Member: silvercowrie

Hi Ailie

Thanks for your challenge - I've read a few Ian McEwen books, with mixed reviews, so I'm interested in this one. My challenge to you is to read Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge. I've just started doing yoga and so this sounds fun to me.

Michaela
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posted by Fluffyblue at 1:11 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2009

No probs, Ailie. Enjoy!

posted by CarolineCC at 11:17 am (EST) on Nov 18, 2009

Hi Ailie. thankyou for your challenge, a great choice which I'm very much looking forward to. For your challenge I would like you to read 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey. I read it a few years ago and it's one of my favourites. Hope you enjoy it.

Tess
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posted by Teresa40 at 3:42 am (EST) on Nov 17, 2009

Hi ailie

My challenge to you is The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I've got this book as well and am hoping to get around to it soon. Hope you enjoy it.

posted by valeriejt at 10:30 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2009

Hi Ailie

I'm really sorry in that I seem to be messing you about. I've now updated my tags to show that I've read Dirt Music. However I got mixed up with your first challenge and now realise that I haven't read Prodigal summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Therefore I'm reinstating it as your challenge to me. Hope you understand this rather garbled message.

Val x

posted by valeriejt at 10:23 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2009

Hi Ailie

I'm sorry I haven't updated my list and I've already read this. Would you mind picking something else for me. I'll have a look at your books and set you a challenge as well.

Val x

posted by valeriejt at 3:42 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2009

Hi Ailie,
Thanks for the challenge - mine to you is the Sand Daughter. Hope you enjoy.

Cheryl

posted by crispychez at 9:44 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009

Hi Ailie
thanks for the challenge, i'd like to challenge you to read Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as i see you enjoyed her other one so far and i'd like to see how this one compares, liz x

posted by seanat at 5:04 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009

Hi Ailie, glad you have joined the challenge. Thank you for your challenge to me, I will look forward to it. I would like to challenge you to read Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Having read it's reviews on Amazon I think (I hope) it is a book you will enjoy. Also, I will try to read it with you next year ... and then you will be able to explain to me all the subtleties I have missed!

posted by hashford at 4:39 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2009

Hi,
Thank you for your challenge, please could you read Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride, I enjoyed this thriller.
Louise x

posted by louiseog at 4:36 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2009

Hi, thanks for your challenge. I'd like you to read Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. This is one that's on my tbr pile so I'll be interested to know what you make of it.

posted by BethanyG at 5:34 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Now my challenge is one I can't wait to read! Thank you!!!

posted by SmithSJ01 at 2:49 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Hi Ailie.

Thanks for the challenge. Could you please read The Road Home by Rose Tremain. Hope you enjoy it too.

Caroline xx

posted by CarolineCC at 2:35 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

No problem. Do get stuck in - I'd love to hear what you think about it when you're finished.

posted by Willoyd at 2:03 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

HI Ailie, thanks for your choice - looking forward to it! I've chosen The BIrd Woman, by Kerry Hardie for you to read. It's on my tbr, so I'm going to try and read it too. I hope you like it! x

posted by Book_Junkie at 1:38 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Hi Ailie, Thanks for your choice, I've challenged someone else to read it so it was on my mind and am looking forward to it. I'd like to challenge you to read 'A Spot of Bother' by Mark Haddon and will try to read it myself, love Shona x

posted by arkgirl1 at 1:31 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

LOL. It sort of leapt out at me!! I'm not sure if it's her best as I haven't read it myself. I loved all the ones I've read so far so hope you enjoy this one. Vanessa x

posted by VanessaCW at 1:08 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Sorry ailie - I realise that Crow Country is not tagged pl, as you requested in your post on the forum. So, another on that list that I really, really enjoyed, that IS tagged pl is The Cruellest Miles by Gay Salisbury. So that's my challenge (but if you haven't read Crow Country, I really recommend it too!).

posted by Willoyd at 12:19 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Thank you ailie - I bought that having just read (and really enjoyed) Moby Dick, and am a bit nonplussed why I've yet to get around to reading it: am looking forward to it a lot.

I found it difficult to choose one for you - there's so many from your library that I'd like to have challenged you with - fascinating selection- but I'm going for one that I absolutely loved, and hope that you like it even half as much: Crow Country by Mark Cocker.

posted by Willoyd at 12:11 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Thanks for your challenge, Ailie. I enjoyed The Colour by Rose Tremain, so shall look forward to this one. I would like to challenge you to read Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine. It's on my TBR pile and she is a favourite author of mine. Vanessa x

posted by VanessaCW at 11:22 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Hi Ailie, for the 2010 reading challenge would you read 'The Septembers of Shiraz' by Dalia Sofer, cheers Sam :)

posted by SmithSJ01 at 10:15 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Hi Ailie, by rights I should be challenging to Restless by William Boyd again ;o)

However, for the 2010 reading challenge, I have chosen Memoirs of a Radical Laywer by Michael Mansfield for you to read. I had hoped to get to it fairly soon myself, but I don't think I will get to it this year now, so hopefully we can read it together next year.

Nicola x

posted by nicx27 at 10:10 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

Noticed you liked Out by Natsuo Kirino, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also gritty, a bit violent, and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit.

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:01 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

Thank you Ailie. I think I need to update my profile picture because of course I'm 7 weeks now so I'm soooo much more mature than I looked in that photograph. I did some smiling last night and I noticed my mam had her camera out, so I'll have a chat with her later at Bumps and Babes and I'll get her to upload one of those pictures. Nice to hear from you, look forward to any recommendations you might have. Josh x

posted by BabySmith at 4:13 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2009