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Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 12 Aug 2013, 22:53
by Aggers
Di - At the moment I am not looking for any more books to download.

I have the complete works of H Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, and Jules Verne, -- four of my favorite authors.

I reckon there must be getting on for two hundred books in all.

In fact I doubt whether I shall ever get through them all.

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 12 Aug 2013, 23:14
by Diflower
Lovely to have all that choice though Aggers :)

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 12 Aug 2013, 23:19
by debih
I've nearly finished The Mountains Echoed. I'm sure I've read it before!!!

I picked up two books from the library today - Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell and Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.

I think I will start with the Heatwave one - I'm not really sure about the other, it sounds a bit odd!!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-fo ... a+heatwave

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-After-eboo ... after+life

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 13 Aug 2013, 08:06
by Diflower
It came out in May Debih, so it couldn't have been long ago :D

Both of those are on my list; obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it :)

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 13 Aug 2013, 14:16
by Fugitive
'Instructions for a Heatwave' is a brilliant read. Hope you enjoy it Debih.

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 13 Aug 2013, 20:28
by debih
I can't have read it then. It seems very familiar though

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 14 Aug 2013, 17:53
by miasmum
Diflower wrote:obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it :)


does that mean it's not her usual depressing read then?

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 14 Aug 2013, 18:11
by Diflower
miasmum wrote:
Diflower wrote:obviously this Kate Atkinson's different from her others but I still fancy it :)


does that mean it's not her usual depressing read then?


I don't find her books particularly depressing, I probably should but I don't :D

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 14 Aug 2013, 19:57
by miasmum
To be fair I didn't until I read When Will There Be Good News and wanted to slit my throat :lol: :lol:

Re: What Are We Reading In August?

PostPosted: 29 Aug 2013, 08:26
by Kaz
I read a very good book on my kindle on holiday - Nina Todd has Gone, by Lesley Glaister. It was either a freebie or very cheap bargain from Amazon, can't remember which now, but was a cracking read! 8-)

The story is written as a first person narrative, by two people - one woman and one man - and as it unfolds you realise just what the connection is with the two - and I couldn't wait to find out what happened at the end! The ending was a real twist, as it happens 8-) :)

I am also about halfway through The Secret Keeper, the Kate Morton. It's very good, but not grabbing me as much as The Forgotten Garden somehow :roll: