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Wed, 07-05-2006 - 3:51am

We can't just play in the sand all of the time..... what'cha reading?


I've read 2 books since I arrived 3 weeks ago, and now I just started  reading  The Ship of Brides  by JoJo Moyes.  I love it... based on a true story.... if anyone wants a really different "read" this summer, this is the one...    


The Ship of Brides

The captivating new novel from RNA prize winner Jojo Moyes - based on a true story. The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England - aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. Rules of honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined. And Frances Mackenzie - the enigmatic young bride whose past comes back to haunt her thousands of miles from home - will find that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.


 



Edited 7/5/2006 3:59 am ET by cl-twig04

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-12-2003
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 3:42am
I don't remember it being boring....
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Registered: 12-12-1997
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 8:59am

Yes, it's the same story.


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Registered: 12-12-1997
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 9:04am
I think you may be thinking of the movie, and I didn't see that.

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Registered: 10-12-2010
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 9:51am
I think I saw that movie long ago & didn't like it.

 

 Katz

 

 

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 07-06-2006 - 8:37pm
I just finished Saving the World by Julia Alvarez, and it was excellent. Now I am reading Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Rhodes.
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Registered: 09-12-2003
Fri, 07-07-2006 - 1:50am
ohhhhhh Voodoo Dreams,
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-07-2006 - 9:53pm
I recently read Voodoo Season by the same author. I really enjoyed it. It's a very similar genre, just set in the present.
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