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Post by Wyvern on Jan 26, 2009 16:51:58 GMT
I've just finished Vulcan 607, a book about how the RAF attempted to bomb the runway at Port Stanley airport during the Falklands War in 1982 using a fleet of very elderly Vulcans and Victors. And no, I didn't notice Jezza's comment on the cover until I'd left the service station where I bought it. Very readable though, almost 500 pages and I read most of it in one hit! |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jan 26, 2009 17:37:08 GMT
Currently trying to read 'The Weaker Vessel' by Antonia Fraser. I say trying, because my brain won't concentrate properly, but what I've managed of it is good so far.
It's about how women lived and worked in the 16th century, and what their lives were like.
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Post by Liz on Jan 26, 2009 18:18:26 GMT
Still struggling with Jeremy's biog, and (so far) resisting the urge to track down Gwen Russell and set light to her!  |
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Post by Vixen on Jan 27, 2009 9:54:06 GMT
I've given up on As You Do for the moment and am now reading 'Foetal attraction' By Kathy Lette
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Post by Liz on Jan 27, 2009 22:53:02 GMT
Still struggling with Jeremy's biog, and (so far) resisting the urge to track down Gwen Russell and set light to her! Hey!... I just thought Vix... maybe you could assist me with this?  |
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Post by Vixen on Jan 27, 2009 22:57:12 GMT
No problem! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Liz on Jan 27, 2009 22:58:41 GMT
You get the matches... I'll find her!  |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jan 30, 2009 20:25:02 GMT
I've given up on 'The Weaker Vessel' as me poor old brain is too fuzzled to make much sense of it all.
Have moved onto 'Bloodtide' by Melvin Burgess, which is equally confusing, but slightly shorter and not quite so full of factual stuff. It's based on an old Norse legend, and is rather....bloody, as the title suggests.
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Post by maureen on Jan 30, 2009 20:48:09 GMT
Halfway through DTB. |
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Post by TheDaisy on Feb 1, 2009 13:51:58 GMT
I've just started 'Moo' by Jane Smiley. It was the first properly 'grown up' novel I ever bought for myself, many years ago ;D and has been read almost to death.
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Post by wolfenkin on Feb 2, 2009 13:55:07 GMT
Jim Butcher - Cursors Fury. Not quite as good as his Harry Dresden novels but still excellent.  |
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Post by Liz on Feb 2, 2009 13:59:28 GMT
Charlie Brooker 'Dawn of the Dumb'... a cracking good read for haters of today's 'dumbed down society' and lovers of acerbic wit! |
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Post by Doofey on Feb 2, 2009 21:56:55 GMT
Clara's War - about a Jewish girl and her family trying to survive WWII and the Holocaust.
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Post by maureen on Feb 26, 2009 10:24:37 GMT
Just finished reading the first chapter of Sword of Ireland that a friend of mine finished writing recently. It's a work in progress, but a real attention holder. He's got another book that I'll have to look at tomorrow that I'm really interested in.
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Post by tui on Feb 26, 2009 10:57:20 GMT
often start books, but never finish them, have several on the go.
my latest start is 'Moab is my Washpot' Stephen Fry, so far so good ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2009 12:11:00 GMT
Right I''ve read The twilight saga, I'm planning to move to Emma (Jane Austen) next .
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Post by TheDaisy on Feb 26, 2009 18:21:02 GMT
I'm halfway through 'Acid Row' by Minette Walters. Tis gripping stuff.
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Post by eilidh on Mar 20, 2009 19:13:40 GMT
' A load of old bones ' by Suzette A. Hill. It's a joy to read. Here's a little excerpt: "It was Bouncer who found the leg. Well, the whole body really, but it was the leg - stout, white, thick-ankled - that had initially caught his attention and caused him to curtail his sylvan rampage. These rampages were a periodic occurrence embarked upon with a mixture of cringing stealth and cavalier bravado. He once told me that they gave him feelings of exquisite triumph, being proof yet again that a gap could be breached in his master's laborious barricades. Once out in the wood he would wreak havoc upon the rabbits and lesser denizens, crashing about in that absurd slow-witted way until eventually, worn out with futile exertion (rarely did he catch anything), he would slink home or be collared by his protesting ineffectual owner. Bluff and blustering, the man was possibly even more obtuse than his canine charge, and they suited each other: Reginald Bowler, local bank manager - raucous, dull, pipe-obsessed ; and Bouncer his ridiculous mongrel companion. They had what I have heard humans describe as a sound working relationship, an ill-defined rapport difficult for outsiders to grasp. Most evenings you would see them floundering around the block: the man with pipe a-glow, jauntily proprietorial of dog and neighbourhood, snapping out soldierly commands ( his feet are flat, he never served); and amidst the sparks and noise, straining manically at the leash, Bouncer - oblivious to all except the next lamp post. And so they would go, leaking and fuming along the pavements until they drew level with me on my gatepost, when things would change a trifle. At this point I generally managed to contrive a mild fracas: a little cat-calling perhaps, a minor skirmish - some light divertissement to help the evening along and hasten the mousing hour... But I digress, and must return to the matter of the leg. You see, it belonged to my mistress. As indeed did the attached body. So when Bouncer cane careering up the street bellowing the news around my watchtower I was hard pressed to retain my customary aplomb. As you might imagine, the news was a bombshell and I experienced acute feelings of shock, albeit tinged with the merest quiver of satisfaction...." Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Fusker?  |
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Post by eshalda on Mar 28, 2009 21:05:11 GMT
I have just finished reading 'The Minotaur' by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell.) It is a quirky book and I liked it because it doesn't follow a set pattern. I found it hard to put down as I was always wanting to know what was going to happen next.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2009 18:39:28 GMT
Still not read Emma as I've been reading Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin (really enjoyed it) then the Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin (brilliant) and now I'm reading the Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin (spotted a theme yet?) I started reading it and I'm guessing this may be the best of the 3 ;D
I shall either start reading some Margery Allingham or Charlotte Bronte next. Or some American Cozy mysteries ;D
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Post by dutchdiva on Mar 30, 2009 19:59:21 GMT
DTB book :-) been reading it since the train ride back to Holland on February 2, 2009. Not going very quickly this time.
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Post by lonesome aesthetic on Apr 7, 2009 12:06:15 GMT
Drink to Britain  |
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 8, 2009 12:48:20 GMT
DtB, and Silvertown.
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Post by emmap on Apr 16, 2009 9:50:33 GMT
Twilight..*isn't too sure about it at the mo  * I hope it'll get a bit darker to be honest I'm a bit board with it  |
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Post by inky on Apr 16, 2009 21:05:42 GMT
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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Post by (Ali) on Apr 17, 2009 0:32:08 GMT
About to hit a stack of history and international relations books for my graduation exams next week.
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 17, 2009 17:02:09 GMT
'The Heart Shaped Bullet' by Kathryn Flett.
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Post by Vixen on Apr 17, 2009 17:11:05 GMT
Julie Walters' Autobigraphy, well, I will soon anyway |
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Post by ladyshaniique08 on Apr 17, 2009 17:13:04 GMT
Richard Hammond's column in the Daily Mirror
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Post by jweaver on Apr 17, 2009 22:46:39 GMT
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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nerd ;D -j
PS am helping mentor a senior at Leesville High School with her
12th grade project.
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* I hope it'll get a bit darker to be honest I'm a bit board with it 
I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
