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[Rowan]

I have just finished reading a book that I found in my Mums bedroom after she died thirteen years ago (couldn't read it until now, it even had the paged turned down where she had got up too, she would have loved the Kindle!)

It was "One Summer at Deer's Leap" by Elizabeth Elgin.

I understand why she was reading it, and very poignant.

[Dyan]

Hi PN,

You will enjoy the book.
I was reading it in bed this morning and laughing when my husband came in with my morning cuppa (bless him)
It was a good way to start the day.
A good laugh and a lovely cup of tea,plus the kiss my OH gave me when he left for work.

Love Dyan X

[CLKD]

I found David Walliams book very deep    .......... not sure that I trusted all of it .........

[ariadne]

Just ordered "Relative Stranger" CLKD - I looked at it on Amazon and read a few pages. I'm sure I am going to enjoy it.

ariadne xx

[CLKD]

Did you read it yet?

I have finished "The Lost Child" by Julie Myerson - well I would NEVER have put up with what she and her partner put up with from their eldest child who got into skunk.  There's love and there's tuff love - they allowed him to abuse their property, themselves, his 2 younger siblings, his school didn't help - kept giving him 'another chance' ........

[ariadne]

Yes, I finished it last week. It was very thought provoking and I really admired the dogged determination of the surviving sister to try and discover everything about her sister's life because such closeness hadn't been easy when she was alive. Instead of the sad life she had imagined her sister had, she found instead something quite different 

Thanks for mentioning it on here CLKD

ariadne xx

[Greyhoundgal]

I've just finished "The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson.  Although it was translated into English from his native Swedish it's very well written and I found it very funny in places.  All about his adventures when he runs away from his nursing home plus flash-backs to his younger years - a bit of a comedy of errors but enjoyable reading - I can thoroughly recommend it 

[Elena]

I'm just over halfway through The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which I am enjoying.  I tend to switch between fiction and non-fiction.  Must get hold of the David Walliams book at some point.  I get almost all of my books from the library.

[CLKD]

.... whereas I buy from 2nd hand/charity shops.  Been to a National Trust Property today for lunch and a look-see, came back with 4 more  including another by Julie Myerson.

[Greyhoundgal]

I get almost mine from charity shops - and take them back when I'm done using GiftAid. 

[Rowan]

I am reading "The Apothecary's Daughter" by Charlotte Betts, at the moment, really enjoying it.

[catlady]

I've just started " A Place of Hope" by Anna Jacobs.
I'm a real bookworm and always have a book on the go.

Ann x

[CLKD]

Currently I have one book on the go, often in the Summer I have one in each car, another in the cabin in the garden, one by the bath and ... 

[Elena]

Got so many books to get through atm.  As well as the ones from the library I recently bought about 4 from charity shops.  One was about Internet dating from a man's point of view - fascinating, eye-opening and a bit shocking 

[CLKD]

I have over 100 not yet read