What other author are you reading at the moment?

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Poppy - yes, I've read BNW but not for a while. I liked it well enough but can't remember a good deal about it - it's been twenty five years or so :) I just started a reread of Wuthering Heights, though.
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Thank you Yak, that gives me some hope! :D
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Machupicchu14 wrote:By the way, has any of you read Rosamunde Pilcher. I have just finished reading her book The Shell Seekers and I loved it. It was easy to read, really interesting and definitely very engaging! :D
Absolutely, Machupicchu, I read most of her work and enjoyed it very much. My elderly Aunt gave me a copy of RP's blockbuster SEPTEMBER when I stayed a few days to put the garden to rights for the winter some years ago, so I remember that book particularly fondly. Meanwhile I've just finished Dan Brown's ORIGIN, found it a really excellent read with an amazing twist at the end!, highly recommended!
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Just bought the kindle version from amazon for 99p


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I'm reading another Miss Read Christmas story 'No Holly for Miss Quinn'. Not as good as 'The Christmas Mouse' or 'Village Christmas' perhaps but still a lovely book.
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The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton. I have enjoyed several of his books but this, his final work, is a bit of an uphill struggle.
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I'm reading a Christmas book at the moment too, - Christmas at Woolworths by Elaine Everest.

I've also read - The Woolworth Girls by the same author, which was excellent. And the Butlin's Girls, both a great read. :)

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pete9012S wrote:Image

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Just bought the kindle version from amazon for 99p


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I have the first edition in a dust wrapper, which I picked up quite cheaply a number of years ago - but I admit I still haven't read it yet! :D
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I've been reading it today. I love the words she uses and the way her sentences flow.
I find her a very graceful, smooth and descriptive writer.

She makes her varied characters come alive and move effortlessly throughout the tale with the ease of a talented artist who uses a few well chosen deft brushstrokes to recreate a lifelike scene..
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Interesting posts! I usually enjoy winter stories the most when it's a hot and humid and never-ending summer here in New England and my soul desperately needs some mental cooling down. :)
So last night I started re-reading "The Island Keeper" by Harry Mazer. I find it rather blytonesque.
Since I enjoy novels with only one or at least very few protagonists and far away from civilization settings, I've re-read this book many many times since I've bought it in the 1980's.
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floragord wrote: Meanwhile I've just finished Dan Brown's ORIGIN, found it a really excellent read with an amazing twist at the end!, highly recommended!
I always wanted to read Dan brown's books, floragord. Which is the correct chronological order?
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Rob Houghton wrote:Currently rereading 'The Mystery of the Island' by Isobel Knight. It's my 11th time of reading it - I know this because I started writing my name and the date every time I read it - shows how much I liked it! - starting in 1980 when I was 9, then in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2009. :lol:
I do the same, Rob :).
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Machupicchu14 wrote:By the way, has any of you read Rosamunde Pilcher. I have just finished reading her book The Shell Seekers and I loved it. It was easy to read, really interesting and definitely very engaging! :D
Maria Esther, "The Shell Seekers" (and the sequel "September") were my first Rosamunde Pilcher books which I've read around 1988. I've re-read them a few times.

But my favorite RP novel by far is "Coming Home". It has about 1100 pages (hardcover) and tells the story of Judith Dunbar from 1936 until 1946, the pre-war and WW II years in England. I think it's RP's masterpiece and her most autobiographical book. The novel starts when Judith is 14 years old and has to go to boarding school, because her mother and little sister have to return to Colombo (sp?) where Judith's father lives and works for the British Empire.

Now I usually hate boarding school stories (because I was forced to go to boarding school in 1974 :x ), but I love this novel nevertheless and fortunately the boarding school part is rather short.
And I also love the TV mini series based on this novel plus the continuation which is also very Pilcher-like, but was not written by her. The continuation goes way into the 1950's.
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Chrissie777 wrote:Now I usually hate boarding school stories (because I was forced to go to boarding school in 1974 :x )
Does that mean you've never read any of Enid Blyton's boarding school stories, Chrissie? :shock:
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Rob Houghton wrote:Does that mean you've never read any of Enid Blyton's boarding school stories, Chrissie? :shock:
To be totally honest, Rob: I never cared for the books at all!
If "Hanni und Nanni" and "Dolly" (that's how they are called in German) would have been the only EB books I've stumbled across way back in the mid 1960's, I would never have become such a big EB fan.
Being sent away to boarding school kind of hung over my late childhood/teenage years like a Damokles sword (I hope this makes sense in English :oops: ). My parents threatened me with sending me to boarding school very often.

Fortunately I've read the FF first, then the Adventure series and then German translations of "Malory Towers" etc, but quickly found out that I prefer the much more suspenseful EB's. Midnight feasts, bullying and French mademoiselles were just not very interesting for me compared to sunken ships, castles, hidden treasures and underground passages.

Did you go to boarding school?
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