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[Will]

Kath - you have a treat in store. IMHO, it's one of the best books ever written.

I've just given up halfway through ...

The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Writer's Block



Disappointing. It has some good nuggets but is very preachy and over-complicated. Ironically it feels rushed and incomplete, as if it really needed some of the perfectionism that the author rails against.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kath wrote: "I've just - well, last night - started To Kill a Mockingbird. Need to read it by Wednesday for the village book group."

That is one of my favourite books

[Kath]

75% now and I agree. It's fabulous.

[Emma]

Kath wrote: "75% now and I agree. It's fabulous."

I recently read that and thought it was wonderful

[David]

Will wrote: "Kath - you have a treat in store. IMHO, it's one of the best books ever written.

I've just given up halfway through ...

[book:The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Pro..."

I struggled through it to the end, Will.

It didn't get any better. You were right to give up on it.

[Will]

Well done - you are more patient than me! It's a shame. It's an important topic and there's the beginnings of a good book in there. Unfortunately, that wasn't it.

[Read On!]

Just finished
Phew! (big sigh of relief).
This is hovering around the top of the New York Times Best Seller List. That, along with the novels focus around the 70s New York Punk scene is what drew me to it.
Convoluted, drawn out, EXCESSIVELY long and anti-climatic.
Disappointing.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[David]

Will wrote: "Well done - you are more patient than me! It's a shame. It's an important topic and there's the beginnings of a good book in there. Unfortunately, that wasn't it."

True.

One day I may write a book about procrastination... perhaps.

[Kath]

Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and it's as good as everyone said. Must get on with a review - although what can I say that hasn't already been said, after all these years?

[Will]

Kath - one word of warning. You will now be filled with enthusiasm to rush out and read the long-awaited sequel "Go Set a Watchman".

Unfortunately it isn't anywhere near as good as TKAM. It was an early draft that an editor felt wasn't quite good enough to be published. That editor was right. An historical curio, but not "more of the same".

[Kath]

I'm not at all tempted, Will. I once read that when Harper Lee was asked why she had only written one book, she said, 'Because I've already said everything.' - I'll go with that!

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Kath wrote: "I'm not at all tempted, Will. I once read that when Harper Lee was asked why she had only written one book, she said, 'Because I've already said everything.' - I'll go with that!"

There is also the controversy about whether it was actually written by Truman Capote.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Sherlock Holmes, now reading a short story Re:union

[David]

Kath wrote: "Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and it's as good as everyone said. Must get on with a review - although what can I say that hasn't already been said, after all these years?"

I read it for the first ever time recently too and I thought it was wonderful.

[Will]

Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "There is also the controversy about whether it was actually written by Truman Capote."

That one has long since been discredited. There's no evidence to back it up and lots of evidence (including text analysis) to show that Harper Lee wrote Mockingbird and not Capote:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...

[Karen]

Just finished Gerald Seymour's The Outsiders - a good pacey tale of spies and criminals, tho rather depressing! Puts me off the Costa del Sol, not that I was ever going there anyway. Hadn't realised he'd also written the excellent Harry's Game
Think I might try something a little gentler paced next.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Well Re:union was so short I read it in 15 mins. Not sure what I'm reading next

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Well Re:union was so short I read it in 15 mins. Not sure what I'm reading next"

That's not much more than the back of a Cereal packet!

[Read On!]

Just finished
Great, dark, atmospheric, gripping page turner. I was hooked from start to finish.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[David]

Just finished Alex's Adventures in Numberland , which was lots and lots of lovely numbers.

Good stuff.

Just started Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

[Kath]

I usually enjoy Kate Mosse. Must have a look at that.

Just read this - by David Haynes. Good spooky tale for a winter's evening.

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

[Bob]

Read On! wrote: "Just finished An anguishing dark read into the tortured mind of a mother trying to comprehend the reason behind her 15 year old sons ultimate horrific act.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/book..."

One of my all time favourites.

[Patti (baconater)]

I finished Water for Elephants a few days ago. It was alright. Three, maybe four stars. Certainly not a book I'd rave about.

I've started The Land of Painted Caves. Yeah, I know I said I wasn't gonna bother reading it after all the reviews reflecting disappointment in it but Dave got me a copy. I expect I'll flip past the boring bits.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Trail of Blood last night (it's not on here), not sure what paperback to read next

[Pat ()]

Patti (baconater) wrote: I've started The Land of Painted Caves. Yea..."

Over half of the book then. I loved this series and was so disappointed in this one

[Patti (baconater)]

I loved the series too, Pat. :(

[David]

Just finished Edge of Eternity - the story of the 'ordinary' folks was decent enough, but the historical background was a bit iffy.

Just started Top Banana by a young author whose name should be familiar to us all, which is off to a great start.

[Kath]

Oops!
Just started The Green Room: A Psychological Thriller in the "Dark Minds" Series due out early December. Shaping up.

[Michael]

I've just finished reading Douglas Clegg's Goat Dance and while it has some incredibly dark horror moments, it's also a bit too long for its own good:

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

[Patti (baconater)]

The Land of Painted Caves kept me awake quite late last night. I've not hit the boring bits yet, I guess.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "The Land of Painted Caves kept me awake quite late last night. I've not hit the boring bits yet, I guess."

I got bored with the series by the end of book 5 and never got this far - is it worth it?

[Pat ()]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "The Land of Painted Caves kept me awake quite late last night. I've not hit the boring bits yet, I guess."

Hope it stays that way for you.

[Kath]

Oh, she went right off the boil, for me. I loved the first few - even though I had to skip the sex scenes - so out of place! I'm not a prude, they were just deeply tedious!

[David]

Kath wrote: "Oh, she went right off the boil, for me. I loved the first few - even though I had to skip the sex scenes - so out of place! I'm not a prude, they were just deeply tedious!"

I think as the series progressed there was a hell of a lot of repetition, including the sex bits and the ptarmigan cooking. Not only that there was a hell of a lot of repetition.

Not only that there was a hell of a lot of repetition.

[Kath]

Where's me like button?

[Patti (baconater)]

I'd forgotten just how many gallons of tea she brews.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'd forgotten just how many gallons of tea she brews."

Ah, the prehistoric origins of the tea break.

[Michael]

Kath wrote: "Oh, she went right off the boil, for me. I loved the first few - even though I had to skip the sex scenes - so out of place! I'm not a prude, they were just deeply tedious!"

Tedious sex is the best kind of sex.

Wait a minute...

[David]

Just finished , which was very good.

Just started , which I've been looking forward to for a while.

Oh, and just finished beta reading Gaff's next book. It's even better than the first.

[Patti (baconater)]

Gaff needs to write a thriller. So does someone else I know.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Gaff needs to write a thriller. So does someone else I know."

I'm writing one… slowly.

[Patti (baconater)]

Michael wrote: Tedious s..."

I agree.

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

David wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Gaff needs to write a thriller. So does someone else I know."

I'm writing one… slowly."

That's a suspense, not a thriller.

[Karen]

Just reading one of the last of my 2013 downloads, The Corpse Reader, which at the time was only a quid. So far it's very compelling/entertaining - set in mediaeval China, the descriptions are excellent, not overdone but with enough to give you a real 'flavour' - and smell... - of the times.

[David]

Just finished rereading The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , which is still as good as it was back in its time.

Just started rereading Fugue For A Darkening Island whih is another of those books from decades ago that seems to have a contemporary relevance.

[Theweebarrell]

reading 2 at the moment

The Wronged by Kimberley Chambers
Death Trap by Dreda Say Mitchell

[David]

Just finished Top Banana which was excellent, obviously.

Just started The Burning Land, which is the 5th book in the Last Kingdom thing, which is on BBC at the moment, and they are making a pretty decent go of it too.

[Kath]

Well, I hope it was passable, at least! ;)

[Will]

More than passable, Kath! I thoroughly enjoyed it too.

[Kath]

It's my juvenilia. Long in the tooth juvenilia! ;)

Edit - and thank you both. Where are my manners? Subsumed in a flurry of chuffedness!