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by Madeleine
Thu March 7th, 2024, 3:18 pm
Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2022
Topic: Madeleine's Reading Log 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 786

Re: Madeleine's Reading Log 2024

March "The Heron's Cry" by Ann Cleeves - this is the second book in the author's new series,set in Devon, following Inspector Matthew Venn and his team. This one is focussed around a small farm and artistic community, when a doctor investigating the local health authority's care of a young man who ...
by Madeleine
Mon March 4th, 2024, 1:46 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
Topic: Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Replies: 23
Views: 1851

Re: Miss Scarlet and the Duke

princess garnet wrote:
Thu February 29th, 2024, 5:57 pm
Update: 5th season has been renewed and a major casting announcement
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sp ... ting-news/
Production currently is underway!
Wonder if it will still work? :o
by Madeleine
Mon March 4th, 2024, 1:44 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
Topic: Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Replies: 23
Views: 1851

Re: Miss Scarlet and the Duke

Just had the flashback episode in the UK,I didn't realise they had so much back story! The casting of young Eliza was spot on.
by Madeleine
Sat March 2nd, 2024, 3:51 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th
Replies: 8
Views: 275

Re: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th

I’ll have a look at that one, Madeleine. There used to be lots of book forums at one time but most of them seem to have gone by the wayside. I think Facebook changed things. Yes although quite a few people have said they don't like FB so have come back to forums! The one above has a lot of refugees...
by Madeleine
Thu February 29th, 2024, 3:33 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th
Replies: 8
Views: 275

Re: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th

If anyone wants to join another book forum, there's one I'm on called https://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/ which is quite active and has members from all over the world.

Nice to have met you all and good luck with your reading (and writing) and see you on another forum!
by Madeleine
Fri February 23rd, 2024, 12:07 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th
Replies: 8
Views: 275

Re: FYI: Forum board to close by Feb. 29th

It would be a shame but membership has dwindled quite a lot over the last few years so I'm not really surprised.
by Madeleine
Fri February 16th, 2024, 7:45 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
Topic: Downton Abbey: Final Season (US broadcast)
Replies: 13
Views: 469

Re: Downton Abbey: Final Season (US broadcast)

Never say never, apparently a new series of Downton has started filming! Possible tx end of the year?
by Madeleine
Sun February 11th, 2024, 5:09 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
Topic: Matthew Shardlake comes to TV (C J Sansom)
Replies: 0
Views: 43

Matthew Shardlake comes to TV (C J Sansom)

Just seen on Facebook that Disney have made a series based on the first book "Dissolution", starting soon (in the UK). Sean Bean is playing Cromwell!
by Madeleine
Sun February 4th, 2024, 2:22 pm
Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2022
Topic: Madeleine's Reading Log 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 786

Re: Madeleine's Reading Log 2024

February "A Shetland Winter Mystery" by Marsali Taylor - this starts off in a fairly light mood, with sailor Cass Lynch on dry land for once, as she's on a break from sailing for Christmas,and is back on Shetland at the cottage she has moved into with her policeman boyfriend Gavin and two cats. In ...
by Madeleine
Sun February 4th, 2024, 2:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What Are You Reading? February 2024
Replies: 7
Views: 454

Re: What Are You Reading? February 2024

I have some of Tasha Alexander's books, but the later books are hard to get, and expensive, in the UK now.

I'm just about to start "Whispers of the Runes" by Christina Courtenay, Viking time travel!

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