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Post by katied on Jul 9, 2008 22:35:28 GMT
Anyone read this one? It was on special in tesco and fell off the shelf into my trolley. It's theme is being adopted and searching for your birth mother
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Post by Oonagh on Jul 10, 2008 12:57:10 GMT
I have read all Martina Reilly s books and i think she is fantastic. I loved this book. a real page turmner/. let me know what u think of it
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Post by megan on Jul 10, 2008 14:10:39 GMT
I enjoyed it too, Katie. It took me a while to get used to her style of writing, but once I was over the first couple of chapters, I settled in for the read. I like the hunky men in her books!
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Post by fionnuala on Jul 11, 2008 0:11:00 GMT
Well girls you may be interested to know that this book was the catalyst for me writing Ripped Genes! I found Something Borrowed quite hard to read in places and felt annoyed some of the time as I felt it didn't give a true reflection of what being adopted is really like! I stopped reading it halfway through and never went near it again!
I remember looking at Martina's acknowledgments and saw that she had done research with the Irish Adoption Society and the more I thought about it the more convinced I became that I should write a book about adoption using fictional characters but from my point of view - after all the only research I would be depending upon would be my own life experience! I thougt at the start that I must be mad but always having had a love for reading and always secretly suspecting that I had a book in me somewhere I decided to pursue it - therefore Ripped Genes was born!
I have a lot to thank Martina Reilly for and have always liked her writing! I particularly loved The Onion Girl but the subject matter of Something Borrowed was a bit too close to the bone for me! Class title, though!
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Post by katied on Jul 21, 2008 19:10:05 GMT
It was OK, just OK. Didn't abandon it halfway but not quite meaty enough for me.
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Post by Oonagh on Aug 27, 2008 13:25:36 GMT
I loved this book. i was crying reading it . I totally dont understand adoption but it did get the view points across to me about the subject matter. Thats just my opinion. Its good that the book inspired you to write fionn you were a born story teller. x
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