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[Karon]

Just finished The Mist, which I didn't find scary, just daft. Just starting City of Glass.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Diary of a Serial Killer, enjoyed it although formatting issues dropped a star. Not available at the moment.

Now reading 2 books, one paperback All The Colours Of Darkness, and a kindle book Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. The paperback is one of my favourite authors, the second is written by a consultant on House, one of my favourite TV programmes, so looking forward to both.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend, which I enjoyed, but didn't find as "hilarious" as I'd been led to believe.

Just started Robots Rebellion by David Icke, which I feel will be a challenge, but I'm curious.

[Karen]

Just finished Dead in the Family, and am just about to start the next book - Dead Reckoning. Really enjoying this series, as it keeps bubbling along really nicely, unlike some series I've read, where you keep reading the next book in the hope that it will improve!

[Kath]

Just finished Devil's Lair which I really enjoyed. I read it on a recommendation which I now pass on to you!

http://www.ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk...

Just started The Sugar Men by Ray Kingfisher. I'm at 18% and I'm really enjoying it.

[Jud]

I finished Parker Pyne Investigates adn started Murder in the Mews

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I didn't like Parker Pyne

[Jud]

oh, I did! :o)

[Lynda]

Was Parker Pyne the "traveller in wines and spirits" chap? Or am I getting confused?

[Jud]

He was the one who advertised in the paper "Are you unhappy? Why not consult Parker Pyne"

Or something like that. He was concerned with matters of the heart and not a detective

[Lexie]

I think he was better on the radio than in the books, for some reason. Oh, no, that was Harley Quin. Now I'm beginning to wonder if I should re-read Christie after I'm done with Dick Francis.

[Kath]

Just finished Ray Kingfisher's The Sugar Men. It's reminiscences of an elderly lady in the last months of her life. Stonking story.

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

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Floating Staircase and it is incredible ghost story:

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

I'm now onto "The Haunted Halls: Volume 1"

[Dominic]

I have just finished Mr Phillips which was good but as not enjoyable as Capital just starting Money by Martin Amis

[Jonathan]

Just finished The Scream of Angels

5* horror! Review here: http://www.jhillwriter.com/2013/10/re...

[Michael]

I've just finished "The Haunted Halls: Volume 1", which was ok, but needed more polish:

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

I'm now onto The Third Rule - Part One: Atrocities which is off to a cracking start.

[Kath]

That trilogy is just amazing Michael. I'm a massive fan. Well, I'm the same size as when I read everything else but you know what I mean. :-)

[Michael]

I'm only a couple of chapters in (I wish I had more time for reading!), but it's very good so far.

[Jonathan]

I hope you don't have any plans for the next few days, Michael. ;)

[David]

Just started , really liked the first two of the series, but this one is more like an extended London geography lesson.

Really irritated by books that turn into something akin to the printout of a sat-nav's output.

[Lynda]

I've just finished The Tuppenny Hat Detective by Brian Sellars

Tuppenny Hat Detective

Set in Sheffield in 1952 it tells the story of 11 year old Billy Perks as he and his mates try to prove that an old lady was murdered.

It's a cracking read, and took me back to my own childhood before the grammar school taught me to speak posh. It's not often I read, "You're alreight, me owd. I likes yer," in a book, but there was a lot in this book to make me smile in fond memory.

Thoroughly recommended. 5 stars

Now onto The Murder at Astaire Castle by Lauren Carr

The Murders at Astaire Castle

[Jamie]

Just finished The Twelve. It builds nicely on the first book, the passage. It's set over a long period and I have to admit I found the time scales a bit hard to follow in places but I generally read at night when I'm already worn out.
Characters are all really well drawn as is the environment and it builds to a satisfying ending which also sets up the next book.

[Karen]

Finished the Sookie Stachouse books (Deadlocked) and Dead to the World over the weekend (yes - it was crap on TV) -and am just waiting for the final book (Dead Ever After to drop in price!

Also got around to reading Rod: The Autobiography - funny as hell in places, and really touching in others (wonder why I left it so long to read?) Then read Moon River - not impressed, but it filled a few holes in the pervious books.

Am currently reading Under Wraps - not impressed with this at the moment, but I'm persevering in the hope that this will improve, but at the time of writing, this looks doubtful.

[Rita]

I just read The Persimmon Tree by one of my favourite authors, Australian Bryce Courtenay. Loved the book - he is such a great storyteller. Have just started Sex, Drugs & Meditation by Mary-Lou Stephens, a Goodreads author. I am reading it because I have done some library talks with Mary-Lou and she lives locally to me, so I was curious. I'm really enjoying it.

[Karen]

Finished Under Wraps - and it didn't improve (worst luck). It was ok I guess, but this has been filed as "never again". So, onto something I know that I'll enjoy - The Top Gear years.

[Jud]

I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[Karen]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

Damned good series. I was always rude about the HP books, calling them "Kiddie" books - but I've eaten my words, as I really enjoyed the series.

[Jud]

The later books are magnificent :o)

[Kath]

Just finished Auto by David Wailing. Don't be put off if you've previously read some of the stories - and whatever you do, don't skip any you've read! Excellent stuff.

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

I'm now reading Angel of Rosetown by Jennifer Hanning, a lady whose work I came across when she published a book of drabbles!

[Karon]

Karen wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and started Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

Damned good series. I was always rude about the HP books, calling the..."
I've been re-reading them too - Just finished Goblet of fire and will be onto the Order of the Phoenix, when I have finished my current "bathtime" book

[Karen]

Just finished The Crowded Grave, which was slow going and rather disappointing - it had all the ingredients (and recipes!) to be a far better book.
Now going to start Molly Keane's Time After Time - I ordered it as a talking book for my mum, realised I hadn't read it - and, no, she didn't like it, but I think I will. I enjoyed reading Good Behaviour years ago.

[Adele]

I have just finished Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927 a very good book but disappointed that over 20% of the book was acknowledgement and further reading info. Now onto Wrong Time Wrong Place from this months collection before delving into the new Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy that is released on Thursday

[Will]

David wrote: "Just started , really liked the first two of the series, but this one is more like an extended London geography lesson.

Really irritated by books that turn..."

I was very disappointed with that one, David. The fourth is better, but the music has still taken a real back seat which is sad.

Can't think why I like books full of musical references.

I'm just starting

A Long Way DownA Long Way Down

[Tim]

The worst thing about book 4 is it's a year's wait till book 5! I agree though, Whispers Underground is the weakest of the series. Have you tried the audio versions? Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a brilliant narrator (I could just see him as Peter if they did it on TV!) & there's a nice little jazz riff between chapters :)

[David]

On the whole - I finished it last night - I think is the weakest of the series I've read, but I still liked it enough to go on to book 4 at some point.

Can't say I paid that much attention to the music references, which is odd since I once wrote a novel with a fair few of them in.

I remember something about his dad and jazz though from the other books.

I'm not that keen on audio books - dunno why.

[Will]

I don't do audio books at all. The only time i'd use them is on my regular long car journeys, and I'm always concerned I'd be focussing on the book, not my driving

[Jim]

Just finished

Good read :-)
Anyone else spot the goodreads references? :-)

[Nigel]

Really enjoyed March Violetsby Philip Kerr.
I'm not sure where to go next, but am hoping Lean On Pete will arrive through the post in the morning, so maybe a short story or two in the meantime.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Will wrote: "I don't do audio books at all. The only time i'd use them is on my regular long car journeys, and I'm always concerned I'd be focussing on the book, not my driving"

I can't get into audio books either, I don't seem to be able to get into the story, and I wouldn't want to risk listening to one while driving.

[David]

I think I don't like audio books because I actually enjoy the act of reading. I know I'd much rather - say - read a blog post than watch a youtube video.

Back in the day I much preferred reading the programme transcripts in The Listener than listening to the programmes.

[Will]

Jim wrote: "Just finished

Good read :-)
Anyone else spot the goodreads references? :-)"

Ha! I wondered if anyone would spot those.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've had a 5hr bath and finished Vigilante - Kerry Wilkinson. Had some spelling/grammar mistakes, but all in all a very good thriller. I kinda guessed near the end who was doing it and will be carrying on reading the rest of the series. Now I think I will go back to reading Halfhead - Stuart MacBride.

[Adele]

Just finished the first of this months book reading tasks Wrong Time Wrong Place & now onto the second in the PC Peter Grant series Moon Over Soho

[Lexie]

David wrote: "I think I don't like audio books because I actually enjoy the act of reading. I know I'd much rather - say - read a blog post than watch a youtube video.

Back in the day I much preferred reading t..."

I love audio books because I'm a rotten traveller - suffer from motion sickness - so to be read to is great. I also very much enjoy reading aloud, though, so perhaps it's a reciprocal thing. My mother disliked reading to us as children and also detests audio books. But it's true that with most books I'd rather have the paper copy silently in my hands.

[Lexie]

Ignite wrote: "Just finished Auto by David Wailing. Don't be put off if you've previously read some of the stories - and whatever you do, don't skip any you've read! Excellent stuff.

http://ignitebooks.blogspo..."

No, go on - what are drabbles?

[Adele]

Haven't finished the book I posted yesterday (although am 22% in) but have started this morning the new Helen Fielding Mad About the Boy

[Karen]

I really enjoy audio books & have one on the go in the car - just for the ten minute drive back n for to my mum's every day. I'm working through South Riding at the mo, read it years ago but don't remember much of it.
If I get chance, I listen to the radio 4 serialisations, which are usually excellent, and the ones on their 4 extra, which I play in the evening on the computer if I'm 'crafting'. Surrounded by stories. Bliss!

[B J]

I love audio books on long car journeys. Yesterday we listened to a collection of Charles Causley poems. I don't think it's any more of a distraction than listening to plays on the radio.

[Kath]

Finished The Dark Stone the new Mark Faulkner book. He can handle horror in a way that evokes your sympathy too. Extremely good!

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

[David]

Lexie wrote: "I love audio books because I'm a rotten traveller - suffer from motion sickness - so to be read to is great. "

I do listen to a lot of podcasts, and I have Willy Shakespeare's complete plays in audio -which I think is great. I have tried a few audio books & they were ok. But I can see the value of them to you. You may have persuaded me to give them another go sometime.