Winter in Thrush Green - a warming book

Advantages: a warming story, simple
Disadvantages: no gripping storyline

...The author of Winter in Thrush Green has written a series of books set in Thrush Green you may know her also famously for her series that is set in the fictitious village of Fairacre her bestselling book ?Village School?. Winter in Thrush Green is the second book in the series, first published in 1961 but my copy is more recently published in 2007. After reading some quite heavy books recently I longed for one that would take me back into a lovely comfy place where worries or real live seem to be forgotten. Although I haven?t read the first book in this series when I picked it up in my local library and read the back I knew this book was what I was after. It is about a small quiet village called Thrush Green who had found they were going to have a stranger moving into the village which was sending gossip sky high and the possibility...

claireylulu 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Suits my lifestyle!

Advantages: Cheap but reliable and nice looking , simple to use
Disadvantages: Basic, no fancy settings

...out. We inherited that large microwave when we swapped houses with my Dad after Mum died and we had in for many years. It was huge and heavy but worked very well. About six years ago we had a new kitchen installed and after this the old faithful microwave which cooked for us all the time we were without any kitchen was recycled as I wanted a smaller one that was silver and fitted better in our new kitchen. ~ My needs and requirements~ My microwave desires were very simple, cheap, efficient, small and silver or grey. With this in mind I went looking around. ~Firstly the price~ The price of this Hinari Lifestyle microwave oven was under £30 and I have seen it on Amazon for £27.97 recently. ~Next is it small enough to sit on the side? ~ Outside dimensions - 295 x 458 x 370 mm - ideal for under my over counter cupboard Inside...

catsholiday 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Winter Wonderland

Advantages: Beautifully put together in every way
Disadvantages: Quite dark and depressing

...One of the best books I have ever read was ?Back Roads? by Tawni O?Dell, a story of how hard it can be to be a teenager with responsibilities and little support in backwoods America. I always believed that making a film of that novel would be ineffective, as you could never catch the beauty of O?Dell?s writing on screen. Having seen ?Winter?s Bone?, a film which runs along a similar theme, I?ve started to change my mind. Ree Dolly and her family live in the Ozarks, a beautiful if bleak area in Missouri. At 17, Ree is having to take care of her younger brother and sister as well as her mother who isn?t well, although we never find out exactly why. Ree?s father is currently out on bond and has gone missing. Because he put up their house as security for his bond, Ree and the family stand to be thrown out of their home if he doesn...

Soho_Black 01.01.1970 · Read review
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