23 Search Results for "book"

• Books I have read

  • From: judylow
  • Description:

    Not sure if I'll lose my answers if I go back (it wouldn't paste into the reply section) to see who posted this first but here is my list marked of which ones I have read - definitely more than 6.

     

     

    The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
    I have marked with an 'x' all the books I have read from the BBC book list....copy and paste the list into your Blog and mark how many you have read.....and let them see they are so wrong!!
    
    
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x                                   4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
    6 The Bible - Old Testament or New or both? BITS
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -x
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- x

      13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - x                                     14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Some
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -   x                             16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x                                        17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk x
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - x
    19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - x
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -x
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - x
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -X
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
    34 Emma - Jane Austen -
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -X
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - x
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - x
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - x
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon - x
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -x
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - x
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - x
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -X
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - x
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
    76 The Inferno – Dante -
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola x
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
    80 Possession - AS Byatt -
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - x
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - x
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl-
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

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• Holiday

  • From: cavalier
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    I have had a very enjoyable week and after finishing my book (which will be reviewed here next month). I am going on holiday from 21st.October to 4th.November.

    Hope some of you will find it an entertaining read.

    ~Dishing the Dirt~ behind the scenes with a TV make-up artist.  Cheers~maggie t.

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  • 1 month ago
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• cavalier

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• favourite book

  • From: salt4881
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    I have just finnished "Soldier" An Autobiography by Sir Mike Jackson.

    I tend to read military type of books as I spent some time in the Army

    Geoff

  • 3 months ago
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  • Forum: What is you...

• Reading

  • From: Enid
  • Description:

    I've just been looking at the list of books from the BBC. I find I've read most of them but I don't know how to copy and paste!!  Nowadays, although I read a lot, I find it's the lighter side that I go for. I love Terry Pratchett and hate the idea of Alzeimer's stopping  his flow of new books. I also like detective fiction and the Aga Sagas. Anything really that the Charity book stalls have on offer.

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  • 3 months ago
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• Are you a reader...are the BBC

  • From: DevonJan
  • Description:

     

    The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
    I have marked with an 'x' all the books I have read from the BBC book list....copy and paste the list into your Blog and mark how many you have read.....and let them see they are so wrong!!
    
    
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -X
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x                                   4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
    6 The Bible - Old Testament or New or both? BITS
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - x
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -x
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-                 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - x                                     14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Some
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -                                16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien                                         17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
    19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - x
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -X
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -X
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -X
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X
    34 Emma - Jane Austen -X
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -X
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -X
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert - x
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -X
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - x
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon -
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -x
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - x
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -X
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
    76 The Inferno – Dante -
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
    80 Possession - AS Byatt -
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl-
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

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  • 4 months ago
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• Are you a reader...are the BBC

  • From: Rharni
  • Description:

    The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
    I have marked with an 'x' all the books I have read from the BBC book list....copy and paste the list into your Blog and mark how many you have read.....and let them see they are so wrong!!
    
    
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -X
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x
    4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -X
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
    6 The Bible - Old Testament or New or both? BITS
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - x
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -x
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- x
    13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -X
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - x
    17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
    19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -X
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - x
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - x
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -X
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -X
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -X
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -X
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X
    34 Emma - Jane Austen -X
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -X
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -X
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -X
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -X
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -X
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -X
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - x
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- Mark Haddon -
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -X
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - x
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -X
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
    76 The Inferno – Dante -
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -X
    80 Possession - AS Byatt -
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - x
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -X
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -X
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - x
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- x
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - X

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• Dying craft

  • From: celia
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    How many people can do tatting? My guess is not many. I taught myself from a book when I was a girl. I suppose that the mats aren't fashionable any more, but done in silver and gold colours, they could make pretty Christmas decorations.

    Do any other sixtyplusurfers do any unusual crafts? (Ivan, I know about your wonderful moulds and gnomes!!)

  • 5 months ago
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• My favourite book

  • From: Louizalass
  • Description:

    I have so many!  But my most recent favourite is actually a trilogy by Nancy E Turner the first book of which is These is my Words, followed by Sarah's Quilt and finishing with Star Garden.  The story is set in the late 1800s and is a fictionalised diary of Sarah Agnes Pane, a woman born and raised in Arizona, USA.  Her diary starts off when she is about 17 and she and her family set off to make the long, hot and dangerous journey to Tuscon.

    It's a fast-paced and exciting story, and

  • 5 months ago
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• While you were there waiting f

  • From: Tulip2uk
  • Description:

    Yesterday (Saturday) I had a letter from United press website saying that my poem While you were there waiting for me published here from Aprils issue on main sixtyplussurfers website is going to be published in a book called Poetry by Moonlight,I am officially an Author and I am so over the moon.This is my first piece of work going in a book ever.I have to send off the forms tomorrow in the post and do a cheque as I am buying two copies of the book,One for me and one for my parents to treasure of their daughters poem and mum loves to read poetry.

    I wanted to share the good news with you all as I still cant believe it and I am so so happy.

     

    Katie

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  • 6 months ago
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• My favourite book

  • From: Jenny
  • Description:

    Hi Roy

    I'm glad you've had a look at the my favourite book discussion. Our readers certainly have a lot of different tastes in books. I have to say 'my bank book' is my least favourite book!

    I prefer my cheque book!

    But seriously, at the moment, I'm a big fan of Alexander McCall Smith - I love his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Books - and the Scotland Street series. He is such an easy to read author and I really like his characters. Whenever I want to have an enjoyable, relaxing read, I

  • 6 months ago
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  • Forum: What is you...

• My Favourite Book

  • From: ROY
  • Description:

    As I am new to this site I thought I would have a look at all the different messages and came accross this "Favourite book discussion" so I have thought and thought about my favourite book and I keep coming back to the same one, and i'm affraid MY favourite book is..........yes, you guessed it.......MY BANK BOOK,...... why ? because it tells me what I havn't got.

  • 6 months ago
  • Views: 71
  • Forum: What is you...

• How do you stay cheerful?

  • From: Jenny
  • Description:

    I stay cheerful by listening to my favourite music.

    I also have a bird feeder in my garden and enjoy watching the birds and listening to the bird song during the day.

    It's lovely on a sunny day to sit out in the garden with a good book and a cool drink and listen to the birds and enjoy the garden.

    How do other readers stay cheerful?

  • 6 months ago
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• My favourite things - Jenny's

  • From: DevonJan
  • Description:

    1. Favourite Page on Sixtyplusurfers ........ Competitions & Letters

    2. Favourite Singer .. Chris De Burgh
    3. Favourite Band ... Queen
    4. Favourite Song ... Lady in Red
    5. Favourite Colour ... Yellow
    6. Favourite Cartoon Character ... Goofy
    7. Favourite Biscuit ... Custard Creams
    8. Favourite Hobby ... Computer/tracing family tree
    9. Favourite Book ... Flowers in the attic - Catherine Cookson
    10. Favourite Animal ... Fox

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  • 8 months ago
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• Jenny's Game

  • From: Rharni
  • Description:

    1. Favourite Page on Sixtyplusurfers ........ Pet care/Crafts and Hobbie (couldn't decide)

    2. Favourite Singer .. Bryan Adams
    3. Favourite Band ... Queen
    4. Favourite Song ... All for love
    5. Favourite Colour ... Terracotta
    6. Favourite Cartoon Character ... Tweety pie
    7. Favourite Biscuit ... Shortbread
    8. Favourite Hobby ... Sewing and Knitting
    9. Favourite Book ... Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
    10. Favourite Animal ... Cat

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  • 8 months ago
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• A new Quiz To Try

  • From: Jenny
  • Description:

    A new Quiz to Try

    I've been enjoying these quizzes so much I've made up one of my own for you to try!

    My Favourite Things

    Just fill in all your favourite things on the list below. (Copy and paste and put in your own answers). I've put in a few of my own to help you on your way!

    1. Favourite Page on Sixtyplusurfers ........
    2. Favourite Singer .. Elvis Costello
    3. Favourite Band ... The Kaiser Chiefs
    4. Favourite Song ... Stairway to Heaven
    5. Favourite Colour ... Purple
    6. Favourite Cartoon Character ... Snoopy
    7. Favourite Biscuit ... Mint KitKat
    8. Favourite Hobby ... Swimming
    9. Favourite Book ... Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
    10. Favourite Animal ... Cat

    Now you have a go!

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  • 8 months ago
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• What is your favourite book?

  • From: Ira_Aten
  • Description:

    If I had to choose just one book it would be Lord Of The Rings, I have read it five times now and everytime I find something new that I missed before. I have read most of Tolkeins books and found some of them a bit heavy reading but LOTR and The Hobbit are the best.

    I also like action and adventure and crime stories from authors like Lee Child, Harlen Coben, Stephen Leather, Chris Ryan and Andy McNab.

  • 9 months ago
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  • Forum: What is you...

• favourite book

  • From: kmb4647
  • Description:

    Impossible to specify just one...though I have read Lord of the Rings a few times. Just at the moment I am reading WW2 themed books..ie The Kommandant's Girl and The Diplomat's Wife. No Time for Goodbye is a recent read. Naturally John Grisham is a favourite(being a man)...but generally I will try anything. I recommend the Lovereading website for reviews...best website of all though is Fantasticfiction(www.fantasticfiction.co.uk).

    Good luck...kmb4647

  • 9 months ago
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  • Forum: What is you...

• What is your favourite book?

  • From: bobaub
  • Description:

    I don't have a favourite book, nor a favourite author, but I have found really good reading from Michael Connelly, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, David Hewson, Stephen Booth and John Grisham. All crime fiction, all very good stories. If push came to shove I suppose I would have to say..........push me! They are just so good and so different.

  • 9 months ago
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  • Forum: What is you...

• WRITING A BOOK

  • From: JillWorth
  • Description:

    As a new member to this site, I would like to encourage any would be authors who have not yet found a publisher.  After many years of scribbling with nothing more than a few articles to my credit, I have at last had a book published at the ripe old age of 75.  So you see it can be done.

    My writing is not fictional but strictly anecdotal and I am told, funny.  I have always loved making people laugh. When my husband and I married he was in the Royal Navy and for the next twenty five years I packed and followed when ever possible and so I decided to theme the book on the houses we lived in, which varied from the awful to the exotic and the family life we lived around them.

    After many rejects I practically gave up, feeling sure that as my name was not that of a famous actor, sportsman or writer the publishers were not willing to put their faith in me but nothing venture, nothing gain, I finally found a publisher who liked what he read and was prepared to print.

    The book is called Home is Where My Hat is and if anyone would like a copy please let me know.

    So pen pushers, keep writing.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • 10 months ago
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