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| St. Helens Reading Groups Hi, welcome to the BookFace Reading Group pages. Here in St. Helens we like to read and we like to talk about what we read, the BookFace is where we share these thoughts. Because we read from all genres our reading group members often get to read authors that as individuals they might not normally consider.  Johnny Vegas recently visited St. Helens Central Library to talk about his favourite book "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists". Johnny signed copies of the book and presented them to Reading Group members. St. Helens public library members can reserve the book here | Play the video then cast your vote |
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| FriarTuck | book reputations | 0 | Apr 16 2008, 8:40 AM EDT by FriarTuck | |
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Last week's Guardian review gave me an idea for a new topic for discussion - books that attract lavish recommendation or hype, but which personally we can't get on with. In The Guardian last week was an advertisement for "The Time Traveller's Wife" which was lent to me amidst much gushing acclaim and I must admit the blurb seemed intriguing. After 100 pages I began to suspect that it was repetitious claptrap. After 150, I was sure and dropped it.
In the same issue was an adulatory review of Salman Rushdie's latest book. His first, "Midnight's Children" , was so widely praised that I couldn't wait to read it. I managed a page and a half and even less than that with his second, "Shame". I have read that the scene in "Satanic Verses" which got him into so much trouble occurs on about page 187. How did anybody get to page 187 in a book by Salman Rushdie? I could have cheerfully strangled him after three paragraphs. I also include in this category anything by Martin Amis ecxept "Night Train", which he's virtually disowned, and anything by Melvyn Bragg except "The Maid of Buttermere". So come on fellow philistines, which books have you started with eager anticipation only to be let down? Which hot reads have left you cold? Which literary emperors do you think have no clothes? |
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| durban | courtroom thrillers books | 4 | Feb 20 2008, 2:12 PM EST by durban | |
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can anybody suggest an author who writes really good books about the courtroom drama's and procedures?.
also has anyone read any of steve martini's books, and are they any good?. |
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| clickclock | last good read | 0 | Feb 7 2008, 9:46 AM EST by clickclock | |
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My personal choice is 'Memoirs of a Geisha' (which has been out a couple of years) - not a book i would normally have chosen but recommended by a friend which i thought was a stunning read.The thread running through the story is the love Chiyo (a young Japanese girl) has for an important man, and the influence he has on her life. He eventually becomes her 'danna' (sort of protector, etc). The book explains the culture of the Geishas which is not as cut and dried as the Western world perceives. It's a history lesson and touching romance, without any hint of sentimentality.
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| tickledpink | Gone With The Wind | 0 | Feb 1 2008, 6:48 AM EST by tickledpink | |
| bibliobob | National Year of Reading - what's happening? | 2 | Jan 11 2008, 3:57 AM EST by welshwizard | |
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posted by roobidoo Apr 24 2008, 11:38 AM EDT
Word document promoting Rainhill Library's Loved Up In The Library Event
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