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CollectionsYour library (1,366), Kindle (10), Library Books (21), Currently reading (1), To read (338), Read but unowned (23), DVDs (9), All collections (1,395)

Reviews71 reviews

TagsFiction (788), Non Fiction (451), TBR (337), Crime Fiction (135), Cookery (75), History (70), Read D (67), Biography (47), Christianity (45), Historical Fiction (39) — see all tags

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GroupsAnglophiles, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, TuesdayThingers, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite bookstoresBarter Books, Berrydin Books, The Mainstreet Trading Company

About meI'm a lifelong bookaholic and blog at www.booksplease.org mainly about the books I read, but also about other things that interest me. I trained and worked for a while as a librarian in a local history library and then as a cataloguer. More recently I've worked in local government.

About my libraryI'm slowly cataloguing my books and am also including my husband's books. I still have some books from my childhood and some books that belonged to both my parents and my husband's parents. Most of them are fiction - classics and contemporary and some science fiction. Non-fiction is a mixed bag, including books on religion, philosophy, history, biography and autobiography, cookery, gardening, yoga, language, travel and nature books. I've also started to add library books and books borrowed from friends as a record of books that I've read.

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Real nameMargaret

LocationNorthumberland, UK

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Member sinceApr 2, 2007

Currently readingThe Help by Kathryn Stockett

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Margaret,
I read your blog regularly (I'm a follower) and noticed that many of your books on the header are from Scandinavian authors. Just wanted to let you know I have a readers challenge for Scandinavian books going at my blog below. Hope you join!

Amy
http://www.theblacksheepdances.blogspot.com
Hi there!
Entered my books from A-F so far, so doubtless it'll go up!
Hi Margaret, I think you're right about Can Any Mother Help Me. My trouble is that I try to read everything too quickly, and it just didn't work for me like that. You're right though, it is fascinating.

Nicola
Hello, I have just sent you a friends request. When I clicked on your Star Gazing review and it brought me to your profile, I realised that your blog is one I read and enjoy regularly.

Linda Gillard is a real favourite author of mine and I dearly wish she could get her fourth book published.
Hi Margaret

Thanks for adding me to your 'interesting libraries'. I'm just checking out your book collection to see if there's any books I'm missing that I should have!

Michaela
I haven't got or read Our Longest Days yet. I'm also tempted by the reprints of the original MassObs books from wartime and just post-war, but they're quite expensive and I want all of them! As a Mass Observer myself it's very interesting to see (we don't get to write diaries, though, just answer questions every 6 months)

The 70s book will def be one of my books of the year, although The Stories Of English, which I've just read and reviewed on my LiveJournal, was wonderful too.
Read and reviewed - loved it. Didn't like my main April book nearly as much (the year of no money in tokyo) but this I thought was excellent. How are you doing with it?
I'm about 2/3 of the way through it now (which is good, as my bonus batch book from March has arrived too!) - maybe reading it a bit more quickly than I would normally choose to, but plenty of time for re-reading at a later date! Have you got to it yet yourself?
I have started When The Lights Went Out and it's good stuff so far - I like that the author looks at comments on events from books at the time and the biographies of the people involved, and actually visits some of them too. Hope you enjoy!
I liked BODY SURFING, but had mixed feelings about the ending. I like a solid ending and this book didn't prove that for me.

Thanks for the add. :)
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