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[Michael]

Kath wrote: "Just finished Boo! by David Haynes. Creepiest cover ever! It's a departure from his usual horror writing and leans on is experience as a police officer. Darned good story and a very..."

I'm looking forward to reading this.

[Kath]

I'm sure you'll enjoy it, Michael.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Dead World not sure about it. Started a Jodi Picoult book that I'm going to struggle with, it started with elephants being slaughtered. Paperback is Dead Tomorrow, enjoying it

[Kath]

Check out the new Steve Robinson - Kindred

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

A few pre-pub readers have agreed it's his best yet.

[Lee]

Going through a few classics at the moment. Just finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte and now reading Faust by Goethe

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Razor Sharp - J.A. Schneider. Now I am going to read NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and now will read 15th Affair - James Patterson

[Natasha]

Just finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (the novel this time, not the short story). Very much enjoyed it.

Just started Nature's Domain: Anne Lister And The Landscape Of Desire. by Jill Liddington. Published Anne Lister journals that I hadn't known existed. Yay.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Just finished Dead World not sure about it. Started a Jodi Picoult book that I'm going to struggle with, it started with elephants being slaughtered. Paperback is Dead Tomorrow, enj..."

Having seen some harrowing news reports about real life elephant slaughter on the news lately, don't think I could face it in a novel.

[Pam]

Finished and just gave one of my rare 5 star reviews to A Dirty Death , a crime novel set in farming country by Rebecca Tope.

Now on a non fiction collection of psychology essays but finding them a bit dry - Churchill's Black Dog. Anthony Storr .

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished 15th Affair - James Patterson. Now I am going to read Play Dead - Angela Marsons for review on Netgalley.

[Kath]

I'm reading that, Fiona. I love her books.

[Fiona (Titch)]

:-)

[Christine]

Just finished Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman. Good, involving story. enjoyed it.

[Nigel]

Recently finished and just reviewed The Slaughter Man. There's a good book in there, but there are issues that get in the way of the pleasure. I've just started April Skies which comes out tomorrow and I really love it (not for those who don't like swearing, but for anyone who enjoys a unique and beautiful voice to a story).

[Patti (baconater)]

Was having a conversation with a friend at work about Jodi Picoult a couple days ago.
She's a misery writer in the truest sense, we reckon.
If you're not depressed when you start one of her books, you will be by the time you finish.
I've had the elephant one on my kindle for ages but I've not been able to force myself to start it.

I have five books on the go at the moment. I'm enjoying all of them, just having problems settling into any of them.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Was having a conversation with a friend at work about Jodi Picoult a couple days ago.
She's a misery writer in the truest sense, we reckon.
If you're not depressed when you start one of her books, ..."

I enjoy her books but never worked out what genre they are. At least the one I have is a novella so very short

[Kath]

Nigel wrote: "Recently finished and just reviewed The Slaughter Man. There's a good book in there, but there are issues that get in the way of the pleasure. I've just started April Skies which co..."

It's brilliant, Nigel. Read and will review shortly.

[David]

Just finished Sleep Tight , which I think is the best I've read of hers so far. Excellent stuff.

Just started Europe in Autumn which has been described as a science fiction thriller and a cross between John le Carré and Franz Kafka. So, yeah.

Why is it that blurbs tend to put you off books, rather than make you want to read them?

[Kath]

If you're one of the many who enjoyed Abide With Me, by Ian Ayris, here's the most stonking sequel. April Skies

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

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Play Dead - Angela Marsons this morning. Now I am going to read/listen to Captivated by You - Sylvia Day.

[Jamie]

Recently finished Death in Devon. Loved it! Sefton is superb as the narrator. Sansom's dialogue and descriptions are brilliant and colourful. To top it all there are illustrations to support projects the characters undertake in the book. Really, really strange (my wife couldn't buy into it and gave up). But I loved it and will be seeking out more.

[Jamie]

Meanwhile, I've just started Instructions for a Heatwave because my wife read it in a day and it's set in the heatwave of 1976 which is when I was born. So far very interesting though it hasn't grabbed me in the same way it did for my wife.

[Kath]

Just finished The Melbourne Medallion - another Lynda Wilcox murder mystery. She does write a good yarn!

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

Currently reading the unpublished Angela Marsons book Fiona's just finished. It's a corker!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Kath wrote: "Just finished The Melbourne Medallion - another Lynda Wilcox murder mystery. She does write a good yarn!

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

Currently reading the unp..."

Kath, you won't be disappointed ;-)

[Kath]

76% Fiona! Hotting up!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Kath wrote: "76% Fiona! Hotting up!"

Getting excited, have you been gasping yet?

[Kath]

I had to go and make a coffee!

[Marc]

Darconville’s Cat which contains many words I'm having to look up

[Natasha]

Just started Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre. It opens like this:

"If Nicole Carrow was being absolutely honest with herself, her most substantial reason for believing Thomas McInnes was innocent was that he had made her a nice cup of tea. She hadn't been a lawyer long"

and it just gets funnier.

[Marc]

he is a very funny writer. My favourite of his is The Sacred Art of Stealing

[Natasha]

Marc wrote: "he is a very funny writer. My favourite of his is The Sacred Art of Stealing"

Thanks for the tip-off, Marc :-)

I thought the first in the Jack Parlabane series was hilarious, but this second one, amazingly, manages to be even funnier.

[David]

Just finished The Shadow Man and gave it 5*.

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

A great, gripping, gory thriller. It put me in mind, to an extent, of Andy Barrett's work, but set in America with the FBI.

[Marc]

re Brookmyre: I've read a lot of his but stopped a while back cos the schtick doesn't really change, but still worth reading several of his books for the laughs.

His American equivalent of comic crime violence is Carl Hiaasen - have you read him? Also funny & OTT, but he has more of an environmentalist message Carl Hiaasen

[Natasha]

Marc wrote: "His American equivalent of comic crime violence is Carl Hiaasen - have you read him? Also funny & OTT, but he has more of an environmentalist message Carl Hiaasen"

Not heard of him. Thanks for another tip-off, Marc :-)

[Marc]

pleasure :-)

[David]

Just started .

intrigued to see what this will be like.

[Patti (baconater)]

Marc wrote: "Darconville’s Cat which contains many words I'm having to look up"

I love discovering a good book that stretches my vocabulary. I then try to shoe-horn the new words I learn into everyday conversation.

Which usually gets me blank looks...

[Elizabeth]

This is a polemic subject when it comes to books aimed at different age groups. Should you encourage readers to occasionally stretch their vocabulary because you, as a writer, know that the word you have in mind is perfect for the situation? Publishers et al. seem to think that dumbing down is the order of the day - compare the complexity of vocabulary in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy with her most recent novels.

[Jim]

it's a self fulfilling policy. If you reduce the vocabulary to which people are exposed, they'll have a reduced vocabulary

[Patti (baconater)]

Yep, Jim.

Did we have a conversation in here recently about the language levels being used in the American political speeches or did I have the conversation at work?

Anyway, apparently the language Trump uses is at grade three level.

[Marc]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Marc wrote: "Darconville’s Cat which contains many words I'm having to look up"

I love discovering a good book that stretches my vocabulary. I then try to shoe-horn the new words I l..."

and I try and shoe-horn them into my writing :-)

[Lexie]

When I was a child I read the Dr. Who books from my local library - big BBC paperbacks which seemed to have been designed to stretch your vocabulary (and not just with words like Zygon and Dalek). I loved it.

If anyone finds me using Zygon or Dalek in my Georgian Scotland series, please let me know!

[Kath]

Just finished Angela Marsons' Play Dead and I agree with Fiona. Mark your diaries for May 20th.

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

[Michael]

I've just reviewed Devil's Day and while it has its moments, it's not a great read:

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

[Alison]

Just finished the audiobook of Fool Moon and now I'm completely addicted to Harry Dresden stories. How have I missed them all this time? Starting the next in the series now.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm sure someone else in the group is a Harry Dresden fan...

Anita? Is it you?

[Elizabeth]

Me, me, me, and me.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh. It's the four Elizabeths, it seems.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Thats like the Four Marys from Bunty comic, is it?