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Post by Charlotte on Feb 6, 2014 16:07:14 GMT 1
Just your current/last one or two.
I read Now is Good by Jenny Downham, about a teenage girl dying of leukaemia, rather sad but good. Before that the Chalet School in Exile, perhaps the best book in that series.
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Post by Claire on Feb 6, 2014 22:49:08 GMT 1
I've been reading a few Phillippa Carr/Victoria Holt novels lately which are historical gothic romance. My secret vice lol. I go thru phases where I need a fix of it.
I've only ever read the first Chalet School book, never really got into the series for some reason even tho I quite like school stories.
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Post by kunuma on Feb 7, 2014 20:07:56 GMT 1
I remember liking a couple of Victoria Holt ones that I read. Currently I'm reading the latest Jean Auel book, heroine has three horses, a wolf and a gorgeous blonde guy - sickening! lol
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Post by Claire on Feb 7, 2014 20:59:33 GMT 1
Heroine has three horses, a wolf and a gorgeous blonde guy - sickening! lol Can see the green glow from here lol  |
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 13, 2014 18:39:25 GMT 1
The New Chalet School. The last peacetime book in Austria before the Nazis force a move to England, also one of the darker ones IMO. The film of Now Is Good is good enough as well though not perfect and I really preferred the book.
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 3, 2016 2:47:36 GMT 1
The last book I read was Alice in Time by Penelope Bush. It has absolutely nothing about horses but is quite a good time travel story about the girl of the title.
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Post by Claire on Mar 3, 2016 21:35:23 GMT 1
Sounds interesting Charlotte. I do like time slip stories but wish there were more horsy ones.
I've just started reading Snowfall by K M Peyton. I read it before many years ago so can't recall much about it except it's set in Switzerland and is a coming of age type story. I love her writing either horsy or non-horsy.
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Post by susanb on Mar 4, 2016 2:39:49 GMT 1
I've been reading Nero Wolfe mystery novels on my kindle on the train back and forth to work....I do love the early ones especially...a portrait of New York City that's largely vanished. For anyone not familiar, Rex Stout (pseud) created Nero Wolfe back in the 30s....a rotund, eccentric detective who rarely leaves his brownstone, and never on business, breeds rare orchids in his rooftop greenhouse, and solves mysteries (for BIG money) with the aid of his assistant detective, and narrator, Archie Goodwin.
Series ran 40 or so years, and had at least two tv series based on it....one with William Conrad as Wolfe and Lee Horsley as Goodwin, and more recently one with Maury Chaykin s Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Goodwin. Recommended if you come across them (books or shows!)
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Post by Charlotte on Sept 15, 2018 21:25:26 GMT 1
I have finally got to the last 77 pages of Under the Mountain by Sophie Cooke (it's very long). Like the other one from her, A Glass House, it's also very dark, with not many lighter moments. Lavender at the High School (E.C Matthews) on the other hand, is a nice story set in a girls' grammar school. It shows quite a bit of interaction between the staff, as well as pupils. Apart from in the Chalet School series, that's quite unusual.
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Post by trixiepony on Sept 26, 2018 10:38:43 GMT 1
I like the Terry Pratchett books.
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Post by trixiepony on Jan 28, 2019 10:33:05 GMT 1
I am reading the Starlight animal rescue books all animals, horses as well,Runaway, Mad Dog, Wild Cat and Dark Horse.
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