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  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Right now I'm back home I will get stuck into the Book Of The Month Look Behind You. I'm really looking forward to reading this book!! I did go crazy and got a few books in the Kindle Sale so my poor Kindle is stuffed with books I need to read!!
    Thanks Linda for the heads up about the price of Kindle books going up, I didn't know about it as I've been in a bubble for a while what with being poorly and the holiday! :shock:
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Bubba,

    You're welcome. :D

    Glad you had a good holiday but sorry you've been poorly.

    Love,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I finished Look Behind You on Saturday - so before the official month!! :shock: It was good. Hope you all enjoy it too!
    Now started The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simision

    Welcome home Bubba! Did you have rain? One of my swimming friends went to Dubai the other week and she had rain!!!
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Just started Look Behind You ......it isn't a feel good novel then??? :|

    It's definitely a page turner though. :D

    Love,
    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
    frogmella wrote:
    I finished Look Behind You on Saturday - so before the official month!! :shock: It was good. Hope you all enjoy it too!
    Now started The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simision

    Welcome home Bubba! Did you have rain? One of my swimming friends went to Dubai the other week and she had rain!!!

    We had rain on the 1st Monday we where there, so we went and did the V.I.P trip to the Burj Kalifa that day, after that it was hot everyday!!
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Legs - it certainly isn't feel good it made me tense!!

    Bubba - glad you had a good time and good weather.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,088
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Amanda that sounded like a fantastic trip - welcome Home :D

    Legs - it's scaring me right enough. I finally got to start it Thursday I think and yep already on 20% :shock:

    Am also 'listening to' Linda Bellingham's 'There's something I've been dying to tell you' on audio when I'm cooking or ironing. Time flies when you have an audiobook, but it's definitely cheating and NOT the same for e as reading it myself. I prefer to hear the character's voices as I imagine them.

    Anyone else listen to audiobooks at all??

    I signed up for the free one a bit back and my brother gifted me a voucher for Christmas.

    Love to you all

    Toni xxx
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am useless with e books. I always drift off and start thinking about other things or, worse, fall asleep! We listened to quite a few of the Harry Potters read by Stephen Fry. I fell asleep nearly every time!
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni and Frogmella a010.gif

    I find audio books have their place but you have to like the voice that's reading them. They're good if I'm doing a jigsaw on my iPad for instance.

    My Kindle does text-speak but it's like listening to Stephen Hawkins with no expression in the voice! Because of this I don't use that facility.

    Audio books are quite a lot more expensive than Kindle books too.

    I'm a slow reader but I'm enjoying the BOTM .....I'm just wondering whether the author is deliberately leading you along the obvious path and whether there'll be a twist at the end???!!!!

    Happy reading book dwellers .....whichever way you enjoy your books!

    Love,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • Slosh
    Slosh Member Posts: 3,194
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    I've just finished reading The Minaturist and loved it! It's a hard book to describe with unexplained elements in it but beautifully written and one of those books that stays with you and I'm quite likely to read again very soon, this time to appreciate the writing and the details. If you like books by Joanne Harris with their hints of magismagic, e.g Blackberry Wine and the three books in the Chocolate series I think you'll like this.
    Historical novel, set in Amsterdam which is based on the life of one household and the gradual and mysterious furnishing of a replica of the house. 5 stars.
    He did not say you will not be storm tossed, you will not be sore distressed, you will not be work weary. He said you will not be overcome.
    Julian of Norwich
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,088
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I fall asleep too if I 'read' them at night Frogmella!! Best listened to when gardening/cooking etc

    Totally right Legs that is why I didn't keep buying them! I now get 'given' them by family as presents birthday etc. I also think I wouldn't want to 'hear' anything scary :shock:

    Nope

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    Slosh I loved Joanne Harris (thanks I think if I remember rightly?) to Legs! I might read it then

    Legs I too am enjoying BOTM and am up to 28% :)

    Love to you all

    Toni xxx
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  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I've downloaded The Minaturist Slosh ...it's on my TBR pile! I might read it next after BOTM.

    Toni I've read 68% of 'Look Behind You' and about to enjoy more with my lunch!

    Before this I've been reading Shayne Parkinson's 'Promises to Keep' series of which I'm on Book 4 now. These are so easy to read and are about family life set in New Zealand which gently takes you along. The lovely thing about it that each book carries on from the last chapter of the book before almost as if it was one big book at one time.

    4*s for a nice read when you don't want anything taxing.

    Love,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks for the tip slosh - I have The Miniaturist on my library shortlist will certainly be reading it. :D
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sorry not been about guys, as you might have read I'm come down with a flu type bug and now it's giving me a mild type headache which makes me want to sleep all the time! I'm hoping to start the BOTM this afternoon if this headache eases a little.
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh Bubba, you do keep getting these bugs. I hope you feel better soon. ((())) The BOTM might make you worse, it is so tense!
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I just finished The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
    It follows on from The Rosie Project, that I read last year. Same main character - Don - who is clearly autistic/aspergers but doesn't realise. It is a funny, lighthearted read and I really enjoyed it. ****

    I now have NO BOOK to read!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: My next one is in transit. Might have to read a magazine tonight. Boo!
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    No Book, quelle horreur!!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

    Really hope you get one soon!!!

    Love,
    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
    frogmella wrote:
    Oh Bubba, you do keep getting these bugs. I hope you feel better soon. ((())) The BOTM might make you worse, it is so tense!

    I think I may have got this bug on the plane on the way back from Dubai!! What with that air circulation there where a few people coughing and sneezing on it! I think I'm still slightly anaemic because I'm still a little weak and slow and still not a great appetite. :cry: I'm a month behind on my blood tests because of holiday!! :o
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh yes, the plane. I wouldn't be surprised. I hope you are feeling better?

    I still have no book, legs. Off to library in a min to rectify the situation!!
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,088
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a dire situation Frogmella no book...shocking! :shock:

    I hope you have some now :)

    Aeroplanes are germy places Amanda. That's why (if we get away this year to France) we shall be driving:) Get well soon ((()))

    I have finished BOTM and am now reading Copycat by Gillian White

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I know, Toni! I have one now, phew - I know who killed him - but no time to read it! Off to theatre tonight to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and then out for Sunday lunch with my cousin and his husband tomorrow. Intend to enjoy a cocktail, some wine and lots of gossip! Looking forward to the play tonight. Remember loving the book and reviews say the play is excellent too.
    Hopefully will have some time this week to read, it being half term and all, so might get a review in towards the end of the week.
    Hope you are feeling a bit better, Bubba.
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,088
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Disaster narrowly averted then :lol:

    You will get plenty of reading time this week I am sure.....I do hope the play was as brilliant as the book and you had a tipple or two :)

    I know who killed him looks good.

    I am enjoying Copycat so far :)

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Guys Glad you have your heads in books at the moment, I'm enjoying Look Behind You getting right into it!

    It's that time that I need you to start thinking of recommendations for March's Book Of The Month. I have found a couple of possibilities but if anyone else can think of any it would be good. :balloon:
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,088
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Frogmella must be busy reading Amanda!

    BOTM for next month eh?

    Have we ever done any of the Streetcat named Bob books??? Or The Summer we all Ran Away? by Cassandra Parkin (a new author) or.... Together apart by Natalie Martin? (£1.38 on kindle ATM)

    Glad you're enjoying Look Behind you Amanda and I am hoping you are on the mend now?

    Love

    Toni xx
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  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yes! I have been reading my book and even had a bit of time to do a jigsaw yesterday afternoon. Got Mr F cooking pancakes ready for me to Find*s Crispy up and also for crepes suzette! I ate about 12 yesterday!! :lol:

    I am enjoying my book which is actually called The Secret Place by Tana French. I did have a little look for a BOTM yesterday but drew a blank I'm afraid! I really enjoyed this month's one so am excited about the next one.

    Good to see you popping in more often, Toni. Hope you have had chance to enjoy some of this sunshine.

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