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Nothing has grabbed me and said wow this is what I want to read, if you know what I mean? Will have to see what other suggestions come up. Sorry Frog your suggestions where okay.0
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Hi Everyone, I was at the Hospital yesterday and was waiting for my hospital transport people to get another patient, they had parked me next to the 'books for sale' so I looked at them and one jumped out which I got (was 50p) that I thought was perfect for BOTM it's called 'Endal:- How one extraordinary dog brought a family back from the brink' By 'Allen & Sandra Parton After the tense thriller of last month I thought this heart warming book would be uplifting (could need a hanky!). It's available on kindle so see what you think and let me know.0
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An idea - how about a five or six books of the month?
I'm currently reading the second of a volume of Charlie Chan
(a Chinese detective) books which for me is delightful reading.
Simple plot, light characters, descriptive backgrounds and all
ends happily. I calculate one book reading every three or four
days so five or six books could be finished within the month
and there are three extre days in March.
I downloaded mine for nowt on kindle altho I think there is
a small fee currently payable.
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Ichabod you're right - most of us lot do get through half a dozen books a month!!!
when I was child I used to do my 6 from the library in one weekend!!!
Did you know I read that lovely book you recommended to me? My Dear I wanted to tell you I loved it
Amanda I will be more than happy to read Endal - so long as you PROMISE me it won't make me cry???? :?
Frogmella - pancakes Mmmm....I love them but restricted myself to 1 only!!! Lemon and sugar
Love to you all
Toni xxx
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I, too, will download Endal.
I'm also ready to review 'Look Behind You' but will wait till the end of the month as some people might still be reading it.
I always cheat with pancakes and spread with lemon curd :jheart:
Ichabod I don't read that fast!!!! :shock:
Love,Love, Legs x
'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'0 -
I have got My Dear I want to tell you out of the library too. Looks good!0
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frogmella wrote:I have got My Dear I want to tell you out of the library too. Looks good!
A lovely book, part history, part reality almost and part romance. Excellent read with it having been 2014 last year extra poignant
Legs I couldn't manage that many now either sadly - life is too hectic running around after the 'kids' :roll:
I am ready to review too, but we shall leave it till next weekend???
Love
Toni xxx0 -
I'm just gone half way on Look behind you so yes could you hold reviews until weekend please. :oops:
I'm a 2 books a month girl also finding 5 to 6 books for Book Of The Month would be very difficult!! I'm happy to do 2 Books a Month Ichabod then if you want to read a few more books and review them then that's your choice.0 -
So if everyone is happy the Book Of The Month for March is Endal:- How one extraordinary dog brought a family back from the brink By Allen & Sandra Parton.
If everyone is happy and wants to agree for a second BOTM I'm happy to go with Toni's suggestion of Together Apart By Natalie K Martin as No.2 Book Of The Month for March.
Price on Kindle:- £1.38
Enjoy everyone!!0 -
Hi
I am Diane and I am a new here but as I read 4-6 books a week I decided to have a look through your book club and I have now downloaded 3 books that have been recommended by you. I have read your BOTM and really enjoyed it.
I have a kindle which is really handy with my fingers not working too well but I do love to hold and read a book (normally bought through charity shops(4 for a pound ha)). I am an avid reader and my best book i have read recently is The Son by Phillip Meyer. I will read practically anything but I am not too good with real life stories as they make me cry
Keep on with all your suggestions
Many thanks
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Welcome to the Book Club Diane, we are a very relaxed group who enjoy reading! All I ask is whenever you finish a book to please review it so others can read the review and decide if it's for them. We have Books Of The Month which used to be one book but now has recently changed to two! Middle of the Month I ask for Suggestions of books members have seen that might be suitable for the group to read. There is no pressure to read the Books Of The Month. I hope you will enjoy the Book Club and again Welcome! :balloon:0
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Yay! Another member! I would like to welcome you too, Diane. Just to warn you that Bubba does like to get new members to suggest the next BOTM so get your thinking cap on!!
I am enjoying The Secret Place but the going is slow due to having to go to work! Grr! I want to finish it so that I can Read My Dear I want to tell you. So many books so little time!!!0 -
I began a new book last night on my Kindle, Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey.
It's narrated by Maud, a lady who is suffering from either dementia or Alzheimers, (I didn't get far enough to discover which) who suspects that her friend Elizabeth has disappeared. I read the first two chapters - the writing is beautiful, you can feel Maud's puzzlement and fear about the world she used to know and can still (occasionally) recognise - but I had to stop because it was upsetting. I will return to it because it deserves to be read but I think I need to be in a better place myself to carry on with it.
I read a supernatural thriller which was quite scary in places, I think it was called Fear No Evil by Debbie Johnson, the PI was a female Liverpudlian surname McCartney, aided by an ex-priest surnamed Lennon. I recommend that one! DDHave you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben0 -
Look Behind you by Sibel Hodge
I have to admit I absolutely enjoyed this book, it kept me hooked and not wanting to put down. The story of at the beginning of Chloe Benson waking up realising she is underground and kidnapped and how she escapes. The trauma of being frightened and having amnesia and trying to piece together what happened no one believing her and she doesn't know who kidnaped her and why. The story is well written and the twists and turns leading up to the ending are very clever. I would recommend this book to everyone I know who reads and will be. Excellent read!
Rating:- *****/*****
Going to be starting Endal this weekend!!0 -
DD sometimes books do become to hard to read because they upset you, it's happened with a couple of books I've read. I had to put them away and wait till I was in a better place of mind before picking them up again. The second book you mentioned Fear no Evil took my fancy so it's gone on the must read list! Thank you for sharing and popping into the club!!0
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Hey Bubba! I am glad you also enjoyed Look Behind You. I thought it was really good. It took a while to work out who did it and I found I kept doubting everyone. I think, in the end, it always had to be the one who did!! If you see what I mean? It totally had me hooked so I award ****/***** as well.
DD - Elizabeth is Missing is on my list - it may well be the book I have to collect from the library tomorrow.0 -
Look Behind you by Sibel Hodge
This was a new author for me so I was keen to get started!
A psychological thriller is the genre I'd put it in.
The main character, Chloe Benson, wakes up trapped in somewhere dark and underground....a familiar start to psychological thrillers......so I thought I knew where we were going with this one.
She escapes and wakes up in hospital terrified for her life, but having lost a good bit of memory. The police are called and begin an investigation until her husband arrives and soon raises doubts about her state of mind. Apparently she has had a psychotic episode during the period she can't remember as a response to some medication and two other hospital doctors support his assertions.
Me being me I suspect everyone around her, initially going with my obvious choice- the husband. Then the psychiatrist, then on to the very few who seem to believe her, (including her male 'friend') even the police. Twists and turns follow, with me worrying who Chloe could should trust safely:?
Agreeing with frogmella the culprit was who it should have been, finishing it off nicely.
I give this book a 4**** rating
Toni xxx
Ps Welcome Diane I think you'll definitely fit in here
and DD I have 'Elizabeth is Missing' on my kindle ready too, but am reading 'The Art of Letting Go' by Chloe Banks ATM0 -
The book I collected from the library yesterday was Elizabeth is Missing. It is good so far.
I have finished The Secret Place by Tana French
It is a murder mystery set in a girls' boarding school. It has two "strands". There is the current day - which is all one day where the detectives are at the school investigating and there is the past from about 3 months before the boy's death up until the present. The chapters alternate so we begin to get some ideas about who might have done it and why.
I enjoyed it so award ***/****0 -
Look Behind You by Sibel Hodge
I really enjoyed this book right from the very beginning .....though I was a little worried that Chloe and I would be spending the whole book in the hole!!! :shock: :shock:
Maybe in the end we all thought, yes, as we were lead to believe all along but other suspects were thrown in our path to muddy the waters.
4*s from me.
Love,Love, Legs x
'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'0 -
I'm glad everyone enjoyed Look behind you. I'm enjoying Endal one of the BOTMIt's not sad like I thought it would. And I like the way the chapter are split for 2 different points of view.0
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True Amanda and very readable isn't it?
Good choice for BOTM
I am also 'listening' to Elizabeth is Missing. In order to confuse my small brain
Love
Toni xxx0 -
So Sorry I haven't been around the last week, been totally crazy at home with carpet fitters in for 2 days and appointments!! When I've had some time to myself I have been reading the BOTM 'Endal , It's very good and keeps you hooked. I've been grabbing it when I have a spare few minutes as well as my usual reading time. I'm just coming up to three quarters of the book read.
Hope everyone's good, sorry I was away, back again now!!0 -
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Maud is an eighty something year old lady who has Alzheimer's or something like it. It is written from her point of view so you get a sense of the fleeting way her thoughts work - or don't! She writes herself notes so that she remembers things, but it doesn't work very well. She spends a lot of time worrying that her friend, Elizabeth, is missing. The story is told in alternating parts - some is now and some is the past, 70 years ago.
I won't say any more on the plot as it will give it away.
I found it a really good book. Maud's thought patterns made it tense - it felt like you were never going to get to her solving her mystery. And even if she did would she remember it?
Anyway I reckon *****
I am now reading My Dear I Wanted to Tell you
Hope everyone is well. Glad to see you back Bubba. New carpets eh? How do the cats like them?0 -
Cats love the carpet!! They have started doing a little scratch to scent mark but no real scratching like they did before because of Beauty's scent being on the old carpet. We have also brought new curtains as well and Arnie is being taught not to scratch these or eat them!!0
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Cats are funny aren't they?! I can't teach mine to do anything. They do what they want. Which, at their age (13) is not as much as it used to be!!
I am enjoying My Dear I wanted to Tell you - thanks for the suggestion.0
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