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Going well Rosemary. How you doing lately?
Hi Elle! *waves*I seem to have fallen off the wagon! Read loads and not written them up *ashamed* Must go through the kindle and sort myself out!
Read the title of your thread, Rosie. Tut tut.
I know *hangs head in shame*
Ok, so suitably ashamed and with an appropriately chastened tone, here is wot I have red recently (according to my kindle, I haven't gone thru the paperbacks yet)Spenser Goes North Five stars. And now I feel bad cos I have't given Darren a review. :(
Frostborn: The Gray Knight
Frostborn: The Eightfold Knife
Frostborn: The Master Thief and that was a mistake because that was no 4 in the series not no3, and now I have sickened myself slightly of them...
Odd Thomas felt it wasn't quite as good as it could have been (10% less and it would have been much tighter)
Spellwright I wanted to really like this, but it just didn't quite get there
dEaDINBURGH If you like Scotland and you like zombies you'll like this
The Arimathean
The Painted Lady: An Inspector McLevy Mystery
The Red Knight A reread, because I enjoyed it so much the first time
In the BloodTo the Grave
The Last Queen of England
Think I need a wee lie down now. Soo many reviews I should have done oh woe
And I've also been reading thisRHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
surprisingly easy to read although I couldn't manage a whole one!
Finished last night Traitor's BladeYes, yet another fantasy novel with a cloak on the front, or I suppose to be accurate it was a Greatcoat. Good enough read though
OK this is going to be messy, six weeks of books!The Misremembered Man Actually didn't really care for this "beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland" at all. Cutesy begorrah mixed with abuse, yeuch. Read for real life book group, otherwise would have dropped like the proverbial hot potato.
Wolf Hall Long and tedious, with passages of exquisite writing that nearly made up for it. Nearly...I won't be reading the sequel.
In The Stars Part I, Episode 1: CapricornI have been reading this, on and off, for quite a few weeks. It took me quite a while to get into because I didn't know any of the characters, but as the book progressed they were so well drawn that I got to know them as well as the author. Real life and real people, that's what I got from this book.
Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "Wolf Hall Long and tedious, with passages of exquisite writing that nearly made up for it. Nearly...I won't be reading the sequel."
Yes! Felt exactly the same.
The Martian ChroniclesSo interesting to read (ahem) thirty years down the line. So, so familiar even after all that time and still probably the saddest book I have ever read. Resonant with loss.
The Tattered BannerSwords, guilds, societies, young ruffian makes good, falls from grace again yada yada. At least there was no cloak on the cover.
Rosemary's BabyWell I've always meant to read it! Actually not half bad, but overshadowed in my head by Mia Farrow who is extremely annoying in that film.
Shadow of the Winter KingAll the familiar tropes of fantasy are here. Just went on a bit though. Oh and it has a cloak on the cover
Frostborn: The Undying Wizard and Frostborn: The Iron Tower.Anymore than two in a row and you'd sicken. To be honest I think the author has really wrung this one out now. Just finish it already!
Is frostborn a bit like mistborn but colder?
Chilly, yep
Well, she ignored me earlier.
Sorry Patti, I had my head down trying to sort out these books! Didn't see your commentPlease forgive me
I have bacon
I forgive you. Gimme bacon.
Dying LightBroken Skin
Read too many of these at a sitting and you really would sicken yourself. Good though, and DI Steel is one of the best characters ever!
Rosemary (The Nosemanny) wrote: "http://tribwpix.files.wordpress.com/2..."That should have been on my pizza.
Sounds like a nice variety of books
Bit heavy on the fantasy lately I feel, Desley. I think it's to do with how busy I am, I need to read something that's not too realistic?
I've not read that many in the past six weeks.
I don't watch any telly. Or go out!
I don't go on holiday either :(
You should go on holiday.Take your kindle.
HeresyReasonably enjoyable historical fiction, not as good as Shardlake. Went on a bit and never really got the central character.
The Palace of CuriositiesWeird. And went on a bit.
Interesting ideas here but somehow it didn't just quite hit the spot for me - I do like weird, normally :/
Frostborn: The Iron TowerSame old, same old. This series is starting to drag, with each book being (more or less) a kind of rehash of the last. I wonder how long he can drag it out?
HuntedAn excellent follow up to Wanted, pacy and exciting. But a cliffhanger at the end!!
(will add a proper review to GR and amazon shortly Tim!)
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