SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE BOOKS OF THE MONTH

shorty · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

Ok, I'll copy a couple of posts in here and we can use this for future suggestions.

shorty · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

Cadge said:

shorty · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:38 am Post subject:

Tango Bunny said:

Tango Bunny · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:38 am Post subject:

Thanks o short one
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medot · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:38 am Post subject:

polar did suggest a while back.....

Kaitlyn by Kevin Lewis.

polar · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for remembering Medot
thought I was forgotton!!!!!!!!
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medot · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

polar..i bought that book...especially to read for the book club. it looks a good one

Cadge · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

I got polars book from Makro today £3.72, so I'm saving it for when we choose this.

Elaine · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

I have a suggestion for the book club - Maps for Lost Lovers.
This is by Nadeem Aslam, and was recommended to me by a friend. Quite simply, this book blew me away.
It is by far and away the most descriptive writing I have ever read - I really sensed everything the author described - every taste, every sound, every sight, every touch. Just amazing.
The story is about an Asian family and their surroundings in a small English town. The themes include honour killings, integration (or lack of) by the Asians into their new homeland etc.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough - multiple thumbs up from me!

Elaine
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Liam X · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

Gangland.

Its a book about how they caught Gotti and the rest of the LCN. how they had to get people to turncoats and all the surveillance that went into it, and how they nearly gave up.

Its the only book ive read front to back, and liked.
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GoldenChippie · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject:

thanks for the suggestions - would you like to join us Liam?

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Pam7 · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:40 am Post subject:

I was awake at 5 (again

) this morning and continued reading this one (Kathy's Story) - hard to believe that it could happen - quite recently too

! Very moving!

GoldenChippie · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

was this made into a film - the magdalene sisters or something like that?

ive seen on that sounds similar

Pam7 · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

No..I've seen the Magdalene Sisters too Gail but this is different. She had a terrible time with her father, beatings, etc etc and got taken away at 8 years of age - on the pretence that she was going to the seaside!

shorty · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

I sobbed my heart out at that film gail, it was absolutely horrific!

Pam7 · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject:

You want to read what her dad does to her!!!

He gets home of an evening and drags the children out of their beds...makes them kneel on the hallway floor...bare brick and freezing..in their nightclothes. The mother waits until he is asleep and ushers them off to bed. Nothing is said. A couple of days later he does it again...and this time puts his pillow and bedding on the top of the stairs so that they can't get by him - and they have to stay kneeling all night long! Kathy is the first daughter - for some reason he is particularly nasty to her. Beats her to within an inch of her life...leaves her in the garden. She has to sleep in the shed with the dog...until the dog dies!

shorty · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

PAM!!!! Don't tell us all about it before we all read it!!!!!!

Pam7 · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject:

That's just in the first 2 pages!!!!!

shorty · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

I'll let you off then!! x