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[Jay-me (Janet)]

Oh I thought it was something to do with those annoying meerkats

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Do you lot remember

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Long-Midn......"

I love my Barney Thompson! I've read 'em all :)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Foul Justice and read Merry Widow, now reading Guarantee d Justice

[David]

Just finished Six Years which was an excellent suspense, mystery, thriller or whatever the proper genre is.

Just started Sharpe's Escape, which is going to be the usual Sharpe stuff I presume.

[Karen]

Just back from hols, so I've read/started quite a few on the journey (rather a long time by rail to Sorrento) - Barbara Kingsolver was wonderful as usual Flight Behavior, Donna Leon's Wilful Behaviour was pleasant enough, but not much of a mystery, and The Detective's Daughter was interesting if a bit muddled. Also started Sweet Tooth but couldn't get into it, it was really dull and not convincing. But have now started The Child Thief and it's a cracking read so far.

[Patti (baconater)]

Welcome back Karen!!!

Ah, must have been you talking about Barney then, Nosemanny.

Gotta admit I'm leaning toward giving him a damn good slap at the moment.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Just started Get Anyone to Do Anything by David J. Lieberman (and taking copious notes).

Also just started A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, which I'm finding perplexing.

[Lexie]

Just finished The Gambian Reprisal by Frank Demain: all right, turns from thriller to slightly tame police procedural. Still happily reading Shirley McKay's latest and Rachel Abbott's Sleep Tight.

[Kath]

I loved The Book Thief, Natasha. I've always found Woolf perplexing. I ended up chucking Orlando across the bedroom! By two thirds of the way in, I couldn't care less what happened.

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "I loved The Book Thief, Natasha. I've always found Woolf perplexing. I ended up chucking Orlando across the bedroom! By two thirds of the way in, I couldn't care less what happened."

I didn't really get To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, either. Saw Orlando the film. Was just waiting for it to end. I didn't understand a moment of it. Will persist with A Room of One's Own as it is at least short :-)

The Book Thief was lovely. And shocking.

[Jud]

I finished Knighthood of the Dragon and will be starting The Last Battle next time I have a bath, which may be a while as I don't fancy surrounding my sun burn in hot water.

[Stuart]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Kath wrote: "I loved The Book Thief, Natasha. I've always found Woolf perplexing. I ended up chucking Orlando across the bedroom! By two thirds of the way in, I couldn't care less what happened."..."

I have to say that I love Virginia Woolf - just incredible that she wrote the way she wrote way back then. Amazing!

[Kath]

She still ended up on my bedroom floor, Stu!

[Guy]

Close to finishing Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

[Stuart]

Kath wrote: "She still ended up on my bedroom floor, Stu!"

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Kath!

[Stuart]

if my book ends up not to your liking, I'd happily share your floor with Virginia!

[Natasha]

Favourite Virginia Woolf book, Stuart?

[Kath]

Haven't flung one of yours yet, Stu!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I'm struggling at the moment, 4 books on on go, only one is decent. Over 60% into Grimms, can't read too much at once. Bathroom book is Mistress by JP, hate the main character and seems far fetched. Glad I'm not constantly reading the one. Cat room book is Drop Shot by Harlem Cohen, don't think I like him. Kindle book is Guaranteed Justice by our Mel, favourite book so far and nearly ended up wrinkly in the bath!

[Patti (baconater)]

Finished Barney. Was okay but I got fed up with author writing short form sentences and the ending wasn't at all satisfying.

Don't think I'll be getting more in the series.

[Patti (baconater)]

Deleting spam can be so satisfying.

[Natasha]

One third of the way into A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf has started making sense. Hurrah. She's imagining that Professor von X, engaged in writing his monumental work entitled THE MENTAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL INFERIORITY OF THE FEMALE SEX, is stabbing his pen into his paper because his wife's in love with a cavalry officer. Now we're getting somewhere.

[Kath]

If we took a third of a book to get going, though, wouldn't there be complaints?!

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "If we took a third of a book to get going, though, wouldn't there be complaints?!"

Having read The Eye in the Pyramid and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in recent memory, I think that being utterly incomprehensible for large portions of a book is a kind of ... style ...

[Kath]

Haha!

[Jim]

I liked Dirk Gently :-)

But yes, the days when the reader would placidly sit down and accept that they will be bored and/or confused for the first third of a book have probably long gone

[David]

Just started rereading , which I think I must have first read not much after it originally came out.

[Patti (baconater)]

Ooo David. That looks good!

Dammit I've got 168 books on my TBR short list!

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Ooo David. That looks good!

Dammit I've got 168 books on my TBR short list!"

If I remember correctly it was good. Although, not as good as High-Rise which I read for the first time around then too.

Only 168 - plenty of room for more.

[Patti (baconater)]

Those are the ones I've chosen for my holiday reads. I think I need a longer holiday.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Those are the ones I've chosen for my holiday reads. I think I need a longer holiday."

I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that one life is not long enough for all the books I need to read. So I think I'm going to have to look into becoming an immortal.

[Jud]

I just finished Bang: Memoirs of a Relationship Assassin, if you haven't read it yet you really should.

[Michael]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I just finished Bang: Memoirs of a Relationship Assassin, if you haven't read it yet you really should."

It is a fun read.

[Stuart]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Kath wrote: "If we took a third of a book to get going, though, wouldn't there be complaints?!"

Having read The Eye in the Pyramid and [book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency|3..."

a style I seem to have adopted! ;-)

[David]

Just finished Sharpe's Escape, which was a Sharpe book where he did Sharpe things in a Sharpe way with the usual Sharpe consequences.

[Lance]

I finished Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World over the weekend. It's a surprisingly engaging account of how the frothiest end of the contemporary art market works (or doesn't), written in a way that a non-insider can understand. Its you-are-there approach is both vivid and clear, and it's chockablock with odd characters. However, it's all about the top 1% of the market, leaving out the parts you're likely to ever see yourself. Four stars.

Read the full review here.

[Jud]

I started and finished Ruler's Desire yesterday, don't know what I'll start next but as I have yoga over lunch and mum and dad arriving this afternoon I won't really get a chance to start anything today anyway :o)

[Lexie]

David wrote: "Just finished Sharpe's Escape, which was a Sharpe book where he did Sharpe things in a Sharpe way with the usual Sharpe consequences."

I believe consistency can be considered a virtue!

[Lexie]

Read in an evening 'Regency Recollections of Jane Lumsden' - a very sweet book but rather like sitting down with a couple of elderly relations and trying to make sense of their fascinating but rambling memories. 'Oh, and you know he was married to that woman's sister - now, what was her name? And she came from that place where - you know - where we went that time ...'. The thing she remembered most clearly was what she was wearing to any one ball or race meeting!

[David]

Lexie wrote: "David wrote: "Just finished Sharpe's Escape, which was a Sharpe book where he did Sharpe things in a Sharpe way with the usual Sharpe consequences."

I believe consistency can be cons..."

I did rather like it, but I do wonder if Cornwell has a Sharpe template he just fills in with the next battle in the series and fits the bits where Sharpe gets then loses the girl and/or gold and then recaptures the girl and/or gold and has a tiff with a fellow officer who is a posh idiot and the disgruntled other ranks bloke all around it.

[Lexie]

If he doesn't you've just given him one! They are good fun, I agree.

[David]

Well, I finished , which was damned good & well worth rereading.

So now I'm rereading , which as it is by David Nobbs is a great book, not - perhaps - up with the Reggie Perrin books, but I didn't get where I am today by making such comparisons.

Also started

[Michael]

I've just posted my review for 'Last and First Men' by Olaf Stapledon and it's a stunning, if flawed, sci-fi classic:

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

I'm now on Rosen Trevithick's 'Monster Avengers'.

[Lexie]

David wrote: "Well, I finished , which was damned good & well worth rereading.

So now I'm rereading , which as it is by Davi..."

Ho Ho!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Guaranteed Justice, it is the best in the series so far, and am really looking forward to the next one. 3 left in the series so might finish it this month

[Jamie]

Just finished Inferno. You know what you're going to get with Dan Brown. Fast paced, largely daft, but easy to read fiction. The characters are good, he describes Italy very nicely. My only real issue with Dan Brown is his need to cram so much into each scene. He has the characters thinking about the most ludicrous things while they're running from gun toting soldiers. But, if you like his other books as I do, you'll like this.

[Joo]

I was just downloading some books onto my PW, meaning to read one of them, but accidentally opened another. It was a "12 pack of thrillers" so I started reading it. I'm really enjoying the first one which is by Diane Capri.
I've never read a Jack Reacher book, so don't know about that bit of it, but I suppose this doesn't matter for this book as Jack is just some character they are looking to find. I'm thinking about what is going to happen next when I'm not reading it, which is the mark of a good book.
The one problem about reading an omnibus is that you don't know where the end is going to be. This one has 12 books in it and it says it will take me 30 hours.

[Patti (baconater)]

I find the time left to read thingy doesn't always work properly. Or takes time to set properly, maybe.

One of Darren's novellas said it'd take 7 hours or something. Then I turned the page and it said 30 minutes or something.

Disappointment.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I find the time left to read thingy doesn't always work properly. Or takes time to set properly, maybe.

One of Darren's novellas said it'd take 7 hours or something. Then I turned the page and it ..."

Black mark there then.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I was just downloading some books onto my PW, meaning to read one of them, but accidentally opened another. It was a "12 pack of thrillers" so I started reading it. I'm really enjoying the first ..."

I read Guaranteed Justice in an omnibus edition, and had the same problem - the second time I picked it up I found that I was on chapter 3 but 17% and it took a few minutes to twig why!! I bought that same omnibus though, looking forward to it. Bought another omnibus yesterday, it has a different book of Mel's in it, from her Intention series, looking forward to that too.