[ebooktalk] Alison's BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:56:46 +0100
Hi Alison,
I really enjoyed Sea of Poppies too. Have you read the next one in the series?
My Andy gave up half way through the second one, saying it wasn't as good, but
he did say that perhaps he wasn't in the right frame of mind.
Shell.
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> It is amazing how many of my books reflect Elaine's own choices, so here I
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> Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian - not having lived through the war
> myself, this book captures the atmosphere of that time and is indeed very
> moving.
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> Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. I do enjoy historical fiction but her books are
> amongst the few which portray Thomas Cromwell in a favourable light but as
> well as the narrative, I really enjoyed the style of writing in both this
> and the follow-up, Bring Up the Bodies.
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> The Ghost by Robert Harris. This was the first of this author's books which
> I had read and I found it both refreshing but also liked the way it
> portrayed modern-day politics.
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> Sea of poppies by Amitav Ghosh - fantastic book about the opium trade in
> India in the 1800s, with interesting characters and well read.
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> Whiteout by Ken Follett - couldn't put this book down about a scientist's
> son who steals a virus at Christmas.
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> But I could probably have chosen any of this author's books and said the
> same!
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> The gargoyle by Andrew Davidson; a brilliantly written book containing some
> beautiful love stories about a porno star who is horrendously burnt in a car
> accident whose life is transformed by a supposedly schizophrenic lady
> claiming to have known him 700 years!
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> Room by Emma Donahue;I thoroughly enjoyed this story about a girl who is
> abducted and kept prisoner in a 12 by 12 room where she raises her child and
> the story of how they cope when they escape. Multiple readers and told
> through the eyes of (and in the voice of) the 5-year-old - fascinating!
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> Beauty by Raphael Selbourne; Really enjoyed this book about a young girl
> brought up in a strict muslim Bangladeshi family who runs away to escape a
> forced marriage. She is befriended by a thug, who breeds pitbulls and an
> inadequate middle class man who gets off on internet sex but by the time she
> returns to her family, she has touched many lives for the better.
> Fascinating!
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> The Pet Cemetery by Stephen King - for me, probably one of his most scary
> books.
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> A Thousand Splendid Suns by seini Khaled; One of my best reads last year. A
> tale about a shoe-maker's 2 muslim wives in Carbul which gives a real
> insight into the 30 years of violence in Afghanistan and the plight of women
> during this period.
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> The Help by Catherine Stockett;An excellent book telling the story of black
> maids in Jackson, Mississippi during the year that Martin Luther King and
> Kennedy were assassinated.
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> The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne; a thought-provoking book which
> dealt with a very dark topic without needing to resort to explicit details.
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> Too many? Sorry, just couldn't cut any out!
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> Alison
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