Ian, Oh, how I hate "Should of" and even "off of"! It makes me cringe almost as much as "To not".
I'll be interested to know what you make of the Man Booker winner, the Eleanor Catton. I have to admit that I dumped it about halfway through. I just found it too slow and nothing in the story interested me. Maybe you will find it otherwise.
Oh dear, you missed out big time on the jury service, didn't you? Brookes/ Coulson would have been quite something, but you can't win 'em all! Just make the most of what you get, and value the reading time.
Trish.----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:54 PM Subject: [ebooktalk] JUST STARTED, STILL READING, GIVING UPOK, so following the recommendations, I've started today My Dear and am loving it. One of the Kindle daily deals recently was The boys of 67 the story of Charlie company in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest, which I'm reading alongside. I've decided to give up on the Newman on the bases that life is too short and that Jake Arnot's The Long firm tells the same story in a similar way but better. I also started, but am giving up on Carter Reed by Tijan, recently sent by the book fairy. that's on the basis of me being an old fogie and objecting to any writer who uses of as a verb, as in "Should of". Apart from that, the plot is also very thin. Waiting in the wings I have both Donna Tartt's latest and the Booker winner both of which I'm looking forward to. But as I'm called for jury service from Monday, I don't know how much time I'm going to have for reading over the next couple of weeks. Wish I'd got the Brooks/Coulson trial at the Old Bailey. Instead it's Isleworth Crown court first thing Monday.
