicker BC XX :-D

The book I am reading now is 'The Last Letter from Your Lover' - very good so far.

I'm reading the Barbed Wire University - what an eye opener to anyone interested in WW2, particularly POWs.

good book Muffy. Enjoy!! :-)

I'm reading London by Edward Rutherford.

Sarum was one of the best historical fiction books I've ever read...and this one isn't disappointing either so far x