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[Lance]

Just finished Powder Burn , an old-fashioned (wo)man-against-Nature adventure tale by Mark Chisnell.



Now starting Ian Rankin's Doors Open , a non-Rebus story of art fraud.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Yay, finally finished Perfect People, now going to star Busters. Law, think it might be sad tho.

Lance, did you watch the televisation of that over Christmas.

[Lance]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Lance, did you watch the televisation of that over Christmas."

Televisation of...?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Lance wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Lance, did you watch the televisation of that over Christmas."

Televisation of...?"

Sorry, Doors Open

[Elle]

oops sorry my last post was in the wrong thread

i did start Alice Parker and the Mind Magician last night though

[Lance]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sorry, Doors Open"

Ah. That hasn't made it over here yet. I expect it'll show up on PBS or BBC America at some point.

[Lance]

Just finished Doors Open . It's an Ian Rankin novel, but not a Rebus novel. Competent and a fast read, but lacking in the texture Rankin is famous for. Three stars.
Read my review here.



Now starting The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro.

[Natasha]

Just finished Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell.

Just started The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. Read it in 1991, but can't remember a thing. My diaries are saying I enjoyed it, so I fancy reading it again.

[Michael]

I've just finished The Kult which I enjoyed a lot:

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

I've just started Death of Heaven

[Shaun]

Michael wrote: "I've just finished The Kult which I enjoyed a lot:

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

Thank you :)

[Penny]

I have just finished The Last Highlander by Sarah Fraser, which is the story of the last highland clan chief, and a right fellow he was!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Last-High...

And have just started Miss Chopsticks by Xinran, which is proving promising!

[Elle]

i have finished the first alice parker book which is not the one i posted above but Alice Parker's Metamorphosis. my stupidity not knowing what order they came in...


now starting? no idea actually. might finally finish the last few pages of the first HP or might start something new... might read another short story from one of the anthologies i have going on?

[Karen]

Have enjoyed reading RMF Brown's Death to love - some proof reading issues, but a good bunch of characters. Look forward to the sequel.
Now back to Italy with Donna Leon's Drawing Conclusions

[Sarah]

Just finished Insurgent, great series so so far. Almost finished The Gunslinger, enjoying it so far and just started Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Elle]

I've just started The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[Kath]

Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It's had thousands of reviews - literally, if you take the US into account and they vary wildly from one to five stars. I can see why! It's really slow to get going and I didn't find it very credible.

Also just read Duallists by David Wailing. It's still free if you get the link on his thread to the Edinbrough ebook festival.
It's a good read but you can tell it's an early work. It doesn't have quite the polish of his current work. If you like Sci-Fi it's well worth investigating.

[Elle]

I have Gone Girl on my kindle and hope to get to it soon. i also got Duallists to read at some.

[Steven]

i'm definetely in the love Gone Girl camp, it's a real slow burner but i couldn't put it down by the end!

[Tim]

Elle wrote: "I've just started The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

I enjoyed the film. The book is somewhere in the depths of my TBR (actually, it's on the shelf behind me, since it's an actual paperback!)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Busters Law last night, really enjoyed it, and looking forward to reading her next book. Not sure what I am reading next, think I might read 5 Children and It.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished Release Me - J. Kenner. Is kinda like Fifty Shades and Bare To You style book, so intense are the characters that I throughly enjoyed it. Now I can't decide whether to read next installment or carry on reading something I started lol.

[Simon]

I've just finished Dark Horse. It was an OK murder mystery. Some funny bits, some crazy bits, but it was more about the main character than a detailed mystery. See my full review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....

[Elle]

finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower. it took me to about a 1/3 of the way through to really get into it. i didn't love it in the end as it just had too many bad points for me but it was okay.


i started The Violin of Auschwitz

[Jud]

I finished The Bamboo Mirror, Cat Calls, Cursed and The Engine Driver and started Sole Intention

[Karon]

Just finished . This took a while to get into but by 50% I couldn't put it down. I was a bit annoyed that the last 15% was a preview for the next book though.
About to start - a read for our book club, but can't say the first few pages have grabbed me yet. I hope it improves.

[Elle]

Finished Violin book - meh

Started and finished The Colorado Kid which I adored.


Next on the list - NO IDEA!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Now I'm reading Tatterdemon - Steve Vernon.

[David]

Finished a few days ago. Rounds the trilogy off well, although I did get a bit bored in the fight scenes, which seemed to go on too long.

Just finished , not bad at all. Different from the TV Gently.

Just started .

[Tim]

Wool is brilliant :)

[David]

Tim wrote: "Wool is brilliant :)"

I'm only a few pages in, but it does look good.

I've been reading the author's blog too - and I like the cut of his jib.

[Renata Ruby]

I gave. Up with gone girl as it got a bit slow, and now I am reading "before I go to sleep'

[Lorraine]

Finished A Terrible Beauty(white bones),if you like your thrillers gory,this is for you,it wasn't wall to wall gore,but the description of what the kidnapper was doing was intense,loved it.Started Absolution,am 13% in and enjoying it so far.

[Simon]

Karon wrote: "Just finished . This took a while to get into but by 50% I couldn't put it down."

I've got that on my TBR list. Sounds promising so I'll have to bump it up a bit.

[Kath]

Just finished The Arimathean which follows directly on from his first book, Slow Boat to Purgatory. Excellent - reviewed here
http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Just started Michael Diack's Shadows in the Sand

[Jud]

I finished Sole Intention and Poirot Investigates. Think I'll start another Agatha Christie next

[Lexie]

Have you read Endless Night by Christie? I remember finding it deeply disturbing as a teenager, but haven't read it since.

[Joo]

I finished Nine Lives by Tom Barber yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Very fast paced.
I then started Origin by J.A. Konrath. It's very intriguing. A monster was found back in about 1906 and locked away in an underground facility. Now he's woken up. Is it Satan himself, or an alien or what?

[Jamie]

Just this minute finished Joyland and I loved it. A few reviews have said it's not King's best work but he does set a high bar. It's still a very, very good book. His description, setting, characters and storytelling are, as ever, superb. You believe the world and care about what happens. The pace lifts nicely towards the end and keeps you hooked. Well worth a look.

[Elle]

i finished The Sweetest Tattoo and Loose Ends last night! now what to read? ahh!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Couldn’t sleep last night, so used the kindle app on my phone, and it brought up books I don’t remember buying, which I find very strange. I like the look of it though, with the carousel with book covers, and time to chapter. Now 16% into my book, and 5 hours of travelling tomorrow, so will hopefully make a big dent into it. Still 7 books behind, might have to re-do my A-Z challenge to pick some shorts.

[David]

Just finished The Well of Ascensionbrilliant 2nd book of a trilogy, can't wait to read the third. Just startedDevil Said Bang, and if it's as good as the first 4 of the series, I'm going to really enjoy this too.

[A.L.]

about 60% through I, the Sun which is amazing.

[Lexie]

Just finished Time and Tide by Shirley McKay - excellent, good puzzle and lovely 16th. century setting with a trip to the Low Countries thrown in. Now going to try finishing off some of the half-finished books lying round.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I didn't particularly enjoy it.

Just started The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. It's a lovely story and wonderfully written (well at twenty pages in anyway).

[Lexie]

Just finished 'If Snow hadn't Fallen' by Sharon (or S.J.) Bolton. A long short story, maybe a novella? but gripping - a crime set in the Asian community in London, featuring her usual detective, Lacey Flint.

[Elle]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just finished The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I didn't particularly enjoy it.

Just started The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. It's a lov..."

i found the prologue to that series also quite dire. i havent read that series before so it hasn't really left me wanting to continue it even though i have the first book

[Simon]

Just finished Stealing Power by Bo Brennan. It was a gripping character-driven thriller. Highly recommended. I also had the opportunity to interview Bo and the main characters on my website, so if you're a Colt and Kane fan, check it out for some exclusive banter. http://simonjenner.com/stealing-power/

[Karen]

Finished Donna Leon's Drawing Conclusions, which was a pleasant enough read. Started a couple which I abandoned as they didn't grip me (including the second David Anderson,A striking death - wish I hadn't bothered, cos it's no better than the first one. Now started Who Knew? A Kelly Shelby Mystery, which so far is entertaining.

[Karen]

Lexie wrote: "Just finished Time and Tide by Shirley McKay - excellent, good puzzle and lovely 16th. century setting with a trip to the Low Countries thrown in. Now going to try finishing off some of the half-fi..."

Thanks Lexie, sounds good. I've just bought the first in the series, Hue and Cry

[Lynda]

Thanks, Karen (and Lexie). I love historical mysteries, so checked out Hue and Cry - only to discover I'd read it some time back. have now bought he second in the series, Fate and Fortune