[calibrebooks] Re: What are...
- From: Eve Smyth <fairlady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 23:21:48 +0100
Currently I'm reading "A Far Country" by Nevil Shute. It's set
in the early 1950s, mainly in Australia so far. People are
either moving or thinking of moving between England and
Australia; discussions of the shortages and generally poorer
conditions of some of the people in one country as opposed to the
other, etc. I don't know where the actual story is going, but
with Nevil Shute you can expect a good story anyway. The book is
from Calibrh but I don't remember its number. Eve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Lovick" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:36:27 +0100
Subject: [calibrebooks] Re: What are...
Well, earlier this week I did something I very rarely do - I sent
a book
back without reading much of it. It was a novel, and totally
forgetable! I
can't remember the title, let alone what it was about.
Then I read Vein of Deceit by Susanna Gregory. It was a novel
set in the
1350s, in Cambridge - a detective story. It wasn't bad, but it
was overly
complex, and the characters were wooden. I think it might be
better in
print where you can look back and see who the charters are -
there were so
many, all introduced at once.
Now I am reading an Audible book by Jill Paton Walsh, one using
Dorothy L
Sayer's characters. This is much better! The characters are
introduced
gradually and you have time to work them out! And they are more
rounded -
you can believe in them.
Liz
--
Elizabeth Lovick, Orkney, UK
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