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Don't ask.

Emma :-)

Well since getting my touchpad thingie l have downloaded the amazon kindle from my puter. The latest book is "Name and Number", based on a true prison story.

Wow l certainly don't want to be in prison. Young lad gets 2yr sentance for drug related crime.....and its what happens to him basically. Some of it is amazing and good some bloody awful...but l'm hooked.
Some of it is written badly, can't explain, you'll have to read it to see what l mean.
But a very good read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Name-Number-Based-Prison-ebook/dp/B009KFLLGI

and its still free on amazon kindle:)
jude x

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If you like Maeve Binchy you will probably
enjoy Finding Home by Roisin McAuley.

Louise & Rebecca are looking for a suitable location for a film, they find Wooldene Hall, the ancestral home of Diana and her brother Henry.

Diana a widow feels her life is crumbling along with the house, she runs a garden centre and longs for romance.

Henry, retired from the army is drawn to Louise whose home is Belfast, but the past has its grip on the present.

Lucy, Diana and Henry's aunt is in a home slowly succumbing to dementia

Set in Oxfordshire, London and Donegal mainly it is a good story with romance, pathos and some menace.

Shall look forward to your review Perse.nwhat a thoughtful OH you have.

When I vote on the Greaders thread I have to check the availability of the book at our various libraries and then get my one to order it in. I suggested a book a while back that got voted in and it took me several months to finally get it.

So this time whilst I wanted to vote for "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson ... but didn't because it would mean playing the waiting game.

Ha ha... himself had already ordered it unbeknown to me ... I have now read it and it is a) easy to read b) not laugh out loud hilarious but has you smiling to yourself quite a lot.

It goes from the here and now to the 100 year old's past and what a past he has. I now know who is responsible for a lot of the events that changed history.

All the little quirky bits that this author has thought up and put into the story made for great reading.

Persie :-)

Mersey, as with Greaders, if there is. New board for hobbies and interests or reading etc I think it will be better for these threads as they won't get pushed so far down so quickly. :-)

BC if you burn yours then I will burn mine ;-)

There will be a massive protest if it doesn't, Mersey. I may even burn my bra! :-D

Awwww thanks lovelies...just hope our little thread stays :-D <3

Snap Geordie...I am reading it and loving it! I feel his every blister! :-D

Oh lucky you, Vera, just starting Bring Up the Bodies. it is wonderful...Golden Girl (Emma) and I are totally in love with Thomas Cromwell!)

Happy reading everyone..love this thread, Mersey <3

I hope it doesn't disappear Mersey, or get lost in a general Hobbies and Interests board. I enjoy reading this thread.

Geordie - I've been wondering whether to get that book. I wasn't sure whether it would be me but perhaps I'll have a go at it.

My next read will have to be Bring Up The Bodies as I ordered it from the library yonks ago and they have just emailed to say I can collect it this week.

I've just started The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. It's one of those books you just know you are going to love as soon as you start to read it! :-)

Thank you for bringing the thread back up SV :-)

Was waiting for it to disappear or GR make their own thread :-(

My last post on 14 May mentioned that I was going to see the film of Life of Pi, having just read the book. Well, I went this afternoon and I was really impressed with how well it had been done. I was glad I read the book first though. It meant I knew how it would end but also meant I better understood some bits that were not fully explained in the film.

I'm just nearing the end of a book called "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin. It is the true story of Greg Mortensen, an American mountaineer, who became lost descending from K2 and ended up in a very poor Pakistan village. The people there were very kind and helpful to him and he vowed to return to build them a school.

He starts off pretty much alone, living in his car or a storage facility and making money by working night shifts as a nurse (he was trained), but he raised the necessary money and went back and built the school. Over the next decade the organisation grew, although he was very much the driving force, and so far have built something like 55 schools in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He is doing all this at a time when the Taliban are coming to power. He was in fact in Pakistan at the time of 9/11. In this very muslim area he is also insistent that the girls get education as well and has founded a number of mixed primary schools and girls' high schools.

What comes across in the book is the kindness, friendship and generosity of the ordinary muslim man or woman and how wrong the idea is that muslim equals terrorist.

I think he would be a difficult man to live with but what an inspiration he is.

The joint author, David Oliver Relin, is a journalist who put the book together and I didn't always take to his style. He's sometimes a bit heavy on the adjectives but on the whole I think he has done a good job.

I'm sorry if I've gone on a bit too much but I wanted to give a flavour of the book.

Don't ask, still not getting through Nicholas and Alexandra, it's
not as though I'm not enjoying it, it's a good read but it's like
reading War and Peace :-D
OH is going to pass over two books to me from his kindle, The
Last Godfathers by John Follain, Human Game by Simon Read
and of course The Kingmakers Daughter by PG, which I can't wait
to read :-)

Emma

Welcome Estelle :-)

just finished a true story on Kindle - Escape from Botany Bay - brilliant

Hello Estelle, nice to see you on our lovely thread. Gone Girl sounds right up my street, I like something unpredictable so will give it a go. I have to read about Harold first or I will get overkindled! BC XX

Hi Buttercup Fields, I was looking at 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' as it came up as a recommendation for me on my kindle. I might read it next.

I have to say Gone Girl is very good. It's not historical at all, it's just a sort of thriller. But never has my empathy swung so much between the two main characters. Both very believable. I am about 2/3rds of the way through the book and still have no idea at all how it might end.

Evening folks :-) I am on the last few pages of Iris and Ruby and will then begin 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce. Has anyone here read it? It got some great reviews and seems my cup of tea at the moment.

Happy reading <3