July Reading

2 years ago

I hope I am not stepping on toes by starting this thread as I don't come to this forum all that often but I do enjoy it.

Anyway,,, I finally read (just finished yesterday) East of Eden. It was so intense and chock full of characters and events that I feel like I want to re-read it at some point. I did get a lot ouf of it and rate it 5 stars . I think if /when I do read it again I will get even more from it.

My next book is for book club- The Weight of a Piano. As usual, I know nothing about it other than it got good ratings on Goodreads.

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2 years ago

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Having cleared out almost ALL our books and the remaining ones now awaiting out arrival at our 'new' house (we move in on Saturday) I found I had nothing to read! Luckily out local supermarket has put out a couple of shelves of donated paperbacks, previously removed because of Covid so I was able to pick up one by Mary Stewart and a three-in-one of Barbara Pym's.

Another of the books was a quick easy read probably aimed at YA's Blitz by Vince Cross. Written in the form of a diary as though by a 12 year old girl it gives some insight into the life of a family living in SE London during the Blitz. Father works as a fireman, mother an air-raid warden, brother in the RAF etc. Plus rationing, putting up an air-raid shelter, closure of local schools, evacuation to the countryside . . .

The only thing I took issue with (I just can't help myself) was when an older sister gives the girl two £5 notes as 'emergency money'.

Annpan will remember the big white notes the size of a man's handkerchief . . . So the child has been given the equivalent in 'modern' terms of well over £400 and this from a girl who just had a job in a shop and probably earned then less than a £1 a week.

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