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yellowdogintexas

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14. readung Night Train to Berlin by Melanie Hudson
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 07:46 PM
Feb 2023

Paddington Station, present day

A young woman boards the sleeper train to Cornwall with only a beautiful emerald silk evening dress and an old, well-read diary full of sketches. Ellie Nightingale is a shy violinist who plays like her heart is broken. But when she meets fellow passenger Joe she feels like she has been given that rarest of gifts…a second chance.

Paddington Station, 1944

Beneath the shadow of the war which rages across Europe, Alex and Eliza meet by chance. She is a gutsy painter desperate to get to the frontline as a war artist and he is a wounded RAF pilot now commissioned as a war correspondent. With time slipping away they make only one promise: to meet in Berlin when this is all over. But this is a time when promises are hard to keep, and hope is all you can hold in your heart.

From a hidden Cornish cove to the blood-soaked beaches of Normandy in June 1944, this is an epic love story like no other.
I am liking this book. It kind of had a slow start but it kicked into gear fairly fast.


This week I also read Scion by Murray McDonald

Scott's life is turned upside down when he is wrongly accused of a crime. A crime which alerts a very powerful group to his very existence. An existence they believed they had extinguished twenty five years earlier. It seems his very being is a threat to them and as such, must do whatever it takes to kill him.

However, there appears to be one major flaw in their plan, Scott is not all he appears to be!

Best not have an early start in the morning, Scion is an action packed thriller that will have you up all night.

This was good. It was languishing in my Kindle (a long ago purchase) and I just happened to search my books from oldest to newest and stumbled on it. I had supposedly read it but this was not true. Now I have read it and I do recommend it.



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Good Read winetourdriver01 Feb 2023 #1
Loved Kim Easterncedar Feb 2023 #9
The Cat, the Mill and the Murder, Leanna Sweeney the first of the Cats in Trouble cozy series. SheltieLover Feb 2023 #2
#304 in line for A World of Curiosities. SheltieLover Feb 2023 #3
My jaw has dropped so many times hermetic Feb 2023 #5
Hahaha! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #6
Truly a classic hermetic Feb 2023 #4
We All Fall Down: Daniel Kalla cbabe Feb 2023 #7
Truly hermetic Feb 2023 #8
Reading 3 books RSherman Feb 2023 #10
Sounds interesting hermetic Feb 2023 #11
The Plot RSherman Feb 2023 #18
Oh, Hi hermetic Feb 2023 #20
Just started "Flood Tide" by Clive Cussler. joshdawg Feb 2023 #12
Oh fun hermetic Feb 2023 #13
readung Night Train to Berlin by Melanie Hudson yellowdogintexas Feb 2023 #14
is this the basis for Three Pines which is streaming yellowdogintexas Feb 2023 #15
Yes, A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny Staph Feb 2023 #17
I am very OCD about reading series in order. yellowdogintexas Feb 2023 #19
I am reading, Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black. Polly Hennessey Feb 2023 #16
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