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Post by M-M-Underpants on Sept 7, 2017 14:59:15 GMT
Ok, yes, I'm still here!
And I'll have a look at "Disclaimer"
I'm trying to remember the title (or even the author!) of the one I've just finished. It was a new purchase - rare for me, but acceptable when you have a book token! The blurb and recommendations made it seem like a good idea.
One of the comments said that it "kept you guessing right to the end".
Well, in a way it did. But it only kept you guessing between two very obvious suspects. And what it didn't tell you is that it took more than three quarters of the book to get to the act that you knew it was going to keep you guessing about. So you weren't actually guessing for long. Nor did it tell you that neither the plot nor the characters gripped you enough to care!
So I will let you know who it was and what it was, but it doesn't come highly recommended from me!
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Post by M-M-Underpants on Sept 7, 2017 14:59:49 GMT
Aha. "My Husband's Wife" by Jane Corry.
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Post by Nanny Doreen on Oct 8, 2017 13:58:31 GMT
My Sister`s Child. Will check author later
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Post by notsofattypatty on Oct 10, 2017 9:28:58 GMT
I've just finished 'The Designer' by Marius Gabriel, which was an Amazon freebie, and much better than the usual giveaways.
Based in Paris just after the Liberation, it uses the recovering fashion industry as its backdrop with the titular designer being Christian Dior. However, the title is a bit misleading as he is not the focus of the story. It made an interesting read and I do like a story where you learn a little bit about something. I've visited Dior's childhood home in Granville, which is now a museum of his designs, and I'm sure this made the novel more interesting but I don't remember seeing anything about Le Theatre de la Mode exhibition which was the costumiers' response to the deprivation of fabrics after the war.
As an aside, the museum is worth visiting just for the gardens alone - the roses and sea views are beautiful.
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Post by Seacrest on Jan 31, 2018 11:30:28 GMT
I'm a little late to the party, but that sounds an interesting book Patty.
I'm reading 'Low Cost High Life: Live an Affordable Life of Luxury' by Mark Horner, which OH bought me, second hand - presumably to prepare me for retirement. It was a joke gift, but I'm ploughing through it. I don't warm to the author at all, who seems somewhat smug to me.
I'll be back to fiction afterwards, although I do have a Bletchley Park book lingering on my bedside table waiting to be read, so I may divert to that instead.
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Post by Seacrest on Feb 12, 2018 14:44:52 GMT
Now into 'The Secrets of Bletchley Park' by Sinclair McKay. This is particularly interesting for 2 reasons: first, because we spent a fascinating & ighly enjoyable day there in October, and second, because Mr.McKay was a good friend of mine at school, though we lost touch as soon as we left. He's obviously considerably more illustrious than me....
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Post by Seacrest on Mar 6, 2018 9:48:34 GMT
Finished the Bletchley Park book, which was interesting - an incredible feat by incredible people. Then moved onto 'My less than perfect life' by Sophie Kinsella which I picked up in a hotel left-library. I wish I hadn't bothered - it was absolute tosh. A waste of my reading time .
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Post by M-M-Underpants on Mar 6, 2018 14:37:08 GMT
Then moved onto 'My less than perfect life' by Sophie Kinsella which I picked up in a hotel left-library. I wish I hadn't bothered - it was absolute tosh. A waste of my reading time . I think I read one "Shopaholic" one by her and vowed never again!
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