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  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am off to Padstow until Thursday today but I will probably check in to see what the BOTM is. Was July's What have I done?

    :D:D:D Excited about my trip!! :D:D:D
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What have I done was June's BOTM. (If you're going to read it Frogmella I suggest you don't read my review which I'll write later today :wink: )

    Have a lovely trip :D

    Luv,
    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
    That book looks good, Amanda, I am happy for that to be July's BOTM, if everyone else agrees?

    Gone girl by Gillian Flynn

    I thought the book started well, but got a bit ridiculous and the ending was less than satisfactory!

    **

    What have I done? by Amanda Prowse

    The book started well, and kept going between years whilst telling the story. In the end, the story wasn't plausible with how the character behaved and the family dynamic wasn't believable I felt.

    ***
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What Have I Done by Amanda Prowse

    (First of all I'd like to say my review is only my opinion. I apologise to whoever chose the book, as I know it isn't easy to try to find a book to suit everyone in a Book Club and I'm still glad I read it.)

    The book starts where Kathryn Brooker has murdered her husband. She feels no remorse as he abused her mentally and physically from the onset of their marriage. I couldn't believe in the husband or the sham of the marriage she was willing to keep up for the sake of her children, who I might add, also treated her badly. If she was human she would have shown someone her scars. What happened to the drop dead gorgeous preacher and what purpose was served by bringing him into the story? The thing which irritated me also was a suicide at the end of the book and then her attempted suicide which were written and staged exactly the same. The ending seemed very weak and almost in a rush.

    1* sorry :oops:

    (I'm also happy for Blink of an Eye to be July's BOTM)

    Luv,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Due to no suggestions for July's Book Of The Month I decided to hunt over Amazon and have come up with 3 different types of books as a different Idea for Book of the Month. So your choices are:-

    True Crime

    Pure Evil By Maureen Harvey

    Humour

    Guess Who I Pulled Last Night? by Nikki Aston

    Mystery]

    Blink Of An Eye By Cath Staincliffe

    Hope you enjoy this idea and chose a book you enjoy or even end up reading all three!!!
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,089
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    frogmella wrote:
    I am off to Padstow until Thursday today but I will probably check in to see what the BOTM is. Was July's What have I done?

    :D:D:D Excited about my trip!! :D:D:D


    Was kit Frogmella :shock: I did read it....oh I am so easily confused :oops: I think it was June's :?

    Right What Have I done by Amanda Prowse

    (Legs I think it was me, but only because Myself and was it suzygirl? had just downloaded it cheap)

    This book was about a woman who had just killed her husband. I found it started off really well, but after a while I got increasingly frustrated with our main character :oops:
    I also felt it went a wee bit 'Mills and Booney' at one point :roll:
    I have a feeling the story could have and should have been told quicker and the weaker bits eliminated.
    The ending for me was very unfeasible and therefore frustrating.

    I give it a 2**

    The lowest I have ever given any book :shock:

    love

    Toni xxx
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    At least you didn't think much of it too Toni :lol::lol:

    Love,
    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
    Seems we all felt the same about that book!!!! :lol::lol:

    Lets hope this months book is better :|
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hope everyone likes what I have done for Book Of The Month this month, and will look forward to seeing who chooses what and what they think of their choice. :)
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sorry :oops: I meant June's BOTM! But I wasn't very impressed with What have I done either! I didn't believe the main character. She didn't seem victimy enough to me. I am sure that domestic violence people are so browbeaten that they don't think their situation is wrong, whereas this women knew it was the whole time. I would have believed it more if she had had a revelatory moment! I award **

    So what have we got for BOTM for july? Oh, just read Amanda's post - we get to choose! Ah ha! I might just read them all!

    Having a good trip so far. Went to The Seafood Restaurant last night. Very nice. Just been on a sea safari and am now drying off! Got very wet with rain and sea spray!
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm sorry that June's Book Of The Month 'What have I done?' didn't go down so well, I'm on Chapter 3 so far so good with me. That's why I wanted to give everyone a choice this Month.

    Sounds like your having a lovely holiday frogmella! I'm very jealous!! Hope the weather has been nice to you. The OH can't find a holiday we can both agree on yet!! So it's looking like if we go away it will be September/October time!
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    We go home today after our three night stay in Padstein. We have had good time but I am missing the dogs now! Was too difficult to bring them on a foodie trip. Looks like the weather will be good when we get home so think we might take them on Cannock Chase to make up for leaving them in kennels this week!

    Will get back to reading next week - maybe on my sun lounger in the garden if the forecast is true!! :D
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,089
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    See you on the chase frogmella??? It's MY hometown :shock:

    I am so glad you had such a good holiday you did deserve it :D

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Half way through What have I done? and actually enjoying it so far! Was looking forward to the sun & heat but it's too hot! And I don't like dry British heat!! Prefer a nice breeze behind it! Sorry for grumbling at the nice weather! Hope everyone enjoys the nice weather and the weekend! And COME ON MURRAY!!!
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Frogmorton - I may well see you on there! Do you still live round here? I am Eccleshall way. Maybe I see you at the pool! Now that would be funny!

    I am off now to order some of these books from the library!
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,089
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Heath Hayes Frogmella!!! On way out of (but in Cannock) towards Burntwood :D

    Eccleshall eh?

    I met Roses1 for a coffee today and see janie68 too both local. Maybe you ought to meet up with us one time ;)

    Toni xxx
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ah yes! I'm sure we would have lots to talk about! Small world and all that! Hope you are enjoying the sun. I am just about to head into the garden to read my book. It is The Uninvited by Liz Jensen It's a bit weird, as are many of her books, but I am enjoying it. In fact I read more in bed last night than normal so am tired today! :lol:
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    After a couple of hours on my lounger in the sun I have finished The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
    This is a strange book. The narrator is Hesketh who is blatantly autistic and works in crisis management. He is good a picking up patterns of behaviour etc. The storyline is about two seemingly (at first) unrelated patterns of odd behaviour. The first set is that children have started killing their parents in what seems to be a fugue state. The second is that adults have been sabotaging their industries and then committing suicide. Hesketh is sent in to deal with the adult thing but sees similarities with the children thing. I enjoyed it. ***/****

    I have read a few of her other books and enjoyed them too.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,089
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sounds interesting Frogmella :? I think I would enjoy it too.

    Gorgeous day it's been for reading in the garden for sure :)

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What have I done? by Amanda Prowse

    There has been mixed reviews about this book, I myself enjoyed it. The story of Kate who was a victim of verbal & physical abuse at the hands of her husband was well written and the subject of abuse was broached correctly in my eyes. The only minus points where the flipping back and forth in years and months it would have been better just wrote from beginning to end and the story just finishing the way it did it should have finished at the end of the visit. (readers of the book will understand!) Overall a good book and glad I read it.

    Rating:- ***
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I've decided to read Guess who I pulled last night by Nikki Aston as the books I've read recently have been a little serious and need a little humour for a change! So far pretty amusing! A little like a British sex in the city.
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Close my Eyes by Sophie McKenzie
    I read this book because I think it was on the e-mail I get from Lovereading (a good site for inspiration if you are ever short of it!). Giniver lost her baby, stillborn, 8 years ago. Then a stranger, claiming to be the sister of one of the nurses present at the emergency C-section, turns up on her doorsetp. She says that her sister confessed to her, just before she died, that Giniver's baby was born alive. And so the story begins. She becomes increasingly convinced that her baby was born alive just as her husband and friends try to convince her that the stranger was trying to make a quick buck out of her. It is a tense read - you are never exactly sure who to trust. I enjoyed it, more garden reading for me! So ***/****

    Just picked up Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty and a few other books this morning. Off to the garden now!!
  • suzygirl
    suzygirl Member Posts: 2,005
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I shall check that site out, I am looking for inspiration at the moment, we are going away soon and I need to load up my kindle with books as we will not have wi fi when away 8)

    I would hate to run out of books :shock: :lol:

    Feel free to recommend a book to me!
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ah yes, Suzy, that would be awful! :o I found that site very useful, there are different sections according to type of book, i.e. romance etc and then a bit where it recommends authors based on who else you like.
    If you are on FB and "like" it the suggestions come on there too. I also liked the richard and judy book club so get their recommendations too.

    Where are you going? (sorry, being nosy :oops: you dan't have to tell me!)
  • Megrose489
    Megrose489 Member Posts: 782
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I've just started reading 'Citadel' by Kate Mosse. I've read the other two in this series, 'Labyrinth' and 'Sepulchre' and enjoyed both. All set in Languedoc and, like the others, it flips backwards and forwards in time. In this one, the main story takes place in WWII and deals with the French Resistance. If you want a long read for your Kindle, Suzygirl, these would fit the bill, if you enjoy this type of fiction.

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