[ebooktalk] Re: FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
- From: "CJ& AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:47:04 +0100
I add at least one book every week through people's recommendations. I
currently have 20 pages of books waiting to be read!
Alison
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Yes, I read Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks as a result of
recommendations here. I am sure there have been others but I usually forget
who recommended something. I read quite a lot of stuff on recommendation. I
had read the Steig Larsson trilogy after it had been recommended and long
before it became the popular success it did. I fairly regularly read
non-fiction titles as a result of reviews. This is particularly true of
media personalities' autobiographies. I don't think I would read such a book
without a good review or a recommendation. So many of them are self-seeking
crap.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] FOLLOW UP ON BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
This message is also by way of a test as I've been getting sporadic service
from this list both in terms of receiving and being able to send messages.
But here's what kicked off my train of thought. Before going on holiday I
asked for recommendations for a good long book to read. shell not only
recommended one, she sent it to me. It's Mary, a novelised account of the
wife of Abraham Lincoln. Because just after that the David Peace book
became available to me, I didn't take the book with me. But I'm about to
start it now. This lead me to wonder whether anyone had acted on
recommendations from the list and had either good or bad experiences. Did
anyone ever read Evermore by Peter Hamil? I wonder whether Clare or anyone
else picked up Delores clayborne? And are there any other examples of
recommendations? I'll report back on the book I'm about to start.
Provided, that is, the list will allow me to do so.
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