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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Lexie wrote: "Thank goodness - I was beginning to think we'd all gone into hibernation!"

I've done my usual and started the year off with a doorstep this one is 876 I think. Means I've started the year behind, but hey ho.

[Lexie]

I know the feeling - I'm reading the Indie Power Pack on self-publishing and I have no idea how much longer it's going to be!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Today I've listened to No-One Ever Has Sex On A Tuesday - Tracy Bloom.

[Will]

Funny Girl has grabbed me by the eyes, and won't let go

[Jamie]

After too many months reading nothing I finally started Mr. Mercedes. If anyone was going to kick start my reading it was going to be Stephen King. You know what to expect and he rarely disappoints. Sets the scene well, retired cop, bored, past case niggling and then off we go. Really enjoying it and I've got the follow up waiting on the pile.

[Kath]

Just finished The Postcard by Lily Graham. enchanting story, bit of a roller-coaster. I'd have preferred it not to have had 15% of the start of another story tacked on.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just started Holdfast by Lee Penney. Science fiction future of the world stuff and so far (29%) very good.

[Loretta]

Just finished Destiny Interrupted by Ginger Galloway.
I enjoyed it. It's written in quite a lyrical style.

[Michael]

I've just posted my review for Andreas Christensen's sci-fi novel 'Exodus' - it's a decent read, but had scope to be more epic. Check out my review here:

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

[Kath]

Just finished Holdfast by Lee Penney. It looks like science fiction (and there's an element of that in there) but basically it an action/adventure story and it explores family relationships - which makes the title Holdfast have a double meaning, of course!

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

[David]

Just finished:
The Way of Kings which was pretty decent but very very (very) long.

The Indie Author Power Pack: How To Write, Publish & Market Your Book which all three were worth reading. I read WPR for the second time & it was still good.

Money: The Unauthorised Biography was pretty decent, telling a lot about money except for how to get more of it.

Just started:

Echo Burning - which is Jack Reacher doing Jack Reacher type things.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting - which was recommended by someone, I forget who.

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, which is about... well, what it says it is about.

[L.A.]

David wrote: "Just finished:
The Way of Kings which was pretty decent but very very (very) long.

The Indie Author Power Pack: How To Write, Publish & Market Your Book which all th..." I'm intrigued, do you read all at the same time? I'm strictly a one book at a time man myself (unless I've got research for work I suppose that involves reading).

[David]

L.A. wrote: "I'm intrigued, do you read all at the same time? I'm strictly a one book at a time man myself (unless I've got research for work I suppose that involves reading). "

I dunno.... Without trying to sound flippant, I just do.

I just read a section, a chapter, a part of one, then turn to something else and read a bit of that and so on.

I do read very fast though and I like variety.

It is just something I've always done and the Kindle makes it so easy to click from one to another.

[L.A.]

Wow......is about all I can say. Maybe my problem is that usually i'm enjoying a read so much that I don't want to stop, so don't. I'm pretty sure i couldn't keep track of 3 at a time though even if i wanted to.

[Lexie]

I've always done it, too, but I agree it's almost more tempting on Kindle. If I have a backlog of books I pick three that aren't too alike, then read them 10% at a time. If one of the three really grabs me and whizzes me along, that's fine, but otherwise I enjoy my 10% and the contrast.

[L.A.]

Wow again!! There must be a whole new world out there!

[Lexie]

As a writer, of course, I'd rather you focussed on my book to the exclusion of everything else!

[David]

L.A. wrote: "Wow......is about all I can say. Maybe my problem is that usually i'm enjoying a read so much that I don't want to stop, so don't. I'm pretty sure i couldn't keep track of 3 at a time though even ..."

Well, usually I read six at a time (not all every day, but most days):

1./ non-fiction.
2./ a poetry collection
3./ Complete works of Shakespeare - once I get to the end after a few months or so I find myself reading it all again. On my third time round now (part way through Othello ATM)
4./ A how to do the writing thing book.
5./ new (to me) fiction.
6./ Rereading fiction.

[David]

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, after abandoning it for a while. In the end I think it is worth the acclaim it gets.

Just started A Clergyman's Daughter. Orwell is still probably my favourite writer, but I've only read this one once before and that was a long time ago.

[L.A.]

David wrote: "L.A. wrote: "Wow......is about all I can say. Maybe my problem is that usually i'm enjoying a read so much that I don't want to stop, so don't. I'm pretty sure i couldn't keep track of 3 at a time..." Tripple WOW!! I went through a phase of re-reading Lord of the rings once per year. did it a few years then stopped. Have to admit it's never occured to me to re-read Shakespeare.

[Anita]

I always have 2 on the go, a novel and a history book, as they are very different it's easy to keep track. I do have small problem sometimes if I am reading a historical fiction novel, but not too bad.

[L.A.]

That, I can imagine at least!

[Lexie]

David wrote: "L.A. wrote: "Wow......is about all I can say. Maybe my problem is that usually i'm enjoying a read so much that I don't want to stop, so don't. I'm pretty sure i couldn't keep track of 3 at a time..."

That's very impressive. I wish I had the time! Perhaps if I gave up sleeping ...

[David]

Lexie wrote: "That's very impressive. I wish I had the time! Perhaps if I gave up sleeping ... "

It's only 2 or 3 hours a day in total. Any more than that and I fall asleep.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

I have started reading H is for Hawk

I don't normally rush out and pick up award winners :
Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize

Winner of the 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award

Shortlisted for the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize

Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize


However I am glad I did. It isn't quite what I expected to be honest.

It seems to be three books rolled into one :
A history of Jim White, a failed Falconer
A story about surviving grief
And a story about a woman taming a goshawk.

I haven't finished yet but am thoroughly enjoying it.

H is for Hawk

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

L.A. wrote: "Wow again!! There must be a whole new world out there!"

I never used to be able to read more than one book at a time, and then I kept finding myself without a book cos I'd have left it at home, so started with one fiction and one non-fiction, and now tend to have 3 on the go. I have my kindle book, which I read at work and out and about, a proper book for when I'm with the foster cats, and a bathroom book, which is generally non-fiction. I do prefer to read two different genres of fiction though, as otherwise it does get a tad confusing. If I'm reading a really good book, I do tend to focus on that after a certain point. I never read two books at once on the kindle though, and I did start using my tablet to read classics in advert breaks, but my new phone is that good that I haven't used the tablet in over a week.

[Tim]

I normally have three books on the go - a paperback, an ebook and an audiobook.

[Anita]

This is a moment that I have waited for a very long time. You all know I have a 4 year old granddaughter called Evie and tonight we have started reading The Magic Faraway Tree we have both enjoyed it very much and she wanted to me to tell you all because she knows you are my book club friends. I am going to put a photo of her on the site.

[Lexie]

I hope this is the beginning of a long reading career! What a delight to be able to share a book with your granddaughter.

[Anita]

Thank you Lexie, she has loved reading from being very small but we only just reached the paperback stage and I get to re read all the books I used to read to her Mummy. I have looked forward to this day for a long time.

[Anita]

Tim wrote: "I normally have three books on the go - a paperback, an ebook and an audiobook."

I don't seem to get on very well with audiobooks, I have Pam Ayres autobiography that I listen too whilst I peel the vegetables but never seem to enjoy hearing a novel.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

If I am reading more than one book at once it means that one of them is heading to the Did Not Finish pile.
I don't get on with audiobooks either Anita. Far too slow, I read much faster and get frustrated with the pace!

[Lexie]

I find audiobooks lovely for travelling - I can't always read proper books as I get travelsick, but with an audiobook I can see the scenery, possibly knit, and listen to the book at the same time!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Tim wrote: "I normally have three books on the go - a paperback, an ebook and an audiobook."

I can't get on with audio books, I've tried a few times.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Anita wrote: "This is a moment that I have waited for a very long time. You all know I have a 4 year old granddaughter called Evie and tonight we have started reading The Magic Faraway Tree we have..."

That's lovely Anita, I love Enid Blyton

[Anita]

They are such lovely stories Desley, I'm so excited that I will be reading them all again.

[Jim]

Anita wrote: "This is a moment that I have waited for a very long time. You all know I have a 4 year old granddaughter called Evie and tonight we have started reading The Magic Faraway Tree we have..."

I remember reading those myself (to me) when I was young, and I loved them

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I was reading Enid Blyton's The Five Find-outers books to myself when I was about four. I felt very grown up when I discovered the Famous Five.

[Anita]

It's lovely that the Enid Blyton books are still around for everyone to enjoy now, even nicer that we all have such lovely memories of them. I remember feeling very grown when I read the Famous Five too GL. Let's hope they will still be around when Evie's grandchildren want to read them

[Tim]

I rarely just sit and listen, but in the car or out walking, and audiobooks are brill.

Doing the dishes etc, I tend to listen to podcasts.

[Natasha]

Gosh, I daren't start Enid Blyton again. I wouldn't re-emerge for a year.

Just finished Revolution by Russell Brand.

Just started my first Stephen King: Mr. Mercedes, as recommended to me by Patti a few months ago. 8% in. WOW already.

[David]

Just finished Echo Burning where Jack Reacher goes on a picnic with some nice cuddly teddy bears and they have jelly and cake and make daisy-chains and paddle in the stream before all going home to bed.

Well, sort of.

Just started The Troop which is interesting so far, despite/because of being Canadian.

[Anita]

Just finished Stolen Dreams - A Mary O'Reilly Paranormal Mystery - Book Fourteen my bit of pleasant escapism which I treasure. Just started Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I and Ravenfold by our own, lovely Kath. Only about 10% in but really enjoying it Kath.
Am going for a lay down and a read now, very naughty at this time of day but I thinki I have earned a small treat.
See you all later

[Kath]

Whooo...*bites nails*

[Anita]

Kath wrote: "Whooo...*bites nails*"

All good until now Kath !

[Sam]

Just finished Revival by Stephen King. One of my favourite authors, but really didn't enjoy this one.

On to another of my favourite authors: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction. Terry Pratchett's collected non-fiction. Loving, loving, loving it already.

[Lexie]

Just finished Night Waking by Sarah Mosse, A Famine of Horses by P. Chisholm, and The Heretics of De'Ath by Howard of Warwick. An interesting mixture - enjoyed all of them in their way. Now starting Forbidden Journey by Ella Maillart, an account of a journey into the more inaccessible parts of China in the 1930s.

[Tim]

Just started on Jimbo's Cartographer's Wotsit. Been languishing in my TBR far too long!

[Tim]

David wrote: "Jack Reacher goes on a picnic with some nice cuddly teddy bears and they have jelly and cake and make daisy-chains and paddle in the stream before all going home to bed."

Don't think I've read that one!

[Jim]

Tim wrote: "Just started on Jimbo's Cartographer's Wotsit. Been languishing in my TBR far too long!"

Never let a Cartographer's wotsit languish!

It's unhygienic for a start

[Jim]

Tim wrote: "David wrote: "Jack Reacher goes on a picnic with some nice cuddly teddy bears and they have jelly and cake and make daisy-chains and paddle in the stream before all going home to bed."

Don't think I've read that one! .."

I've not seen it either but I'll certainly look out for it!