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Hi Persie <3

Long time no speak, hope you and yours are all well x

However, I will pass on that the book Mersey suggested a couple of GRreaders bookreads ago is really good.

She Wore Only White by Dörthe Binkert

The author spins this story from an article in the New York Times on August 3rd 1904; "Woman Crosses Ocean in an Evening Gown Without Another Dress"
The characters in the book reveal snippets about themselves, their transgressions and bits of their lives before their travel as the journey progresses on the "Kroonland" from Antwerp to New York.

and have you read it our Mersey? :-)

Persie, that is a shame. I said you should have a kindle!!!

I finished Amy Snow while away and then read A Breath of snow and Ashes followed by a quarter of An Echo in the Bone both by Diana Gabaldon two of her Crosstitch series. Both engrossing as all the others have been.

Hi Linda thanks for posting will take a look and get back to you.......many thanks :-)

~~~~~~s to all Bookworms & Kindle Tarts <3 <3

I have just written my first book, called The Other Family by Linda A. Hardy, it is available only on Kindle at present from Amazon and is available worldwide and in all currencies.

The story is about a woman in her 50's who starts to research her grandfathers family tree and discovers a few family secrets along the way, it is fiction but is also based on my own family in parts.

Linda A. Hardy

That book Glossie Ann, has still not come up in our libraries. I would like to read it.. looks like I could be waiting some time.

I am reading Amy Snow, a greaders read. enjoying it too although I had not expected to. Very well written.

Wow! We have an author in our midst!

Although we aren't supposed to advertise on GR, at least one Poet has done the same with no repercussions.

The synopsis on Amazon looks interesting. You never know, some of us might buy a copy ;-)

If anyone out there likes reading science fiction, you may like to read my book,
Martian Legacy by Edward Nickson. Available on Kindle and, Lulu.com.

I also have a book of short stories, under the same name, again through both sites to download.

I hope you enjoy them.

Edward Nickson

My OH reads true crime.. and he investigates the ins and outs very thoroughly.

He has read several books (of which we have a few) on the Peter Falconio murder in the Australia outback. After he read to books on the Australian Snowtown murders when we were over in Australia we went to where two of the houses were north of Adelaide. One had been pulled down and units built and the other was still standing.

We had the Aramoana Massacre in the South Island, where a guy killed 13 people and then killed himself. He read that and then we went and drove around Aramoana.. You have to realise I cringe at going to these places and try to either be nonchalant or slide down in my seat.

We watched the Ivan Milat, rape and murder case unfold over a couple of nights on TV.. he has now finished a book on the subject and had ordered another to read.

He said to me you should read the Basset Road murders in Auckland a lot of the people in it you probably know as they lived in and around Ponsonby which is an area I grew up in. He mentioned one of the names in the book who was in and out of jail and I described him. We actually lived in a nice area and is now one of the most costly areas to live in, in Auckland.

I've been reading a couple of easy reading detective novels.

The Detective and Mr Dickens by William J Palmer. " In Victorian London, Charles Dickens and his protege, the renowned author Wilkie Collins, make the acquaintance of the shrewdest mind either would ever encounter: Inspector William Field of the newly formed Metropolitan Protectives. A gentleman's brutal murder brings the three men together in an extraordinary investigation that leads Dickens to the beautiful young actress Ellen Ternan. Almost immediately, she becomes the love of his life. But first, Dickens must protect her from the noose, as she is the main suspect." A slightly strange book written as though it is taken from the diary of Wilkie Collins. The story was pure fiction but many of the characters, and one or two of the incidents, in it were taken from real life so occasionally it was a bit difficult to be sure what was fact and what was fiction. I think there are several books in this series but I'm not really tempted to read the others.

Kith and Kill by Rodney Hobson. A fairly standard detective novel. A man with 6 grown up children dies leaving a problematic will. The children start being killed off one by one. Who is the murderer? It wasn't difficult to guess and there weren't many surprises in this book.

I've now started on Robert Massie's tome of Peter the Great which I am finding really interesting.

12 in the series. I used to sell them when I had the secondhand bookshop.


Mau, I could not be bothered with Gone Girl, I started it when it first came out. If I first don't succeed in getting into a book in the first few pages, I will start again and give it another go.. it failed both times and yet my daughter really liked it and I generally like most books that she reads.

Anne they were/are seperate books, can't remember how many but there were quite a few. I used to have them all but sadly sent them to a charity shop

Hello Karen and Ann,
Are the poldark books seperate books. I have looked on the library online and I can only see Poldark quartet . Is this the book.

Anne

Read them and loved them many years ago Karen, they are addictive. :-)

Having really enjoyed the TV series, I decided to treat myself to a Poldark book, and wasn't I surprised!!
WHAT a treat :-) I am thoroughly and totally hooked and now on book 5.
Although knowing how the story unfolds (from the telly episodes), it's the books which supply lots of background information and little bits and bobs which can't all be fitted into, or explained, in the on- screen version.
How these have slipped past my notice over the years I don't know.

They are extremely well written, descriptive, sensitive, powerful. Well done to the late Winston Graham.

'The Story of the Irish Race' - by Seumas MacManus (1869-1960).

Published 1921.

I read that one some time ago Vera, I think I still have it on the book shelf, seem to remember I enjoyed it.

I am reading Small Island by Andrea Levy (who wrote, amongst others) The Island about the Leper colony on an Island.
Small Island is a tragicomedy set in postwar Britain, with a flash back to wartime Britain and the joining of the RAF by Members of the Caribbean islands. It is about the first encounters between these people and white indigenous people and also it describes the apartheid that existed among American black and white troops and their reaction to the Caribbean servicemen mixing freely with white British. After the war one ex RAF man from Jamaica returns to make a new life in Britain and finds it is still run down after the war. He is joined by his wife who expects great things of life in Britain and is disappointed. A wellw ritten book and quite illuminating.

I've been reading Fallen Skies by Philippa Gregory. It's the story of an upper middle class war "hero" and the chorus girl he marries and it takes place in the 1920s. Stephen Winter is a lawyer haunted and damaged by his experiences in WW1. He believes marrying the young chorus girl Lily, who has seemingly been unaffected by the war, will make everything right again. It is clear from very early on in the book that it will end in tragedy - it's just a question of trying to guess how it will end.

This was different from any Philippa Gregory book I've read before but I have just discovered that she wrote The Little House which was on television a little while ago and Fallen Skies is similar in tone to that.

The characters are well rounded. Even though some of them are difficult to like and Stephen Winters is horrendous you can understand what has made them the way they are.

Well worth reading once though I don't think it is a book I would want to read again.

Seems a while since anyone posted on here. Perhaps now spring is here we are all finding other things to do. :-D

I've been reading The Tutor by Andrea Chapin, Genes Book of the Month. My review (rather a long one I'm afraid) is on that thread so I won't repeat it here.