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[Kath]

Just reviewed a book which is still only available on pre-order Sword of Damocles by Andrew Barrett. I had a review copy so I've reviewed it!

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

It's corking. Brilliant.

[Lexie]

Karen wrote: "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' [book:B..."

Oh, thanks, Karen!

[Andrew]

Kath wrote: "Just reviewed a book which is still only available on pre-order Sword of Damocles by Andrew Barrett. I had a review copy so I've reviewed it!

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

Thank you, Kath. I'm delighted you enjoyed it :)

[Shadi]

Just finished Gone Girl , it was such a good book and the plot twist caught me off guard, i would recommend this book to anyone.

[L.A.]

Just finished re-reading and really enjoyed it again. the Virgil Flowers humour is brilliant and I think is OK despite the pretty harrowing main story line.

[Kath]

Shadi wrote: "Just finished Gone Girl , it was such a good book and the plot twist caught me off guard, i would recommend this book to anyone."

I really didn't think a lot of this! It was far-fetched in the extreme, for my taste. Good thing we are all different and the book sells so it's got something.

[Tim]

I DNF'd it.

[David]

Just finished Broken Homes which was better than the 3rd one, but less interesting than the first two.

Just started, well about 3/4 way through, The Ice Twins which is irritating me somewhat.

[Lexie]

Just started A Season of Knives by P.F. Chisholm (good action so far), Dark Entry by M.J. Trow (Christopher Marlowe in action as the detective, excellent historical feel but makes me laugh as I called a book Dark Entry years ago and was told not to!), and Grace and Disgrace by Kayne Milhomme - brilliant first sentence but has not so far lived up to it, but we'll see. It's a bit of a Templar thing in early 20th. century Boston. Also still reading my way through Cecilia Peartree's Pitkirtly series, which I love, and a Stuart McBride in hardback, which is too heavy to take anywhere so I also have a book called something like The Monymusketeers which is another local author. Too much mental energy here as I'm also trying to write!

[Patti (baconater)]

Finished The Kitchen House last night.

It had me bawling a couple times.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Bletchley Park, quite enjoyed it although a hard read at times. Some of the negative reviews were because it didn't reveal anything new but I've never read anything about Bletchley so I learnt loads. Not sure what to read next

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Lucas Bale's Defiance and it's a cracking sci-fi thriller:

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

[Will]

Just started "Go set a watchman". It's a bit ... okay ... ish. I soooo want to love it because To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels of all time. But so far, GSAW is a bit underwhelming. I can see why Harper Lee's editor advised her to put this one aside and concentrate on TKAM.

I'll push on to the end, but so far I'm not really feeling the love for this one.

[Natasha]

Just started Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig as I was given a signed copy for Christmas.

[Laura]

I have just finished The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvaterand although the plot was a little slower than in the first book, the characters were as loveable as ever and I enjoyed it overall.

I just started We Were Liars by E. Lockhart and it's a little weird so far. We'll see.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just finished The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet which I really really enjoyed. A little bit Firefly, best SF I've read in ages

I'm not going to read A Watchman Will. Think it might spoil Mockingbird - and there really must be a reason it's been set aside all those years!

[Kath]

If you enjoy the 'Cosy Mystery' genre you can't beat Lynda Wilcox and her Verity Long series, the latest of which Long Drive to Death is now available with a stunning cover by Katie W Stewart.

I enjoyed it immensely - as usual!

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

[Patti (baconater)]

On the long bus journey yesterday, I listened to Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter.
Just excellent.

Can't understand why I can read on trains and planes with no problems but reading in cars or buses makes me sick.

[Lexie]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "On the long bus journey yesterday, I listened to Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter.
Just excellent.

Can't understand why I can read on trains and planes with no problems but reading in cars or bus..."

Me, too. Audio books are my salvation!

[Lexie]

Excellent, a new Verity Long! Just downloaded it.

[Will]

Patti

Well, if you really want to know ...

Car sickness while reading is caused because your eyes tell you that you aren't moving (because you are staring at an immobile page), but your body tells you that you are moving. The sloshy bits in your ears get all jiggled around which your body interprets as movement.

Ears say "moving", eyes say "not moving" and your brain reacts to that difference of opinion by getting confused. Hence the sickness.

On something bigger like a train or a plane, the sensations of movement are smaller. Eyes say "not moving" and ears say "oh, go on, I can believe that".

Or something like that.

[David]

Just finished The Ice Twins which was all right, one of those that was obvious from the beginning.

Just started The Heretic, which makes me think of Firefly and cowboys in space.

Just finished Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe , which I liked. I do like Clegg's popular science books & his blog for that matter.

Just started When The Lights Went Out Britain In The Seventies, which is about the 1970s.
I was there.

[Michael]

The Heretic is a good read.

[David]

Michael wrote: "The Heretic is a good read."

It is looking that way, yes.

[Lexie]

Will wrote: "Patti

Well, if you really want to know ...

Car sickness while reading is caused because your eyes tell you that you aren't moving (because you are staring at an immobile page), but your body tell..."
Which of course explains why I still can't read on the train between Aberdeen and Dundee, because the feeling of movement is still pretty rough!

[Patti (baconater)]

Yeah, but. I've been able to read on the most rickety rackety trains in India yet when I tried to read on the very sedate bus a couple days ago, no go.

Anyway.

I've now started the next Asprin. Just a nice romp but I think I'll need something a bit meatier next.

[Steven]

just finished Wrong Place my mel comley and now reading i Let You go by clare macintosh

[Jud]

Maybe it's to do with being able to see out a window with your peripheral vision?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I've just started Broken Dolls by James Carol, finding it interesting so far, 15% in - quite a lot of short chapters, so a quick read.

[Kath]

Just finished Clovenhoof which was a fun read.
Just begun Under the Skin which has a calm creepiness already. I shall enjoy this, I think.

[Natasha]

Just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Great so far (a humble 4% in).

[Tim]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Great so far (a humble 4% in)."

I loved the whole series :)

[Lexie]

Tim wrote: "Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Great so far (a humble 4% in)."

I loved the whole series :)"

I thought I was the last person on earth to read this - last month! I found the first 8% very dry - but it's well worth persisting.

[Tim]

Yes it takes a while for the first book to get going (the other books don't seem to suffer that, though)

If you want to see the film version, the Swedish Extended cut is the one to go for. It's effectively a 12 part TV miniseries of all 3 books, and Noomi Rapace is awesome as Lisbeth.

[Guy]

Just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. Just started Catch-22

[Natasha]

Guy wrote: "Just started Catch-22"

Ooh, favourite book ever. Must read that again some time. ...

[Guy]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Guy wrote: "Just started Catch-22"

Ooh, favourite book ever. Must read that again some time. ..."

I hope I like it too Natasha.

[Kath]

Can't get on with Catch-22. At 40% I still didn't know or care what was happening. Never finished it.

[Stuart]

Kath wrote: "Can't get on with Catch-22. At 40% I still didn't know or care what was happening. Never finished it."

One of my favourite books too. The chapter where Yossarian walks through Rome towards the end just blows my mind every time.

[Guy]

I'm not far enough into Catch-22 to know whether I will concur with Natasha and Stuart, or Kath. I hope it's the former.

[Tim]

I'm with Kath. There are not many books I've DNF'd -- The English patient, Life of Pi, Catch-22, World War Z -- that's basically it.

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Just finished Ruler's Desire by David Staniforth. Great read. Full review to follow in the appropriate thread.

[Jim]

Tim wrote: "I'm with Kath. There are not many books I've DNF'd -- The English patient, Life of Pi, Catch-22, World War Z -- that's basically it."

Catch 22 I did make my self finish and ended up thinking it was probably worth the effort but I've never re-read it

There was a lot of fun characters but they were largely caricatures (like Milo Minderbinder)so I could be amused by their antics but just never cared about them

The other books you mention I have never even picked up to start because life seems too short at times :-)

[Natasha]

A friend of mine has read Catch-22 FOUR times.

[Tim]

Catch-88?

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

I'm another one who couldn't finish Catch-22, I just got so muddled with it I gave up in the end.

I never read the book The English Patient but I saw the film and found it boring.

I'm sure I've got The Life of Pi, as it was free once, but I never got round to reading it, probably never will.

[Kath]

I read Pi but only because my son-in- law recommended it.
Just finished Under the Skin which was brilliant - review tomorrow probably, when I'm settled back home.
Started Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock for our local book club. May not finish it. It's just not grabbing me.

[David]

JustThe Heretic finished which was pretty good indeed.

Very Firefly-like.

Just started Rubbernecker, mainly because I saw one of her other books was on the Theakston's short-list and I remembered I had this one. Then I found out she won it last year with this one I'm reading now, so there you go - only a year behind is pretty good for me.

[R.M.F.]

Don't get me started on the English Patient! This is a new laptop, and it doesn't need to be introduced to a size ten boot! :)

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

R.M.F wrote: "Don't get me started on the English Patient! This is a new laptop, and it doesn't need to be introduced to a size ten boot! :)"

Didn't think you'd look twice at anything with English in it lol ;0)