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If you like Arthurian sagas, I'd highly recommend 'The Mists of Avalon' by Marion Bradley. One of my all time favourite books from the past. It's the story told through the females perspective.
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I’ve just gone back to re-read the Cormorant Strike series by John Galbraith ( aka J K Rowling).
What a joy to read a story with no grammatical errors, no typos, no annoying ambiguous sentences.
What a joy to read a story with no grammatical errors, no typos, no annoying ambiguous sentences.
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Im reading one of the Nikki French novels,Ive read it before but I didnt realise that when I picked it up. Thats the downside of reading in two languages sometimes the titles dont translate very well..lol.
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Don't keep us hanging! You've got to share (I'm imagining things like Korean car manufacturers who called their cars names that are rude words in English lol).
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Nothing as fun as that. I read Dutch fluently a little German and Danish but not for fun.
But obviously to make sense to the native reader the titles do get changed a bit.
Strangely it does matter who does the translation. Early Nikki French books are great the later ones have very heavy handed unnatural translation that make the books almost a chore to read..
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Oh my gosh, so frustrated. SO FRUSTRATED! Another stack of library books, another stack of books written in that stupid horrible unreadable self indulgent present tense style of writing.
I was so angry about it this morning I actually wrote to one of the authors, because I keep having people tell me how good her books are and I cannot get past the first page because of that horrible present tense writing.
Grump grump grumble. Stack of new books, but nothing to read. Back to the old falling apart Anne McCaffrey.
I was so angry about it this morning I actually wrote to one of the authors, because I keep having people tell me how good her books are and I cannot get past the first page because of that horrible present tense writing.
Grump grump grumble. Stack of new books, but nothing to read. Back to the old falling apart Anne McCaffrey.
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I've read a few book written in the present tense and don't have a problem with it - maybe it seems a little off at the start, but I adapt. We're all different though. I'm more distracted by incorrect use of colons and semi-colons.
I've just finished A Knock at the Door by Rob Parsons, and true memoir. When Rob was 27, back in the mid-70s, Robbie, a man Rob used to know from Sunday School, knocked on his door. Robbie had larning disabilities, had been brought up in care, then pretty much abandoned and ended up homeless. Rob and his wife let him stay overnight. But it was then Xmas Eve, and they could hardly turf him out then, so he stayed over Xmas. And then it was agreed he could stay for a fortnight while they worked out where he could go. And then found he couldn't be homed without a job, and couldn't get a job without a permanent address, so they let him stay till he found a job as a dustbinman. But... this man had never been loved in his life, and being told he had to move away would just seem like one more abandonment. Fifty years later... well, you'll have to read the book.
Rob and his wife are very involved in their church, and (being an athiest) I was worried the book would dwell on their 'Christian values'. But no, they were just two lovely, good, caring souls. If you want heartwarming, this is the book to read.
I've just finished A Knock at the Door by Rob Parsons, and true memoir. When Rob was 27, back in the mid-70s, Robbie, a man Rob used to know from Sunday School, knocked on his door. Robbie had larning disabilities, had been brought up in care, then pretty much abandoned and ended up homeless. Rob and his wife let him stay overnight. But it was then Xmas Eve, and they could hardly turf him out then, so he stayed over Xmas. And then it was agreed he could stay for a fortnight while they worked out where he could go. And then found he couldn't be homed without a job, and couldn't get a job without a permanent address, so they let him stay till he found a job as a dustbinman. But... this man had never been loved in his life, and being told he had to move away would just seem like one more abandonment. Fifty years later... well, you'll have to read the book.
Rob and his wife are very involved in their church, and (being an athiest) I was worried the book would dwell on their 'Christian values'. But no, they were just two lovely, good, caring souls. If you want heartwarming, this is the book to read.
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I've just finished listening to the third of the Sugar Shack Witch Mysteries (I got the first five books as a set). Feel I'd like to listen to something different before finishing the set, not sure what though.
Still reading Fat dogs and French estates part 5 and enjoying it.
Still reading Fat dogs and French estates part 5 and enjoying it.
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I read the book and thought exactly the same as you!
I'm currently reading A witch's guide to magical innkeeping. I can't seem to get stuck into it like I normally do with a book, I mainly got it because it's set in Lancashire and I've not read any set here before. Hopefully it gets more interesting!
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