[ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:21:00 +0100
Oh Clare, I love the Andrew Martin Books, they really are fun.
A series I must get back to.
Shell.
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From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:19 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
> David, I haven't read Edward Marston, but you're not thinking of Andrew
> Martin, are you? His books are all about railways. Someone gave us a load of
> them in print, and we were relieved to find a source of texts of them
> without having to scan. Now it only remains to get round to reading them.
> The chap who gave them to us said he hadn't enjoyed any book so much since
> he was a boy, and he's quite an old fellow now. Clare
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> From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:09 PM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
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>>I have read Edward Marston and I think the books had a railway theme.
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>> David
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>> On Behalf Of Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
>> Sent: 17 June 2013 12:34
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>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
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>> Thank you, Steve; I don't know the Edward Marston so shall look into them.
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>> Thank you,
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>> Elaine
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>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
>> Sent: Monday, 17 June 2013 6:36 PM
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] CURRENT READING
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>> Hi
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>> I have just finished the first of Edward Marston's Elizabethan Theatre
>> detective novels. A short but very enjoyable book. Marston is a curious
>> author he has written several series of crime and detection books each set
>> in a different historic period against a different professional
>> background.
>> I was put off reading him for some time as I feared that they might be
>> formula books - one crime set against different backgrounds. However, I
>> have
>> found this not to be the case. Each series is well researched and the
>> crimes
>> are appropriate to their time and place. Well worth reading if you want
>> something quick and fairly light.
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>> For my reading group I have just started Hardy's Wessex tales. Looking at
>> the contents I think I have read or heard dramatized versions of each of
>> the
>> stories. Seeing what the accumulative effect of them all will be
>> interesting. Not sure how the discussion will go on this one.
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>> Apart from the Hardy all my other sources seem to be coming up with
>> detectives. I've got the third Ann Perry, William Pitt book and one of
>> Donna
>> Leon venetian mysteries. I might have to hunt for something different as
>> handling two detectives at a time can get a bit confusing.
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>> Steve
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