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This new section in your Candis magazine will now feature each month. Please share your views or other book recommendations.
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Recently read Butcher by Campbell Armstrong. Any-one who likes a really good suspense thriller will enjoy this from start to finish
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| It's Your Time You're Wasting by Frank Chalk. This book is hilarious. I got my copy from Amazon two days ago and have finished it already. Frank Chalk is a teacher who works at a pretty rough comprehensive school and this is his true-life diary. He has to deal with pupils who would rather cause mayhem in the classroom than pay attention and shows just how low standards are at some of our schools. Yet his account is funny. I think one of my favourite moments is when he rings the mother of one of his pupils to let her know that her offspring has forged a sick note - he believes this because the spelling and grammar are so bad - only to find that the mother was the letter writer! This book will appeal to anyone who is a parent or teacher.
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| I look forward to reading that one. It sounds really good. Har anyone ever come across books by Torey Hayden. They are about teaching , especially work with special children. She writes memoirs of her time in the special educayion classroom and are so un put downable.
ML
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Have just completed reading three books by Jan Karon...At Home in Mitford,A Light in the Window, These High, Green Hills. Beautifully written, absorbing, delightful characters. Mitford, North Carolina, is an imaginary town based on Blowing Rock where Jan Karon lived. You live with the characters, you absorb their lives and will be craving for the next book!!!!
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| I am totally hooked on Martina Cole books. Have read quite a few of hers now and at the moment I am nearly at the end of "Broken". It is one of those books you don't want to put down. It deals with paedophilia and is pretty rough and gory in places but is such a good read.
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| For younger readers. My 9 year old daughter is currently reading for the 2nd time; "Dr Fell's Cabinet of Smells" by Susan Gates. I have also read it with her and its a cracking read about science, history, smell and a nose that wont stay on! A really funny book that is part fact,part fiction, yes Gladiators did do that to their hair! You'll just have to read it to find out!! 
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| hi ive read torey hayden and martina cole they are bothgood.john grisham is excellent.any one read tami hoag ive read one and wondered what else she written,
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| I have to agree with CardQueen Martina Cole books are addictive. Though the best book I have read in ages is "A Piece of Cake" by Cupcake Brown, my copy is doing the rounds with my mates and they all agree its a great read that will stay with us for a long time.
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