[JanHank]

Ian Flemming, Dr. No, I read that when I was 14 or 15 and got my Mum to buy tinned Salmon as smoked would have been hard to come by in the village shop. :grin2:

 

[JanHank]

I tried 3 different books on the kindle yesterday and not one grabbed my attention. I also discovered 2 books I had started to read some time back, but obviously they didn’t suit either. Maybe I will do a bit of map studying instead.

 

[JanHank]

I still have a lot of hard cover readers digest books, I used to enjoy reading those, usually 4 books in one cover. The stories are all shortened to cut out the boring bits like how she was dressed and what colour the blouse was, what plants were in the garden all that rubbish that takes up many pages was removed, I´ll have to bring a few down to read to get me in the reading mood again because I still haven´t succeeded in getting interested in a book yet.

 

[JanHank]

After not reading a book for a looooong time, I am 80% through a super book written by a man with a wonderful imagination, David Baldacci, The Winner. Very readable.

 

[JanHank]

I finished The winner and started a new Baldacci, The Whole Truth.

 

[JanHank]

We used to like the old readers digest condensed books in the 70s

I have some hard cover Readers digest at home, bought a job lot from a charity shop some years ago . I think there are a few I still haven't read.
At the moment I'm skipping many pages of a book because it's so drawn out, it's called I Spy I saw her die. The beginning was OK but now I skip half a chapter and can still pick up the story because it's just a load of nothing new to fill pages. Free on the kindle of course.

 

[JanHank]

Help me out please, who was the author and name of the book about us all being spied on by the government.?

 

[JanHank]

Help me out please, who was the author and name of the book about us all being spied on by the government.?

1984 - George Orwell?

Thanks Graham, I knew you would know 😁
I have never read it so maybe I should.

 

[JanHank]

I have the book now and on the first page it reminded me of my Mum pegging rags into hessian to make a rug and my brother and I cutting up the rags for her to use.
Like this

 

[JanHank]

I remember those too they make them in India now and cost a fortune, I used to hold the skanes wool when she wound it into a ball, waggling my fingers out as the wool came round, also buying special rug wool to make rugs (Obvs) you would it around a card and then cut it.

Oh yes, I remember it well👍

 

[JanHank]

Good read and a good film too but that's from memory as I haven't seen it for years.

I also remember that there was some controversy about the music for the film at the time. Annie Lennox did the score. One of the songs was a lovely song called Julia, from memory

What a boring book, not for me, good job I only paid 99cents for it.

 

[JanHank]

Widely regarded as a modern classic but that's the beauty of reading though: horses for courses, what suits one doesn't suit all. At least you had a go.

Maybe when the dark nights and cold days are here I will try again, but I read the first chapter and it took me nowhere.

 

[JanHank]

I finished On the road by Jack Kerouac. I can see how it was a totemic book epitomising the beat generation. It was hard reading in some places but overall quite readable.

As a bit of light relief I am now reading Dragon by Clive Cussler.

totemic book epitomising, what the heck does that mean in plain English Graham?

 

[JanHank]

Look up it Jan.

Plain enough Jan. As the man said, look it up as apparently we learn something new every day

I already did, but it still makes no sense to me and I don´t think it´s something that I will ever need to use as I still don´t know what it means and the words will not remain in my vocabulary anyway.

 

[JanHank]

providing & portraying are words I understand, even Wiki uses words I understand 😁 .
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. Wikipedia

 

[JanHank]

I am on Zero Day by David Baldacci at the moment. Very similar to the Jack Reacher novels.

I have this on my Kindle along with about a dozen more of David Baldacci books, tonight I begin reading that one Pat and we can compare notes 😁. I`ve been out of the reading habit for 3 years then I got the Netflix habit and that's been taking up my time instead. I check on here now and then to see what you´re all reading.

 

[JanHank]

I am on Zero Day by David Baldacci at the moment. Very similar to the Jack Reacher novels.

Now on chapter 26 Pat and I still haven`t found out what was in the packet that was to be signed for, maybe I will before tonight is out.

 

[JanHank]

I have finished Zero Day so I must have enjoyed it, I skipped a couple of chapters towards the end, to much useless information, I´ve got enough of that tucked in my brain already. Now going to try a Scott Mariani, I have read a few of his books, but can´t remember the titles.

 

[JanHank]

I have just rediscovered a book I was half way through a little while ago, had to reread a couple of chapters to remind myself what it‘s about.
A study in stone ( the Devonshire mysteries book 1 ) by Michael Campling.

 

[JanHank]

Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben at the moment. It is irritating me a bit because he uses two names for each character, or so it seems. Sometimes they are John and in the next bit they are Smith! I struggle, nowadays, with some writers and their characterisation without adding to my woes

The last book I read had two characters in, Dan & Alan, I kept forgetting which one was which. Did you think Zero day was purposely drawn out in the end to fulful a certain amount of pages Pat.