Books #24 Reading Chats

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061wan

Thank you! I’ve been waiting for (and probably missing this deal ) for ages!!
 
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twilightgarden

Thanks for this! I’ve never read any of her books but they’ve been recommended a few times.
 
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Chocolategoggler

Went to pick up my ordered books from the library today and why do I do this to myself The Barbra Streisand book is an absolute tome!!!!
 
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Tofino

Do you buy books as gifts for people? I’ve seen one I’m sure my friend would enjoy but wondering what the chances are she has read it! She doesn’t have Goodreads so I can’t check her history which is a bloody pain in the backside

Can you return books with Amazon? Or get a gift receipt with Waterstones? I don’t know whether retailers accept book returns/exchanges given there is a chance someone could have had a sneaky read if they don’t bend the spine.
 
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Caffeine Fiend

If you send direct from amazon as a gift the recipient can exchange.
 
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Hannahebee

Tofino said:
Do you buy books as gifts for people?
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Every Christmas I always buy the People's Friend and My Weekly Annuals for my mum as she loves reading the short stories that they have in them and as she also loves reading War Romance books I often get her one's that I think she will enjoy.
 
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Chocolategoggler

I'm really enjoying the Shirley Williams autobiography. What an interesting and intriguing life she has led. I keep having to Google things. Still questioning if Peter Parker was the British Rail bloke or some other person. (She had an 18 month relationship with him).
Then she's on about Robert Runcie (didn't he marry Charles and Di? Anyway, he had been an officer in the Scots Guards and won the Military Cross!!!
I'm only on page 105. She reminds me of a Swallows and Amazons character, fearlessly roaming the globe as a school age child. Sometimes completely alone as in World War 2.
 
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BWGossip

Finished Foster and Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan. 5 stars. Her talent to say so much with so little words is mindblowing.

I've been in a dark mood the last month, and her books strike the right spot between making me feel hopeless by mankind's shittiness and rekindling my hope in the humankind. Again, thanks to the people here for recommending Keegan, as I'd have never heard about her otherwise
 
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daisynoon

Waterstones accepts returns if it's in "pristine" condition and I've given my dad a gift receipt from there before and he returned with no issues

I usually try and sneakily probe if someone's got or read a book by dropping it into the conversation but obviously it risks the person being interested and buying it themselves
 
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Thatgirl22

Any Lisa Jewell fans? I just finished None of This is True on audible and it was excellent but very confusing at the end!
 
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HoGi

Thatgirl22 said:
Any Lisa Jewell fans? I just finished None of This is True on audible and it was excellent but very confusing at the end!
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I had to listen to the ending 3 times and I'm still not sure I get it
 
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Thatgirl22

HoGi said:
I had to listen to the ending 3 times and I'm still not sure I get it
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me too, I think that might be the point? The narrators were fab, especially Josie as she sounds so weird I’m really not sure what happened at the end
 
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Elle

Ran to request Exile. Sounds like a bit of me.

Really enjoying Green Dot by Madeleine Gray. Thank you to those who mentioned it here!
 
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SaintLeo

I know the whole premise of the book was that it constantly made you rethink your assumptions about the characters, and the ending was just another way of doing that, but I kind of wish there had been a nice neat ending to it. I’m a bit over the whole “you make your own decisions” endings. I don’t want to do that much work as a reader! Having said all that it was still one of my fave books of this year.
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me too, I think that might be the point? The narrators were fab, especially Josie as she sounds so weird I’m really not sure what happened at the end
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mindlessness

I do! Just with a gift receipt so people can return for a different book if they've read it. This is often the case with my Dad but I repeatedly give him a book anyway!
 
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Thatgirl22

@SaintLeo completely agree, I like a nice tie up ending especially when it’s something like that but it was definitely an excellent book nonetheless!
 
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PunkyMonkey

Got "None of this is true" as an audiobook and am now hoovering up all her novels, really compelling!

I think the ending was just making the point that the truth is somewhere in the middle of everyone's stories.
 
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