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I love some of the books you read BC :-D ;-)

Emma, I think Hayley has read that book about Paul O'Grady and I dont think she was very impressed.

I am reading a book by Laurie Graham called At Sea and am really enjoying it, lovely subtle humour. It is centred on an egocentric, fuddy duddy called Bernard who gives high falutin lectures on cruise ships. He is very much up his own wotsit and is followed on each (free) cruise by his long suffering wife Lady Enid.

I have just reached the part where Bernard is about to get his comeuppance and Enid spreads her wings.. Oh yes and I think some cross dressing comes into it....
:-D :-D

Anyone read The Savage Years by Paul O'Grady.

Is it me but I have a feeling I've read the start of the book
from his other biographies, just wondered if anyone else
thought the same.

Emma :-)

Well done Mersey, I am just about to start Take a look at me now. Looking forward to it. I find doing my reviews as I go along helps, rather than a mad dash at the end when I have probably forgotten what I have read. :-D

Hello one and all :-) <3

I have just finished Take a Look at Me Now-Miranda Dickinson

I will just say I absolutely loved this book, not usually my thing but so enjoyed it.....I don't want to say too much as I am doing a review of this book on Ann's Greaders..... :-) :-)

If you looking in Ann my reviews are all done now im getting so good...no reminders LOL <3

I have just finished The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillip.

She writes beautifully and develops her characters so well.
The story moves from 1618 to the present day in Venice. Claire in the present day is writing her dissertation on the Spanish Conspiracy in Venice. Allessandra Rossetti wrote a letter to the Venetian Council in 1618 warning of a Spanish plot to overthrow Venice. Nothing is known of how she learnt of it and what happened to her, Claire goes to Venice to find out.

I really enjoyed this one which I read in paperback so don't know if it is available on Kindle.

Have just read "Women of the Cousins War". I thought it was by Philippa Gregory but in fact she only wrote the first section on Jacquetta, mother of Elizabeth Woodville. The next section was by David Baldwin and was about Elizabeth Woodville. I didn't feel I learnt anything new here and after a while his style irritated me a bit. The third section was by Michael Jones and was about Margaret Beaufort.

I did feel I learnt something new with this one. I knew she married at 12 and had son Henry at 13 but hadn't realised that this was effectively rape. Apparently the convention was that, even where a couple married young, the marriage wasn't consummated until the girl was at least 14. Margaret appears to have been both emotionally and physically damaged by the consummation and later childbirth. I found this the most interesting of the three essays.

I've also just read "Experiments in Love" by Hilary Mantel. As I only knew her from "Wolf Hall" and Bring Up the Bodies" I thought I'd try one of her earlier novels. It's the story of the school and university days of three girls, told in hindsight by one of them Carmel. It's well written, as you would expect from Hilary Mantel, but I didn't care much about any of the characters or what happened to them. It's supposed to take place in the 1960s I think, but it felt more dated. Some of the language didn't ring true to me.

Hello Book Worms :-)

Im reading The Herbalist by Niamh Boyce....

To be honest im struggling I have got to chatper 6 and it is a very confusing book, the characters go to and fro in each chapter :-S Im going to try bare with it but I may have to admit defeat :-S

:-D :-D :-D :-D @ Glasgow lass

I chuckled at AnninGlos buying books that she already had as it reminded me of something.....
My daughter had a list of books that she wanted to read.
One title had been on the list for ages, but our local library didn't have it
Whilst doing a weekly online check, a copy suddenly appeared in the online catalogue.

She quickly reserved this only copy, and picked it up that evening.
It took a day to register...... she had read it before?

Then she remembered... when she was unable to get it from the library, she bought it, read it and donated it to .... the library ( she used to work there)

She had paid a small reservation fee for the SAME book that SHE had donated! :-D :-D :-D

Finished The Wise Woman by P Gregory not
one of her best in my opinion. :-(

Now reading The Savage Years by Paul O'Grady

Emma :-)

Mine's the basic version 6 inch version - you have to reveal the keyboard on the screen.

If you want to read in bed, say when you are away from home, then the version with a light incorporated might be better. I've bought a clip on light-on-a-stalk for when he wants to sleep and I want to read.

Kindles have to be charged via a USB port, but a charge would normally last at least a week. You can buy other lead thingys to recharge via an electricity power socket

Im wanting a Kindle Fire HD....not sure yet :-S

OH has the original and I have kindle light :-D

I have the basic Kindle, which I love love love <3

Mersey, I have the original Kindle with keyboard as does my daughter. Her OH has a touch screen kindle.

Just thought I would ask on here....

What type pf kindle do you have, if you have one??

Oh, even worse Lol. I have a set of book shelves in the room my OH uses as an office etc. I have just checked and both those books are sitting there. :-D Good job I never pay full price for books isn't it? And what is good about the kindle is, if you try and buy one you have already bought it reminds you. :-)

Well, stupid person that I am, a few weeks back I bought the White Queen paperback, not very expensive, then discovered I had read it (I forgot to check my list), then I couldn't find the Red Queen on the list (which goes back to 2005) so I ordered it for the kindle this morning. daughter has just said that we have read it. So I looked back at Greaders reviews and she is right. I have the review in 2010 but I had not added it to my list. Maybe I will read it again as I am sure to have forgotten bits.

A definite bargain, stamps foot, have read them both :-(

Thanks Pammy51 just my luck :-)

Emma :-)