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It's that time of year again

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By Sun 14-Jun-09 16:18:04 Add message | Report | Contact poster
Long summer holidays coming up, including two weeks in Greece.

What can I read?

I need gripping and exciting novels (no chick-lit, no overly lit-fic) that will last me for a day or two each (read very, very quickly).

Things I have enjoyed recently are:

- all the CJ Sansoms
- World Without End and the other one
- A murder-mystery featuring Oscar Wilde
- re-reading Brideshead Revisited
- the Frank Talis Viennese mysteries
- somebody Kellerman - a mystery about an artist - was a Richard and Judy

Favourite authors ever are Austen and Stephen King but of course, I've read all of theirs.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 22-Jun-09 18:34:39
Chocolate and sleep - they always sound good!

History books, yes. Historical novels, probably mostly no.

Although I read my first georgette Heyer earlier this year and think I could cope with another of hers.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 21-Jun-09 23:17:01
How about Dorothy Dunnett? Or is historical not your thing?(and even for a fast reader they might last longer than a day or two..)
..and post MT is definitely possible,I'm fine pre now but post is another matter.Chocolate is the answer.And sleep.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 20-Jun-09 23:20:07
Thanks Pointy.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 22:04:57
it's good, yes, but hard reading at times due to subject matter. I am very bad at remembering books other than good/bad.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 21:51:55
Nope - is it good?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 20:57:30
you read The Bone People by Keri Hulme?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 20:44:24
Pointy - usually I'm fine but this time I have the most awful sugar cravings and am tired and snappy.

Anybody want to explain Hawksmoor to me?

Ahundredtimes -

no idea yet. Nothing much has grabbed me yet - am sure there are more books out there!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 17:28:32
I don't get pre-mt never mind post-mt. I have annoyed people in the past by insinuating it is exaggerated. I have been put in my place already, though, so please no one take offence.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 18-Jun-09 17:09:05
Finished 'Hawksmoor' - am clearly a thicko because I Just Didn't Get it At All. AT ALL I tell you! WTF was it going on about?

I will return to this thread when I am less stressy and stupid, as I appear incapable of even deciding between biscuit, or cake; black skirt, or purple skirt; sleep or bath at the moment - and books are so much more important than any of those!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 17-Jun-09 22:57:01
I swear I do get post MT as well, or maybe I'm just a grumpy old hag hmm
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