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[Ann]

finished

now reading

[Mark]

I just finished by Estelle Ryan. What a surprisingly enjoyable read. Fast, very entertaining, intelligent. Now looking for something similar for next weekend.

[Susan]

I am reading Claws and Effect by Rita Mae Brown.

[Stacy]

I'm in research mode. Just finished The Measure of Madness and getting ready to start Inside the Minds of Serial Killers by Katherine Ramsland. Also checked out Dead Guilty by Beverly Connor. Hope its as good as it sounds. Dead Guilty

[???!!!]

David wrote: "Just started
Bloodstreamby Tess Gerritsen

I'm hoping this will be a good read."

If you haven't read The Surgeon you should.

Just finished Gone Girl and wow she did it again, creepy! Now reading Heart-Shaped Box!hope it's a good one.

[Julie]

I finished and will start today.

[Cathy]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Not intending to be the skunk at the picnic, but I just need to say that the reason I don't come to this thread anymore is because people post thumbnails of their books instead of linking to the ti..."

Lobstergirl:

I'm excusing myself from this thread as well. Tired of trying to figure out what books people are reading. The book name and/or author is difficult to read most of the time and it's too much of a struggle.

[Julie]

I'm sorry. But, I like using the thumbnails. I don't have any problems seeing the titles. Often, I will click on the thumbnails to find out more about the book because not only did the title sound interesting, but the cover adds appeal. Thumbnails are also popular in other groups I am a member of. But, that's just me. Sorry, if my using thumbnails has offended anyone. I love this thread and have discovered many new ( to me) authors and books here.

[Tay]

Julie wrote: "I'm sorry. But, I like using the thumbnails. I don't have any problems seeing the titles. Often, I will click on the thumbnails to find out more about the book because not only did the title sound ..."

Ditto. I don't know what the problem is. It's not like it's hurting anything.

[Aiesha]

Julie wrote: "I'm sorry. But, I like using the thumbnails. I don't have any problems seeing the titles. Often, I will click on the thumbnails to find out more about the book because not only did the title sound ..."

Aren't thumbnails used all over Goodreads?? I haven't seen a single discussion that hasn't used them and I really like them! No, I can't see them on my phone but that's not anyone else's problem! I just have to get on a computer if I really want to see them that bad. The cover actually helps me to get a feel for a book. A simple link doesn't do that for me, although both are helpful if I want to go to that book's page. Not sure what the big fuss is all about but to each their own! I enjoy thumbnails! :)

[Ann]

finished

now reading

I like thumbnails also I use them all the time, I like to look at the covers.

[Derek]

just finished: Star Island by Carl Hiasin.
now reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

[Tay]

I finished Gone GirlbyGillian Flynn. A very messed up book. I got a question. (view spoiler)[ Isn't the baby Desi's not Nick? (hide spoiler)]

[Gatorman]

Tay wrote: "I finished Gone GirlbyGillian Flynn. A very messed up book. I got a question. [spoilers removed]"

I would think so.

[sarg]

Just finished
Robt Parkers Jesse Stone series "High Profile"
Jesse Stone a Life long cop, homicide detective, and almost Pro ball player. Fired by Los Angles PD for a drinking problem, finds his way to small town Paradise Massachusetts as Chief a sort of last resort Police job. Chief Stone beside having a drinking problem has an ex-wife problem, Jenn. Even though divorced he still loves her and her him, but Jenn has a round heal problem and seems to fall on her back around men.
Paradise Mass a quiet back water port with a really small Police department hits the front page when a Rush Limbaugh type talk show host is found dead and hanging in Jesse's little town.
Parker instills Jesse with quick lip Jargon of most police officer, and the mix of his drinking , a high profile homicide and his wife with loose underwear, Make a good police procedural read.
If you have ever seen Tom Selleck Playing Jesse Stone in one of the Jesse stone versions of robert Parkers series you would belive that the Movies came first. He portrayes Jesse Stone exactly as Parker wrote it. I never the liked Spencer series eather the books or the Tv series. But Jesse Stone are a winner both The Movies and the book




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[Michele]

Sure, as I said in my review of Gone Girl - TWISTED!!!!

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Tay wrote: "I finished Gone GirlbyGillian Flynn. A very messed up book. I got a question. [spoilers removed]"

Hi Tay, The group read thread for Gone Girl is not closed so you should post this question there. More members who have read the book will see it.

[Timothy]

Just finished the first two Kim Oh thrillers by KW Jeter which I can't recommend enough. Working on the third one now.

[Veronica]

I just finished reading Deadlocked. This book in the series is one of my most favorite one. It moved quick and went straight to the point. I am sad there will be one more book to the series.

I am currently reading Sacred. Straight to the action starting from the opening pages.

[Shannon]

Starting this week here the books i want to read atleast in the next 2 weeks
Nowhere to Run by Nancy Bush
Love, Come to Me by Lisa Kleypas
Catch Me by Lisa Gardner
Sleepwalker by Karen Robards
Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
Jericho Point by Meg Gardiner
The Killing Song by P.J. Parrish

[VickiLee]

I just finished Dare Me, an interesting study of adolescent girls. Right now I am on Pendergast's trail in The Cabinet of Curiosities.

[Rachel]

starting The Cabinet of Curiosities tonight- this is my first time reading these authors -looking forward to it.

[Bill]

I'm currently reading by Vikas Swarup and enjoying so far. Also just started by George R.R. Martin.

[Val]

Cathy wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Not intending to be the skunk at the picnic, but I just need to say that the reason I don't come to this thread anymore is because people post thumbnails of their books instead ..."


I also agree. I can't see the titles on the thumbnails.

[Erin]

I just started Kill Shot by Vince Flynn. I really like the Mitch Rapp books.

[Ctgt]

Halfway through The Bricklayer and am really enjoying it.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished The Shadow of Gotham. Great book!!!!

[Sandy]

I've just finished A Foreign Country - after Typhoon this is another exciting read from Charles Cumming

I'm now reading Skin by a new author for me Mo Hayder . A chilling and suspenseful read and really enjoying it so far.

[Demetrius]

Luci wrote: "Not long ago I finished "The Charlemagne Pursuit" and enjoyed it, but not as much as I enjoyed some of his others.

I also read "Farewell, My Lovely" and liked it enough to seek out other Marlowe s..."

I've read most of Chandler I liked "The Big Sleep" and "The Long Goodbye"

[Linda]

Malina wrote: "Jan C wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Not intending to be the skunk at the picnic, but I just need to say that the reason I don't come to this thread anymore is because people post thumbnails of their ..."
atTht

That happens to me also, I think that is the only thing I don't like about the Goodreads App.

[Aparna]

Finished Killing Floor. Its a book that would keep your mind working even after putting the book down. Starting The Hunter Inside

[Aiesha]

Kari wrote: "I am reading Defending Jacob I kind of am indifferent to it so far."

Really? I've heard great things about that book! Do let us know how you end up liking it when you're done. That is one I really want to read.

[Tay]

Kari wrote: "I am reading Defending Jacob I kind of am indifferent to it so far."

I thought it was just okay. I don't really know what the hype is about. Yeah the ending was unexpected but other than there really isn't anything great about it.

[Julie]

I just finished and started and ( which is a cozy/historical/romance/mystery.

[Georgia]

I just finished Locked Doors by Blake Crouch and I wasn't crazy about it. I used to be a big fan of J.A.Konrath but since these two authors got together they have combined their characters and their books really don't end. They are just set ups for another book. The way I see it is life is too short to read books that don't end.

[Elizabeth]

Reading "Gone" by Mo Hayder . Interested in comments?

[Ann]

finished not sure what I will read next

[Georgia]

Tay wrote: "I finished Gone GirlbyGillian Flynn. A very messed up book. I got a question. [spoilers removed]"

I, too, thought it was a "messed up book". I didn't like it, but I did suggest it to my book club because so many of you liked it and I thought it would make for good discussion.

[Georgia]

sarg wrote: "Just finished
Robt Parkers Jesse Stone series "High Profile"
Jesse Stone a Life long cop, homicide detective, and almost Pro ball player. Fired by Los Angles PD for a drinking problem, finds his w..."

Love the movies.

[Georgia]

I am so lucky as my library oftentimes gets advanced
copies of books and lets the Mystery and Mayhem book club which is part of the library read them. I took
David Lyons' Ice and Fire I have read 68 pages, like it, am into it. After 20 years, people again getting murdered, Judge Jock Boucher in peril, local color, New
Orleans, twists and turns. All the good ingredients of a good read. A great chance to read a new author
provided by our library.

[Max F]

Just finished by Arnaldur Indridason. I really liked it - very much along the lines of Henning Mankell and Hakan Nesser, with its dreary setting and its characters' imperfections. It has a halting, spartan style of writing - maybe that's the result of translating the book from Icelandic to English. In any case, the storyline was great, with plenty of twists and cranky characters...an ending that makes you really wonder what you'd have done in the same situation...

[Jennifer]

Finished Gone Girl . Meh.

[Nigel]

Muscle For The Wing opens in the middle of a piece of action – a bunch of interlopers rip off a protected gambling get-together and kill a cop in the process. The killers, led by the intelligent, ruthless Emil Jaddick, are part of a right-wing prison organisation that has tentacles which are reaching into legitimate spheres of society. With The Wing behind them, they feel indestructible. What they’re not prepared for is the might of the old-school crime-lord they’re up against.

Meanwhile, local cop Shade is chilling with his woman. At least he starts off chilling, for things heat up pretty quickly. After a night of passion, a week of camping the couple have planned is called off so that Shade can work the case.

Because the town’s mayor was at the card-game from the opening and because the mayor has strings he can pull, Shade is put out to work with an ex running mate from younger and darker times. The objective isn’t so much to apprehend the gang, but to destroy it.

So, ‘Shade and his woman’; what’s that about? It might not be a phrase I’d normally use, but here it’s completely apt. The society of Frogtown where the book is set, is interestingly structured. There’s an interesting contrast between a matriarchal world and one where women are regarded as objects to admire, have fun with and keep in line. The women are able to use this to their advantage much of the time, but when things get tough it’s the rule of a male fist that comes out on top.

There are so many things to love about the book.

It has an easy style that’s efficient with words and yet is full of wonder in the description of people and place. Here are a few to get the saliva going:

Willie Dastillon. Could he be behind the robbery and the murder? ‘Willie might steal a hen, but he wouldn’t break an egg.’ Brilliant.

Hard man and crime-lord Beaurain. Described in one phrase – ‘measured five foot seven standing on your neck.’

Frogtown: ‘Where the sideburns were longer, the fuses shorter, the skirts higher and the expectations lower.’

And Wanda has a behind that’s ‘harder’married life.’

It’s a sexy book. An action-packed one. It’s beautiful, violent, interesting and superbly paced. The characters rule the pages and their lives have damaged each of them.

I hope I’ve learned a thing or two about writing with this one. It’s quite superb. As well as a lot of positives, I’ve picked up that I should never call a character How – that can cause more than a few confusions for a reader with a memory like mine. How? Check that one out for yourself.

[Dorie]

I'm happily starting Louise Penny's The Beautiful Mystery.

[Georgia]

Erin, keep reading, I have read 6 Mitch Rapp books, love them. My fav is Act of Treason

[Tim]

I enjoy writing reviews of the books I read, but lately, the typing in the fields seems to take an incredibly long time, so until I figure out the problem, I cannot write reviews. Does anybody know what the problem with the pace could be? Thanks! I am currently exploring Lawrence Block, and I love his Matt Scudder books. Continuing currently with a Prey Book by John Sandford.

[Barry]

I just finished. bookcover:One Deadly Sister|6900103]


and also finished.

Now I started [bookcover:The Inner Circle|7932146

[Kathryn]

Just finished reading The Devil of Echo Lake by Douglas Wynn and thoroughly enjoyed it. Currently reading Attorney-Client Privilege by Pamela Samuels Young.

I am reading authors previously unknown to me before and really having fun with it!

[Sharon]

Georgia wrote: "... since these two authors got together they have combined their characters and their books really don't end. They are just set ups for another book. The way I see it is life is too short to read books that don't end. "

I like series with continuing characters and their lives progress through the series, but I want each of the books in the series to have a complete story within the book, beginning, middle and end. I hate cliffhangers ... even mild ones.

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Tim wrote: "I enjoy writing reviews of the books I read, but lately, the typing in the fields seems to take an incredibly long time, so until I figure out the problem, I cannot write reviews. Does anybody know..."

I've noticed that too Tim. When I'm writing a review or long comment I write it in Word and then cut and past into the comment section.