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[Karon]

Just finished A Family Affairwhich I got as a Kindle freebie, it was OK but a bit predictable and rushed at the end.
Just started Her Sister's Voicewhich was another freebie.

[Shaun]

Finished Strictly Murder, which I enjoyed. Not sure what I'll be reading next ...

[Will]

Still on my Graham Greene kick.
Done with the quite brilliant The Quiet American, now onto 'Our Man in Havana'.

And fantasising about having enough money to be a louche novelist in a waterfront bar... somehow Swansea Marina doesn't fit the bill

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

what does louche mean anyway?

[Kath]

Means he's decadent GL. No, not 'having ten teeth'!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Classic Terry Pratchett line that!

[Kath]

That's where I nick all my best lines from!

[Sam]

Just finished The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year. Well written, as you'd expect, and I imagine that many readers will love it. It has its moments but overall it's not to my taste.


Just started 'The Man in the High Castle' by Phillip K Dick (that I can't find a link for).

[Will]

Underrated author, phillip K Dick.

That one is dystopian, really Sam

[Mark]

Will wrote: "Underrated author, Phillip K Dick."

Well, except that he's the source for about half of the decent sci-fi movies that have come out of Hollywood in the last two or three decades, including the greatest of all time, Bladerunner... :-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I've finished Natural Causes, was a bit disappointed with the ending, but enjoyed apart from that. Also really pleased to hear there are some shorts free.

Was going to read Bet you can't... Find Me which I think I got as a 20p book, but there are formatting issues, it is so small.

[Kath]

I read that - Find Me - ages ago . no problems with formatting. I wonder what's happened to it?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I actually paid 77p for it. It isn't showing as having an update available.

[Sam]

Will wrote: "Underrated author, phillip K Dick.

That one is dystopian, really Sam"

Yes, Will, I can see that it is and I'm not very far in yet. It's also the sort of book that takes concentration. Nothing wrong with that, but it means it will take longer to get through than normal cos I have to choose when to read it. When my eyes are trying to close and my mind wants to shut down for the night isn't the best time.

[Lance]

I finished Poison Pill last week. I'll have to wait for my review to come out on Criminal Element before I can post a summary here. A potentially decent story sabotaged by amateurish writing. Two stars.



Now reading and ARC of Outlaw: A Robin Monarch Novel , also for Criminal Element.

[Will]

Mark wrote: "Will wrote: "Underrated author, Phillip K Dick."

Well, except that he's the source for about half of the decent sci-fi movies that have come out of Hollywood in the last two or three decades, incl..."

But how many have read his books on which they were based, Mark?

I quite agree with you on BladeRunner: but how many have read Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I have! :)

[Sam]

Me, too.

[Michael]

I've just finished The War of the Worlds which was as good as I remembered it:

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

I'm now onto 100 One Hundred Word Tales

[Adele]

I've just finished Ledley King's autobiography & just started Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair. Really struggling with it at only 44 pages in & seeing how many left to go, I'm not too sure if I want to finish it. Someone please tell me that it's worth persevering?!?

[Kath]

I couldn't abide it but I know people who think it's brilliant. You either get Jasper Ff or you don't. I don't.

[Mark]

Michael wrote: "I've just finished The War of the Worlds which was as good as I remembered it:

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

I'm now onto 100 One Hundred Wo..."

I think War of the Worlds is my favourite book

[Mark]

Michael wrote: "I've just finished The War of the Worlds which was as good as I remembered it:

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

I'm now onto 100 One Hundred Wo..."

I think War of the Worlds is my favourite book

[Lexie]

Adele wrote: "I've just finished Ledley King's autobiography & just started Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair. Really struggling with it at only 44 pages in & seeing how many left to go, I'm not too sure if I want t..."

I absolutely love his books, but they are a bit quirky - definitely Marmite!

[Lexie]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I've finished Natural Causes, was a bit disappointed with the ending, but enjoyed apart from that. Also really pleased to hear there are some shorts free.

Was going to read Bet you can't... Find M..."

Inclined to agree about the ending of Natural Causes but I very much enjoyed the characters and setting. Book of Souls is very similar.

[Tim]

I'm not even a small fan of Jane Eyre or the other "classics" (their word) in that vein. But I do like Fforde's take on the whole thing and the way that the characters within have a life outside of the book itself [*], and how Jurisfiction has to police it all. Thursday Next is one of my all time favourite heroines, I think.

[*] Which is how come my lead character comes to have her own FB outside of the "story universe" - Flick's blog is all down to Jasper Fforde!

If I was to be critical, I'd say that his writing does tend to be a bit uneven. There are flashes of sheer utter brilliance, but at other times the pacing does seem to be a bit off.

[Tim]

Oh, and lots of is set in Caversham Heights, which is just outside Reading, and through which I drive probably once a week!

[Jim]

Tim wrote: "Oh, and lots of is set in Caversham Heights, which is just outside Reading, and through which I drive probably once a week!"

I was at uni in Reading, briefly. A mate of mine had digs in Caversham so I went there a couple of times, but never to the Heights, even if we did have a few beers in the boat club because they were too polite to eject us :-)

[Michael]

I've just finished 100 One Hundred Word Tales, which is a cracking read:

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

I'm now onto My Granny Writes Erotica which is very funny so far.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Having increased the font size to make Bet you can't find me readable, I'm 24% in and enjoying it.

[Will]

Ignite wrote: "I couldn't abide it but I know people who think it's brilliant. You either get Jasper Ff or you don't. I don't."

I'm with Ignite. I really don't like Fforde at all, finding him pretentious and unfunny.

having said that, I haven't looked at his childrens' series which may be a lot better

[Will]

I've just finished the next Graham Greene on my list ( Loser takes all) and confess to being disappointed in the ending.

[Karon]

Just finished .
This took me a while to get into but then I found I was reading into the small hours to finish it.
Just starting which we are reading for our Facebook Kindle book club.

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream, enjoyed the first book more than the second, but it hasn't made me want to go out and buy more books from this author.

I've just started Dominion, only a few pages in but already like the style of writing and find the subject matter intriguing. First book I've read by C J Sansom - I bought it when it was just 20p last year.

[Kath]

Been proof reading so I haven't been in this thread in a while. However, I've finished that and am now reading Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose - it that her REAL surname? Nominative determinism! Also, for fun rather than instruction, I'm reading The See-Through Leopard by Sibel Hodge. Good so far!

[Andrew]

Karen (Kew) wrote: "I finished reading A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream, enjoyed the first book more than the second, but it hasn't made me want to go out and buy more books from this author.

I've just started..."

I loved Dominion and got it in the same promotion! Reading is currently on hold as I'm doing some emergency edits to Full Pastry Jacket ahead of its surprise publication!

Next on the list is definitely A Game of Battleships though...

[Michael]

I've just finished My Granny Writes Erotica which was a hilarious read, I'm pleased there will be a sequel:

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

I'm now onto A Child for the Devil which is off to a deliciously dark start.

[Karen]

Karen (Kew) wrote: "I finished reading A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream, enjoyed the first book more than the second, but it hasn't made me want to go out and buy more books from this author.

I've just started..."

That's a coincidence - my Mum's recently had A Woman of Substance as a Talking Book cos we remembered it had been 'good' - only she gave up on it half way through, and doesn't want any more BTB books!
Can't wait to start Dominion. It's on my TBR pile. Sounds intriguing.
Have finished The Language of Flowers and now started one set in Ancient Egypt which makes a change! The Sekhmet Bed

[Natasha]

Just finished The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda, which I found a bit of a slog.

Nearly finished the amazingly wonderful 1979: A Big Year in a Small Town by Rhona Cameron.

[Karen]

Just started Behind the Candelabra - it's quite a good book so far - heck of a lot better than I'd expected. I thought it would be a diatribe against an ex-lover, but so far it's been quite touching. I've also been reading the Anne McCaffrey series (The Tower & the Hive Sequence) and really enjoyed them. Ok - thought the ending for the The Tower and the Hive left the door open for more adventures, but it was a good series to read.

[Elle]

Karen wrote: "Just started Behind the Candelabra - it's quite a good book so far - heck of a lot better than I'd expected. I thought it would be a diatribe against an ex-lover, but so far it's been quite touchi..."

Did you catch the film?


I did. Unfortunately.

[Karen]

Elle wrote: "Did you catch the film?


I did. Unfortunately. "

Ah. That was what gave me the idea to read the book... So I guess that the film might be one to skip. The only reason I got the book was that it was a daily deal option, and it did look interesting....

[Elle]

Well my views on films have changed a bit. Once you are forced to watch a film more than twice in one week you get a bit of a bitterness about it. Although in saying that my Mother & her best friend wasn't wowed by it either.


Rob Lowe is FANTASTIC though. I still cackle thinking about him in it

[Kath]

Just finished Sibel Hodge's The See-Through Leopard - fantastic story.
Just started The Bank Manager and the Bum by Darren Sant.

[Lorraine]

Finished Don't Tell,totally predictable from the first page.Am 200 pages into Never Somewhere Else and enjoying it so far.

[Will]

The zoo dot com has a seasonal read of Something Wicked This Way Comes so I'm re reading.

And just blown away by the language.

[Jud]

Something wicked this way comes just reminds me of Harry Potter

[Will]

That's just 'No' Jud.

If JKR ever reached Bradbury's command of language, she'd be in his league. Not until then.

[Karen]

Just finished Behind the Candelabra, and I really enjoyed it. Deffo worth considering for a holiday read instead of the usual beacj fiction! Now reading True Blood Omnibus 2: Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, as I really enjoyed the first three books in the series. Makes a real change from your "usual" vamp / were / witch fare!

[Jud]

I mean the actual sentence not the book, I should have clarified that. There was a song "Something wicked this way comes" in all the adverts for the first movie.