Read a book from every year of your life challenge
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Feb 2017
1:28pm, 22 Feb 2017
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BaronessBL
I finished 1974's book Knock Down (Dick Francis) last night. Quite enjoyable but not one of the most memorable. High Stakes is next for 1975.
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Feb 2017
9:27pm, 22 Feb 2017
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Fizz :-)
I like High Stakes, I want the toys. (Hope that's the right book!)
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Feb 2017
8:38am, 23 Feb 2017
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Little Nemo
The library have now lost all trace of my reservation and I can't be bothered to pay another £1 to start the process off again  BaronessBL - does your offer of posting Forfeit to me still stand? |
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Feb 2017
9:09am, 23 Feb 2017
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BaronessBL
Yes LN of course. Send me an fmail with your details and I'll send it off to you - I have to go up to the post office tomorrow anyway for something so I can post it then
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Feb 2017
12:07pm, 23 Feb 2017
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GimmeMedals
I've finished the Odessa File (1972) by Fredrick Forsyth and really enjoyed it. The timely reminder at the end that it is a work of fiction was well placed as by then I'd convinced myself it was all based on fact. The ending added to that effect as it didn't end how I expected it to. Well worth reading. I'm struggling to choose a book for 1974. It may well be a default Agatha Christie. |
Feb 2017
12:15pm, 23 Feb 2017
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Night-owl
Good to hear you liked it GM another of my dads fab authors and I distinctly remember him having a copy of that book
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Feb 2017
12:40pm, 23 Feb 2017
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GimmeMedals
I'm choosing, as much as possible, British authors for my selections. After much deliberation, I've chosen Aunts aren't Gentlemen by PG Wodehouse for 1974. I've never read any of his books but Jeeves and Wooster appeal. This is the last of the J&W books and gets good reviews. Here goes!
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Feb 2017
2:11pm, 23 Feb 2017
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FleeCircus
PG Wodehouse is a riot, enjoy GM
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Feb 2017
6:48pm, 23 Feb 2017
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LazyDaisy
Yet again I'm taken aback that people like PG Wodehouse were still publishing new work in the '70s. As I'm struggling with that decade I might well copy you GM! The Eagle of the Ninth has also surprised me. It's a children's book, isn't it, yet some of the writing is really dense and convoluted. One sentence was something like 10 lines long, with numerous subordinate and relative clauses. She certainly expects her readers to have a decent reading age! |
Feb 2017
6:58pm, 23 Feb 2017
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Badger
PGW is wonderful. (There's a piece of fanfic somewhere which comes up with a shared history for Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey - beautifully done, with a plausible reason for why Bertie is such a broomhead). For the Dick Francis readers - there's an omnibus of Straight and Banker sitting on the second-hand book stall here which I'd be happy to pick up and post to anyone who wants it. |
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