Best reads - Club Together Book Club?
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Just finishing Garnethill by Denise Mina, a book that deals with mental health, mainly from a female perspective; and the abuse that female in-patients were subjected to by medical staff - and the vengeance that the former mental health patient metes out on the abuser … Beautifully written with abn abundance of Weegie vocabulary!
Steve
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@marchie the whole of the series is worth reading, Exile and Resolution are the others in the trilogy. Denise Mina is another of my favourite authors.
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@nelliethehooker I saw something online that Amazon are not providing updates for legacy products.Margaret has two Kindles, a very old one with a screen keyboard and much newer, I think called a Paperwhite? The latter one she just can't get on with, although perhaps with a bit more practise she could get to grips with it. I think secretly she much prefers a proper book in her hand so not such an incentive to get to grips with the newer Kindle? I even downloaded the App onto my Samsung tablet although we have not tried that yet.
David
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This is the BBC news item re Amazon and Kindle, David.
I have the Kindle app on my iPad but don’t find it quite so user friendly as the Kindle Paperwhite.
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@DavidKlyne I think that the stopping of the update is due to happen in a couple of months, but I could be wrong. However I believe that any books downloaded will still be able to be read, so perhaps downloading lots of new ones now for future reading might be an option!! 😄 I must admit I prefer a printed book but it is so much easier, and cheaper, getting them from Amazon on line on my Kindle. They also take up a lot less space than an actual book, of which we have hundreds on shelves already!!
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@nelliethehooker one of the reasons Margaret got here first Kindle was because we were doing a couple of longish trips abroad each year and even if weight was not a problem space certainly would be. The Kindle solved both problems. Margaret does buy quite a few new books but we also get them secondhand from various places. When we stayed at Club sites we would always donate a few books to the information hut and also buy a few if there was anything interesting.
David
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I do have the original books from David Forrest, because they are out of print, circa 1970; 'After Me The Deluge'; And to My Nephew Albert, I Leave the Island What I Won Off Fatty Hagan In A Poker Game; and 'The Great Dinosaur Robbery', which Disney produced as a comedy film, 'One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing' - all 3 are very funny, especially 'Deluge' where God & St. Peter hold morning Management Meetings to discuss project progress to deliver Noah and the Ark, but set in a remote French village - '10,000 Angels in a heavenly choir, Pete? Naw, we've done that - we need something new for the punters …' [as near as I can remember the text, but you get the gist] 😁
Slightly more serious, I have the traditional book version of 'The House on the Strand' by Daphne du Maurier, a historical novel where the main character tests a chemical liquid developed by his former Uni colleague, now a Professor of Chemistry to see whether he has the same experience as the Prof - is it hallucination or is the user of the potion travelling back to medieval times, but without the ability to control the period in which the action occurs? It's a lovely read …
Steve
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