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Post by beverley61 on Jun 19, 2019 12:00:06 GMT
I just finished Rotherweird. It was in the Sci-fi/Dystopian section but I am not sure it is either. Interesting concept part murder mystery, part 'other-world' mystery. I wasn't actually convinced that in reality they would have worked out all the clues or at least I felt they would have found them out in different ways but it was good enough to make me want to read the sequel Wintertide. The sequel Wintertide is said to be outstanding and much better but a lot darker, one quote claims that the perpertrator/main baddie in this book would put Voldermort on the naughty step! Day time reading then, lol! |
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Post by redls on Jul 9, 2019 21:23:04 GMT
Have the first Dune trilogy on my Kobo and it is much lighter than the physical books on the shelf. Haven't read it for ages and it Is like I am coming to it new. Really enjoying it.
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Post by Delia on Aug 11, 2019 11:51:33 GMT
I'm doing something I've said I'd do for a long time, which is read some of the books inherited from my Dad, who loved reading and left a lot of books. I culled them (twice) for things I didn't fancy but am now trying to wade through a few, then donate them to charity.
Just read "The Purple Plain" by H. E. Bates which I knew nothing about: its about War II in Burma from the point of view of a Canadian bomber pilot stationed out there. As I read, I thought "Goodness, this would make a cracking film if anyone ever tried to adapt it!" When I finished, I Googled it and found it was made in 1954 starring good ol' Gregory Peck and Bernard Lee.....
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Post by bethb63 on Aug 15, 2019 15:34:49 GMT
Just finished The Carer by Deborah Moggach (who wrote The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Funny, touching and with several surprising twists. Also, probably one of the most English books I’ve ever read. 😀
Recommend.
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Post by Delia on Sept 20, 2019 7:44:02 GMT
Just finished the autobiography of comedian Michael McIntyre -- "Life & Laughing".
It was surprisingly frank about his early life, his long struggles to gain success, and his courtship of his wife, but very funny all the way through. You can almost hear his voice narrating. He makes me laugh on stage, so it was interesting to hear how he got to where he is now.
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Post by Delia on Oct 20, 2019 19:48:24 GMT
Now reading "The Egg & I" by Betty MacDonald. I enjoyed it when I was about fifteen years old, and it's remained one of my favourites of all time. It's about struggling to run a chicken farm in N W USA.
She wrote others subsequently, including another favourite of mine, "Anybody Can Do Anything" which related her trying her hand at many jobs.
Both books hilarious, laugh out loud and well written.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 9, 2019 19:59:07 GMT
 I've just been in a pop up book shop with old second hand books. They had these old penguin books which are almost 60s old. I love the musty smell of them and the faded edges and the look of them. I've been on a big film drive recently and they had Billy Liar by Keith Warehouse, A Kind Of Living by Stan Barstow, Woman In Love by DH Lawrence, A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch, Death In Venice by Thomas Mann and Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell, so I got all those along with England, My England by DH Lawrence. I love the films so will read what started them off. I don't know when I'll get round to reading them as at the moment I'm reading Dirk Bogarde's memoirs. I've finished 'A Postillion Struck By Lightning' and am a quarter way through the second volume 'Snakes And Ladders' and have the third 'An Orderly Man' poised and waiting to go. I think there's about another 3 or 4 after that and I also have the John Coldstream biography aswell. There's just not enough hours in the day! |
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Post by Delia on Nov 10, 2019 20:26:12 GMT
I read Dirk Bogardes memoirs, and enjoyed them. What a life.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 10, 2019 22:16:28 GMT
I read Dirk Bogardes memoirs, and enjoyed them. What a life. I know, he has such an interesting and varied life, although it's suggested that not everything is 100% fact! I'd like to read his novels aswell, but when I don't know! I also brought Rank Outsider by Sheridan Morley (son of Robert Morley who was in 'Libel' and 'Hot Enough For June' with Bogarde) which goes through his career in order of the films. I'm just getting to my favourite period of 'Victim' (brilliant), 'The Servant' (my fave) and 'Accident' (love it). I've been watching all his movies for the last two months. The only two I haven't seen is 'Dear, Mr Prohack'(with Glynis Johns who was married to Anthony Forwood, before he became Bogarde's manager and companion) and 'Blackmailed' as I can't find them. (Prohack is on US DVD). There's quite a few on youtube, 'I Could Go On Singing' and 'The Singer Not The Song' (guilty pleasure). I'm totally obsessed!...also because of 'The Gentle Gunman' and 'The Singer Not The Song', I've ended up watching quite a few John Mills films aswell the last one being 'So Well Remembered'. I'd like to read his biography aswell, I bet that's interesting. |
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Post by Delia on Nov 11, 2019 8:23:22 GMT
Another biography I've read not too long ago was that of former 007, Sir Roger Moore. Very interesting, and funny - he was a practical joker.
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Post by profbooboo on Nov 11, 2019 16:20:15 GMT
That's so weird, I thought about Moore's biography on Saturday. I was in The Works and last time I was there they had his biography and I keep meaning to get it from the library. It's supposed to be quite funny.
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Post by beverley61 on Nov 20, 2019 13:19:14 GMT
Has anyone read The FIve, the book about the background stories to the Ripper victims. The author has apparently looked into who they were and finally given them a proper place in history. I'm intrigued and wondered if anyone has read it yet.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 20, 2019 13:53:53 GMT
No, I hadn't heard of it. Good that someone has finally done that though. They did have lives before the Ripper got them.
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Post by redls on Dec 1, 2019 22:44:09 GMT
Re Peter O'Donnell … Saw the film Modesty Blaise with Dirk Bogarde (as a super camp baddie) and Terence Stamp as Willie Garvin then found the books … I have them all and every now and then go back and read them all in order … even have a book of the cartoons that were the start of the series in one of the newspapers.
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Post by profbooboo on Dec 2, 2019 21:34:03 GMT
Re Peter O'Donnell … Saw the film Modesty Blaise with Dirk Bogarde (as a super camp baddie) and Terence Stamp as Willie Garvin then found the books … I have them all and every now and then go back and read them all in order … even have a book of the cartoons that were the start of the series in one of the newspapers. I read that Quentin Trantino is a fan and had a character reading the comic in Pulp Fiction. I haven't gotten round to reading the book yet, 2020 fingers crossed! But I love Bogarde in the movie, stealing every scene, him and McWhirter are brilliant. Apparently Stamp opted for Modesty Blaise over the lead in Alfie!! What! I love the film cause of the high camp, but Alfie. 😔 |
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