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[CLKD]

I have read this weekend the most powerful book ever.  "My Father's House" by Sylvia (surname has gone from my brain).  About incest and how she remembered/forgot/remembered ......... I kept nodding and agreeing with some of her story ........... and how bits clicked into place as she told her history.

Back to The Secret Garden - less harrowing 

[honeybun]

I don't like that kind of book. I read for escapism and relaxation. I just don't want to read of others traumatic childhoods.

It may be burying my head in the sand but we all have heard of these things and I certainly don't want to read about it.


Honeyb
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[CLKD]

I am enjoying The Secret Garden

Might re-read Famous 5 and Secret 7 next 

[lily]

I recently read Judy Finnigan's book Eloise - a bit on the dark side.

[Hattie]

 

[CLKD]

I began the story of Gareth Malone last night in the bath  -  some of the stories I undoubtedly have forgotten as I kept thinking "I am sure I saw some of that" ……. it does go back to 2009 though 

DH gave me the autobiography by Vigee Le-Brun - an artist who painted for the Court of Marie Antoinette

[Limpy]

I mentioned this on another thread.

Hello from the Gillespies - by Monica McInernery

Very readable - It was recommended in Good Housekeeping

[CLKD]

I have finished reading Lulu's autobiography in about 12 hours.  It was brill., learnt a lot as well as remembering something of the 1960s  …….. she really was there!

[honeybun]

And she was very very loud.

Cannot abide the woman. An English accent in England and a Scottish accent when she come "home"
My head just says false.


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[CLKD]

  ……. I pick up accents when I'm out and about for long enough: wouldn't dare go Down Under to State-side  .

I began a book last night about a girl who was adopted - her mother finds her and eventually her father (married at the time of her birth) turns up too ……. very fast, a lot of anger between the lines and a page turner 

Now - about Jeffrey Archer - I read his first 3 and loved them …….. we took some books to a nearby NT shop today, had a light lunch and bought 3 more books  plus being out and about yesterday: home with more books 

[dazned]

The new Harper Lee book will be out soon ! So I think another 're read of to kill a mocking bird beckons   

[CLKD]

I tried that earlier this year, couldn't get past the first 5 pages 

[dazned]

Oh it's one of my favourite books. Do you like reading old "children's"books?

[CLKD]

Yep - Secret Garden was a fav., Anne of Green Gables; Famous 5/secret 7 ………. although I prefer real Life stories to connect with.

[dazned]

Have I mentioned Brendon Chase to you ,think I have ,it's a truely lovely book ,with fantastic description of the woods ,I can see it in my minds eye now.