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countdown to Jilly!!!

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FnD · 13/09/2010 20:10

after reading Caitlin Morans interview with Jilly Cooper at the weekend - I am throughly overexicted and can't wait for Thursday.

Anyone else planning to start reading on thurs?

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FnD · 22/09/2010 07:50

Jilly uses the word "beadily" more than anyone else I know and I love her for it. So there.

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MaudOHara · 20/09/2010 20:50

Theres another thread over here.

I'm sure I remember a reference to Henriques Bros bank in Rivals - maybe to do with the Venturer application?

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FnD · 20/09/2010 20:24

Am back - stupied work got in the way! and ok I admit it, I am truly sad but yes it was the mention of Gareth and Lazlo that got me all swoony. I think its the first time JC has mentioned characters from her little books and after all this time, the mere mention of Lazlo got me all excited and I really wanted to know what had happened to him and Bella.

Anyway, am loving it large - almost as much as balloonslayers summary Grin

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LastOrdersAgain · 20/09/2010 19:58

MaudOHara Thank you! Grin

I shall start from the top and make my way down (in between the uni reading list!)

warthog · 20/09/2010 19:48

MaudOHara i don't know what FnD's talking about...

no 4 words stood out to me in particular... and rupert campbell-black is only 3. or could be argued 2. and he's who's most worth talking about!

rivals was my favourite too. taggie and rupe. sigh. i think i've read it 6 or 7 times. how sad is that?!?!!? truly, i have a life too.

weblette · 20/09/2010 19:22

Nooo Appassionata was ace!! Agree about everything post that but I still have copies of all of them. Now, how the heck do I get kindle onto my iPhone...

BalloonSlayer · 20/09/2010 19:20

I didn't like Polo all that much (though have just re-bought it Blush to have another go), and thought Apassionata, Score, Pandora and Wicked were all pretty awful.

Have just re-read Rivals, my favourite, after a gap of quite a few years and was quite lost when I had finished it.

MaudOHara · 20/09/2010 19:02

This is the order in which they were published:

Riders
Rivals

Polo

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Apassionata

Score!
Pandora
Wicked!

The first four are by far the best and Wicked is crap not as good

But you can easily read them all separately - enjoy and we'll see you in a few weeks

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LastOrdersAgain · 20/09/2010 18:57

OK, have just seen this thread in active convos.

I used to read JC all the time when I was younger, I still have my seriously tattered dog eared copy of Riders in the loft, and really want to get back into them.

So, can someone please tell me the list in which I should read? Happy to go back and relive Polo/Riders etc. It's been a long time, so will be like picking up from new anyway Grin

MaudOHara · 20/09/2010 18:47

Lol balloonslayer - that is exactly what she does Grin

Have just read to the part where she walks round the village so got lots of that

BalloonSlayer · 20/09/2010 18:44

I also agree HeftyNorks but I am quite enjoying this one so far, although at the moment I am still in the scene-setting part where we are being introduced to "PoshTotty Double-Barrelled whom everyone calls AppallingPun because of her habit of something-or-other and gorgeous, pouting Nouveau Riche who talks in a put-on posh voice - 'Oh Ay Say!' and makes lots of gaffes for the posh people to sneer at" etc.

Very promising Grin

MaudOHara · 20/09/2010 18:16

Warthog have you worked out the 4 words?

Can only think it could have been references to the men from the previous books - Gareth Llewllyn, Lazlo Henriques et al?

warthog · 20/09/2010 18:09

i agree.

but this one is good. i'm enjoying it anyway. i think horses are really her scene.

HeftyNorks · 20/09/2010 17:10

Nope - her last book (well in fact last few books have been utter shite of the highest order so am NOT buying this one - will wait until it starts hitting the charity shops. Sorry to all the Jilly fans but she has not written anything decent since "The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous".

BalloonSlayer · 20/09/2010 17:08

Which four words?

< frets >

MaudOHara · 20/09/2010 13:39

Which 4 FnD? Are you talking about the names?

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FnD · 20/09/2010 07:55

Can we talk about 4 words on page 22? Can we? Can we? can we????

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warthog · 19/09/2010 21:33

i've started and loving it! only thing is i'm getting through it too fast Sad

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FnD · 18/09/2010 18:21

I'm going in!!!

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MaudOHara · 18/09/2010 17:36

Me too thelunar66. Can't start reading until DC in bed but scanned through the list of characters - some old faves - RCB of course; as well as Billy, Janey, Lysander, some of the kids from wicked - and Edward Alderton - Ruperts Grandson and Perdita and Luke's son.

thelunar66 · 18/09/2010 15:24

Got it!!!! Reading will begin soon Grin

MaudOHara · 18/09/2010 11:57

Oh tis flora by the way - I mucked up one of my many logins Grin and Maud (or is it Maude?) is more my age

MaudOHara · 18/09/2010 11:57

Off out in a mo with the DCs to WHSmith to get some school stationery (and the new book SmileSmileSmile

missbeehiving · 17/09/2010 22:14

I am taking Jilly to bed now to start reading. Will report back on joyous otters.

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