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diamondlil
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Post by diamondlil » Tue October 28th, 2008, 9:50 am

I am in suburban London having just run away from my life in Australia.
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Post by pat » Wed October 29th, 2008, 1:31 am

[quote=""diamondlil""]I am in suburban London having just run away from my life in Australia.[/quote]


Title and author please! (and if it is good!!!)



I am in ancient Egypt.
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Post by diamondlil » Wed October 29th, 2008, 7:42 am

Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson.

I can not begin to tell you the ways this book echoes certain scenes from my own life.
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Post by pat » Wed October 29th, 2008, 10:18 am

Library has it, but it is checked out so I will have to wait!
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Vanessa
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Post by Vanessa » Wed October 29th, 2008, 10:28 am

I've read and enjoyed Dorothy Koomson's My Best Friend's Girl and do have the Marshmallow one on my TBR pile.
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Post by diamondlil » Wed October 29th, 2008, 10:44 am

I loved My Best Friend's Girl. It was a mistake to read it on the train, because I had to try very hard to control my crying, but such a good read!
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Post by Carine » Wed October 29th, 2008, 12:25 pm

My Best Friend's Girl is another one that's on my TBR pile ! Glad to hear from you all that it's a good read though.

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Post by diamondlil » Thu November 6th, 2008, 9:40 am

At the moment I am on a boat journeying between the UK and my new life in India. I am travelling as a paid chaperone to a couple of girls and a very strange young man.
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu November 6th, 2008, 9:47 am

I'm currently on a hospital ship travelling from France to South Africa in the middle of the First World War.

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Post by Alaric » Thu November 6th, 2008, 11:09 am

1144 as Maude and Stephen's war pointlessly rumbles on.

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