By Diane Holloway and Trish Colton. I took this book out of the library because a lot of the areas mentioned are not far from where I live. Thought it would be a bit of local history. Quite a lot of explantion about the Crusades.

It was, written in a friendly style, it read like fiction. Full of lovely old photos, and some more recent ones too. It will be fun to visit some of these places.

Writen by Pat Barker.
It is really two stories in one, but the threads weave in and out of each other.
It is part ghost story of the previous owners of the house.
The other thread is Grandad, dying from cancer, keeps having flash backs to the war.
Oh and then there is the children - her son, his daughter, the shared baby and new pregnancy.
There is a lot going on in an averaged sized book!

This is another great story by author Karen Rose! This one plays with your head a bit and makes you realise how vunerable the mind can be! Again a lot of twists to keep you guessing this is a 'stay up alnight, can't put down til I'm finished' kind of book - just the way I like them!

Just finished reading another Linwood Barclay "Too Close to Home".

Just like "No Time for Goodbye" it is a what's going to happen next book. I have never shouted at a book before; you know, in the way you would shout at a horror film; but this had me shouting much to the surprise of those sitting next to me at the time!

It is written in the third person sense which feels a bit strange because at the same time you experience the book from the point of view of one character.

Linwood does it again!

I'm now reading the latest Dan Brown "The Lost Symbol" on my new Sony E-reader. Watch this space........

Writen by Daniel Mason. A quite extraordinary book. Very different. Set in 1886, the Piano Tuner, Edgar Drake recieves a request from the War Office for him to journey to Burma to tune a a rare Erard Grand Piano. He has all sorts of adventures on the journey and once he arrives thers.

Some of the descriptive passages are wonderful.

I know it sounds most unpromising, but it is worth seeking it out. (I got this copy from the Hospice Charity shop for 80p) Wonderful, money well spent!

I am shocked and saddend, by the amount of celebrity deaths this year - My hero, My Favourite boyzone member, My favourite actress, The first person i ever voted for an reality t.v, and every other amazing star, I am absolutely gob-smacked, how can all of these ledgens be gone in 2009? There has probably been more in other years but i am honestly without a doubt in shock, its just not real, I was a fan of these celebrities and never got the chance to meet one of them! I feel like the world has been robbed of all these great stars, i feel like shouting up to god and telling him to put them back. Im shocked and Saddend.

Recently finished Reading 'No time to say goodbye' by author Linwood Barclay - I could not put it down! This is one of those books where the story completely consumes you and nothing else matters except finding out the why, what for and who done it!
This is one book I would totally recommend - gold stars all round!

By Elizabeth Noble. It says on the cover.... "Where the book ends, the stories begin...."

A clever device, to use a reading group, because it gives a fairly wide spread set of characters, and they talk about the book they have read each month over the period of one year. Then thy talk about themselves and their lives. Over the course of the year, the group of strangers become friends.

A quwaation at the back of the book asks "is this reading group in the book anything like the reading group you belong to?" In my own case the answer is "No". The group in the book are all women "in the breeding season of life" caught up in running a home, kids, holding down a job, and or husband. They meet in each others houses and each month the book is chosed by a different member.

The group I belong to are all grannies! Our talk is round pills, ailments, cooking, writing stuff, reading stuff, and one ladies repeated chip pan fires! My group too has just completed its first year and is sponsored through our local library, who make the book selections. We are given a choice and an alternative, but the ones we ask for never seem to come!

By Kim Edwards.

This was the choice of my Readers Group. I have read it before, but I did read it again, so it was fresh in my mind for when we discuss it.

It is a strange story, set in 1964 of a father who gives away his baby daughter at birth, because she was an "unexpected twin". A healthy boy was born first, and then the much smaller daughter who he soon realises has Downs' Syndrome. He decides not to tell his wife anything about the daughteer, but to say she died at birth.

The story tells what happens to the family, and also how the unwanted girls life goes with her "new mother".