What other author are you reading at the moment?

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I am currently reading “One pair of hands" by Monica Dickens. I love her witty style and I can't stop laughing with all the anecdotes of her experience as a cook-general.
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Anita Bensoussane wrote:Have you read Marianne Dreams before, Chrissie? It was one of my daughter's favourites when she was younger, and I enjoyed it too. Most unnerving.
Anita, I've finished it last night and also watched the movie. They changed the movie quite a bit.
I prefer the book, but what kept annoying me: why didn't Marianne simply draw a new house when she couldn't remove the bar(r)s from the window on the original drawing?
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Chrissie777 wrote:I've started (and almost finished) reading vol. 2 from a Norman Dale trilogy. Vol. 2 is called "Dangerous Treasure". It takes place during WW II near the British south coast.
Peter, Ginger and Veronica try to find an old treasure in the underground passages of a ruin on top of a hill. The treasure was hidden during Oliver Cromwell's time.
I find this sequel even more compelling than "Secret Service".
Finally I've finished "The Best Adventure" (1945), not bad, but think that part 2 was the best in the trilogy.
In the 3rd part Peter, Ginger and Veronica try to find some stolen sport awards/cups.
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Now I'm reading the first part of another trilogy, it's by French film maker and author Robert Guez based on his TV series "La déesse d'or" (1961) aka "The Golden Goddess" ("The Golden Mask" was the title on German TV).
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Chrissie777 wrote:Anita, I've finished it last night and also watched the movie. They changed the movie quite a bit.
I prefer the book, but what kept annoying me: why didn't Marianne simply draw a new house when she couldn't remove the bar(r)s from the window on the original drawing?
I too preferred the book. It's years since I read the book and watched the film so I'm afraid I can't remember the details well enough to comment on the bars.
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While recovering from flying down the stairs without a broomstick I read What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1989 World International Publishers hardback edition).
Much of this novel from chapter 8, Tomorrow, onward spoke to me growing up as a disabled child trying to make sense of what this life could be like and adjusting to it as days become weeks that soon add up to a year or more.
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It's wonderful the way characters from books can resonate with people across centuries and cultures.

I hope you've now recovered from your fall (or fly!) Sounds painful.
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joanne_chan wrote:While recovering from flying down the stairs without a broomstick...
Speedy recovery, Joanne.
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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. It is the last of his books that I have to read.
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Lucky Star wrote:Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. It is the last of his books that I have to read.
I'm purposely avoiding anything with the 'p' word but it is interesting as a factual record of an International Brigade volunteer and also for the insights into internal squabbling and then left wing politics having read it a few times, Orwell being a author programed very much in our English Literature syllabus (and rightly so).
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Minor thread derailment
Chrissie and Anita, Thank you for your concern. I'm recovering although I did something like this by coincidence this time last year not being terribly good on my feet however it shook me up a bit. I should be okay to spend the weekend in South Staffs with friends (Sends flares in direction of Kings Norton! :lol: )
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I'm reading another Agatha Raisin, called - Wellspring of Death.

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Just finished reading Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. This is only the third book I've read by him and I enjoyed it as much as the other two (both of them were the Sherlock Holmes spin off books). There's also a reference to Enid Blyton in the book!
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Maria Elena wrote:I am currently reading “One pair of hands" by Monica Dickens. I love her witty style and I can't stop laughing with all the anecdotes of her experience as a cook-general.
Interesting to see you like her 'witty style'. I've only ever read one book by her No More Meadows and from what I can remember of it, it was very miserable. So much so, that I really ought to give it to a charity shop, as I can't imagine I'll ever read it again. Have you ever read any of her other books? Maybe I was unlucky and got a bad one?

I'm still slowly working my way through the book about the history of Ladybird books. It's fascinating to see that as late as the 1960s, information is very scarce and patchy. When I watch programmes like Who Do You Think You Are, it seems so easy to produce documents about a person's ancestors from a hundred years or more, and yet a massive company like Ladybird books doesn't seem to have kept very good records.
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Courtenay wrote:I'm currently reading The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor... it's actually the Christmas present I gave to Mum (belatedly, as I brought my family's Christmas presents with me in order to save posting them to Australia), but she's happy for me to read it before I go back to England at the end of the week. Sgt Taylor has served for a number of years as the head of the (very small) police force on the Isles of Scilly and shares plenty of stories — many of them hilariously funny — from his beat. There's not a lot of serious crime on Scilly but there are still plenty of interesting incidents to keep the cops busy, it seems... :wink:
Sounds good, I'll look out for that. :)
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