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[Karen]

Just finished The House at Sea's End, a good read, in a generally excellent series. And now on to no. 4 in the series, A Room Full of Bones - and I'm delighted to say that's the last of my TBR pile for 2012!

[Natasha]

Just finished Once You Break a Knuckle by D.W. Wilson. Brief two star review.

Just downloaded Jonathan Hill's A Letter for Maureen. Very much looking forward to spending some more time with that woman. I love Maureen.

[Lorraine]

Finished The Burning,was OK,started The Screaming Room.

[David]

Debbie wrote: "Elle wrote: "i just can't even stomach Alice in Wonderland any longer. what utter bollocks."

This amused me no end."

I watched the film Malice in Wonderland awhile back. Sort of a British crime-noir take on the Alice story. It was kinda interesting.

[Karon]

Just finished In the Bloodwhich I really enjoyed and have now started Huntress Moonwhich we are reading for our Kindle book club.

[Elle]

Karen wrote: "Weird. Cos the JKR book I first read was called Harry Potter & the Philospher's Stone (it's a 1997 edition). So when did they change the name? and more importantly, why?"

Ye apparently americans are too stupid to know what a philosopher is so they changed it for them

[Elle]

i've started both Stardust and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


i'm beginning to realise reading a few novels at a time is the way to go for me. it means when i want to read i'm never put off because the one book i'm reading isn't the book i feel like reading

[Karen]

Elle wrote: "Karen wrote: "Weird. Cos the JKR book I first read was called Harry Potter & the Philospher's Stone (it's a 1997 edition). So when did they change the name? and more importantly, why?"

Ye apparent..."

They must have terrific diction though. I can't even say 'sorcerer's stone' and make it intelligible.

[Jim]

Try saying it with a faux American accent :-)

[Michael]

I've finished reading Followed, it's a pretty good gothic horror:

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

I'm now onto His Work To See

[Mark]

Elle, I tend to have a Novel and a book of short stories on the go at the same time for the same reasons.

[Elle]

I generally have quite a few dipper books on the go but sometimes you just want a novel, y'know?

[Andrew]

I've just finished Charm, and started Something Wicked This Way Comes. Both printed copies - I've been Kindle-free for a couple of months now I think about it. Still, whittling down the TBR pile in my flat is A Good Thing.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Elle wrote: "I generally have quite a few dipper books on the go but sometimes you just want a novel, y'know?"

I like a novel and a non-fiction on the go, as I tend to read the same genre, so potential to get mixed up. might try novel and short stories together, that could work. not sure I have any shorts in my TBR paperback collection though. Haven't touched my paperback for over a month now, think I better start from the beginning. Ticker says I'm now 6 books behind, and only 36% into my book.

[Elle]

yeah all my dippers tend to be non-fiction.

i tried to pick two novels that are different enough so i wouldnt get mixed up!

[Michael]

I've finished His Work To See which I enjoyed reading a lot.

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

I'm now onto The Rattler, which is off to a good start.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm pleased with the amount of reading I managed during the holiday. I'll have to find time to update my challenge at some point.

I'm currently re-reading The Wasp Factory. Great book but I'd forgotten just how gory it is.

Seems The Crow Road is meant to be really good too. Was chatting about it with a couple people on the flight.

Anyone read it? Should I grab it?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Read it Patti, it's great. And then watch the BBC series that was made a while ago
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Crow-Road...

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks Rosemary!

[Lexie]

It's my favourite Iain Banks, I must admit - and the BBC series was good, too. Is it out on DVD? I taped it at the time but it was mysteriously wiped!

[Lexie]

Just finished Book of Souls by James Oswald, very enjoyable. Back to Heartstone (nothing wrong with it except it's a bit big to lug around with the rest of my junk in my satchel(which just recently was found to include a half-knitted sock, two knives and a jar of jam).

[Joo]

You know, I cannot remember the book I finished yesterday. I didn't read before going to bed.
I'm sure I read one after the 2 autobiographies I've just read. Belinda Carlisle (what a druggy she was) and Tina Fey (what a miss goody two shoes she was). They were both opposites of each other, but readable.

Today I started and am thoroughly enjoying

[Mark]

Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "I'm pleased with the amount of reading I managed during the holiday. I'll have to find time to update my challenge at some point.

I'm currently re-reading The Wasp Factory. Great book but I'd forg..."

I think my favourite Iain Banks was probably 'The Bridge' but it's a long while since I read those books...

[Michael]

I'm more into his sci-fi stuff (although Wasp Factory and The Crow Road were great reads), in fact Excession is my favourite novel I've read.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh yeah I've heard his sci fi is great too.

I think I'll be reading all of his books eventually.

[Karen]

Just finished A Room Full of Bones which was entertaining. And had a lovely typo... she'd received a 'text massage'. I wish.

anyway, off to start Winter in Madrid - am sure I'll miss Shardlake tho.

[Kath]

Loved Winter in Madrid.

[Natasha]

Can't wait any longer to start reading The Cuckoo's Calling by 'Robert Galbraith.' *Excited*

[Lorraine]

Finished The Screaming Room,started and finished Crush,finished on a massive cliffhanger.Started and finished Road Closed and have now started The Girls He Adored in paperback.

[Lexie]

I really struggled with Winter in Madrid, though I love Shardlake. The setting was so relentlessly gloomy.

Ooh, a text massage! That's a lovely thought!

[Mark]

Just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. Had to skim a couple of bits in the middle but otherwise it was brilliant.
Just started Emperor of Thorns which was published a couple of days ago.

[Steven]

recently finished The Business of dying by simon Kernick which i got on a price drop a few weeks ago. love all his books and it was interesting to read his first book.
now reading Flesh House by stuart McBride which is ok but not as good as others inthe series.

[Shaun]

Recently read (some reviews to follow):

The Cult of Me

Ripples In An Emerald Sea

Tricks, Mischief and Mayhem

The Showing

Wanted

[Michael]

I've just finished ECLECTIC: Ten Very Different Tales, which was an excellent read.

I'm now onto The Scream of Angels, which is off to a cracking start.

[Lexie]

Just finished Heartstone, C.J. Sansom, just as good as ever (waiting on the edge of my seat to see how he was going to fit in the sinking of the Mary Rose, for one thing). Just on the point of starting Time and Tide by Shirley McKay - loved her first two, 16th. century Scottish crime, and this looks like a good follow-on. I'm also reading Fleshmarket, by Nicola Morgan, an odd little book set around the time of the bodysnatchers in Edinburgh. Not sure if I like it or not - just come back to it after a break.

[Kath]

Yesterday I finished Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox. That got a resounding five stars from me - what an enjoyable book - and that, to me, is what it's all about.

Last night I read The Excellence of the Bacon Sandwich by Helenka Bednar. A short, anecdotal, informative, funny book which will make you reach for your bacon! Another five star read. I'm doing well at the moment.

[Jud]

I read Winter in Madrid I really enjoyed it

I'm still on War and Peace

[David]

Just finished - if you know Christopher Priest you will know how good it is - if you don't it is probably not the one of his to start with.

Now about halfway through , which is also excellent stuff. I would say that Coren is one of the major influences on my writing style - but you shouldn't hold that against him.

[Patti (baconater)]

Ignite wrote: "Yesterday I finished Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox. That got a resounding five stars from me - what an enjoyable book - and that, to me, is what it's all about.

Last night I read The Excellence..."

Oh good.

Have you told Lynda? She'll be pleased.

I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.

[Kath]

Yep, she knows. Next gap in my schedule will be Organized Murder

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh good girl.

[Penny]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kick-Pantry-D...
I have just finished A Kick at the pantry door by Philip Whiteland, which was a complete hoot, really funny. About his childhood in the 60s. It just put me in a great frame of mind, with the good memories it conjured up.
I have just started The Last Highlander by Sarah Frazer which is a biography of Lord Lovat, Scotlands most notorious clan cheif, rebel and double agent (it says on the front cover!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Last-High...

[Karen]

Just finished Winter in Madrid, which taught me a lot about the Spanish Civil War and 1940s Spain, tho rather mixed in terms of successful plot and characterisation. Going to start An Indecent Death, and am still reading (as an audio book, in the car) The Burning Air which is coping well with being consumed in ten minute fragments when I'm driving.

[Tim]

Just started Terra by Mitch Benn (him off the radio), and it's brilliant. Lppb takes one last visit to the planet Rth to look at the Ymns before they finally destroy each other and everything else on the planet. Except one disaster leads to another....

The audiobook is brilliantly narrated (and sung!) by Mitch Benn himself (who obviously went to the Rowan Atkinson school of character naming). I won't tell you how it ends, cos I haven't got that far. But the trailer is well worth a gander. Everyone famous in the whole world is on it...

http://youtu.be/CW3FlR0wohY

[Elle]

Does anything have vowels in Terra?

[Patti (baconater)]

Must be set in the antithesis of Wales.

[Penny]

Karen wrote: "Just finished Winter in Madrid, which taught me a lot about the Spanish Civil War and 1940s Spain, tho rather mixed in terms of successful plot and characterisation. Going to start An Indecent Deat..."

Winter in Madrid.

I have this on my Kindle ready to go Karen, did you enjoy it? I really liked his Shardlake series, but couldn't get on with Dominion at all, so was just wondering?

[Tim]

Elle wrote: "Does anything have vowels in Terra?"

Yup. And the normal range of vowel movements you would expect from an infant.

[Karon]

I read Winter in Madrid about a year ago, I really enjoyed it+ and so have just bought Dominion which I hope to get onto soon. I've read a couple of the Shardlake books too.
I have just finished and have started and so I am mixing up my genres a bit.

[Andrew]

Just finished Something Wicked This Way Comes, and just started Dragondrums on the Tube this morning. Also reading Seven Princes in the evenings, but it's not really to my taste.