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Books for Roisin and Yorkiegirl to read!

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Turkiegirl · 04/12/2004 21:19

I think we need a whole new thread.....
Half way through Wolf Brother, then need to read Curous Dog, then Eragon, then my new set of Michael Morpurgo!

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MarsselectionboxLady · 12/12/2004 15:07

No doll. I have 5. 12, 10, 6 and 10month DTs

roisin · 14/12/2004 22:02

How's Curious Incident YG? I finished Lionboy: The Chase today. I haven't decided what next.

Still feeling incurably romantic, so maybe a bit of depressing/suicidal Hardy might knock some sense into me? What do you think?

Yorkiegirl · 14/12/2004 22:04

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roisin · 14/12/2004 22:06

I've watched Sense&Sensibility and P&P on video over the past few days ... I need to come to my senses!

Yorkiegirl · 14/12/2004 22:10

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Yorkiegirl · 18/12/2004 10:31

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roisin · 18/12/2004 14:13

Hi! I'm enjoying CI too - I cried last night at one bit; don't want to say which bit here in case you haven't got there yet! (I've just got to the part where Christopher sets off).

I have emailed you!

Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 21:34

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miggy · 21/12/2004 21:39

Thought about this thread while wrapping xmas presents today and realising that I had bought some for ds because I wanted to read them
will let him read them first! (perhaps)

Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 21:40

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miggy · 21/12/2004 21:49

"how I live now"-about a girl growing up in a post war world (DS is 11-wouldnt obv. give this to a 7yr old really looking forward to reading that.
Also for DS1-complete set of Peter Dickinsen books.
"the secret valley"-about dinosaurs/cornwall-looks interesting
those are the ones I most want to read will will also steal...
For DS2-private peaceful
dd-the flat stanley set of books.
Should keep me busy!

roisin · 21/12/2004 21:51

CI is amazing isn't it, especially as the author doesn't have direct personal experience of AS - just great research!

I felt more comfortable reading it this time around, having talked positively with Ed Psych last week about ds1 and AS, among other things. Have I talked to you about this YG?

Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 21:52

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Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 22:06

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roisin · 21/12/2004 22:07

Yeah, will do. Thx

Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 22:09

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roisin · 21/12/2004 22:22

Cool! will make you cry. Why the Whales came is superb, and Butterfly Lion if you haven't read it before.

Yorkiegirl · 21/12/2004 22:28

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Yorkiegirl · 22/12/2004 20:40

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roisin · 23/12/2004 08:17

About half way through Skeleton Key (3rd Alex Rider). I nearly started Chocolat, or some Jane Austen or Hardy, but plumped for this in the end!

Yorkiegirl · 26/12/2004 22:32

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miggy · 27/12/2004 21:49

You have to read "how I live now"-utterly brilliant. Stole it from DS and read it last night-till 2am as couldnt bear to go to sleep not knowing the end!
Quote from Amazon "Rosoff?s story begins in modern day London, slightly in the future, and as its heroine has a 15-year-old Manhattanite called Daisy. She?s picked up at the airport by Edmond, her English cousin, a boy in whose life she is destined to become intricately entwined. Daisy is staying for the summer in her Aunt Penn?s country farmhouse with Edmond and her other cousins. They spend some idyllic weeks together--often alone with Aunt Penn away travelling in Norway. Daisy?s cousins seem to have an almost telepathic bond, and Daisy is mesmerised by Edmond and soon falls in love with him.

But their world changes forever when an unnamed aggressor invades England and begins a years-long occupation. Daisy is parted from Edmond when soldiers take over their home, and Daisy and Piper, her younger cousin, must travel to another place to work. Their experiences of occupation are never kind and always hard. Daisy?s pain, living without Edmond, is tangible. "
Being compared to curious incident-I think better (imho)
Sadly will have to hide from DS for a bit though as very sad and graphic depiction of war-too much death for him.

Yorkiegirl · 30/12/2004 10:13

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Yorkiegirl · 01/01/2005 22:25

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roisin · 03/01/2005 14:31

MM is an amazing author, isn't he? DS1 wrote to him, and had a fabulous, hand-written reply! Have you read his Private Peaceful - utterly stunning writing!

DS1 is currently reading Elizabeth Kay's The Divide and is completely gripped by it, more so than any book he's read for a couple of months. Have you come across it?

I don't know what it is that has particularly attracted him, (and I haven't had chance to get my hands on it yet!). But he does seem particularly fascinated by the whole concept of another world, with a different perspective, and a different language.