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Post by megan on Oct 19, 2006 13:20:53 GMT
Can you say why it is so frustrating, or will that spoil the story?
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Post by Shirley on Oct 19, 2006 20:02:48 GMT
I just finished Marisa's Man Hunt - great stuff Marisa! I especially loved the bit about the fat photo on the fridge! I started Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel - has anyone read it?
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Post by charlene on Oct 19, 2006 22:05:55 GMT
Can you say why it is so frustrating, or will that spoil the story? lets just say there are lots of possibilitys and I'm trying to work how things are going to go, can't say too much don't want to spoil it I'd say it would be good for a book club
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Post by Oonagh on Oct 19, 2006 22:12:14 GMT
I started Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel - has anyone read it? What is it about shirley?? never heard of it.
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Post by Shirley on Oct 20, 2006 7:07:25 GMT
Amazon description: In this almost-all-girl reprise of the collaborative fiction Finbar's Hotel, Dermot Bolger skillfully weaves together eight chapters, each contributed by a different Irish writer, into a light, coherent, and highly readable novel about a culture in flux. The old Finbar's had been a dark, unchanging place, a "grade two" businessman's hotel in Dublin smelling of gravy and overcooked meat. The impressive new establishment, owned and renovated by the not-quite-respectable Dutch wife of a rock star, is a symbol of 21st-century Ireland--unquaint and anonymous, its chilly white surfaces are indistinguishable from those of a Hilton or a Marriott, despite the "Irish Bar" tucked into one corner of the lobby as a sop to tourists. Bolger is the only man among the writers included, and it is to his credit (or a handsome rebuttal to the old argument about "men's" and "women's" voices in fiction) that we can't tell his contribution from the others. None of the chapters lists its author--a brilliant if unsettling device--so that readers are left wondering whether the bestselling Maeve Binchy, for example, can be distinguished from Anne Haverty and Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, both of whom write poetry as well as prose. Other contributors are Kate O'Riordan, Deirdre Purcell, and Dublin natives Clare Boylan and Emma Donoghue.
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Post by Oonagh on Oct 20, 2006 9:12:32 GMT
a clever idea
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Post by claire on Oct 20, 2006 9:32:20 GMT
that sounds really interesting Shirley, another one fro my list
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Post by tatty on Oct 20, 2006 17:27:06 GMT
im half way through Jade Goody's autobiography and its brilliant, there is no much in there that you just couldnt think was possible for na 5 year old to go through.
cant wait to pick it up again tonight.
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Post by megan on Oct 20, 2006 18:35:03 GMT
I like the sound of that book, Shirley. Thanks for telling us about it.
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Post by joanne266 on Oct 21, 2006 8:39:30 GMT
I'm currently reading Isobels Wedding by Sheila O'Flanagan. I'm only about 30 or so pages in - but it's really good so far. On my to be read pile i have "Little Face" by Sophie Hannah, it was recommended to me on another book forum and looks like a fab read. Before picking up Isobels Wedding, i was reading Housewife Down, which i enjoyed, but was a bit bizarre in places.
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Post by megan on Oct 21, 2006 8:59:34 GMT
'Little Face' is a great title. What is that book about, Joanne?
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Post by joanne266 on Oct 21, 2006 9:23:11 GMT
Hi Megan! I've pinched the bit below from another site. Gives you a brief introduction to the book. It looks really good. I'm going to Prague on Tuesday and the book is coming with me Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either mad or lying, and the DNA test is going to take a week. One week later, before the test has been taken, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Run away, abducted, murdered? The police who dismissed her baby swap story must find out, and as they do they find dark incidents in David's past - like the murder of his ex-wife...
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Post by megan on Oct 21, 2006 10:20:59 GMT
OOOOOOOOOOOOOh! Sounds good! Have a wonderful time in Prague!
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Post by Oonagh on Oct 21, 2006 10:27:10 GMT
have a ball joanne
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Post by joanne266 on Oct 21, 2006 10:27:13 GMT
Thanks! I'll try
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Post by charlene on Oct 21, 2006 12:53:56 GMT
LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT BOOK JOANNE.
I finished melissa's book last night and I have very mixed feelings about this book can't write them on the board as it would spoil the book completly.
not sure what to read next might read some of the stories in Thirty and Fab.
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Post by Shirley on Oct 21, 2006 17:47:07 GMT
Can you PM me to tell me what you thought of the book Charlie? I've read it as well and would be really interested to hear what you think!
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Post by nicc on Oct 22, 2006 5:48:28 GMT
Yeah I'd be interested to hear also, Shirley. That book sounds really good, Joanne.
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Post by megan on Oct 22, 2006 12:59:26 GMT
Charlene,
I would love to hear what you think of Melissa Hill's book too. I don't care if it it spoils the story. Perhaps you could start a thread on it and warn people at the beginning not to read your post if they are going to read the book. (I won't be reading it, but am interested in why Melissa Hill is such a success, and so would like to hear your views, if poss) thanks.
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Post by megan on Oct 22, 2006 13:01:15 GMT
I've come to a bit of a standstill with 'Sex. Lies and Fairytales.' I don't like reading about Chloe and her husband. I feel that all her worries are a waste of her precious life, and mine too when I'm reading it! I like the bits about Pixie so I might just skip on to those!
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Post by charlene on Oct 22, 2006 14:11:03 GMT
I have posted on the book reviews hope thats ok, not really a review just my thoughts.
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Post by Karen on Oct 22, 2006 18:08:29 GMT
I've started reading The Nanny by Melissa Nathan. Fab so far!
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Post by Oonagh on Oct 22, 2006 21:19:48 GMT
I ll hold off until I read all because of you to read the tread. i liked pixie as well. really warmed to her.
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Post by charlene on Oct 23, 2006 8:46:33 GMT
I've started From Here To Maternity and I love it a really good book to get into
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Post by Mary on Oct 23, 2006 11:42:23 GMT
I'm reading Exclusive by A. O'Connor (Poolbeg) - different but very enjoyable. The mad world of fashion and music.It's definitely holding my attention but is a really long book!
Mary.
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Post by Oonagh on Oct 23, 2006 14:43:53 GMT
Did she write Every one knows a Bono story Mary??
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Post by nicc on Oct 24, 2006 6:02:23 GMT
Well I've nearly finished reading Sex, Lies And Fairytales. Abit slow going towards the end but I'll wait til bookclub to say anymore. Abby hopefully I should get it off to you tomorrow.
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Post by Mary on Oct 24, 2006 11:48:40 GMT
I'm not sure, Oonagh, to be honest, I'll check it out for you
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Post by Shirley on Oct 24, 2006 21:27:08 GMT
As far as I'm aware, Everyone has a Bono Story was written by Anne Marie O'Connor, and Exclusive is written by Andrew O'Connor. He also wrote a book called This Model Life. I don't know anything else about him though!
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Post by megan on Oct 24, 2006 21:45:52 GMT
I read 'Tuesdays with Morrie' today. A beautiful book about a journalist who, every Tuesday, visits his old college Professor who is dying. It made me cry. Loved it.
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