ALL NEW Just finished - just started

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Funnily enough Jud, this was my initial comments on another group '16% in and very glad that times have changed (although somethings really haven't)'

Also finished Lambing, almost live. - sorry Jim, only a 3*, as much as I like animal stories, not my favourite of yours, I missed the 'human' tales.

Now going back to the Durrell trilogy and Wool Gathering

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Funnily enough Jud, this was my initial comments on another group '16% in and very glad that times have changed (although somethings really haven't)'

Also finished [book:Lambing, almost live.|5042..."

That's fair enough Desley, each book is a different mix. I know some who like the animal stuff and there was even somebody who liked the 'political/economic' stuff.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Thanks Jim - I actually liked some of the political/economical ones!!

[Jim]

No accounting for taste :-)
But yes some people love some of them and are a bit meh with the others.
I think some people just like sitting by a fire reading about me getting soaked to the skin on the quad in the rain :-)

[Pam]

Read books 3 and 4 of the Sookie Stackhouse series:

Club Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3896990140

Dead to the World - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3896990001

[Pam]

Book 5 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3898375024.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

This might give you a chuckle Jim, I've just had a message from a friend who's had the 'your friends are reading' e-mail from GR and was curious about books called Lambing, almost Live and Wool Gathering, as they sound different to my usual books!!

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "This might give you a chuckle Jim, I've just had a message from a friend who's had the 'your friends are reading' e-mail from GR and was curious about books called Lambing, almost Live and Wool Gat..."

Go on, tell her you've run off with a shepherd and are living in a hut in the hills with him and his six dogs and you felt the need to brush up on your husbandry techniques :-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I sent her the e-mail, she found it funny. When I told her you were an author on one of the groups I visit, she said she hoped you didn't see the 3* review, but I told her I'd admitted it to you. Happy to say that Wool Gathering is shaping up very nicely as a 4* (18% in). Good job non fiction month is nearly over, as this is the last one of yours I have.

[Jim]

Damn, better get the other one polished off, it got put on hold as I got Tallis Steelyard. A Fear of Heights out of the door :-)

[Jud]

I had started Death Comes to Pemberley but gave up after 50 pages and picked up The Story Keeper instead. It's much more fitted to my mood right now.

I think reading the Pemberley one so soon after a reread and rewatch of Pride and Prejudice was not a good idea.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "Damn, better get the other one polished off, it got put on hold as I got Tallis Steelyard. A Fear of Heights out of the door :-)"

Don't worry, won't be doing non fiction month again till next year :-)

[Natasha]

Just finished Friend Request by Laura Marshall, which was a fun, sometimes chilling, read.

Just started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

[Bertalan]

Natasha wrote: "Just finished Friend Request by Laura Marshall, which was a fun, sometimes chilling, read.

Just started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith."

Thanks for recommendations, I'll check it out:)

[Pam]

Read volume 8 in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3906575880

and then from the ridiculous to the sublime, Jane Austen's Emma - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3919311557

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Busy weekend reading, finished Wool Gathering, I like these collections with 'human' stories rather than the animal ones, despite the author being a farmer. Also finished The Corfu Trilogy, another enjoyable read. I also read a whole book (admittedly, a lot shorter than my normal ones) The Moving Finger - only 3*, a good Agatha Christie, but not a good Marple. Started The Mothman Prophecies for the bathroom book, and will start Killing Floor next

[Pam]

Catch up on last three books read:

Dee Morrison Meaney's An Unkindness of Ravens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3927652545

and two of Tove Jansson's Moomin series:

Comet in Moominland - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1361361900

Finn Family Moomintroll - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3927708035

[Pam]

Read Joyce Carol Oates' The Accursed and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954230485

[Natasha]

Just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Charming, but way too long.

Just started One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus.

[Anna]

Just finished The Midnight Library. I liked the idea as it was similar to some notes I'd made for an idea for writing some years ago but done nothing about. It wasn't as sparkly as I'd like it to have been but was so very, very good at feeding the mind.

Just started Harriet Grace Off to a good start.

[Michael]

Just finished Caesar's Women

It's very good (as were the previous books), but it 'finished' at 84%. I hate when that happens.

[Natasha]

Just finished One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus, which is a fun YA murder mystery.

Just started The Humans by Matt Haig.

[Jud]

I'm currently reading Les Misérables. I'm about a third of the way through so I'll be at it a week or two yet.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Another paperback finished, Killing Floor - bit confused by something that happened, as I'm sure there was something different in one of the later books.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Humans by Matt Haig, which I really enjoyed.

Just started Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

[Pam]

Catching up on reviews:

Tove Jansson's The Summer Book - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3935040618

Joyce Carol Oates' Mysteries of Winterthurn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954230884

Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3950746114

Joyce Carol Oates' We Were the Mulvaneys - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3950766424

[Pam]

Read a couple more:

Norman Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367359114

Tove Jansson's first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3960455989

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Given up on another two books this weekend The Good Death and The Mothman Prophecies - expected to like the second. Now started Dead Reckoning, enjoyed the first 88 pages, so that's further than I got with the other two (well, I got a bit further with Mothman, but only because Lucy was sat on my knee so I couldn't give up and start something new)

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Given up on another two books this weekend The Good Death and The Mothman Prophecies - expected to like the second. Now started Dead Reckoning, enjoyed t..."

Oh, I remember liking the film of The Mothman Prophecies, but that was some years ago.

[Pam]

Read two books, and enjoyed the fictional treatment of the subject much more:

Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft by Robin Briggs, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3960522591
and
Andre Norton's Spell of the Witch World - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3960514268

[Natasha]

Finished Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, which was interesting and informative, but very repetitive.

60% through Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, which is a crazy ride!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Dead Reckoning - never read anything from this author, it's one I bought from the library for 15p years ago, but I quite enjoyed it, nice short chapters which made you want to go 'just one more'. I did guess a couple of things along the way, but I would read more of hers if I came across them.

[Natasha]

Just finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Just started Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, which I'm really enjoying.

[Pam]

Catching up on some books that have been on the shelves for a loo-oo-oong time.

Montague Summers' Witchcraft And Black Magic - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3983499642
and Witchcraft in Britain by Christina Hole, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3984787199

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I've been struggling to put down The Talented Mr. Ripley today and am also reading Hell

[Pam]

Catchup on posting a couple of reviews -

The Crow Road by Iain Banks, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2078259951
and
Fagin's Children: Criminal Children in Victorian England by Jeannie Duckworth, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4005114090

[Pam]

Just finished a cosy crime - Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4008400262

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Talented Mr. Ripley - 4* and would read the others if I got them at a reasonable price. Started Private this evening

[Natasha]

Just finished, Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, which was rather enjoyable.

Just started High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.

[Natasha]

Just finished High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, which I rather enjoyed.

Just started Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney. A couple receives the news from a second couple that their babies were accidentally switched at birth. Pretty gripping.

[Pam]

Read three linked books on my Kindle recently, written by Becca Andre. The middle one is a novella that happens between the last chapter and the epilogue of the first book:

The Final Formula - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012543566

The Element of Death - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012574480

The Blood Alchemist - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012596259

[Pam]

Back to paperbacks for a re-read of Diana Wynne Jones' volume 3 of the Dalemark quartet:

The Spellcoats - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1759727451

[Natasha]

Just finished Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney, which I couldn't put down.

Just started Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished two books today, both 3*, although I did enjoy one enough to get two more of the series while they were 99p The Crow Trap and Hell - this was better as a dip in and out book, didn't enjoy the last 26% that I read in a block as much.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I've just finished Moonflower Murders, afraid it is only a 3* read, as I didn't like the 'book within a book' format, especially as the within book was based on characters from the original story, so was a bit confusing. Going to read The Partner next

[Pam]

Read Witches And Their Craft by Ronald Seth - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4027431758
and
The Book Of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4044298561

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished The Partner - was going to be a 3* read but I enjoyed the twist, so bumped up to 4*. Going to read Brass Ring next

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Brass Ring, only 4* unfortunately, I found the flitting between characters hard. Started The Missing Children, only 29% in but looking like an interesting new series from Mel.

[Pam]

Catching up on a few reviews:

Jayne Anne Krentz Light in Shadow - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4044307076

Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058162878

Kath Middleton's The Flesh of Trees - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058205235

Jonathan Hill and Kath Middleton Is it Her? - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058230427

[Pam]

Read Catherine Ryan Howard's The Best of Catherine, Caffeinated: Caffeine-Infused Self-Publishing Advice - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4062231172