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  • MissMarple
    MissMarple Community Member Posts: 468 Empowering

    Thank you @Carl_Scope I'm feeling a bit better and started listening to a Brian Bilston poetry collection. He writes very lighthearted, jokey poems on lots of different ordinary topics. I liked and would recommend his book Diary of a Somebody.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,343 Online Community Team

    I love Brian Bilston @MissMarple. This one always makes me smile:

    Duvet,
    you are so groovet,
    I’d like to stay under you
    all of Tuesdet.

    😁

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,670 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I'm still getting through East of Eden, it really is a wedge of a book! It's completely different to the books I usually read but I'm really enjoying it though. I'll be on trains for about 5 hours on Saturday round trip so I'm hoping to make a massive dent, if not finish it then😅

    How is everybody feeling and what are you reading at the moment?🤩 I hope everybody has been well.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,888 Championing

    There is also a 'West Of Eden' by Harry Harrison, but it couldn't be any more different!

    Harrison's 'The Stainless Steel Rat' series is pretty good, or so I thought as a teenager.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,900 Championing

    I have just read the Girl on the 88 Bus by Freya Sampson. A novel about love, loss and rediscovery.

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 653 Empowering

    Sounds like a great book @Bluebell21 I am guessing that if you didn't like it, you probably wouldn't mention it.
    I've just looked it up and I am hoping to read it one day. Maybe we could do a book club month with the theme transportation somewhere next year…

    Can one chance meeting change the course of your life?

    When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like her own. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery, but Frank lost the ticket with her number written on it.

    For the past sixty years, he's ridden the same bus trying to find her. Libby is inspired by the story and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she makes it her mission to help Frank's search. As she begins to open her guarded heart to strangers and new connections, Libby's tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank's dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the number 88 bus is slipping away. More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his lost love one more time.

    But their quest also shows Libby just how important it is to embrace her own chances for happiness - before it's too late.

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 653 Empowering

    Yay, I am so glad to have read 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie - author of The Sewing Machine. A must-read about speaking up in other ways than being a hardcore protester, it very much has the vibe of ‘be kind and pay it forward.’
    I really really needed something like this with all the misery in the world (as opposed to Yesteryear that I think is a despicable book).

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,900 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1149543#Comment_1149543

    Yes I enjoyed this book.

    "The story is uplifting and romantic, celebrating the importance of making human connections and embracing our dreams."

    It is by the same author as The Last Library Freya Sampson.

    Perhaps we could do a book with the theme transportation next year.

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