Have just finished "The Secret Chord" by Geraldine Brooks, She's an excellent writer. This one is about King David from the Bible. Might have written the Psalms but was a randy old goat!!! Stole one of his officer's wives, put him into the thick of battle to be killed. Leonard Cohen wrote "Hallelujah" about this incident...."I heard there was a secret chord..."
She also wrote "March".
Now right into "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Can't put it down, in the way of my next ff chapter and my last bit of Christmas shopping. Won all kinds of awards. Love the writer's name- Ransom Riggs. I gather it's book one of a three part series'.
A must read is "Room". Hard story, wonderful characters and writing. Film due for release very soon. Have a look at the trailers on You Tube.
I"ve got six weeks holiday now, have just had my ??th birthday, have just done my usual present to me,six brand new books on my bedside table. My idea of heaven. The love of books came from when I was a small girl a long, long time ago and was in isolation from other kids with a really infectious strain of TB. Unheard of these days, thank God.
So there are a few ideas,for what they're worth. And buy yourselves Outlander about a seriously sexy Scot. Who knows, Mr Aldridge might get a bit of a holiday breather from his almost stalkers!!!