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Vision in White by Nora Roberts

mdc — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:13 +0000

Vision in White by Nora Robert

This is a delightful little book about a group of childhood friends who grow up and start a business together that is all about planning weddings and making people’s dreams come true.

The main storyline is about a character called MacKenzie who finds it hard to let go and to let a man get close to her at all.

I really enjoyed reading Vision in White. It is a really good feel good story. I have read other books by Nora Roberts and so I am pleased that I liked this just as much as her others. It is nice to disappear into a fairytale world of love and life etc.

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Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

mdc — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:04:41 +0000

Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

There is a little bookshop that I walk past every day on my way to work. It is the sort of shop that sells books that have all been marked for clearance. This makes the majority of stock more than 50% cheaper than in your average bookshop.

Anyway I was very happy to see a set of books that brought me back to my childhood. It was a series of books written by Enid Blyton and they were about a fictional boarding school called Malory Towers.

There are five books in the set which correspond to each school year. The stories follow the activities and adventures that a young girl called Darrell Rivers has with her school friends.

I absolutely adored the description of what it must be like to go to a boarding school and all the fun and excitement that it entailed.

The second time round I am very much aware of how quaint everything is and how terribly British and somewhat dated the language is. It is certainly no Harry Potter, Hogwarts school or my current favorite, The Twilight collection.

Sometimes it is nice to go back to the past in order to reflect on how much you have changed and how things have changed. Enid Blyton is still a very popular author among young children and because these books are only about 150 pages each, they are quite quick to read. They are fun, frivolous and full of innocence describing life in a time gone by. This is just what is needed on my daily commute to and from work on the train.

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Twilight Collection Of Books By Stephenie Meyer

mdc — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:37:03 +0000

Twilight by Stephenie Meyers

I am just in the process of reading the Twilight Book Collection and I am loving it. My sister introduced me to the first book Twilight and I have become a true convert to all things vampire.

The main premise of the story is that a young girl called Bella Swan meets a young man called Edward Cullen at high school. We learn quickly that he is a vampire and was actually born in 1901.

Once Bella discovers this, she is not your typical teenage girl who would normally run a mile from monsters. She falls even more in love with him.

This is a beautifully written book about an enduring love. It makes me wish that I had someone like Edward in my life who is unashamedly and passionately in love with me (but I suppose I could do without the threat of death from a vampire bite hanging over my head each time I went in for a kiss.)

Twilight has now been made into a movie and I loved watching the DVD as much as I enjoyed reading the book. The script writer and the director did an excellent job of bringing the words on the page to life.

There are four books in the Twilight book collection and they are all being made into films. I have read New Moon, the next installment and I eagerly anticipate the release of the New Moon DVD here.

The other books in the collection are:

New Moon
Eclispe
Breaking Dawn

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Clicking Her Heels & More..

mdc — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:06:14 +0000

This is a quick post as I haven’t written anything for a while. Just wanted to make a note of the books that I have read over the last few weeks.

Clicking Her Heels by Lucy Hepburn – this book was a nice little story. I picked it up because it was about shoes and this girl loves her shoes. However the story did expand further than this and ended up being frivolous and fun. A nice quick and easy read.

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley – this is an OK book. It is terribly English and quaint in its settings and there were a few unexpected sex scenes.

Season of Innocents by Carolyn Haines – this was a strange book set in the Deep South. It felt like the writer had started with a really good idea but then got a little bored half way through and just managed to squeeze the ending out.

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