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I've just got that book out the library Brian. I'm finishing the one I'm on called Bethany Bettany then I shall start it in the next day or so.

Just finished 'Doomsday Book' by Connie Willis.

It's my second reading of this which is almost unheard of for me but I love time travel books.

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son). It's very good so far, nothing like a good ghost story!

This weekend I read ''The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox'' by Maggie O' Farrell. I absolutely loved it. It's about a girl who is put into an institution at the age of 16 for no particular reason other than she was a bit of a nuisance to her family by not being a demure 'girl'. She is released into the care of her great neice when in her 70's as the institution is closing down and the story unravels of family secrets and life being locked up for many years along with many other women in a similar position. Beautifully told and one I would read again.

I'm reading Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, a story about a 13 year old boy with a stammer. It's very good so far, both funny and sad in parts. I would really recommed it, especially for anyone who is around my age (39). It is set in 1982, so there are lots of references which ring a bell and because I would have been around the same age as the boy in the story at that time, I can relate to the issues.

I have heard about that book ellie and in fact it's on my list of books to read.

I am reading ''the other Mrs Jordan'' by Mary Turner Thompson. It's about a woman who met a man off the internet and married him and had 2 children only to discover he was already married. She found that out though after he had bled her dry financially. She really did lose everything. It's really putting me off meeting anyone from the internet it's blinkin' scary stuff

Am still finishing off my last holiday book - Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes. Very sharp and funny and sad. Marian Keyes is a great writer, far and away better than a lot of 'chick lit' authors.

I agree about Marian Keyes TD. Very easy to read sitting in the garden with a pims

Just finished Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. I first read this as a teenager and it didn't leave much of an impression but now I thought it was absolutely hilarious. I didn't get that it was a parody and a ironic anthithesis of the seriousness in which novelists such as D H Lawrence and Thomas Hardy et al took themselves, first time round, but as I hadn't read many books of that ilk when I was a teen, I suppose that is to be expected. I would thoroughly recommend this book.

How To Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson. It's pretty good so far, she's a very smart lady.

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And continuing the theme....

I'm reading Further Under the Duvet, by Marian Keyes again.

I have seen under the duvet at my library loads of times TD and never read it. is it any good?

I have just finished Small Island by Andrea Levey. On the whole I really enjoyed it. Thought it was a bit drawn out in the middle but didn't spoil the book just made me pick it up less to wade through a few chapters.

What an odd thing to take to the library Betsy.

I love Cold Comfort Farm, it is one of my favourite books. The adaptation of it that was on TV a few years ago was pretty good too

Both experiences of being under the duvet are very good Boop

(they're two collections of magazine articles etc and mostly very funny)