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What book are you reading?
I know there was a discussion a few months ago about what people are reading at the moment but I can't find it so I'm starting a new one!
I read lots of good books (and some not so good ones) but I just finished one that was fast-paced, an easy read, a bit quirky AND the main protagonist was a not quite young woman! "It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye" is by a Scots author, Chris Brookmyre and can best be described as "The Long Kiss Goodnight" meets "Shirley Valentine" (I know the medium is different but the imagery works).
I read lots of good books (and some not so good ones) but I just finished one that was fast-paced, an easy read, a bit quirky AND the main protagonist was a not quite young woman! "It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye" is by a Scots author, Chris Brookmyre and can best be described as "The Long Kiss Goodnight" meets "Shirley Valentine" (I know the medium is different but the imagery works).
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- Am currently reading Nardine Gordimer's "A Sport of Nature". Last week I read her "Occasion for Loving", which I had picked up at the library quite by chance, thinking it was decades since I'd read anything of hers. Now I've become addicted again. She is amazing. Well deserved her Nobel Prize for Literature. These pages are taking me back a long way to the days when we just hoped something could be done about apartheid in South Africa and argued about it - never confident it would ever happen.
- @SoldierCrab Isn't it weird?! I must say I liked it a lot. Funny as well. I found the descent into psychosis really effective. Clever.
- @kmakm
Well that was a different book "The bus on Thursday"
and the Ending ? - 'Call me Evie' by J.P. Pomare. I have no idea what's going on and can't tell if that's because it's a terrible book or because I'm to fried to process it.
- My Mum was a Doris - and she would have told you there was a very good reason for the name not to be heard anymore!
I'm currently reading a YA book, "Sidekicks" as we have the author, Will Kostakis, coming in to talk today. - My Aunt Doris (now there’s a name you don’t hear much any more!) sent me an inexpensively printed book (from Boots the chemist!) every birthday and Christmas too. She sent the classics - Jane Eyre, Kenilworth, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice and so on. She shaped my reading for the rest of my life.
- I would get a book for my birthday, and at Christmas from my grandmother. It was almost invariably either one of the "Anne" books, or a book from the "Billabong" series, by Mary Grant Bruce. These were my other favourites, about 3 children growing up in rural Victoria.
@Artferret, I'll have to look in to the Dragonkeeper series. I've never heard of it - I got to revisit Anne of Green Gables a few years ago when I introduced them to my daughter. My Mum shared them with me (her sister wrote to LM Montgomery and got a personal reply!). The language may be more difficult for the younger ones to understand but Anne has never dated.
- Yep, Anne of Green Gables too. Re read them many times. Plus Carole Wilkinson Dragonkeeper series. My children's book library at home is considerable...some really dated now in their ideas but i would never get rid of them e.g. The Chalet School series!
- Books I've reread most, @Artferret.... Anne of Green Gables. In fact, re"reading" at the moment as a podcast book, on my lunchtime walks. Can't stop smiling as I listen.
Funny story about The Lion, The Witch &The Wardrobe. My 2nd grade teacher read it to the class, but I was so scared of the lion (in the title, just the thought) that I'd get almost hysterical, so I was excused from class during all the readings. I've read them as an adult an realise how unscary the lion is, and also love these books
