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[Steven]

just finished Close To The bone by Stuart Macbride and now reading Just One Damned Thing after Another by Jodi Taylor. jury out on this one so far. it's not gripped me, but it's engaging enough that I'll keep reading.

[R.M.F.]

Kath wrote: "R.M.F. you're a dreadful cynic for one so young."

I will get round to reading your books, and Michael's as well, but I've got so many books to read, it's going to take a while! I'm addicted to looking for books at charity shops.

[L.A.]

Just finished Dark of the Moon by John Sandford and just started Rough Country by ......John Sandford. These are the 1st and 3rd books in the Virgil Flowers series - Louise is currently reading the 2nd!! I love the Flowers character and especially his 'Social Detecting' approach to crime solving!!

[S.]

Just completed the first chapter of The Great Losing: The Mad Dragon King by Karine Green. Loving it so far!

[David]

Just finished The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller , which is very good indeed.

Like the title suggests this takes stories apart and shows how the various parts all work together to make a whole story work together.

Just finished Weaveworld which was good. I like the weaving (see what I did there) of the mundane and fantastical.

Just started (again) Fiction Unboxed , which I started to read before, but they suggest reading the book The Dream Enginethey wrote while creating Fiction Unboxed before reading this - so I did.

So now I'm trying again.

Also just started The Girl on the Train .

[David]

Just finishednIntellectuals and Society , which I rather liked, but I can easily see a fair few not liking.

Just started Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe... probably.

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Scott Nicholson's The Scarecrow and it's a good horror read:

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

[Karen]

Have been away in sunny Pembroke for a few days so read Donna Leon's Falling in Love which was OK, a bit slight. A J Waines' Girl on a Train which I enjoyed, Lucretia Grindle's The Nightspinners which was excellent - I've enjoyed her previous books too. And Lesley Thomson's Ghost girl, in the Detective's Daughter series, which was excellent and a bit odd. I've now started Tom Rob Smith's The Farm, which is promising so far.

[L.A.]

I read three Donna Leons recently, not Falling in Love though, and I think 'Slight' is a really good way to describe them - not badly written, moderately interesting plots, but without a great deal happening.

Just finished Rough Country by John Sandford, a really good VirgilFlowers book, and just started Heat Lightning. Also a (effing) Flowers book.

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Mark Matthews' MILK-BLOOD: A Tale of Urban Horror and it's one of the finest horror reads for me this year so far:

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

[Patti (baconater)]

Started Finders Keepers yesterday and am almost done.

Fans of Big Bang Theory will enjoy the references.

Stephen King is bloody fantastic.

[Steven]

just gave up on Just One Damned Thing After Another. I don't know what it is about it, but it just didn't grab me. shame as I was really looking forward to it. might go back and finish it one day... now reading Black Ops the new Stephen Leather thriller and enjoying it at 72 percent in. also listening to the audio book version of Dead Man's Time, the 9th book in peter jame's excellent Roy Grace series.

[Karen]

Well, I finished Tom Rob Smith's The Farm. It was an OK read but I have to say I was a bit disappointed, having enjoyed his 'Child 44' so much. It was a bit flat, and the 'diary' style of telling didn't really inject much pace. It felt more of a novella really. The mother son relationship never came across for me, it all felt too sterile.
Off to find something meatier!

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Started Finders Keepers yesterday and am almost done.

Fans of Big Bang Theory will enjoy the references.

Stephen King is bloody fantastic."

Got this one reserved at the library. Looking forward to it.

[Sophie]

I've just finished American Gods - brilliant book but it sure did take me a while to get into it and took me forever to finish!

I've just started You're Next, which so far I am really enjoying and having fun trying to unravel it.

[David]

Just finished The Girl on the Train which I found good, but irritating at times. A bunch of unlikeable characters, which I rather like, but it could be annoying at the same time.

Also finished, The Power and the Glory, which was excellent.

Just started Broken Homes and rereading Get Shorty

[Patti (baconater)]

Steven wrote: "just gave up on Just One Damned Thing After Another. I don't know what it is about it, but it just didn't grab me. shame as I was really looking forward to it. might go back and finish it one day....."

Leather

*spit*

[Lexie]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Steven wrote: "just gave up on Just One Damned Thing After Another. I don't know what it is about it, but it just didn't grab me. shame as I was really looking forward to it. might go back and fini..."

Pithily expressed!

[Steven]

nicely put pattie... though spitting isn't very lady like.

[Tim]

Steven wrote: "just gave up on Just One Damned Thing After Another. I don't know what it is about it, but it just didn't grab me. shame as I was really looking forward to it. might go back and finish it one day....."

I think my problem with it was that the writing style was for a younger audience than the material dictated. And the narrator didn't help, with her 'book at bedtime' voice. I'd have been lulled into quite happily letting my 9 year old nieces (assuming I had 9 year old nieces) listen in the car, right up to the point when a chap waved his not-so-dangly bits in the heroine's face. Then I'd have been well told off by said imaginary nieces' parents. IYSWIM.

[Jud]

Oh! I read girl on a train with a few of my mummy friends. I don't think any of us liked it, not sure how it became a best seller really...

[Jud]

Last book I finished was The White Princess which wasn't as good as the previous books in the series, it was just a lot of hanging around in confinement with a grumpy King who was too sweet on his mother. Mum says the next one isn't great either.

[David]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Oh! I read girl on a train with a few of my mummy friends. I don't think any of us liked it, not sure how it became a best seller really..."

Me neither. I was more irritated by it than anything else.

[Karen]

You'll have to try the other book called Girl on a Train, by A.J.Waines, which was a decent enough story.

[Jud]

Maybe there was confusion and that was the one that was supposed to be recommended and The Girl on the Train got all the glory instead.

[Kath]

Just read (and it won't take you long if you try it - but it's coming free at the weekend) Smoke Me A Kipper: Neil's Farrago by Col B. Limp who is a thinly disguised member of this group!

Funny, cheeky and... well, a darned good read.

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

[David]

Karen wrote: "You'll have to try the other book called Girl on a Train, by A.J.Waines, which was a decent enough story."

Reading the reviews on that link it looks like a few people have confused the two books.

I might give this one a go too.

[Kath]

I've recently finished Smoke Me A Kipper: Neil's Farrago written under a not-very-well-guarded pseudonym! Damned funny stuff!

Also What Dreams May Come by David Hadley. Speculative fiction and it touches on the nature of dreams - and death. Enjoyed it.

And Windhorse Burning which is a real departure from Lexie Conyngham's usual style. Give them a go!

[Patti (baconater)]

I've started The Kitchen House and its so good I had to turn to a dry history book last night or I'd have been up all night reading it.

I've also re-read a couple of Robert Asprin's MYTH books. Just nice light fun.

And Finder's Keepers was fabulous. There won't be any whinging about the ending, either. So there, Geoff.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Oh I love the Myth books. You are a bit of a Tandy, Patti!

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks, GL! That's a huge compliment!

I've downloaded the complete set. There's oodles of them. Don't want to read too many in a row though. I expect they are rather samey.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Well yes, after three or four in a row you do get to picking out the bits that pop up again. But they are such fun :)

[Lexie]

Kath wrote: "I've recently finished Smoke Me A Kipper: Neil's Farrago written under a not-very-well-guarded pseudonym! Damned funny stuff!

Also What Dreams May Come by David Ha..."

Thanks for the review, Kath!

[Kath]

Thanks for the story! :)

[Michael]

Kath wrote: "I've recently finished Smoke Me A Kipper: Neil's Farrago written under a not-very-well-guarded pseudonym! Damned funny stuff!

Also What Dreams May Come by David Ha..."

What Dreams May Come looks like an interesting read - bought!

[R.M.F.]

I've doubled down on the The Name of the Rose after watching the DVD.

The idea of casting Sean Connery as a 14th century Monk is so ridiculous as to be disastrous, but it bloody works. :) Great film.

The book is first class as well. Highly recommended.

[Lexie]

R.M.F wrote: "I've doubled down on the The Name of the Rose after watching the DVD.

The idea of casting Sean Connery as a 14th century Monk is so ridiculous as to be disastrous, but it bloody wor..."

Brilliant book, and yes, film also pretty good, though at the time Adzo became a by-word amongst my acquaintances for sheer dumbness. Shame Eco went on to become more pretentious and less entertaining - I've been trying to read The Prague Cemetery, according to my Goodreads shelf, since February 2013!

[R.M.F.]

Lexie wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "I've doubled down on the The Name of the Rose after watching the DVD.

The idea of casting Sean Connery as a 14th century Monk is so ridiculous as to be disastrous, but..."

Genius is allowed to become pretentious. :)

[Lexie]

R.M.F wrote: "Lexie wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "I've doubled down on the The Name of the Rose after watching the DVD.

The idea of casting Sean Connery as a 14th century Monk is so ridiculous as to be d..."

Well, fine, but don't expect me to read it! I'm far too shallow!

[David]

Kath wrote: "Also What Dreams May Come by David Hadley. Speculative fiction and it touches on the nature of dreams - and death. Enjoyed it."

Glad you liked it.

[David]

Just finished Fiction Unboxed , which probably only makes sense to those who listen to the SPP show, and followed the kickstarter thingy therein that led to this book.

Just started The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know.

[Joo]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've also re-read a couple of Robert Asprin's MYTH books. Just nice light fun. ..."

Blimey, I thought I was the only one who'd ever heard of Robert Aspirin. I've still got the paperbacks. They were really tricky to track down when I was buying them.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

They do seem to vary wildly in price on Amazon, from 1p, to £35! I bought them in waterstones as they were published.

[Steven]

just finished Dead Man's time by peter james. I love the Roy Grace series and this was one of the best.
Now reading Wrong Place by Mel Comley.

[Will]

just finished the epic of gilgamesh. Now reading Mein Kampf. I'm going through a "despots" phase

[Kath]

It's years since I read Gilgamesh. Interesting! I've never read Mein Kampf - but I have seen Star Wars.

[R.M.F.]

Will wrote: "just finished the epic of gilgamesh. Now reading Mein Kampf. I'm going through a "despots" phase"

Well, if you're reading that, you won't be going through an insomnia phase. :)

A pretty dull book.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "It's years since I read Gilgamesh. Interesting! I've never read Mein Kampf - but I have seen Star Wars."

Same here, Gilgamesh I re-read a couple of years ago.
On the heap to be read soon is Njal's Saga which I read many years ago and daughter just fetched me a copy back from Iceland

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished The Reversal by Michael Connoley. First one of his I've read, enjoyed it and will read more. Not sure what paperback to read next, going to spend the weekend finishing Bletchley Park

[Karen]

Just finished Lexie's Windhorse Burning, thoroughly enjoyed it. Witty and well plotted, and the Tibetan borders setting is beautifully written.
Now getting into Ann Cleeves' Burial Of Ghosts