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I've finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. I really recommend it, one of the best books I've read in ages - wonderful characters, and very human.
Started Ravenscliffe now, having much enjoyed Netherwood. Hope it's as good!

I've read other books by Lisa See too. I think one about womens secret language is by her, but don't remember what it was called.

I like Amy Tan books too, most of her books seem to be about East meets West. i.e (mainly) Chinese people moving to USA and the difficulties faced by the second generation, with the clash of cultures.

I really enjoyed Peony in Love, and I think I've read other books by Lisa See. (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, perhaps?)
I like to read books set in Eastern cultures. Memoirs of a Geisha started me off in that vein.

Have just finished reading "Thursdays in the Park" by Hilary Boyd.

A stor y(partly) about new love and relationships between people in or approaching their sixties. (There is hope for me yet1).

Have nearly finished reading "Peony in Love" by Lisa See.

The book is set in China and is very much a "Chinese-story" Includes the taking over of China by the Manchu regime. The story is about sixteen-year-old Peony who has neither seen or spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman.

She is betrothed to a man she has never seen. Although not allowed to be seen in public, her father allows the women of his household to watch a theatrical group perform "The Peony Pavillion" from behind a screen.
Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. This is to change her life forever.

The story takes us to the after-life where we meet ghosts of the ancestors, who are very much part of the story.


Well worth reading, but be warned, you will need to have an open mind, and be prepared to read about a totally different type of life and living.

I am reading The Desperate Faction? The Jacobites of North East England 1688-1745
By Leo Gooch.

This fellah strips away the romanticism and looks at the truth of the times.

Just incase any are interested Winter in Madrid - C J Sansom is only 20p on Kindle at the moment..........

I have read this book and a few have told me of their interest in it....Bargain!!

Hi all....Just giving this a nudge <3

Sounds interesting Joy KM.

Jude, somewhere I have got "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell (it's probably in the attic).

Will look out for Claire Baldings book.

At the moment I am reading "poor Miss Finch" by Wilkie Collins.
a story about a young blind woman who falls in love with Oscar. Trouble is, although Oscar loves her, so does his twin brother, Nugent.

Lots of lies and half-truths, this book is filled with amazing characters, all so well described, that they come to life (in my imagination).

Wilkie Collins was a cousin of Charles Dickins.

My Grandad's book: For The Duration,by D.H. Rowlands, about the 13th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, in which Grandad served in World War 1.

Shelly I daren't look at my book wish list its hugeeeeeeeeee :-) ;-)

hayley thank you
it is not the same book as the one i read
the one i read the man next door beats up on his wife

truble with me i can nether remember the books i have read
thats one thing i like about the kindle as i can put all the books i have read in a sepret file

will be adding the book to my wish list

Gareth Malone "Choir".....very good:)

jude :-)

Ooops...the one l have just finished is:

Claire Balding "My animals and other family".......absolutely brilliant:)

I was worried ok the main one in the story is Sally and her physic healing abilities, the family next door have a cross eyed daughter Ann son Arther dad Bert and mum Elsie she is a medium, the book is based through the 1950's, Sally's Uncle sexually abused her as a child and in later years she becomes engaged ( I think the bloke is gay) he has a very strict church up bringing and he doesn't like her using healing powers, he lives with his Aunt who is the manageress of the record department in the store where Ann works,

Any help?

sorry hayley yes i did mean the book you are reading
i checked the name of the book you gave and it seem like a good read but sands simler to what i have already read

sojust want to dubble check
:-)

Just reading back .......Muffy I have read 2 of Josephine Cox's books and she dont half go on abit the first one was song bird and she went on and on and on and on for pages, I was getting jolly cross and the second was abit better but very predictable .. :-|

BC you are a huge ray of Sunshine :-D <3 as well as being a Book Tart ;-)

You make me smile

Will be starting With all my Love by Patricia Scanlan. Its the story of the lives of three generations of women which are set to change forever as one of them discovers a letter from her grandmother....



<3 <3 To all our Lovely Bookworms <3 <3

Book Tart BC reporting! *clicks heels and salutes all bookworms, I agree, btw, Emma IS lovely and she must never ever leave the boards again...she should just dive in and say her piece...like the rest! :-D :-D

Am really enjoying Instructions for a Heatwave and when I finish I shall then finish the Kate Atkinson book I started..

I read when travelling on the Underground or bus and then at night but am so tired at night I only manage a few pages before I nod off. That's why I take a long time to finish a book!

<3

Just started reading The King's Mistress by G. Bagwell
last night.

Hayley thank you, that's why I took a break as I knew I
would regret saying something on some threads, felt it
in me water dahling so I did. :-D :-D

Emma :-)

Dame Shelly I dont think I have the book a family next door? Sorry do you mean the family next in the book I am reading lololol :-D


Emma who the 'ell could you upset, you are lovely <3

Hi, all. I finished The Beach Cafe, by Lucy Diamond at the weekend, and very enjoyable it was too.
As a change from "chicklit", I've started Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson. It's a slow burner apparently, about the growing relationship between two oldies, with a bit of humour thrown in.