floragord wrote:I'd just finished Wilbur Smith's excellent PHARAOH yesterday and wondered, what next?, when I spotted the brand new Barbara Taylor Bradford SECRET OF CAVENDON in St David's Library yesterday and hastened to take it - an excellent read. I've just ordered the discussion book for the next local group meeting in January, Lady Audley's Secret, apparently a whodunit written in Victorian times
Just received LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET (Mary Elizabeth Braddon), miraculously in a few days despite the heavy Xmas mails , intended just to have a quick flick but was gripped from the first paragraph, a real Victorian page-turner - I can see it'll be a fun discussion at the book discussion group, sometimes wonder if we have all really read the same item....
I’m reading a very interesting book, which I bought in a charity shop. It’s a 2003 novel by Jean Ure entitled Bad Alice: In the Shadow of the Red Queen.
'Go down to the side-shows by the river this afternoon. I'll meet you somewhere in disguise. Bet you won't know me!' wrote Fatty.
Finally started reading Emma again. I still can't understand why I stopped reading it last time, but now I just can't put it down. It's an excellent books (like all Jane Austen's novels) and I'm loving every page, every word of it... For those who have read it then you may understand how I'm feeling and why I love Emma so much!! At the moment I'm also liking Frank Churchill too. Hopefully he continues to be that nice chap he's now!
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
(все, что я понимаю, я понимаю только потому, что люблю)
Lev Tolstoy
Hope you are enjoying it too! An instance of the book discussion group broadening my reading "horizons", as I'd probably never have come across it else!
For the 2nd time I'm enjoying the autobiography of the Duchess of Bedford (from Woburn Abbey) called "Nicole Nobody". I've read the book for the first time in 1983 and remember it being very unusual and very entertaining. She writes about her upbringing in France, the WW II years as a young wife with 3 little children, then becoming a TV producer until she met the Duke of Bedford.
Chrissie
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
Alfred Hitchcock
Chrissie777 wrote:Thank you, Daisy.
I've never heard the last name Ure again since watching "Look Back in Anger" some 40 years ago, so I thought it's not a common name.
A better known person with this surename Midge Ure, ex-member of groups like Visage or Ultravox.