chickencam Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Just resurrecting this thread to recommend The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. It is beautifully written and transports you to another time and another place. One of the best stories that I have read in a very long time. I rad her Big Stone Gap series several years ago and thoroughly enjoyed them, but this is in a different league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Have downloaded it. I read the 'look inside' bit on Amazon and was hooked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted April 27, 2014 Author Share Posted April 27, 2014 I love her books & read this the moment it came out - excellent recommendation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 Thought I would flag 'Half Bad' by Sally Green as a great book for anyone who enjoys a bit a fantasy & adventure (of the witchy kind, not the kinky kind!). It is a YAF book, so also highly recommended for older teens. I LOVED it Only £2.99 on Kindle at the moment too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Thank you whoever recommended Book thief I'm really into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Not sure if it was me, but it is one of my favourite books don't think that I will watch the film rather stay with my version of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I often think that, the pictures are so much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissinuk Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 This book is awesome, very inspirational. I have a review copy, but it's out here on the 8th (#2 on New York Times best sellers). Amazing story of a trip to success for a child who was bullied for having microtia. And all without drugs too. Wonder if the bullies are still laughing now?... Here's my review: http://www.kissinuk.com/cms/news-topmenu-19/713-paul-stanley-face-the-music-review.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving with my book club and found it really amazing. It is quite long and I know some of my fellow bookclubbers didn't finish it but it was really worth it. I also found it was quite easy to pick up after leaving it for a few days. Some books I now find I am having to go back over a few pages to refresh my mind before I get into them again...must be old age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I'm reviving this thread because I've just read a cracking book - Faces of Angels by Lucrezia Grindle. I read it on Kindle but I see it's available in paperback too. I'm not sure why I bought it because it's a thriller and I don't usually like them, but I couldn't put it down. It's set in Florence and full of descriptions of the city and it had me guessing right till a few pages before the end. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 For any of you who loved The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (I really enjoyed it tho its not your 'typical' novel!) her second book is due out in either August or September (there appears to be some confusion!). There will, apparently, be 7 in the series. I am considering e mailing her and offering to do her housework so that she can write FASTER! Also due out imminently (I have it on advanced order and keep pestering the postie ) is the final book in the Deborah Harkness trilogy - well recomended!! OH and I have just discovered Scott Mariani and his 13 books featuring ex military Major Ben Hope. Can liken them to Chris Kuzneski but, IMHO, MUCH better written and faster paced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 (edited) Also due out imminently (I have it on advanced order and keep pestering the postie ) is the final book in the Deborah Harkness trilogy - well recomended!! I loved 'A Discovery of Witches' but struggled with the second one I have really enjoyed reading 'Half Bad' this summer, as well as the brilliant 'Divergent'......both classed as Young adult Fiction, but I think pretty much for anyone who likes a bit of fantasy Am reading 'The Cuckoo's Calling' by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) at the mo - fabulous book! Have just downloaded 'The Bone Season' - only 51p, so its worth a punt at that price. Also I have just seen this book on Amazon - looks great, & cheap at the moment too! http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Fifteen-Lives-Harry-August-ebook/dp/B00DI7HLDG/ref=pd_cp_kinc_3 Edited July 5, 2014 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 A question for Kindle users - can you buy Kindle books as gifts for people who have Kindle accounts? There are a few I would like to buy for my daughter...now she has finished her degree she can actually read books she wants to read again! (English Lit student). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 on the island by Stacey gravis is a really good poolside holiday read, not at all intellectual, not at all heavy going, no deep and meaningful thoughts...good old nonsense....love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 A question for Kindle users - can you buy Kindle books as gifts for people who have Kindle accounts? There are a few I would like to buy for my daughter...now she has finished her degree she can actually read books she wants to read again! (English Lit student). Cinnamon, as far as I know you can't do this as I seem to remember looking into this for my Dad. In the end I gave up and bought him an Amazon voucher instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 For anyone who enjoyed 'The Detective's Daughter' by Lesley Thomson - the sequel 'Ghost Girl' is now in the Kindle Store for 99p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I have just bought for Kindle the new Robert Galbraith/ JK Rowling books. They have been highly recomended by my aunt and cousin. They were £1.99 each which was brilliant. Looking forward to reading them, after I have read my recent charity shop purchases of I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Leaving The East End by Jennifer Worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 They are very good indeed - you will enjoy them I am reading the 4th book in the 'Chickens, Mules & Two Old Fools' series by Victoria Twead. They are super - nice & gentle, plenty of great characters & lots of chickens too! She is a really nice lady also, & I enoy listening to her adventures in her tiny Spanish village Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 She's been on the forum but not seen her on here for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Just searched for this thread to recommend This Boy by Alan Johnson. It is a beautifully written account of his early life growing up in the slums of late 50's early 60's Notting Hill. My son suggested that I read it because he knows that I love social history books. The Jennifer Worth books were written in a similar style. Accounts like this make me feel so fortunate to be living in 21st century Britain. I know that poverty is still a big problem, but it is nothing like as common place as it was 50 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Has anyone read the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howay? They are amazing and way out of my usual book comfort zone - futuristic rather than historical! I have read the first two and only have Dust to go but they are a tad confusing as there appears to be some corssovers with the stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 I can thoroughly recommend a book called 'The Miniaturist', which I am really enjoying at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 For anyone who read and enjoyed Samantha Shannon's Bone Season last year the 2nd book (of 7, apparently) is now out....The Mime Order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...