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[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

My review for Hell's Fury by P.D. Martin which I finished yesterday - 5★s

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sally906]

Michael wrote: "Glad you enjoyed The Chocolate Promise Sally and look forward to reading your review. :)
..."

I was a bit worried I mightn't of liked it as much judging by other reviews - but I really loved it - better than her first. It certainly fitted my needs this weekend as we had a bit of an unexpected family drama so needed distraction :)

[Sally906]

Michael wrote: "That's the beauty of books Sally. We can forget about our problems and get lost in the adventure land in our own minds. :)"

Exactly!

When my youngest use to come with me and say 'I'm bored' I'd tell her to go read and book and she whine 'but that's boring' - I just couldn't understand how she didn't understand the escape :)
Poor thing - the rest of the family are all readers - even her son :)

[B the BookAddict]

Dale wrote: "Currently reading one which Bette has recommended, The Pursuit of Happiness"

I feel nervous now:)

I'm reading the only Sarah Waters I haven't read yet: Affinity. I'm feeling a bit sad at that realisation and hope she'll write another novel soon.

[K]

I am really hooked on . It's so good! But I am waiting for the other shoe to fall, because things are just a little TOO good at the moment. Lol.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I am slogging through The Buried Giant. It started so well and I was loving it but then at the halfway point it just stalled. I am at 75% now and it is not hard to put down.

[Sally906]

Phrynne wrote: "I am slogging through The Buried Giant. It started so well and I was loving it but then at the halfway point it just stalled. I am at 75% now and it is not hard to put down."

At least you only have 25% to go :)

[Nicole]

Sally906 wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "I am slogging through The Buried Giant. It started so well and I was loving it but then at the halfway point it just stalled. I am at 75% now and it is not hard to p..."

I slogged through it as well Phrynne, but pleased I persevered. The ending was bittersweet.
I was reading The Burial but then I started reading by Isolde Martyn. Am nearly finished and apart from the bodice ripping moments early in the work, which didn't seem to work with the tone of the book am really enjoying it.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Nicole wrote: "Sally906 wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "I am slogging through The Buried Giant. It started so well and I was loving it but then at the halfway point it just stalled. I am at 75% now and it..."

Thanks Nicole. I can do with some encouragement at this stage:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Well I made it to the end:)
My review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Nicole]

Phrynne wrote: "Well I made it to the end:)
My review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hey Phrynne, here's my review of The Buried Giant. I did post on Goodreads but can't find link now. Anyway I think you enjoyed the work a little more than me. http://nicolealexander.com.au/2015/03...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Nicole wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Well I made it to the end:)
My review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hey Phrynne, here's my r..."

Here it is Nicole:)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Neko]

i haven't read a book properly since late Jan :| Tried and all the words just jumbled into one big blob and i realized i didn't take any of it in!! :(

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Nicole wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Well I made it to the end:)
My review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hey Phrynne, here's my r..."

About the same I think:)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Laura wrote: "i haven't read a book properly since late Jan :| Tried and all the words just jumbled into one big blob and i realized i didn't take any of it in!! :("

Oh you need something a bit special Laura, something that will grab you from the start....maybe some suggestions are called for?

[Nicole]

Brenda wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Well I made it to the end:)
My review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Hey Phryn..."
Thankyou I'm still getting used to navigating around Goodreads.

[Carolyn]

Laura wrote: "i haven't read a book properly since late Jan :| Tried and all the words just jumbled into one big blob and i realized i didn't take any of it in!! :("

Oh dear, that's no good Laura! Maybe you need to go back to a favourite author or genre or maybe try something completely different to whet your appetite again!

[K]

So yeah, I am really enjoying my iBook, . It's really fun and I am very attracted to Adam. He's so sexy! Lol.

[Neko]

It's impossible to quote using this phone ap..But yes! I've bought a book from my wishlist to see if that works..And I'm always up to suggestions for books to read as well :)

[K]

Along with Saving Wishes, I am really enjoying . Its so cool how much of mid-20th Century history they're covering in it. Miss Carter and her friend just watched the funeral procession of one Mr. Winston Churchill! :o :D

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Kiera wrote: "So yeah, I am really enjoying my iBook, . It's really fun and I am very attracted to Adam. He's so sexy! Lol."

I read this recently Kiera and liked it a lot, you will be happy to know that it's the first in a series :)

[K]

Oh how cool Julie!

[Sally906]

I've just started Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen - it is a cosy historical mystery and the 5th in the 'Royal Spyness' series - great escapism and delightfully silly in parts I love them.

[Rita]

Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark, a favourite author of mine. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Dale]

Still reading The Pursuit of Happiness Out all day yesterday, so no reading done. I am enjoying it Bette.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Rita wrote: "Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark, a favourite author of mine. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark was a great book Rita!

[Dylan]

I decided to read 'through the looking glass, and what alice found there' on the train and wish I got into it sooner! But I should really finish 'splintered' (which I started before hand and am in love with) gah if only I didn't have assignments, I want more time

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Dylan wrote: "I decided to read 'through the looking glass, and what alice found there' on the train and wish I got into it sooner! But I should really finish 'splintered' (which I started before hand and am in ..."

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Splintered

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Highly recommended:)
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ryan]

Michael wrote: "I just finished the magical and wonderful The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente"

I've just started her novella Silently and Very Fast, having today finished Mr. Mercedes (three stars and my review).

[Ace]

Phrynne wrote: "I finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Highly recommended:)
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

I'll be reading this in the next few days so I'm glad you liked it. Can't wait.

Just getting back into The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy which I had put aside to read Harolds story first.

[B the BookAddict]

I finished Affinity by Sarah Waters. Waters conveyed both character and setting so well that I felt hemmed in by the prison atmosphere and unsettled by Margaret's frame of mind. 3.75★

Picked up Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

[Sally906]

I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but started it last night and this women can write!!! Its one of those books where there are quotes you want on every page!!!

It is a memoir - but Anna Lyndsey isn't her real name - her allergy to light is.

She spends most of the day in a completly dark room listening to books and the radio. In the evening she ventures into the gloom of the rest of the house to have dinner with her partner. Even a dimmed 25 watt bulb leaves her skin blistered and in agonsising pain.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sally906 wrote: "I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but started it last n..."

Sounds interesting Sally, but awful! What a terrible thing to suffer from!

[Sharon]

Sally906 wrote: "I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but started it last n..."

Reminds me of that movie with John Travolta, not sure if was ever a book prior - Boy in the Bubble.

It would be a very challanging way to live.

[Dale]

Sally906 wrote: "I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but started it last n..."

Hard to imagine living like that.

[Vicki]

Sally906 wrote: "I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but started it last n..."

It sounds fascinating, Sally. But what a cruel allergy.

[Andrea]

It's not usually my thing, but today I made a start on a poetry collection, Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen. And when I say I made a start, I mean I read the first poem - "1914" - before I went to work, and I couldn't stop thinking about it all day. Powerful stuff.

"Now begin famines of thought and feeling."

[Marianne]

Now that I have finished the first three in the Mark Tartaglia series by Elena Forbes, I am rereading the fourth one, The Jigsaw Man.

[Suz]

Three stars for Tell No One / Gone For Good, not sure what I'm reading next. Here's my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Suz]

Sharon wrote: "Sally906 wrote: "I was sent an unsolicited review book Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey. I wasn't sure I would like it - but ..."

I've got this dvd at home at the moment, will have to check it out.

[Marianne]

I really enjoyed The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel , a lovely read 5★s
my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Neville]

Currently reading the 9th Bill Slider book - Gone Tomorrow by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Have read the first 8.

[Veronica ⭐️]

I've just finished The Tears of Dark Water it was nothing like I expected. I bit like opening a packet of tim tams and its full of monte carlos. Still very tasty and worth eating just a bit of a let down at the start.

I need some fantasy now so I'm reading The Dragon Holder

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Neville wrote: "Currently reading the 9th Bill Slider book - Gone Tomorrow by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Have read the first 8."

And obviously enjoy them if you're continuing on Neville:)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Veronica wrote: "I've just finished The Tears of Dark Water it was nothing like I expected. I bit like opening a packet of tim tams and its full of monte carlos. Still very tasty and worth eating ju..."

Love that analogy Veronica! Very descriptive ;)

[Nicole]

I just finished Mistress to the Crownloved it. Review to follow. I can either go back to The Burialwhich really hasn't been doing it for me. I think it's the kind of novel you have to read in the morning with a coffee in hand. Or I can jump to Sophie Masson's Sophie MassonTrinity. I think Sophie's got the edge somehow.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Nicole wrote: "I just finished Mistress to the Crownloved it. Review to follow. I can either go back to The Burialwhich really hasn't been doing it for me. I think it's the kind of..."

I have this one on my TBR wishlist Nicole:) Can't wait to get to it! Love Isolde Martyn's work!

[Sarah]

I just started The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman. Was I supposed to resist something with that title?

[Neville]

Brenda wrote: "Neville wrote: "Currently reading the 9th Bill Slider book - Gone Tomorrow by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Have read the first 8."

And obvi..."

Really enjoying them. I have all 17 of them and am reading them in order, not straight after each other, but every 7th book. Sounds odd, but as I have been a computer programmer and analyst since about 1980, I tend to control most of my non-work activities in a structured way, the same as I have to in my career.