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'The Elements of Eloquence' by Mark Forsyth. (Sub-titled: ‘How to turn the perfect English phrase’).

My-oh-my! There are words in it I thought were yet to be invented. Keep the dictionary handy when reading this amusing book - published this year.

Thanks Ann, will have a look. BC XX

Sounds good BC will look out for it. Just read Toby's room the genes reading club book. Review on board.

I am reading another Laurie Graham Kindle, it is light and very funny. About a long time married couple who have done well and are very comfortable and happy together. Until.......one day, she discovers a dress hanging in a cupboard and it is defo not her size or style! And then a pair of Size 10 shoes fall out of a cupboard. So he tells her the truth and she is devastated. I shall say no more :-)

Very enjoyable.

Happy Reading

edit....oops....it is called The Dress Circle
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Finished Bill Tarmey Autobiography
enjoyable read... :-)

Started Walter Norval the.Glasgow Godfather..a true story.

From what I have read so far looks like I am going to like it.

Starts from his childhood in the slums of Glasgow watching
the gangs that were about then little realising what his future
held.

Emma :-)

Have just finished the John Grisham and am bereft. One of those books you don't want to end, it was great and intriguing to the end.

Now am at a loss as to to what next. .

Just read Desperate measures by Kitty Neale. Quite light weight. Good holiday reading or for sitting by the fire in the evening. Not too taxing.

Just finished Bay of secrets by Rosanna Ley which I enjoyed very much. Set in Dorset and Fuerteventura and Spain. about a woman in her 30s who discovers, after her parents death that she is an adopted child. sets out to find her mother. Love interest with artist andre. then flip to convent in Spain and a lot about babies who were taken from their mothers and sold to adoptive parents.

THE AFGHAN by FREDERICK FORSYTHE

Never mind, it may come down I have plenty to read at the moment but I will watch out for it. :-)

Yes, Ann, it is on Kindle, about £7 ish which is a lot more than I usually pay....pity I can't pass it on to you! :-D <3

Haven't read John Grisham for ages, is that one on the Kindle BC?

I've just finished "Dead Line" by Stella Rimmington. This is a spy thriller. A Middle East peace conference is about to take place at Gleneagles when information is received that an attempt to derail it and blame Syria is going to be made. Liz Carlyle of MI5 has to try to prevent this happening. With the British, the Americans, the Israelis and the Syrians all involved, she has a tough job on hand, not least sorting out who is working for which agency and who are double agents. There are lots of twists and turns in the plot

I enjoyed it and would read other books by Stella Rimmington. As the former head of MI5 she does know about the inner workings and, though she doesn't give away any "secrets", her accounts of how the different agencies interact does ring very true.

I am reading John Grisham's latest bool, Sycamore Row and he is back on form with this, after a few rather disappointing ones. Once more it is set in Mississippi where small town lawyer, Jake Brigance, four years ago, defended successfully a black man accused of murdering two white Klan men who raped and killed his child.

He has now been landed with a great case and the small town is bombarded with greedy lawyers who want a piece of the action. A wealthy man who had terminal cancer has hanged himself from a tree and leaves his millions to his humble black housekeeper leaving out his own two children ..who are pretty horrible anyway! . He has never met him but he stipulates he only wants Jake to take on the case

It is really good! :-D <3

Started Jack Duckworth Autobiography :-D

Emma :-)

Finished The Savage Years at last...no more Paul O'Grady
for me for quite a while.

Can't make up my mind what to read next.

Emma :-)

I am reading another book by Laurie Graham, with the lovely title 'Dog Days Glenn Miller Nights'. The central character is a feisty old lady called Birdie living in a council estate. She seems to have had quite a torrid past anf helps out her neighbours who are not as active as she is, has a dodgy ex husband who keeps leaving dogs with her 'for a while' and a faithful follower called Wilf. I am really enjoying her and her dry sense of humour.

ps....Vera, to answer your question...your reviews are certainly not too long, I enjoy reading them even if I never get round to reading the books!

Happy reading BooknKindle Worms

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Just finished Take a Look at me now by Miranda Dickenson. Will be reviewed for Greaders but recommended as a curl up in the warm and dream of warmer climes book. I enjoyed it very much. :-)

Just finished two books:

"The Unicorn Crisis" by Jon Rosenberg is a fantasy set in the Midlands in modern times. The hero David Ash is a fairly normal sort of man except that he is a Summoner and able to conjure up beings from other worlds, or maybe from imagination. He is Custodian for East Midlands, trying to keep the boundaries of our world safe from other beings and his problems start when a Unicorn appears. There's a bit of violence in the book and it is not an airy-fairy world. Things are quite nasty at times and some of the characters come from Shakespeare and are not what we expect. Oberon is power hungry, Titania is sluttish using her sex to get her own way, Puck is a nasty piece of work and the Unicorns are bad, not a force for good. I thought it was well-written, though the proof reading could have been better.

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid. This is a thought provoking book. I finished it last night and am still trying to work out exactly what the book was saying. It's written in the first person and in the form of a conversation which the reader only hears from one side. The narrator talks to an American in a café in Lahore, spends the evening with him eating and drinking and then walks him back to his hotel. While this is going on he tells his story which takes place in the years immediately before and after the destruction of the twin towers in New York on 9/11. You see how his attitude to America changes over time. Interwoven in his tale is a slightly strange love story. The end, at the gates of the American's hotel, is ambiguous and you are left not knowing how it finished. I could see three possible ways at least that it could have gone. Very well written, easy to read but a bit unsettling. I enjoyed it.

Vera

EDIT: Would you please tell me if I write too much folks. I know I can ramble on a bit and I don't want to bore you all rigid



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*hangs head in shame......sorry folks, I lied about the cross dressing...that was another book by same author :-D <3