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Oh well done Mau, just take it nice and slow and you will be fine! :-D <3 I finished the Patrick Gale book 'The Whole Day Through', the one about the doctor who works in GUM clinic and woman who comes back from Paris to take care of her naturist mother? Well it was ok but had a most sudden and unsatisfactory ending.

Then I downloaded 'A Symphony of Echoes' by Jodi Taylor who wrote 'Chronicles of St Mary's, (AnnG I think you read it?), a great central character Max, a sort of time travelling book with a humorous twist. Unfortunately I can only read this in the daytime as it is too violent for my night time reading! What a wuss!

For night time reading I have downloaded 'One Day' by David Nicholls but so far it hasn't gripped me.

Happy reading :-D <3

How exciting Mau :-D :-D lets us know how you get on... <3 <3 :-)

Enjoy Mau, if I remember it does take a while for the first charge so don't get too impatient.


I am reading Custard Tarts and broken hearts at the moment, not got into it yet but so far enjoying it.

Update.....If BC is a Kindletart then I am a Kindlevirgin ;-)

Have my present early :-D and now it's on charge.....getting impatient lol

Mau XX

Thanks Mersey and Ann for replying.

I think it's most likely going to be the Kindle Paperwhite I choose, if it's light to hold and has non glare screen & also text can be altered, that seems ideal for me. Is the Kindle Fire a tablet? as I think I might just need an eBook.
Ann you were the very first person who said you owned a Kindle. I'd never heard of them at the time and Googled for info. in fact I mentioned them to other members of family (who'd never heard of them either! ) and now I'm the only one who doesn't use one lolol

Will be going to Curry's very soon :-D

Mau XX

I have just finished The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chambers. It is a great book, really liked, it similar in style to Jodi Piccoult, a really good read. Can't say much about the story without giving away the plot but great characters, a one-time midwife who commits suicide leaving a confession to unravel with the potential to affect three families.

I like my kindle but it is the original, I think the Kindle Fire and Kindle White are a bit lighter to hold. Granddaughter wouldn't read at all she is mildly dyslectic but she does read with her kindle white. So many free books on Amazon Mau, some good ones too.

Hi Mau.....Im totally besotted with my Kindle Fire HD, simple and easy to use, depends what you are looking for.

I don't blame you for getting one, just beware, you can become addicted to Amazon like I am :-D <3 <3

Whatever you choose enjoy <3 <3

Good day to all you readers :-D <3

Just to say I've been struggling along reading J.K.Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy'. I say struggling because I find the story a wee bit boring and even on opening the book I frankly don't care what happens to the characters! :-( anyone else find this?

Anyway I've a birthday coming up and after reading a few reviews on-line and comments from family I think I'm coming around at last to the idea of having a Kindle!! :-) .... thinking of a Kindle Paperwhite or newest? I know most of you love'm but which Ebooks are best please?

Mau XX

Hi Emms and Ann, :-D :-D <3

Emms I have just taken a look at that looks like one for me thanks you know me too well :-D :-D ;-)

Just finished a Miranda dickenson Welcome to my world. quite a light read, not my favourite of hers but I enjoyed it, didn't need a lot of thinking, easy bedtime read. I did feel it was a bit predictable though.

Started reading Peterhead Porridge by James Crosbie £1.19
kindle edition.
The first page had me smiling and then laughing.
It about the funny side of life of Scotland's most notorious prison.

Crosbie was arrested for armed bank robbery for no other reason
than he was bored. Some of the nick names of hardened prisoners
and warders are hilarious .

Emma :-)

Mersey Aaagh!!!! Good job I bought it with a gift card. (I paid £3.99 how very annoying :-()

Have finished Diamonds at Dinner which I enjoyed very much.
An easy read and would say at 99p worth the buy, good to take
on holidays as not tasking in any way.

Emma :-)

BC you have such a different array of book reading, you make me laugh let us know how you get on :-D :-D ;-) <3

Ann dont look now but Operation Kingfisher is now 99p on Amazon :-|

Dermot I will go and take a look :-D

'Running With Crows' - the life & death of a 'Black & Tan'.

The Author - D J Kelly is my cousin.

Evening all and Happy New Year if I haven't said it before and if I have then I will say it again :-D Afraid I have my Kindletart hat on again as got bored half way through my Jack Reacher book so deserted the lovely Jack for a new (to me) author called Patrick Gale. Has anyone read him? I like his quirky style and the name of the Kindle is>>>>>>>>>>>>>runs over to check on Amazon.......'The Whole Day Through'/

So far, it is about a woman, probably in her forties, who worked in Paris but comes home to take care of her independent mother who is poorly and keeps falling in the garden. But as she (the mother) is a lifelong naturist she sometimes lands in a pricjly bush...ouch...and needs help to get up again. Anyway the daughter one day bumps into a lover she had at University. He is a doctor and currently working in a GUM clinic ..

That's as far as I have got, but I am enjoying it immensely.

Happy reading :-D <3

I hope you enjoy Ann, its a very easy read..........

I am now reading Two Brothers by Ben Elton .... at the moment its £2.99 on kindle

My friend mentioned this book but I was put off by the author :-S. She told me to just open the book and read.....im hooked !! The reviews for this book have been really good....I will let you know how I get on...

Berlin 1920
Two babies are born.

Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.

As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice....Which one of them will survive?

Ben Elton's most personal novel to date

Thanks I will make a note of those.

It's always worth revisiting TP's books as it gives you the opportunity to explore the allegories he makes with today's larger society - and the pokes he makes at it!

OH who is the true fan in this household (he has first dibs at a new book) suggests Soul Music to a new reader as you can draw parallels with the 1960/70's Pop-rock scene.
The other one he would suggest is Going Postal, where Moist van Lipwig has to get the Postal Service up and running again. In competition with it are The Clacks which could be compared to the Internet.