Written by June Golding. (A Misery Memoir).

It is the story of Catholic girls in a mother and baby home in the early 1950s. A young midwife joins them and this is her account of life there. The home is run by a Nun, who has little sypathy for the girls who "got into trouble", seems to think they should be made to pay for what they have done.

Makes uncomfortable reading at times.

The Need in Each Other

Too need anything or anyone

Is to admit a certain weakness

Vulnerable to a want or desire

Realizing the significant of ones worth

To you first and to others secondary

A need for them in your life

An equation of pie missing square

The breath inhaled by a pump

Air embraced by lungs flattened

Pressures cause one to give in

The need to help inflate doubt

Always give to those short of breath

the series if books i would recommend are a first for james patterson because it was his first series to be aimed at teenagers/young aldults and i have to say i was hooked as soon as i opened the book.

the series is called maximum ride and there are five in all at the moment and they are

maximum ride the angel experiment

maximum ride schools out forever

maximum ride saving the world and other extreme sports

maximum ride the final warning

and

maximum ride max

i personally have read the first four and loved them they are about a group of kids who are 98% human and 2% bird. they are a product of a cruel experiment in a place called the 'school' the 2% bird means that the kids have wing which they use to escape the whitecoats. the names of the kids are Maximum (14)  Fang (14)  Iggy (14)  Nudge (11) the Gasman (8) and Angel (6)
someway through book 1 they aquire a puppy named total who can talk and comes out with some witty sayings which will make you laugh    

I was so impressed and sent my sympathies.

this is Japan's detective story by Seicho Matsumoto.

this is translated into English with a different title.
original title of this book is " A sand container".
what means the title " a sand container"?
it means the criminal's mental picture (images of the scenes of the criminal's life).

Seicho Matsumoto wrote many bestselling books starting with "Ten to Sen" (Points and Lines) written in 1958, and then followed that with "Zero no Shouten" (Focus Zero), "Suna no Utsuwa"(Sand containers), among others. These books led Japanese people to become wildly excited about his writing.
In the bestselling mystery book "Suna no Utsuwa" ("A sand container," written by MATSUMOTO Seichou) that sold more than one million copies, a dialect was used as the key to solve the case.

one night, an unidentified body was found on the switchyard in Tokyo station .
by desperate investigation ,From the report of a witness
the day before the mudder, the victim was in a bar with a young man , and the victime said " Kameda" in Tohoku dialect ( Northeast region).
the clue was only that.

there is no action scene like Hollywood movie.
the detectives make patient investigation.

this novel is written around 1960.
as social background, the author wrote about discrimination against Hansen's disease.

I think this novel is good to know about Japan around 1960.

this novel was also made into a movie and a TV miniseries, both of which were hits.
the thema music " destiny" in the movie is so beautiful .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNUn_2Olnk

Written by Daniel Coelho. This writers book were recommended to me, when I googled the Author, I was amazed how many book he has written and how many languages they were translated into. I have got quite a lot to go at!

This one is a bit witchy/pagen in content, but a good story it is littered with good quotes and ideas for controlling your own life and positivity.

Coincidently, I have also read The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer, which is out and out pagan story, perhaps a bit "light weight and predictable". Funny how my book choices often seem to echo each other.

Just finished reading another great book by Marian Keyes called "Anybody Out There?"

I've read a couple of her books and really enjoyed them. The one before this was "Water-melon".

Most writers give the advise, when asked about writing, is to write what you know which she certainly does. Her books always seem to have a large Irish family of girls at the base of the theme. Well, the ones i've read have anyway! With that in mind I have to leave a gap inbetween reading her books so i don't get confused with the families in the different books.

I always love her style of writing but what i like best is that i can hear her voice as i read.

This book was a really interesting read. It almost starts like a suspense story and there is one element that keeps you guessing!!! Enough said, you'll have to read it to find out to what i refer!

If you've never read a Marian Keyes or this genre of book you should give it a go. Well worth a read.

Go on, try something different.

Celeste Temple trails the fiance who jilts her to a party at country mansion, little does she realise its not another woman but Roger Bascombe is involved in a dastardly plot to take over the country thanks to mind controlling properties of the blue glass made from the indigo clay.

Set in a country ruled by an aged queen in the latter half of the 19th century this book had many things that should have appealed to me, like airships and steam punky science, however I really didn't like it much at all. At 750 odd pages its horribly overwritten, but also full of narrative holes, there are too many characters crammed into many of the scenes, so its quite hard to keep track of who says what in the narrative, the science is just too implausible to maintain any kind of belief, the heroin jumps to correct conclusions on the most flimsy evidence and to be honest she is just bloody annoying.

Dahlquist in an interview explained that it was never his intention that the setting for this book should be London (or Paris or Amsterdam for that matter), but its a city in an island that is separated from Europe by sea, with fenlands to the east, there are characters called Crabbe and Bascombe in the government and an aged queen on the throne. If I were being uncharitable I'd suggest that he could not be bothered to properly research Victorian London

Anyone can tell me how to write an amazing novel(which is about a great detective).Oh may be tell me how to learn money in this age.However,even I had planed alot to do in this summer but it just all obstructed by my lazy.Well ,that's the question who can help me to become a hardwarking girl?Atlest I can't(Um... I guest I am crazy nowit is the only way for me to explain why I write this.)

I was af

'Past Imperfect' is captivating....nostalgic...England and the London 'Season' in 1968.

Not finished it yet...but I love it.

by John Steinbeck. I read this years ago and found it very powerful. So powerful I went on to read everything else written by him that I could get my hands on.

I have just finished re-reading it, it is still so powerful. Such a short book, but so much in it about human beings (mostly male), about discrimination.

But the Twilight Saga is the best series of books I have read!

by Monica Ali.

An interesting book, telling of the life of Nazeen, who is born in Bangladesh, at the age of 18 she is married to a man in his forties, who lives in England. She accompanies him to live in East London. It tells of their married life in great detail, very descriptive.

The last chapter seems a little disappointing, sort of a rush to end the book. It is a first novel, it was also a Richard and Judy Book Club choice and a nominee for a Booker Prize.
It was also a selection of my local Reading group.

نوشتن به قصد فروش حداکثری

نوشتن به قصد  گرفتن جایزه های  کتاب
نوشتن به قصد  ماندگاری 
نوشتن به قصد  معروفیت

نوشتن به قصد محبوب  شدن

قبل  از  نوشتن  بهتر  است  رویکردی داشته  باشیم  و هدف  یا  اهداف  مشخصی  را  دنبال  کنیم .

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Hey Bookers,

I have just popped up a review of Firmin - Sam Savage. Anyone has not bought/read/eaten it might like to take a look. Similarly, those how has ingested this one can tell me if I'm on the mark or way off base.

http://www.haughtybiscuit.blog.co.uk

Thanks,

Haughty

I will do the light weight one first.

According to Mary, by Marianne Fredriksson. (A Swedish Author). It is a novel based on Mary Magdalene. Following the theme of she was married to Jesus Christ. A nice enough story, but not putting anything new in the theory or conspirasy angle.

My second book - a real heavy weight read:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. This book is just full of magical descriptions. It is about a little boys trip to the nearby lighthouse been cancelled sue to rain. It tells of the resulting tenion between family members, husband and wife, and their weekend guests.
It all takes place over a few hours.

Harry Turtledove is the king of 'what if' novels.

'How Few Remain' is the first in a series of books in the The Southern Victory or  Timeline -191 Series which revolves around the premise that the Confederacy won the American Civil War. The story continues when old wounds are reopened with a second war breaking out between the CSA and the USA. This time Britain takes sides with the CSA and the USA courts Germany.

Harry Turtledove is trully gifted with the ability to foresee outcomes that may have been and this book is a good introduction to his excellent writing style.