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Loved the book, hope everyone else enjoys it too.

Ballerina x

P.S. Apologies if I am not very active on the forum at the moment but hubs condition is rather stressful, for both of us, he is worried and I am worried and he is worried about me worrying about him and I am ........... Oh, I think you might get the picture, just enjoy the book love you all xx

Missing you @Ballerina big hugs x

Missing you @Ballerina big hugs x

I've not gone yet AND you don't get rid of me that easily

Ballerina x

Ohhhh rats i was hopin we'd seen the back of you!
Thought i read somewhere you were packing yr bags! ;0)

Big hugs @Ballerina xx

Bean

Thanks Beanie Bobs,

Ballerina x

Love you new avatar beanie, and Ballerina sending

I used to be a big reader but seem to fallen off but thanks for the great ideas when I am next at a loose end. Might be a while

Some suggestions from the longlist for the Bailey's Prize (formerly Orange Prize)

The Bailey's Books Prize Long List (formerly the Orange Book Prize)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Fourth Estate Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury
The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne, Fig Tree
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto, Viking
The Bear by Claire Cameron, Harvill Secker
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter, Two Roads
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter, Fig Tree
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Granta
Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies, Oneworld
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, Picador
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, Harvill Secker
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee, Atlantic Books
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, Galley Beggar Press
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson, Mantle
Still Life With Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen, Hutchinson
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, Simon and Schuster
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld, Jonathan Cape

Ooh thanks SD...Lots of them sound very intriguing!
I need a good book,seems ages since ive found one i really enjoyed
What are peeps faves? ( maybe this has been asked before..)?
Mine include..
Margaret Atwood 's The Edible Woman ( love her novels but not the mystical fantasy ones, just the contemporary)
The Bean Tree/ Pigs in Heaven / The Poisonwood Bible - all by Barbara Kingsolver
All Anne Tyler's books
All by Carol Shields ( i seem to go for Canadian writers and Canada is somewhere i so want to visit!)

I was an avid reader for a while, then for a few years I stopped for some reason, but a few years ago I started up again and have been reading like crazy ever since! I don't rate too many books with 5 stars, but here's a few that I have in the last few years (and a few 4 stars too!) I realize though that some of them are very U.S. centric!

The Help - Kathryn Stockett
11-22-63 - Stephen King
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (YA)
Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
Defending Jacob - William Landay
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty

@CandiceMarieIf you are looking for Canadian Authors have you tried Robertson Davies? It is a while since I read his books- but I definitely enjoyed them.

Thanks for the recommendation x will look out for him in the library! X

Thank you to everybody who voted for the 100 year old man, I didn't. I am so enjoying this book and have even sniggered out loud.

Oh it sounds good! Havent been to the library for it yet! X

Thank you to everybody who voted for the 100 year old man, I didn't. I am so enjoying this book and have even sniggered out loud.

Glad you are enjoying it, without giving anything away, I just loved the way the author makes everything SO plausible

Ballerina x