Why Might I Be Struggling For A Job?
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This might be an American thing, but what book are you reading now?
For me it's V2 by Robert Harris. I bought it for £1 from a shelf in the local Tesco.
The books are donated and the money goes to charity. When I've finished I'll probably return it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.BM, wandering around Lincoln cathedral, I was chatting to one of the guides who happened to mention that Katherine Swynford is buried there. I was so excited - don't ask me why - I don't know why - but I was. History popping out at me has that effect - coming to life I suppose - even though she's been dead for hundreds of years. Actually the guide was quite excited too. I don't think she'd come across many people who'd ever heard of Katherine.
She is buried in Lincoln with "her Joan". I have been there a few times, I've also been to Kettlethorpe, but nothing of the old manor exists now apart from the gatehouse and unfortunately, the church was locked (I wanted to see the Swynford tombs). I first read that book when I was about 12 and just fell in love with her story. I only listened to the book again a few weeks back and I STILL cry at when she and Blanchette are reunited (although that did not actually happen).
Other authors I loved for their historical books were Jean Plaidy (and Victoria Holt and Phillipa Carr), Mary Stewart and Daphne Du Maurier.
Jean Plaidy did write as the others - that is why I put them in brackets! I think by the age of 14 I had gone through them all at the local library.
Love Rebecca, but also Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn - I sometimes think that Jamaica Inn is better than Rebecca. But also loved the Kings General and Mary Anne. I once had a full leather bound set of her works, which I bought for peanuts at a flea sale. Unfortunately, it is now a few short due to an idiotic person.
I'm loving this thread, keep 'em coming folks.
From the number of responses, Chatterbank is obviously where to post Books stuff, not Books & Authors sub-category where I occasionally put mine (sometimes with nil replies).
The whole category selection could do with pruning, many haven't been used for years.
Having enjoyed one of Simon Brett's 'Fethering Mystery' series, that I picked up in a charity shop, I bought several more books in the series from Amazon. I'm currently reading this one:
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I'm reading Miranda Hart's account of her debilitating illness.
So far (about a fifth of the way through), it's not amazingly funny or interesting. Surprisingly!
I intend to read some Terry Pratchett. My son has read them all and he has left them here. I would love to get stuck into them, but Rincewind gets on my nerves in The Colour of Magic, so I never got much further.