[ebooktalk] Re: "The Island"
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:14:40 +0100
I also enjoyed The Island but have not managed to get to another of her books
yet.
My friend read the one set in Spain and said she didn't think it was as good.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:06 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: "The Island"
> Steve, I haven't read "The Return" yet, but "The Thread", also set in
> Greece, is almost as good as "The Island", though, because it describes the
> German invasion of Greece during the war, is sad in parts.
> Trish.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 9:48 AM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: "The Island"
>
>
>>I read and enjoyed the Island a couple of years ago. We read it for our
>> reading group mainly because one of the members had visited Spinalonga.
>> She
>> said that the description brought it all back and that the story gave the
>> whole place its meaning.
>>
>> I have a couple of other Victoria Hislop books on my list but never seem
>> to
>> get round to them. I have been told that the Return (I think that's the
>> one
>> set in Spain) is rather peculiar.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Pele West
>> Sent: 09 October 2013 08:51
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] "The Island"
>>
>> Hi Trish
>>
>> I read "The Island" some time ago and really enjoyed it. A friend of ours
>> saw a programme about Spinalonga on television and said Victoria Hislop
>> had
>> got the description just right.
>>
>> Pele
>>
>>
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>
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