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[Kath]

Michael wrote: "Kath wrote: "Monstrous Regiment's one of my favourites."

Pratchett is always a good read, but this one felt a little laboured to me. He was trying to make too much of a point with it."

Maybe it's because I'm a monstrous woman? ;)

[Heather]

I've just finished a run of good books and finally caught up with my reviews. Some good ones I would recommend are 'Disclaimer' by Renee Knight, 'Void' by David Staniforth, and 'Pattern of Shadows' by Judith Barrow.
I'm now starting 'Symbiosis' by Guy Portman.

[✨Ash✨]

I just finished The Girl with All the Gifts and to be honest, it didn't live up to the hype it was getting. A lot of book clubs have chosen this and I found it to be quite slow and almost predictable. Not my favourite.

Now reading Behind Closed Doors. Love this book already and i'm only a third of the way through it. Very engaging and I can't stop reading it. Highly recommend.

[Kath]

I loved the girl with all....

[Kath]

Just finished The Girl In The Ice which is getting rave reviews (if we could all afford Netgalley!).

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

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Kath wrote: "Just finished The Girl In The Ice which is getting rave reviews (if we could all afford Netgalley!).

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

A thick sheet of ice in a London park? Is it set in the 17th century? ;)

[Kath]

I've never lived in London but we don't have ice like that here.

[Lisa]

I am just starting this one. I thought it would be an interesting read. I had no idea women flew as pilots apart from isolated explorer heroines, that is. When I was young I might have liked to be a pilot but my eyesight was rubbish anyway so the fact that women weren't allowed to fly in the air force at that time was never a factor. I didn't join up anyway, although my Dad had suggested it was a career that would teach me to be organised. LOL!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

[Kath]

Just started The Spy with Eczema

[Jud]

I've finished The Bride of Lammermoor and started The Tender Herb: A Murder in Mughal India

[Lexie]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I've finished The Bride of Lammermoor and started The Tender Herb: A Murder in Mughal India"

Likewise thanks! Hard act to follow, though!

[Michael]

I've just posted my review of the Cthulhu mythos themed anthology The Book of Cthulhu. There's quite a few story reprints here so might not offer as much for the experienced reader in the genre, but if you're just discovering the joys of Cthulhu then it's worth checking out:

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

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kindle book is Endurance

Paperback is The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red

[Pam]

Lisa wrote: "I am just starting this one. I thought it would be an interesting read. I had no idea women flew as pilots apart from isolated explorer heroines, that is. When I was young I might have liked to be ..."

There were also the British women who flew the planes to where they needed to be delivered. They belonged to the Air Transport Auxilliary and I believe there are some books about them too. I saw a documentary with some survivors and they had to be able to fly any type of plane, just using the handbook, and had some hairy moments.

[Pat ()]

Just finished Reaally enjoyed them all. Just starting
Couldn't put them down.

[Pat ()]

Also just finished I enjoy this series too!

[Adrian]

Just finished: Silent Scream by Angela Marsons. Very good British Detective/Crime thriller with a strong female lead. First of a trilogy so I will definitely check out the other two novels.

Just started: hmmm, still undecided. Most likely 11.22.63 by Stephen King. Been on my to read list for a while and after returning to him after a long absence recently, with the excellent Mr Mercedes and Finders Keepers, I would go into it optimistic of a good read.

[Kath]

The other two Angela Marsons are even better Adrian.

[Adrian]

That's great to hear Kath. Really enjoyed the first one, although was a bit iffy about the ending. My mind had already been made up before finishing it though to read the other two.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Adrian wrote: "Just finished: Silent Scream by Angela Marsons. Very good British Detective/Crime thriller with a strong female lead. First of a trilogy so I will definitely check out the other two novels.

Just ..."

I really enjoyed 11.22.63

[Adrian]

Thanks Desley. Just about to start reading it.

[Patti (baconater)]

I hope you like it, Adrian. I did.

I also saw something yesterday about them making it into a tv series.
Not that tv and film adaptations of King's stuff are ever any good.
Except that one with Morgan Freeman. Can't remember the name. Need more coffee.

Shawshank Redemption.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I hope you like it, Adrian. I did.

I also saw something yesterday about them making it into a tv series.
Not that tv and film adaptations of King's stuff are ever any good.
Except that one with M..."

That's one of his I can't see working, although a tv show would be better than a film. I like the film of The Green Mile too

[Kath]

Adrian wrote: "That's great to hear Kath. Really enjoyed the first one, although was a bit iffy about the ending. My mind had already been made up before finishing it though to read the other two."


Agreed. I gave it four stars. The two later ones got five.

[Michael]

Charlie wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I hope you like it, Adrian. I did.

I also saw something yesterday about them making it into a tv series.
Not that tv and film adaptations of King's stuff are ever any go..."

I preferred the book for Running Man, although the film is fun. Silver Bullet was a decent film version, as was Stand by Me, The Shining and IT - although I'm probably in the minority on the last one :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Stand by me was okay-ish. The Shining pissed me off.

[Kath]

Just read a nice novella - Blackwater Lake by Maggie James - British writer living in Bristol. I hadn't come across her but on the strength of this I'd try a novel.

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

[Alison]

Just finished Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre. Really enjoyed it and it's put me in the mood for more crime fiction. Thinking about reading The Girl in the Ice next.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Stand by me was okay-ish. The Shining pissed me off."

I preferred the TV version of the Shining

[David]

Just finished Monstrous Regiment which was very good.

Just started The Crossing Places.

[Adrian]

The Dead Zone(film) I thought was one of the best adaptations of a King book. Walken and Sheen were both fantastic in it.

[Kath]

Just finished an anthology Capital Crimes. Every one a winner, as they say!

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

[Lexie]

Just finished The Kashmir Shawl, a beautiful book, and The Crooked Spire, early mediaeval murder mystery set in Chesterfield, which was pretty good for the first in a series, full of convincing detail. Will review shortly! Rushing to finish a couple of books for reviews, then will return to my selected list.

[Jud]

I finished The Tender Herb: A Murder in Mughal India, I do love this series but I didn't enjoy the Indian setting so much. I like them set in Scotland.

Started The Blessed and the Damned, another enjoyable series. I have two more after this one to read I only hope I don't get sick of them.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I hope you like it, Adrian. I did.

I also saw something yesterday about them making it into a tv series.
Not that tv and film adaptations of King's stuff are ever any good.
Except that one with M..."

I saw something yesterday that Hulu has done a series based on 11.22.63

[Elizabeth]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I finished The Tender Herb: A Murder in Mughal India, I do love this series but I didn't enjoy the Indian setting so much. I like them set in Scotland.

Started The Blessed a..."</i>
Have you tried either [book:The Ice Twins or Secrets of the Sea House ? Chilly mysteries with Scottish settings. I found the first very depressing and thought the second was heading the same way, so was pleasantly surprised when it didn't. But that's because I'm a sucker for an uplifting ending.

[David]

Just finished The Crossing Places , which was just on the pretty good side of not too bad. The baddie was a bit too obvious and the writing a bit clumsy in places, but the pace was pretty decent.

Just started Genghis: Bones of the Hills, which is the 3rd book in the series about Mr Khan's travels and the interesting people he meets and kills on the journey.

[Jud]

Oh! Thanks Elizabeth, I'll take a note of those

[Loretta]

Just finished

which was an unusual take on time travel.

Just started


And sporadically reading

which is not something to rush through. I'm not LdS but I'm enjoying this.

[Kath]

Just finished The Needle House which could have been so much better. Pity.

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

Just about to start The Shallows

[Stuart]

Just finished L’étranger - stunning. Just started Mrs. Dalloway - as heartbreaking as I remember.

[David]

I ought to reread The Stranger at some point soon. I remember thinking how good it was the first time around.

Never got on with Virginia Woolf though.

[Kath]

Neither did I, David. Half way through Orlando I flung it across the bedroom!

[Stuart]

I think she is wonderful - but isn't that the beauty of books?

[Kath]

I should have thrown that book at you, Stu!

[Lexie]

Orlando's the only Virginia Woolf I've got on with at all. But I did like that she confessed to roaming London at dusk watching people through the windows when they'd lit their lamps but not got around to pulling their curtains.

[Kath]

Oh, I do that! (I've said too much!)

[Stuart]

Kath wrote: "Oh, I do that! (I've said too much!)"

And that is basically what Mrs Dalloway is all about!

[Lexie]

It's no good, I don't think you're going to persuade either of us!

[David]

I enjoyed parts of Mrs Dalloway, for the language, but I'm glad it wasn't any longer than it is.