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At home I'm reading:
The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall

In my bag when I'm out, I'm still reading Comanche Heart by Catherine Anderson

iice:
[color=#9900ff]She good? Anderson i mean.[/color]

She's okay. . . I've heard good things about her regency romances though I haven't read any myself and this is my first book of hers and its more a late 18th century Western. It's interesting enough but its one of those where you just want to slap some sense into the heroine because she's so annoying.

Owu gal:
MY wonderful sisters and brothers,

Books can be very culture and era/time specific specific. so fo instance this book called uncle tom's cabin which a lot of americans love so much is perhaps one of the worst books I ever read. But the more I learned about the way writters wrote in old england, old America, the more I understood it and it made some sense. I read it and I loved it and still love it now

But I advise no one to read this book wuthering heights. it is positively one of the vilest books in the world. but then again so many americans love it and its very old america/old england culture specific.

I love the English classics (at least from the 18th century onwards), though the American ones not so much because they tend to be less romance and more anger and revolution. And I totally agree that Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is overrated. I love all her sisters' (Charlotte and Anne Bronte) books (Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley, The Professor, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), mostly because I thought that their characters were more likeable and their romances more acceptable. I found the book so depressing and uninteresting because frankly there was nobody to root for since everyone was equally detestable. Seriously because of that book I never want to go to Leeds or Yorkshire or wherever it was because the book made it soooo unappealing.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]True, it happens to me sometimes. But some books remain the same. Betty Neels [/color]

Betty Neels rocks!!!

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I admit I find Charles Dickens incredibly boring even though I know its a travesty to say so. His stories are so interesting but the writing, so wordy and the descriptions, too much!

tpia@:
I think Betty Neels was the first M & B book I ever read. The book ended with "and the teakettle bubbled away/merrily on the stove" or something. While the main characters did their thing upstairs. No details of course.

I was quite young then.

LOL. I think I know the one you're talking about.

What's with the Betty Neels haters?? I love her!!! I collect her 1st editions!! Her books are sooooooooooo peaceful. Ok so there are no high highs or low lows, but they're really easy and brief and idyllic and innocent and make you think of a more naive era. Nothing like some Betty Neels to clear your mind after a rough day. She makes me happy!!

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Swan by Naomi Campbell (soooooooooo stupid!!!)

Lonesome Dove by  Larry McMurtry (unfinishable)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (so overrated!!)

At home I'm reading:
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers by Xiaolu Guo (its a really interesting romantic comedy).

In my bag when I'm out is:
Comanche Heart by Catherine Anderson

Moyola:
3) Second Chance

By Second Chance, do you mean the JSCE novel where the girl gets pregnant at university and has twins? And someone is called Mina and one of the twins is called Miatta (sp?) or something?

It was ok, but there are some things you need to fix:

1.) Your tenses. You're mixing present and past tense in an awkward way. Most writers use some form of past tense but you can use present tense if you like but you have to decide one way or the other because the mix of present and past you're doing is a little off and it's distracting.

2.) You have typos  and grammatical errors like "am" instead of "I'm" and also things like "Where is mum and dad?" so you'll definitely need to read over and correct that.

3.) See if you can improve your word/phrase choices a little like instead of "she ran down the street with all her strength," describe what running with all her strength might be like: e.g. "she ran down the street, her shoes/ bare feet/ whatever slapping/slamming against the pavement" or "she raced down the steer" or something. I don't know. Just think of being a little more descriptive or using more standard phrases like "she screamed at the top of her lungs" is more standard than "at the top of her voice."

4.) This seemed more like a prologue than a 1st chapter but it wasn't bad. Just needs to be edited. And maybe it will be good to sit down and decide what you want your prologue/1st chapter to tell us. Like think about what you want the reader to know about the main character/victim/whoever by the end of the chapter.