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  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Delboy i have just looked up runelords they look very good i have ordered the first one!i get my books for as little as a penny off amazon you still have to pay postage but it still sometimes works out cheaper than new(hope im allowed to say that :smile:)
  • tillytop
    tillytop Member Posts: 3,460
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ooh just found this thread! I am another real bookworm!

    I reckon we have almost as many books in our house as the local library does!

    I really enjoyed the "No 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series by Alexander McCall-Smith and I am currently reading a Robert Goddard thriller "Found Wanting" which OH found in a secondhand bookshop.

    The best book I have read in ages is "The Help" by Katherine Stockett which is a story about racial segregation in 1950's America. Very well written, I thought, amusing, moving and distressing in places but I couldn't put it down.

    Tillyxxx
  • suzygirl
    suzygirl Member Posts: 2,005
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Am reading Too close to home by Linwood Barclay at the moment and am loving it!!!
  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    just read scream for me by karen rose, looking for the next one of hers at the weekend,
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm reading World Without End by Ken Follett which is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth and I'm really enjoying it. Follett does weave a good easy-read yarn, I reckon. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • suzygirl
    suzygirl Member Posts: 2,005
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I love Karen Rose books!!!!!
  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have just got book three of sword of shadows,daughters at her nannies house so im all settled in for a good read!
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    delboy wrote:
    lindalegs wrote:
    I'm reading World Without End by Ken Follett which is the sequel to Pillars of the Earth and I'm really enjoying it. Follett does weave a good easy-read yarn, I reckon. :grin:


    Cracking books, did you watch the series on TV?


    Yes and enjoyed it, surprisingly - normally if I've read the book I don't like the TV/Film Production. It was well casted and acted IMO. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Cohen the Barbarian My hero
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oops sat and read all a val mc dermit book yesterday must get a life val
    val
  • suzygirl
    suzygirl Member Posts: 2,005
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Am reading Indelible by Karin Slaughter at the moment. Its good, if not a tad confusing for my brain fogged mind :lol:
  • katie5
    katie5 Member Posts: 242
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hi all

    thought i would just ask has anyone got one of those kindle electronic readers?

    my hubby was thinking of buying me one coz my hands really ache when i hold my book - how sad is that must get so involved i start to grip the book tighter. anyway would love your thoughts on this.

    happy reading.

    Katie x
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    just got caught by harlan coben half price in w h smi***
    val
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    katie5 wrote:
    hi all

    thought i would just ask has anyone got one of those kindle electronic readers?

    my hubby was thinking of buying me one coz my hands really ache when i hold my book - how sad is that must get so involved i start to grip the book tighter. anyway would love your thoughts on this.

    happy reading.

    Katie x


    Hi Katie,

    I have a Sony eReader because I was having problems holding books open. I've had the eReader since July last year and I love it. You download your books in seconds. The downside of the Sony is that their eBooks are more expensive than paperbacks :shock: but I believe the Kindles are cheaper.

    Wouldn't be without mine now. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    katie my friend has a kindle and loves it, great for sore hands, easy to use. she well recomends them.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,105
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am still thinking about getting one - we were chatting about theses on LWA a bit back and Del reckoned the formatting issues will be resolved if we can hang on a bit longer...

    I'm sure he'll explain better than me.

    I want one!!

    LOve

    toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am working my way thro the Martin Beck series, first published back in the late 60s I think. Sparse but very effective writing and I think the first of the Scandinavian school of detective stories. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have thought about getting a kindle,but when i looked into the price of downloads it worked out very expensive,i can get books from amazon for a 1p plus £2.70 for postage still works out cheaper,

    ive run out of books at mo and im suffering withdrawel symptoms!!!!!!!! i cant seem to find anything to read :eek:
  • suzygirl
    suzygirl Member Posts: 2,005
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My local charity shop does 3 books for a £1, it is next to my chemist. While I am waiting for my prescription I have a mooch!!! Its great!

    Just read Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson, it was good.
  • katie5
    katie5 Member Posts: 242
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    thanks all for your thoughts on the reader. still abit unsure - like you i can pick up books from the charity shops for next to nothing- but they have to be clean!! oh my god got one once and i'm sure someone had eaten their dinner of it - have seen a cover/jacket that you can buy to fit over your book.

    i'm reading Nemesis by Joe Nesbo - really good start enjoying it lots so far

    happy reading

    Katie x
  • Poppyg1rl
    Poppyg1rl Member Posts: 1,245
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi all,
    Am reading 'Good Omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and have to say it's the funniest book I've ever read! Thoroughly recommend it to anyone feeling bit down in the dumps like I was. Real chuckle fest Poppy X
    'grá agus solas'
    'Love and Light' translated from Irish. X
  • katekelly
    katekelly Member Posts: 975
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tillytop wrote:
    ooh just found this thread! I am another real bookworm!

    I reckon we have almost as many books in our house as the local library does!

    I really enjoyed the "No 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series by Alexander McCall-Smith and I am currently reading a Robert Goddard thriller "Found Wanting" which OH found in a secondhand bookshop.

    The best book I have read in ages is "The Help" by Katherine Stockett which is a story about racial segregation in 1950's America. Very well written, I thought, amusing, moving and distressing in places but I couldn't put it down.

    Hi Tilly,
    I've just given my copy of the help to my mother-in-law today. I think it was a fantastic book. I don't know about you but when I was reading it I actually found I was reading it in various accents to get the 'feel' of it. I've just started another one yesterday called The Long Song - this time its about slavery in Jamaica. I had Michael Caines autobiography for christmas- again an easy interesting read and my OH got Chris Evans autobiography for Christmas - I've read it and again an easy read entertaining and not too taxing! Love historical novels particularly Jean Plaidy.
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I read anything on 'untin' shootin' and fishin'........

    Now are you surprised????????

    My favourite............

    Short stories by Sedgewort Bramble..........

    http://www.wildfowling.co.uk/magazine/little.htm
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