just finished one of sue grafton's alphabet books, private detective story, really enjoyable - expect I shall be reading quite a lot more in the next month as just been told that leg cast stays on and pressure on foot stays off for at least another month!

I have not read for years, then my husband mentioned he was going to treat himself to one for christmas, i said i fancied one as well (my chance at being trendy)!!

i have to say, it has helped me unwind and i can hold it\prop it up in bed!

i prefer real stores.
at the moment, i am reading a story about Spud and her dog
Tess - they walk around the uk back in the 1990's

Your dog advertised this years ago, i cut out the book title, and thought one day i shall find the book.

Author is Spud Talbot-Posonby
four paws and two feet

follow up
Small steps with paws and hooves, a highland journey.

started reading her first book last weekend, I loved the book and her adventure in raising money for charity, shelter (homeless people) her friends and family took it in turns driving her campervan around and cooking for her and her dog!
really sad at the end, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer :-(

im now on her follow up book.
she is a mum, Tess the dog with her, has a horse called Ben, her man.......they set off on foot (with the baby) Barney in the Highlands.

I googled her, sadly she is no longer with us....so glad to of waited when the time was right for me to read her journey.

on a lighter note:
i have read Alan Sugar, Michael Mcintyre, Paul O'Grady, Richard Madeley.

Midwife true stores:
Midwife on call - Agnes Light
Catching babies - Sheena Byrom
Tales of a midwife - Maria Anderson

One girl and her dogs - Emma Gray

and a dog named Slugger - Leigh Brill (service dog to help lady in everyday life)

following what i have read, any recommendations from you all?

jane
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Amazing Jenni that your nan has a kindle, she can read anywhere and on a table without holding too long. I think gentle stories on a non dramatic theme be suited for her - my nan loved mills and boon - not sure if they on a kindle? Or too much for her?

I'm reading jeremy vine, really good read.

Not done shades of grey, sounds 2 exciting!! Heard discussed on jeremy vine show last week!
I have read some midwife books, training from 70's to 80's era upwards of their career - enjoyed that.

Your nan sounds like a with it cookie (good for her)!
Let us all know how she is getting on with her kindle.
Jane
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must look into getting one of these kindles they sound very good,my wrist and hands are sore as i have read all 3 shades of grey in a week and was really very good story,kind of pretty woman(man) meets twilight(young love) and love story with naughty bits but i did enjoy the story and a happy ending,most folk i know who have read it enjoyed also,some of them are in thier 80's,hyped up to much,would like to know where she got her info from,hope she leaves the story alone now,i have read the davinci codes and they were good,now on tales of knights etc collection i have been given,dorothy

Hi friends,

I am with Lyn on this one. I love picking up a book and feeling it, but then I suppose I am biased. I was a librarian for many years, and I shudder to think what is going to happen to books.

I have just been reading Jeanette winterson: Why be happy, if you could be normal. A wonderful autobiography about her growing up as an adopted child in Accrington. A difficult childhood. She left at 16, managed to go to Oxford, really well done, having grown up in poor working class surroundings, very unloved. She goes on telling the story about finding her real mother. The book is quite heartbreaking, but also funny.

I read Oranges are another fruit some years ago, but I am going to read it again.

Merete

The Call the Midwife book is even better than the TV series Dorothy, you'll enjoy it.
I have recently read the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy......excellent.

Doreen xx

ps I loved the CAll the Midwife series - it was set in the year I was born!! I must get that book next

well i am enjoying call the midwife lots more in the book than tv,weird i can hear all the voices in my head and imagined miranda hart on the bike did have a chuckle,made me think how i look on mine,i have recently reread kidknapped(old school book) and forgot how the old books were,the friend who lent me it asked me to reference where he travelled as she had problems finding places but as they did then names were spelt different so i got so much more out of it as i found the places for her and wrote out his route,i am from scotland so i really loved doing it for her and she was pleased,infact she is off back packing next year to follow the trail and she's over 60,funny how being older we read so differently,david copperfield mmmm thats a thought for the winter,i read carrie a soft horror and then saw the movie and i much preffered the book,dorothy

ps, 2 of my nieces have read all shades books and thought the same as us =shock,horror,mmmm,fun,love,bless then aw!, and it does make you think,my sister wont read it YET.

anyone read rebbecca? it's getting passed around between my pals just wondered,waiting for my turn.

I've just read, The Women Who Went To Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend on my Kindle. It was laugh out loud funny, and I really enjoyed it, although read it too quickly. Always feel like I've lost a friend when I finish a good read.
Candy

Have just finished reading:-

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - This was a brilliant book. It is about an 18 year old girl who has been in care the majority of her life, either in a home or with foster parents and at 18 finds herself on the streets. Her talent and knowledge of flowers is spotted by a local florist and you are taken through the victorian meaning of flowers as she uses them to help others through the flowers she chooses for them with a love story intertwined. I could not put this down.

Memoirs of an Imaginery Friend by Matthew Green - A little boy's imaginery Friend called Max is more "alive" than you would believe. Max is an 8 year old with autism and Max knows that the little boy is in danger but how can he help him ............ Another book read into the early hours

Current book is "The Secrets Between Us" by Louise Douglas. This is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and I can see another late night coming up .....

I just love to read

Jackie
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