Recent
reading update: I'm still taking in lots of recent best sellers. The
Storyteller - harrowing, but livened up by semi-comic / romantic present day
FBI sub-plot; Rooftoppers - Carnegie short listed and slightly pretentiously
written tale of acrobatic teenagers eating rats in Paris; 'Whiskey Beach' is Nora Roberts slightly below par and overlong, though still entertaining; 'The List of My
Desires' - thinnish frenchy novel about a lovelorn secret lottery winner. Reads
like something tossed off by Michele Roberts on a bad day. Loving 'Love, Nina' at the moment, though -
letters from a slapdash home help in literary London - a world which seems
romantic and bohemian from the outside, but is revealed as a bit naff, like
most things happily were, back in 1982.
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My
announcement today is that our 1903 book in our Hundred Years of Paperbacks
reading marathon is…
REBECCA
OF SUNNYBROOK FARM by Kate Douglas Wiggin
It’s
something I’ve always wanted to read. Stuart and I will be blogging about it at
the end of the month. If you want to read along with us, here’s a link to a
free e-copy courtesy of good old Project Gutenberg.
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