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Just read "The Brightest Star in the Sky" by Marian Keyes. I've never read any of hers before but grabbed it from the Quick Choice shelf at the library when I was in a hurry.

It's basically the story of the various people living at one house in Dublin and the chapters move backwards and forwards with their stories and how they relate with each other. Each chapter deals with a different person to the chapter before and I found it very jerky as all the chapters were short - some only half a page.

I found I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Having said that, I did plough on to the end of the book, over 600 pages.

I believe Marian Keyes is quite a popular author but I don't think I will be rushing to read any more of her work. Not to my taste.

Downloaded to take on holiday, got loads of free books on my kindle now to read while away.

Hope you enjoy it - it's quite a 'light' read but a page turner none-the-less.

Thanks det just downloaded it.

My latest, the kindle edition currently free, is “Just One Damned Thing After Another” (The Chronicles of St Mary's) by Jody Foster.

Product Description
A story of History, time-travel, love, friendship and tea.
Meet the disaster-magnets at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History, observing, documenting, drinking tea and, if possible, not dying.
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People with the same technology are going back in time and trying to change or exploit history. It’s up to the St Mary’s Team and the heroine ‘Max’ Maxwell to discover who it is.

I loved the little humorous snippets – the H&S officers who despairs that the R&D team keep removing the batteries from the fire detectors; All Historians have long wild hair (+ beards for the males) and consider a mug and tea an essential travel item.

A mystery with a touch of romance, but not the ‘stare into her limpid eyes’ type.

Hope she releases the next instalment soon!

Just finished The Lonely Desert which is the sequel to Footsteps in the Sand by Sarah Challis. Enjoyed both books very much.

A book some of you may find interesting called
Winter King by Thomas Penn.
It's about Henry VII and according to Tony Robinson
a good read.

Emma :-)

Just read Someday I'll find you by Richard Madeley. surprisingly good, part romance, part thriller.

Yes GiN it would make a good holiday book or book to read on the plane.

AnninGlos - I enjoyed The Beach Café, it was a nice, lighthearted read. I also enjoyed The Beach Hut by Veronica Henry - reads a bit like short stories that are linked, but come together as a satisfying whole. :-)

Finished Roy Chubby Brown ....not all that good imo.

Now reading The Last Godfather.

Emma :-)

Still ploughing my way through Citadel by Kate Mosse. Don't think I'm enjoying it as much as the other two in the trilogy, maybe because it's set around the French Resistance during World War 2 - but it's growing on me, just another 600 pages to go! :-D

Just finished The Beach Cafe by Lucy diamond. enjoyed it, good relaxing reading. :-)

Hiya to all you book worms.....


Im just about to start The Light Between Oceans by M L Steadman

A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper’s island. It holds a dead man and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours.

Enjoy your book that you are reading :-D

Love Kate Morton books

That sort of book is always interesting Barry if you know something about the people or company involved.

I've finished The Secret Keeper and enjoyed it much more than I expected. The ending was a complete surprise - I hadn't guessed it at all. I might look for another Kate Morton book next time I'm in the library.

I've started reading 'Bread' by Ian Gregg. This is the story of Greggs, the country wide bakers.

Ian gives a very detailed insight to the family business / company and also many of the folks / workers - and how they progressed after the founding father, John, died in 1964.

My particular interest in this book is because my late Margaret started and worked for several years at the original shop age 15 as a trainee confectioner / cake decorator when it was known as Gregg's of Gosforth. I know some of the names mentioned in this book.

Oh, that it could have been published two years ago when she was alive! She would have loved to read it.

All proceeds go to charity and for Breakfast Clubs for children.
(Why we need 'Breakfast Clubs' in this day and age truly beggars belief!!)

Hi MarieCeleste :-)...Now thats sounds my type of book, im going to put them in my reminders for my kindle....thank you :-)

I've just started (on kindle) Settling the Account, the third book of the "Promises To Keep" trilogy by Shayne Parkinson.

They're about a young lass who has a hard life in rural New Zealand in the 1890s. A lot of it's a bit grim (she has some hard knocks) but she comes through. It's not all doom and gloom or else I wouldn't be onto the third one! The characters are very good.

First in trilogy is Sentence of Marriage (currently free), the second is Mud and Gold (£1.92)

Hi there yes that sounds like it BC (you recommended it when we were up) and thanks Ann. :-)
I'll make a note and get it after I've finished this short novel I'm reading, ahem, about young boy and a summer he couldn't forget!? ;-)

Loved BUTB :-D ooh they were bloody days! she's a great writer could picture the scenes vividly.
Mau XX