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[Kath]

Just finished Book 2 in the Pitkirtly series Reunited in Death and the fact that I immediately started book 3 A Reformed Character tells you a great deal. Witty, gentle and subtle humour -

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

[David]

To feed my books about writing addiction, I've just started How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method after discovering I once downloaded a snowflake method template for Scrivener and wondering what the hell it was.

Anyway, I'm going it give it a go with an already existing idea.

[Lexie]

David wrote: "To feed my books about writing addiction, I've just started How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method after discovering I once downloaded a snowflake method template for Scriv..."

I'd be interested to hear - is it a kind of mind map?

[David]

Lexie wrote: "David wrote: "I'd be interested to hear - is it a kind of mind map?"

Sort of... I think. It is described as like building a fractal snowflake by adding further iterations, starting with a one sentence idea, expanding that, then expanding that and so on.

There's an explanation here: http://www.writerscafe.org/courses/So...

[Lexie]

David wrote: "Lexie wrote: "David wrote: "I'd be interested to hear - is it a kind of mind map?"

Sort of... I think. It is described as like building a fractal snowflake by adding further iterations, starting w..."

Thanks for that - I understand. Don't think it would work for me, though: I do need a good bit of planning before I start (crime novels tend to need a plot) but if I overplan I find it hard then to bother writing the thing - if you can say it in a thousand words, why bother expanding to a hundred thousand? But I can see that it would work very well for many people.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read and finished Play Me #1: Play Me Wild & Play Me #2: Play Me Hot - Tracy Wolff. Now I am reading Play Me #3: Play Me Hard - Tracy Wolff.

[Steven]

recently finished Heartstone by CJ Sansom which was amazing as all the books in this series are. can't wait to read the new one Lamentation. Also read The time hunters and the sword of ages by Carl Ashmore. love this series and looking forward to the final book, hopefuly soon! Also read A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett. certe'ly not my fav book of his, but very good all the same. Now I'm reading Last Will by William McIntyre which is the 6th book in his Best Defence series of Scottish legal thrillers. A new release in this series is always one I look forward to, and this book is shaping up reY well so far at 22 percent in.

[David]

Just finished episode two of Yesterday's Gone: Season One, still undecided about it, but I'll probably carry on to the end of the season.

[Tim]

David wrote: "Just finished episode two of Yesterday's Gone: Season One, still undecided about it, but I'll probably carry on to the end of the season."

I picked that up on a promo ages ago, but haven't read it yet...

[Adele]

Just finished reading Private Games. Wow! But I am so glad I read this well after London 2012 ;o)

[Adele]

Just finished reading Private Games. Wow! But I am so glad I read this well after London 2012 ;o)

[Adele]

Just finished reading Private Games. Wow! But I am so glad I read this well after London 2012 ;o)

[Jonathan]

Just started The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. One chapter in and I'm hooked.

[Pat ()]

Just started on chapter 7, loving it

[David]

Tim wrote: "David wrote: "Just finished episode two of Yesterday's Gone: Season One, still undecided about it, but I'll probably carry on to the end of the season."

I picked that up on a promo..."

Yes. I got it either cheap or free - can't remember which. It does get better as it goes along. I've decided I'm going to carry on through to the end of this Season One set, anyway.

I don't know if I will go any further than that though.

[Joo]

I've nearly finished what must be one of my top 3 reads of the year. .
Some people on the Amazon forums mentioned they'd just finished and loved it so I had a peek and got hooked.

Fortunately for me it was just £1.99 2 days ago, but it's back up to a fiver. Stick it in your price drop. It is well worth a look.

[Adele]

Joo wrote: "I've nearly finished what must be one of my top 3 reads of the year. .
Some people on the Amazon forums mentioned they'd just finished and loved it so I had a p..."

That is my favourite book of the year so far

[Kath]

Just finished A Reformed Character - another charming and delightfully funny read. Review to follow - must get my NaNo word count in first.

Just started Sun Dragon by Michael Brookes. Shaping up well!

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read and finished Play Me #1: Play Me Wild, Play Me #2: Play Me Hot, Play Me #3: Play Me Hard, Play Me #4: Play Me Real and Play Me #5: Play Me Right - Tracy Wolff. I loved the characters and the steamy scenes. Worth buying in December if you like Erotica/Romance kinda books. Be warned they are in 5 installments as well.

Now I am reading Three Little Words - Maggie Wells.

[Michael]

Kath wrote: "Just finished A Reformed Character - another charming and delightfully funny read. Review to follow - must get my NaNo word count in first.

Just started Sun Dragon ..."

I hope you and Pat enjoy it.

[Kath]

I am so far - read a little bit more over lunch!

[Steven]

Joo, which was the book you've just finished that you said was one of your top 3 reads of the year? I'm blind so can't see the cover image and with a recommendation like that, i must know what it was!
I've just finished Last Will by William McIntyre which was another cracking entry in his Best Defence legal thriller series. very well written with a good dose of humour throne in for good measure.
Now reading 11.22.63 by Stephen King.

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Steven, just had a look back at Joo's post and the book is called A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.

[Steven]

thanks Vanessa

[Kath]

Finally reviewed A Reformed Character by Cecilia Peartree - http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Great stories these.

[Will]

Since it's been so cold and wet, there's nothing better than a book about travel to places I long to visit (and are warm)

Lonely Planet on the Shores of the Mediterranean

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Three Little Words - Maggie Wells. Now I am reading The City of Malgar - Rosemary Lynch. Looking forward to reading this trilogy.

[David]

Just finished How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method, which was... well, he calls it a business parable. Goldilocks decides to write a novel, goes to a writing course taught by baby bear, meets the big bad wolf and Mother Hubbard and... well, you get the feeling he is padding out what is a basic single post on his blog into a (short) book.

In the end I wonder just how different and revolutionary the snowflake method actually is. It is the basic 3 act structure with inciting incidents and scenes much like all the other unique and revolutionary methods.

Also finished Yesterday's Gone: Season One, which got better as it went along, but I don't know if I want to read any more of the six 'seasons'.

Just startedHawk Quest which is 1066 (and all that) apparently.

[Kath]

Just finished Sun Dragon - gets very exciting!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just started Out In The Army: My Life As A Gay Soldier

[Pat ()]

Just finished

and WOW, just WOW!

nice one Michael!

[Michael]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Just finished

and WOW, just WOW!

nice one Michael!"

Kath wrote: "Just finished Sun Dragon - gets very exciting!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just started Out In The Army: My Life As A Gay Soldier"

Thank you both!

[Michael]

I've finished reading Mike Gullickson's military / cyberpunk novel 'The Northern Star: Civil War' and it's an exciting and well paced read. Check out my review here:

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

[Natasha]

Just finished The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson, which was five-star comedic genius.

Just started Maggie & Me by Damian Barr, a read for my local book club. I'd been afraid that I would find Thatcher-praise too irritating. But at 16% through it is just a delightful memoir of childhood in the early eighties so far.

[Tim]

Just started Sun Dragon by Mikey B. Bandwagon or what?

[Will]

Jim Butcher's Skin Game just started.

Seems well up to the usual standard, plus the man is clearly an anglophile.

[Tim]

Just finished in audible. excellent as always. :)

[Tim]

Will wrote: "Jim Butcher's Skin Game just started.

Seems well up to the usual standard, plus the man is clearly an anglophile."

Just downloaded for this month's audible credit. Love James Marsters' narration. :)

[Michael]

Tim wrote: "Just started Sun Dragon by Mikey B. Bandwagon or what?"

I'm happy for everyone to jump on this bandwagon :-)

[Natasha]

Michael wrote: "I'm happy for everyone to jump on this bandwagon :-)"

Agreed, Michael. Sun Dragon is high on my TBR list :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

I've been mostly reading Mike Resnick this weekend.

The Widowmaker Unleashed

[Pat ()]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've been mostly reading Mike Resnick this weekend.

The Widowmaker Unleashed"

I read them back to back when you introduced them to me. Loved them

[Karen]

Have just finished The Calligrapher's Daughter - a wonderful read, set in Korea between 1910 and the end of WW2 - I knew nothing about how ancient Korean society was and all their traditions, and about how they suffered all those decades under Japanese occupation.
Just started - and quickly shelved cos I really couldn't be bothered - Mad About the Boy. Off to find a nice murder now.

[D.D. Chant]

I've just started Three Reluctant Promises. I'm enjoying it so far: it's an interesting premise and I'm dying to get to the bottom of the mystery it starts with.

I kind of think the title sells it short; it sounds like a sappy romance but it's more of an adventure/mystery.

[Patti (baconater)]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've been mostly reading Mike Resnick this weekend.

The Widowmaker Unleashed"

I read them back to back when you introduced them to me. Loved them"

Have you tried the Santiago books yet, Pat?

[Steven]

just finished 11.22.63 by Stephen King. brilliant, just brilliant. Now reading avenged by Jacqui Rose.

[Sue]

My first post on this group, so hope I get it right! I have just finished Gardens of Delight by Erica James and started Stolen Child by Laura Elliot. The Erica James book was a very good read, the second one of hers I have read and will definitely look for more.

[Lexie]

Just finished The Club by Beth Green, which I liked more the more I read. Want to finish Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, which I'm really enjoying, but have a couple more books that have to be read ASAP first.

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Chantak Noordeloos' excellent collection of horror short stories Deeply Twisted. You can read my review here:

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

[Steven]

recently finished Avenged by jacqui Rose and There and Time again by Ben Elton which was excellent. Now reading The Book of Souls by James Oswald.

[Lexie]

Ooh, I like James Oswald!