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Need recs please - sorry!

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janeite · 14/05/2010 20:36

What shall I look for in the library tomorrow please? I am currently reduced to re-reads of The Famous Five.

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janeite · 14/05/2010 21:29

Bump please

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janeite · 14/05/2010 21:06

Read it - loved it. Something else like that would be brilliant.

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pollywollydoodle · 14/05/2010 21:05

thinking about this thing of darkness that you recc'd (brilliant btw)have you read this fatal shore by robert hughes...a good read

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janeite · 14/05/2010 21:02

Thanks. Have read the Bill Bryson -love him.

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pollywollydoodle · 14/05/2010 21:00

oh and Harts War by john katzenbach...about a black american fighter pilot incarcerated in a stalag of us and british POW's in WW2, a black marketeer is murdered and the pilot is put on trial for it....meant to be a rubberstamp verdict but the POW law student detailed to defend him takes his job seriously....

pollywollydoodle · 14/05/2010 20:55

chin up girls...a book of obituaries of women with varying lifestyles...a real dipper of a book

life and times of the thunderbolt kid, bill bryson...on my second reading at the moment