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Neris and India's Idiot-proof Diet: From Pig to Twig by India Knight
10 Penguin Classics on 45 CDs (The Mayor of Casterbridge, Pride & Prejudice, Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre by Jane Austen
Being Committed : A Novel by Anna Maxted
100 Tips for Hoteliers: What Every Successful Hotel Professional Needs to Know And Do by Peter Venison
Under My Spell by Deborah Wright
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Member: mumoftheanimals
Library53 books — see library
Reviews11 reviews — see reviews
Cloudstag cloud, author cloud
Tagschildhood (11), USA (9), hotel (6), England (5), 19th century (4) — see all tags
Groups50 Book Challenge, Humor
Favorite authorsMargaret Forster, Marian Keyes (Shared favorites)
About me I am married (see hubby) and have two children - a girl and a boy. I have been a keen reader all my life but not an especially erudite one. I like to try blockbusters, classics, prize winners (except the booker prize winner which seems to guarentee I will hate it) and anything in the charity shop on a whim. I particularly like books that cover childhood and children. I also like children's literature.
About my library I am trying to catalogue everything I read from now on, give it a star rating and a comment. I want to include the lot - the diet books, the self-help crazes, the teach-yourself short-hand/website design/Arabic - as a kind of diary of my enthusiasms rather than exclusivly develop my specialism - books on childhood and adoption. I would like to make contact with other book-lovers so please leave a comment.
LocationEdinburgh, UK
Emailjenny.benfield
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Member sinceMay 3, 2008
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I checked your library and your reviews and note that you were not fond of either Digging to America by Anne Tyler or Adrianna Trigani's book Luca, Luca.
I read all Anne Tyler's books except for Digging to America. Originally I really liked what she wrote and Dinner at the Homesick Restuarant was one of my favorites, however I found that her later books were filled with lots of fluff and little substance.
Re. Adrianna Trigani, she wrote a book called Queen of the Big Time and I liked this one. The setting was the area in Pennsylvania (US) where I grew up as a child and she hit the nail right on the head re. the local Italian culture. I then read Big Cherry Holler and didn't like it at all.
I have never traveled to Europe, but have visited a lot of the US. My family is originally from Cornwall England and they located to a tiny town called Bangor, PA. Many of the people in the area where I live are from England and our local towns are named Bath, Pen Argyl (I believe this is from Pen Argyl Wales) and Lancaster.
I had a wonderful history professor in college who gave me a love of English history and most of my reading is books of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and other assorted brits.
posted by Whisper1 at 9:02 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2008
posted by Whisper1 at 1:42 am (EST) on Jul 6, 2008
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