The Wilding

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Anyone read The Wilding (Maria McCann)?

It's on Richard and Judy's book list and it looks really good.

Didn't know though if it could be a bit twee?

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I'm just about to start this so will let you know! It looks really good though and has good reviews on Amazon.

thank you!

I've got this and heard not so great reviews of it. But Maria McCann's first book is brilliant, so I hope this one is at least "okay".

Well just finished this and thought it was just okay! Took me a while to get into, then it picked up pace a bit, then near the end I got a bit bored again. It was a nice read but not a page turner and was left feeling 'Is that it?'

Oh no!
I put it on my list for DH to order.
Oh well - went and got lots of books from Oxfam yesterday so have lots of lovely reads anyway.

So what lovely reads have you got from Oxfam vintage? (always on the look out for suggestions!!)

The Little House (Phillipa gregory) - watched on tv the other week and was very good. Thought the book might be even better.

The Voyage of the Narwhal(Andrea Barrett)

Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)

The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) (I have seen some of the episodes on tv recently but didn't see all of them so thought I'd read book instead.

There's another but can't remember the name (it's upstairs and am busy cooking tea)

I would like to recommend Joanne Felders 'the secret mothers club' to all mothers out there.
Ignore please the chicklit type pink cover with the cartoon drawings,( her publisher should be shot!) this is a read that will resonate with all mothers, probing the depths of female friendships and the truths of motherhood,some unspeakable, that we ALL experience.
Let me know your thoughts if any of you have read it, ignore the cover...in this case appearances are very deceptive.

VINTAGE Snow Falling on Cedars and The Little House are on my list! Have just collected My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin from library - it had some good reviews.

blundermum sounds cool. As a forces wife, I have to constantly leave and renew/make newfemale friends, some of whom I will never see again and others which I struggle to keep going, even though I may not see that wife for another 4 years! This book sounds like it'll be really interesting and very relevent to me.
As long it's nothing like 'One sock and a Hairbrush' (or whatever the title is) I don't mind .

Vintage are you moved around the world? If so how do you source your books? Do you rely on family/friends sending books they have enjoyed? I get panicky when going on holiday thinking I may run out of books to read and use the local library lots on the basis of "use ot or lose it"! I also frequent Waterstones reading the staff reviews and buy if something looks particularly good.

No- UK based currently. Been to Germany but just bought from amazon.

I love reading books others have read. It feels more special than buying a brand new book as you know someone else has jumped into the story too. I know that sounds weird and I do buy new books too but I'm the same with crockery and table cloths etc.

I am on the hunt for cakes stands from the 1930s/1940s,/50's etc, purely so that when friends are sitting having cake and coffee, I know that the cake stand has been sitting around someone's table in 1942 (for example) and has got a story behind it. I like to think it's listened to other people's gossip and stories.

I love sharing books, if I buy one then enjoy it I will pass onto friends who I thnk will also enjoy. Love it when they come back and say that they have loved and poss would not have chosen it themselves.
Do you get many comments from friends about your cake stands? I agree about thinking of the stories they must have listened to, particularly those that would have been used during/shortly after the war. Its reassuring that some things don't change - women sharing over a cup of tea and cake!

Unfortunately I currently only have one new cake stand bought by my mother in law. When she asked what I wanted for my birthday, I said I wanted a 2nd hand cakee stand and what did she buy me.....a brand new one! Oh well - it's still pretty. Think she did it as I said one from Oxfam or similar would be great whereas she has a bee in her bonnet about spending exactly £25 on children and their spouses for birthdays. Oh well - I shall enjoy trying to find some myself.

Yes, I too love passing on/buying books that I think others would love.

I can highly recommend 'The Blasphemer'. It's a lovely book with a fab twist.

I love browsing around collectables/bric a brac stalls and at car boots and often see very pretty cake stands usually in very good condition as, I suppose, the were not in daily use.
I will put 'The Blasphemer' on my "to read" list which is not getting any shorter as I have spent too much time MNing during the snow rather than reading (or doing housework, writing Christmas cards etc)!

Yes - I too always head for the bric a brac section at antique sales etc. DH tries to stop me as he calls it junk/clutter. Men just don't get it do they??

I have just placed 2 bids on ebay - for two cake plates, rather than cake stands but still very lovely.
I find it hard to read in the day as I feel guilty that I should be doing housework.....but don't seem to do that either!!!

Oh - I looked at the title of the book I'm reading - it's 'Freedom's Land' by Anna Jacobs here.

had good reviews.

Thanks Vintage Freedom's Land looks good andf is now on my list. I worked in Oz and don't think I would want to live there. People are lovely, warm and hospitable, but the climate is one of extremes - heat,fires and drought which are so very cruel.

I am struggling to finish Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin. A New York girl goes searching for tropical plants in Mexico, tis very odd. Remember it was reviewed in a magazine I was reading in the hairdressers - oh well can't enjoy them all I suppose!

No, I always feel a bit distrught when I'm struggling getting into a book; especially one which had positive reviews.

I couldn't get into The tenderness of Wolves - I just kept reading the same sentence over and over again and it just didn't go.

I have tried Time Treaveller's Wife many times too, although I have got the movie now. I felt the book messed around too much and I reckon it's better as a film.

Probably my all time fave is The Island bu Victoria Hislop and if you haven't read it, it's a must! It changed the way I thought about the world and really left its mark.

Oh I loved The Island as well, very sorry when I finished it. It made me think about something I had, as a child, heard about in Bible stories but not much otherwise. I seem to remember reading that it was going to be made into a film but nothing since.
The film of Time Tavellers Wife I enjoyed but have not read the book. Hope you enjoy it when you get around to watching it!

Aha - I have info there!

I am so disappointed it's not being made into a film. Although it's lovely for Greece, I think there's a point to be made about the plight of leprosy sufferers around the world today. It's such a terrible condition.

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Oh so cannot look forward to the film then! Don't suppose an Greek TV mini series will be dubbed and shown here!

I have finally finished Margot Berwin's book and cannot recommend it and am going to start My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin about an Americen heiress who is brought to England by her scheming Mother to be married into the aristocracy. Had good reviews.

Going back to the title of your thread have you got a copy of The Wilding?

It's wrapped up from the kids to me. I am not supposed to know (although I actually ordered it!)