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[Kath]

Just finished The Girl on the Train which seems to divide opinion. I really enjoyed it after the initial annoyance at the number of run-on sentences.

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

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Just finished The Girl on the Train which seems to divide opinion. I really enjoyed it after the initial annoyance at the number of run-on sentences.

https://www.goodreads.com/rev..."

Slowly slowly we're overcoming her inate good taste, soon she'll no long notice the extra commas :-)

[Kath]

Nice try, buster! I might read them but I notice them!

[Jim]

:-)

[Lexie]

Just finished Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King, about Queen Margaret of Scotland. Well written, but I'm hoping to start something a little more light-hearted now - Lynda Wilcox springs to mind.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just finished The Girl with All the Gifts
That's going to take some processing. Wow

[David]

Just finished Looking Good Dead which was pretty decent, if a little too over descriptive in places.

Just started The Dream Engine.

[Anita]

Just finished Top Banana which was a wonderful read ! Just started I Should Have Told You

[Lexie]

Anita wrote: "Just finished Top Banana which was a wonderful read ! Just started I Should Have Told You"

Top Banana's excellent!

[Anita]

Lexie wrote: "Anita wrote: "Just finished Top Banana which was a wonderful read ! Just started I Should Have Told You"

Top Banana's excellent!"

I agree Lexie, it's been a very long time since I have enjoyed a book so much from start to finish and I have read a lot of very good books that I have enjoyed but Top Banana has the edge on them all.

[Kath]

Thanks Anita - and Lexie - for your kind words. :)

[Lexie]

Well deserved! :-)

[Anita]

Very well deserved Kath

[Michael]

I've finally gotten round to reading 'Roadside Picnic' by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky and it's a fantastic piece of science fiction:

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

[Lexie]

Just finished Organised Murder, by Lynda Wilcox, which was her usual enjoyable cosy with a sympathetic narrator (though I was waiting impatiently for her to realise one fact in this one - it was looming on the horizon so obviously). Went straight on to her Scouting for Murder, as I find I'm a couple of books behind here!

[David]

Just finished The Submissive which was better written than the 50 Shades book, even though the stories were almost identical to me.

Just started The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan, which I think I'll probably read in stages.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just What Kind Of Mother Are You? - Paula Daly.

[Kath]

Just finished The Good Girl by Mary Kubica. Great twist ending - BUT my pet bugbear - the last 9% was from the yet unpublished second novel. If it were published, I would only need a link. As it's not, I am certainly not going to invest the amount of time require to read something which I'll then have to read over again if I buy the book - My memory's not that good! Padding! Down with this sort of thing. ;)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Kath wrote: "Just finished The Good Girl by Mary Kubica. Great twist ending - BUT my pet bugbear - the last 9% was from the yet unpublished second novel. If it were published, I would only need ..."

Kath, is her new book called Pretty Baby?

[Kath]

Yes. Not due out till August. I may well read it but I hate having things not yet available thrust under my nose like that. it's like teasing a toddler! ;)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Kath wrote: "Yes. Not due out till August. I may well read it but I hate having things not yet available thrust under my nose like that. it's like teasing a toddler! ;)"

Netgalley have it available for request for people in the US and Canada :(

[Kath]

I don't like pre-ordering either. I like to keep my TBR list manageable so I only buy when I'm ready to read another.

[Fiona (Titch)]

:)

[David]

Kath wrote: " the last 9% was from the yet unpublished second novel. If it were published, I would only need a link. As it's not, I am certainly not going to invest the amount of time require to read something which I'll then have to read over again if I buy the book - My memory's not that good! Padding! Down with this sort of thing. ;) "

I absolutely agree. I even hated that sort of thing in print books.

There is nothing worse than thinking you still have some book left to go, only to find it is instead a chunk of some other book.

However, I did read this on the Bookbub blog which suggests that authors should punish their readers like this:

http://insights.bookbub.com/how-to-cr...

[Kath]

I know I'm not the only reader who's put off by this. As punishments go, it's cruel and unusual!

[David]

Kath wrote: "I know I'm not the only reader who's put off by this. As punishments go, it's cruel and unusual!"

I don't know how effective it is either.

I don't know if I'm unusual in this, but the last thing I want to do when I finish a book is read another book by the same author.

In most cases, I don't even want to read something in the same genre as the book I've just finished.

[Fiona (Titch)]

[Jim]

AUK just put a picture of a front page in mine. So the back four pages of the book tend to be telling you want else there is

[David]

Jim wrote: "AUK just put a picture of a front page in mine. So the back four pages of the book tend to be telling you want else there is"

That seems more sensible.


In the case of the extract, chapter from another book case, perhaps what would make more sense would be for the author/publisher to out a clickable link in the book to the extract hosted elsewhere, rather than filling a substantial portion of the book with something many people find annoying.

[Natasha]

Just finished What Do You Do With a Chocolate Jesus?: An Irreverent History of Christianity by Thomas Quinn. My review is mainly quotations from the book.

Just started Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, who is a new author to me. I'm 10% in and rather enjoying it so far.

[Kath]

I've read and enjoyed several of Jody Picoult's books, Natasha. Not read this one, though. I'll be interested to see what you make of it.

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "I've read and enjoyed several of Jody Picoult's books, Natasha. Not read this one, though. I'll be interested to see what you make of it."

Well so far, Kath (at just 10% in), the writing keeps throwing me back into other books in quite a trippy way, such as The Casual Vacancy, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and The Third Rule - Part One: Atrocities. I don't remember experiencing that before :-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kath wrote: "I know I'm not the only reader who's put off by this. As punishments go, it's cruel and unusual!"

I'm not as bothered by it with kindle books, I found it worse when travelling with books and suddenly not having enough book, I've never seen the point of reading just one or two chapters of a different book. I don't mind blurbs of books that much tho, especially as some publishers did books from other authors

[Anita]

I thought it was just me who didn't read the first chapter of a book that's not out yet, I would never remember it anyway. It is disappointing when what you are reading comes to an abrupt end while you still have a chunk of pages left, I feels a bit cheated when that happens, as you say it's not too bad with kindle books.
I do pre order, I like counting down to the day new books are published by my favourite authors.

[Will]

Interesting. I don't mind it when a book has a teaser at the end, but my wife hates it with a passion. Might be one of those marmite things.

[Anita]

Maybe you are right Will and it is a love/hate thing. Another one that seems to divide folk is when the publisher give away the first chapter of a nove due to be published like they did with C J Sansom latest novel.

[David]

Just started The Gentlemen's Club which is intriguing.

[Andrew]

I just gave up on some bad science-fiction, and I've made a solid start on They Came From Beyond Pulp. I don't read enough short story collections!

[Kath]

Did you ever read Disturbances by Jenny Shaw?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Disturbances-...

My daughter - so I admit to bias!

[Lexie]

Heavens, what a family! :-)

[David]

Just finished . Great read.

Just started .

[Kath]

Lexie wrote: "Heavens, what a family! :-)"
That's what the neighbours used to say! ;)

[Kath]

David wrote: "Just finished . Great read.

Just started ."

Oh, thanks for that review, David. I'm going to brag about it now!

[David]

You're welcome. Two chapters into Gaff's book, and enjoying that too.

[Lexie]

Kath wrote: "Lexie wrote: "Heavens, what a family! :-)"
That's what the neighbours used to say! ;)"

I love that postcard that has a 50s mother saying to her nice little children 'Now don't forget - as far as anyone else knows, we're a normal family!'.

[Kath]

Jenny has that framed in her kitchen!

[Lexie]

Well,there you are,then! (I shan't say where we have it ...)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I started Top Banana on the plane, will probably finish it on the plane home.

[Kath]

Just finished Second Activation by the Wearmouth brothers. Really enjoyed First Activation and if you're into post-apocalyptic stuff - well this is your series.

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

Also last night (it's short) I read a lovely memoir by Cathy Murray Cabbage and Semolina: Memories of a 1950s Childhood which echoed much of my own early years. Really nice read and it could become part of an important archive - something ebooks have facilitated.

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

Just started The Girl with All the Gifts and at 17% I'm totally hooked. Haunting stuff which I'm looking forward to getting on with later today.

[Anita]

Just finished I Should Have Told You which I enjoyed very much. Just started Fingersmith. And also Ghostly Paws which is proving to be a nice light hearted read.