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sorry, yes, I did pick it up myself when checking the suggested books for the list. So sorry Kaz. Ann Glos

Thanks Julie! Lol Ann xxxKaz

Err Ann Kaz has already posted. I'm assuming you mean Kaz in a Tizz lol

That is a cop out Jeanette!. I wonder if Kaz has time to make suggestions and vote, I know she is busy.

tee hee!

* gets cane out for Jeanette * * puts it away again cos she will enjoy it too much * Maz. XX

Sorry peeps! I've been a bad girl this month and haven't managed to read any of the books chosen. I have been very selfish and just read a couple of books that I've wanted to read for a little while! So this month, if you don't mind, I won't make any choices or take part in the voting. I shall just read any of the chosen ones that I fancy. Go ahead peeps and cast your votes! lol Jeanette x

come on Jeanette!!

nudge for Jeannette

some good choices again, and one of them is on my reading list ;-))))

For those still to post suggestions

For those of you who read Rebeeca ........the sequel Mrs DeWinters by Susan Hill

No problem jeanette. Ann Glos

Hello Ann and all the Greaders I have nominated: The Accidental Ali Smith The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way. 'The Accidental' is at once a mysterious web of secret identities and a ruthlessly honest look at the silent cracks that can develop unnoticed in relationships over time. Black Swan Green David Mitchell England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life and through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed. Classic: Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Kaz x

There's me Ann! I've been a little delicate today after the annual cricket club do last night! lol. Am I ok to add tomorrow if I don't get it done tonight?

Must be some more! ann Glos

Running out of time - so busy lol my choices are Margaret Attwood The Blind Assassin '10 days after the war ended my sister laurau drove a car off a bridge' More than 50 years on Iris Chase is remebering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of 2 sisters and their secrets. set against a panoramic backdrop of 20th century history, an epic tale of memory,intrigue and betrayal. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Byrne This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences. The classic - emmm im stuck this month so im gonna go for Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Better keep this near the top for the others. Ann Glos

Better add my choice. I am going to change one of my books, found a better one. The Virgin Blue Tracy Chevalier The compelling story of 2 women born centuries apart and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner tries hard to fit in to the small, close-knit community of the French town she has moved to. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry with heart wrenching results. Isabella du Moulin, known as La Rousse because of her red hair is tormented and shunned in her village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. When she becomes pregnant she has no choice but to marry into the arrogant Tournier family. tormentor becomes husband and a shocking fate awaits her - as Ella discovers four hundred years later. Rita Bradshaw Candles in the storm Daisy Appleby is born into a fishing family in a village in the north of Sunderland in 1884. When her mother dies of fever a few years later it falls to daisy to run the household and care for the family. Life is hard, the sea barely yields a living, and then there is always the anxious wait for the men to return. In the storm that takes her father and 2 brothers Daisy risks her life to save a young stranger from certian death. (A gritty rags to riches Northern saga) Classic The great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald. Ann Glos

My three are Sky Burial by Xinran In the early 1960s a rumour circulated through China that one of its soldiers in Tibet had been brutally fed to the vultures. Xinran was a little girl: the tale frightened and fascinated her. She knew nothing about the Tibetan custom of 'Sky Burial' - indeed few Chinese at the time knew or understood such rituals. But thirty years later, Xinran me a Chinese woman who could tell her the astonishing story that lay behind the legend. Her name was Shu Wen and she had spent most of her adult life lost on the Tibetan plateau. In this haunting book, Xinran recreates Shu Wen's extraordinary journey in an epic story of love, loss, loyalty and survival. Moving, shocking and, ultimately, uplifting, Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land, both at the mercy of fate and politics. Atonement by Ian McEwan On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy Jude Fawley, a stone-mason, has already suffered. His academic ambitions were thwarted by his poverty and class: trapped into a loveless marriage, he is now alone but not free. He comes to love his cousin Sue who, seemingly emancipated, is herself miserably married. Sue's words to Jude are prophetic, for although together they defy conventional morality to seize a chance of happiness, they are ultimately defeated by both circumstance and the flaws within their own nature. Daisy