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[CLKD]

   this is getting hard work Girls 

I can't read the book about the Cadbury family 'cos the print is too small >sigh< - so will need to have the magnifier close by as it looks like being worth continuing with.  Why do publishers print such small stories  ………

[Gill Mojo]

Just finished 'Let the Right One In', the book the film was based on and now reading 'The Embers of Heaven' by Alma Alexander. Only problem is having so many books to read... I need another couple of lifetimes

[CLKD]

Oh us too! we have 3 boxes to sort, several shelves full of 'still to read' and each have 2/3 books on the 'go' 

Am currently reading about Nick Ryman's dream and attempts to run a vinery in France - almost finished (it's my in the bath book) and at this point he has fallen out big time with his wife, 1 daughter and son 

[honeybun]

All my recent books are on my kindle or iPad. Takes up no room at all 

We have our special books that we keep, some belonged to my dad but now I have embraced the e book and I love it.


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[Gill Mojo]

I almost bought a Kindle recently, Honeybun, but I decided against it. I am horribly old-fashioned, and although I can appreciate the advantages of e-reading, I just can't do it. I need a book in my hand with paper pages and that unique book smell. Mind you, I said I'd never get a smart phone and I bought one last week. Only bought it for the camera, which turned out to be rubbish, and then turned it off and there it has remained ever since. I suspect a Kindle would go the same way; money wasted Plus I can't resist all the 25p books in the local charity shops   

[CLKD]

 

[Limpy]

Gill Mojo - Kindles are good, go for it.
Certainly if you are travelling and need to keep weight down.
Also, there are loads of good free books.

[honeybun]

My kids cast up those very words to me 

I said I couldn't possibly read on a ...MACHINE....it had to be a book with pages and that book smell.

I had to eat my words. I have a world of books to own. I'm now a member of a website called NETGALLEY and get to review books before they are released. I do the same for Amazon.

I have a wonderful library all of my own to keep, read and re read.

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[Limpy]

That's it exactly Honeybun.

I switch between my Kindle and proper books.
Because, the local libraries are being threatened so I get things there too.
My Kindle is about 65% of my reading.

[thorntrees]

I was the same a few years ago, then got a kindle as a gift from DH and there was no going back. I only down load free books of which there are loads- I will need several lifetimes to get through them all!I still use the library and usually have a real book on the go and one on kindle. Recently updated to a paper white so I can now read in bed when Hubby wants to go to sleep.

[honeybun]

Not sure I'm up to turning pages any more. Too much hard work 


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[CLKD]

Reading:

"Hons and Rebels" by Jessica Mitford - good tale about social history

"From a Clear Blue Sky" 'surviving the Mountbatten Bomb' - scared to read this in case it's too harrowing but have dipped in

[honeybun]

I don't think I would like the Mountbatten book. I was working in the factory that the explosives were stolen from in 1979 when it happened.
It was a pretty bad place to work after that.


Horrible time.


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[CLKD]

Sad times and I will always remember the horror ……….. it is interesting from a historical point of view and also from the family 'tree' involved - haven't got to the day of the bomb yet.  I need to write the family tree down 

[Limpy]

I've recently finished  "Any Human Heart" by William Boyd.
Very thought provoking yet so easy to read.

Am about to start "An Ice-Cream War" by same author.