I first wrote about Barbara Vine’s The Birthday Present a few weeks ago when I’d almost got to the point of giving up reading it. But I decided to read a few more pages and ended up finishing it. It wasn’t too bad even though the plot depended upon too many coincidences and I thought it was rather lifeless.
Ivor Tesham, MP [...]
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Today I started reading The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine. but I’m not sure that I really want to finish it. Maybe I’ve read too much crime fiction recently because this one just seems rather silly.
Ivor Tesham, MP decides to give his married girl friend a birthday present, one with a difference. He arranges to have her “kidnapped” [...]
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Posted in Agatha Christie, Barbara Vine, Bill Bryson, Books, Kate Atkinson, Petina Gappah, Sue Guiney, Sue Roe, Sunday Salon, Thomas Hardy on Apr 19th, 2009
Currently I’m at the beginning of a few books. That is because I’ve just finished reading Tangled Roots by Sue Guiney and have started more before deciding which one to read next. Usually I have more than one book on the go but I’m thinking of restricting myself to just two at once.
I’ve been reading Sue [...]
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