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I finished reading Matchbox Memories this morning and loved it. Very well written, touching and gripping. I've just noticed that it is free today. Get it! ;0)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Matchbox-Memo...

[Mago]

Cheers Karen
Got it!

[Jud]

I just finished Richard Wilde which I have meant to read for months and months, glad I finally got round to it. It was very emotional and beautiful and I loved it.

Started That Summer in Ischia

[Kath]

Richard Wilde is a lovely book Jud.
I've just finished I Woke Up This Morning (FRUGALITY: Book 3 by Stuart Ayris. If you've read the others in the trilogy you really need to read this. I've put it on the blog!

[Natasha]

Just finished Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. (Brief review ... including my usual commentary on an author's awareness of sexuality and gender politics)

I've also been reading My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary by Rae Earl. I came across this as a book similar to my own—a diary, also written in 1989, and involving an eating disorder (in this case compulsive eating). I'm loving the period references (music, types of food, having to ring her friends from a phone box down the road). It's fun, well written, and very witty.

[Marc]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just finished Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. (Brief review ... including my usual commentary on an author's awareness of sexuality and gender politics)

..."

Good point well made I feel :-)

[Natasha]

Marc wrote: "Good point well made I feel :-)"

Why thank you, Marc ;-) I do find it interesting trying to gauge how far 'enlightened' people are free, or otherwise, of the dominating culture and attitudes around them.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Ten: Bite Club - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read The Morganville Vampires Book Eleven: Last Breath - Rachel Caine.

[Marc]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Marc wrote: "Good point well made I feel :-)"

Why thank you, Marc ;-) I do find it interesting trying to gauge how far 'enlightened' people are free, or otherwise, of the dominating culture and at..."

I blogged about the Big Bang Theory comedy show on Tv and had a good point made about gender stereotyping made by a commentator

[Pat ()]

Just finished Swords for a Dead Lady

Another brilliant read from Jim Webster. Another five stars from me for this one.

[Jud]

Im on my phone so can't do links but have finished that summer in Ischia which was enjoyable but a bit flat. I am going to read another agatha christie next since I've not read one in ages Lord Edgware Dies!

[Kath]

Nice to find another Jim fan Pat. I love his style!

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "Nice to find another Jim fan Pat. I love his style!"

I exist only to serve :-)

[Pat ()]

Ignite wrote: "Nice to find another Jim fan Pat. I love his style!"

Indeed very enjoyable reads all three. Halfway through Dead Man Riding East now, so come on Jim I am nearly ready for book number four!

[Karen]

Finished A Time of Mourning by Christobel Kent - renamed as The Drowning River: A Mystery in Florence - loved it.
Started The Museum of Abandoned Secrets but struggling to get into it so far. May become an Abandoned book

[Jim]

Number four presents you with a new 'hero'
It has come back from the editor but I've been diverted by another project that needs 30,000 more words doing.
Book 5 is currently a 'prequel', something like 'Benor, the Early Years' but with a better title. It'll be a collection of shorts, episodes in his life. (so far anyway :-)

[Pat ()]

YAY! Woopie, diverted? NO it can't! Jim that is so cruel. *sniff* whimper *sob*
Book 5? wow that's great.

Stop hiding your light under a bush and tell us more about both.

[Jim]

Well I tend to write a book, abandon it for some months, go back to it, edit it, pack it off to a proper editor, do what he suggests and rework bits, pack it back off to him, do last tweaks. Then it goes to proof reader and final edit.

So the fourth one is on hold because I've got the current project needs 'writing' then I can pick up work on the fourth one whilst the current project stews and gets ignored for a few months.

The problem is that I cannot really say anything about the current project 'yet'

But when I can I'll make so much fuss Patti will have me dizzy going in and out of the sin bin :-)

[Victoria (daisyduck)]

I recently finished The Back Road which I really enjoyed. Couldn't get interested in anything else that I looked at, but I heard about Divergent on a book podcast and gave that a go and I am truly addicted.

It's YA, dystopian fiction with a similar feel to The HUnger Games, but totally different plot.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I can't decide whether to read Soul View by Jeff Inlo or start my new series challenge, the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz

[Patti (baconater)]

I really enjoyed the first couple Odd Thomases, Desley.

I read them a few years ago whilst bumming round India. Interesting how books can remind you of where you were when you read them, eh?

[Jim]

Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "I really enjoyed the first couple Odd Thomases, Desley.

I read them a few years ago whilst bumming round India. Interesting how books can remind you of where you were when you read them, eh?"

Not just books, but yes, some have memories attached which mean you cannot go back there

[Mago]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I can't decide whether to read Soul View by Jeff Inlo or start my new series challenge, the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz"

I'd go with Odd Thomas.
I've only read the first one but now the new one has been published, it might be time for me to do the series too. We could "Buddie Read" whatever that is ;-)

[Jud]

I've heard Odd Thomas is really good. I'll eventually get round to reading it

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "I really enjoyed the first couple Odd Thomases, Desley.

I read them a few years ago whilst bumming round India. Interesting how books can remind you of where you were when you read them, eh?"

It certainly does - I can remember a book I read on holiday 14 years ago!!

I have started Odd Thomas this morning, I think I will fly through the first couple as I have read them before. I have got copies of 5 and 6, but a bit reluctant to pay for the Interlude ones - 99p for 80 pages.

[Robert]

Just finished The Interpretation of Murder, think I'll read Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick next.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oooooo I've not heard of that Dick, Robert. I'll have to look for it.

And that sentence sounded slightly naughty...

[David]

Just finished A Novel Way to Die by Lynda Wilcox, which I found very enjoyable and gave four stars.
Just started Disturbancesby Jenny Shaw

[Michael]

I've finished reading David Elham's 'Diary of a Parallel Man by Mahershalalhashbaz. It's a hard book to categorise, but a fabulous book to read:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Karen]

Abandoned The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, just didn't grab me. Tried The Silk Code but couldn't get on with it. Too silly, and the writing style is dull. Now into a far better read, Untying the Knot

[Mago]

OK guys you've sucked me in!
As soon as I've finished I Woke Up This Morning (FRUGALITY: Book 3(when is the cover going to be uploaded Stu?) I'm starting an Odd Thomas marathon.

[Kath]

Michael wrote: "

I've finished reading David Elham's 'Diary of a Parallel Man by Mahershalalhashbaz. It's a hard book to categorise, but a fabulous..."

It's hard to say too!

I've just finished I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - the lady who wrote 101 Dalmations. I wasn't sure what to expect but I really enjoyed it. It was published in 1949 but took her a long time to write and it has a sort of vintage, faded-elegance 1930s style to it.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Mago (Mark) wrote: "OK guys you've sucked me in!
As soon as I've finished I Woke Up This Morning (FRUGALITY: Book 3(when is the cover going to be uploaded Stu?) I'm starting an Odd Thomas marathon."

Hope you enjoy!!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

The paperback I'm reading, Lost Soul by Rosie Goodwin is really harrowing. Does anybody know what genre she and Jodi Picoult are classed as?

[Karen]

sounds like a misery memoir! certainly not on my TBR list

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Yeah, I don't know why I'm drawn to them, not like my usual horror/thriller

[Lance]

Shadow Divers . Real-life action/adventure. Loons doing life-threatening things while investigating a sunken U-boat off New Jersey.

[Karen]

Finished the excellent Untying the Knot. Started Painting by Numbers, which has excellent amazon reviews but unfortunately, so far so banal & boring, so don't think I'm going to bother finishing it. It just isn't that well written.

... so hve just started one of the May reads, The Back Road, which I'm jogging along nicely.

[Lance]

Shadow Divers is a quest story, and, as those often are, a story of obsession. It chronicles the discovery of a sunken U-boat off New Jersey by a group of die-hard wreck divers and their six-year campaign to identify that relic.

If you enjoy or appreciate ships, history, or discovery stories, or can’t get enough Krakauer or Junger, you should consider this book. Four stars.

If you're interested, my review is at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....

[Kath]

Just finished Post-Human - a Sci-fi story which I had hoped to love. Sadly not. Depth of story and character were sacrificed to fast pace and action. I couldn't suspend my disbelief.

Just started The Only Genuine Jones by Alex Roddie. I've read his short story, Crowley's Rival and found it excellent. His interest is the history of mountaineering but it's fictionalised and the characters really existed. I look forward to this and hope it will rescue me from the slough of despond into which the sci-fi story has cast me.

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Honestly, I wonder about the sanity of traditional publishers. They publish tripe but ignore some of the fantastic indie writers, if/when they do take them on they rename the books and give them silly titles (Richard Wilde has been renamed as The Love of a Lifetime!). There is a reason for this rant. I've just finished reading The Westerby Inheritance by M C Beaton (orginally published as Marion Chesney) and the book has finished on a cliff hanger. It's been re-released on kindle as part of a series called Regency Royal - for a start the book is set in the 1750s which is NOT regency, then when the hero and heroine are left in danger I turn to the next book in the Regency Royal series and find it is a completely different story. I check on goodreads and find out that the sequel to Westerby Inheritance is called The Westerby Sisters but IT IS OUT OF PRINT!!! The cheapest copy that I can find on abe books is £25! (The cheapest copy on amazon is £40). *sigh*. What idiots...

[Patti (baconater)]

I've started our group read Matchbox Memories. About ten percent in ATM.

So far it's okay. A few niggly typos and could do with a touch of professional editing, I think.

Oh and the cover is horrific.

I'll keep on with it, I think.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last night I finished The Morganville Vampires Book Eleven: Last Breath - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to carry on reading Bang: Memoirs of a Relationship Assassin - David Wailing on my kindle.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just finished The Red Knight. Loved it, great fantasy, gritty, lots of interesting characters, good story and great build-up of tension (gotta love a siege!). Quite a few typos though, annoying in such a (relatively) expensive book, although I enjoyed it so much I managed to overlook them.

[Michael]

I've just finished Fissure Monroe, it's a quirky and interesting story, although not great.

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

I've just started Battle for Earth

[Mago]

Rosemary wrote: "Just finished The Red Knight. Loved it, great fantasy, gritty, lots of interesting characters, good story and great build-up of tension (gotta love a siege!). Quite a few typos though, annoying in ..."

I haven't read a decent Fantasy in ages. I must have bought this a while back and never got around to it. I'll move in up my TBR list.

[Pat ()]

Just finished The Trophy TakerNot bad bought it back in 2010 so about time I read it. Set in Hong Kong Annoying formatting though kept splitting long words up into twos and threes.

[Joo]

For the 5,001st post I shall tell you all that I read Ray Kingfisher's latest "Easy Money" which isn't even on goodreads yet.
Blummin fantastic is my view on it. I loved it.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Lost Soul yesterday afternoon, quite a gripping read, although I think she gave her character a bit too much heartache. I don't think I will be reading the 5 of hers I have in one go, might have to alternate them between others, even though I am reading on the kindle as well. Think I'm just going to read Odd Thomas for a couple of days.

[Lorraine]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Just finished The Trophy TakerNot bad bought it back in 2010 so about time I read it. Set in Hong Kong Annoying formatting though kept splitting long words up into twos and threes."
I was annoyed with the formatting as well Pat,like you i bought my copy in 2010,but i don't think it's ever been updated.I have got the next in the series,god knows when i'll get to it tho.