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[Patti (baconater)]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Just thought I'd say how I've come to think of this as the "Just Farted" thread."

Not the 'Just Sharted' thread?

[Patti (baconater)]

Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

I'm feeling that way about Nightwoods.

The author isn't using speech marks. Just hyphens.

I've started skip reading it.

[Jud]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Just thought I'd say how I've come to think of this as the "Just Farted" thread."

Not the 'Just Sharted' thread?"

I do now!!

[Jud]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

I'm feeling that way about Nightwoods.

The author isn't using speech marks. Just hyphens.

I've started skip readin..."

All my spanish books use hyphens, I assumed that was the European way. Bit odd that a non European would choose to write that way for an american/british market though

[Will]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

I'm feeling that way about Nightwoods.

The author isn't using speech marks. Just hyphens...."

Roddy Doyle uses that style too. Took me a while to get used to it.

[Karen]

Just finished the third in the Detective's Daughter series, The Detective's Secret - this has been a great little series, just quirky enough to keep me entertained. Have now started the follow-up to the wonderful Gorky Park (how come I hadn't read that earlier?), with the now disgraced Arkady Renko, Polar Star So far so enthralling...

[Lexie]

Thank heavens for sunshine today - just about recovered from reading The Silver Swan, which was miserable. I like the stuff he writes as John Banville - wish he wouldn't do these ones.

[Patti (baconater)]

Will wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

I'm feeling that way about Nightwoods.

The author isn't using s..."

Yeah. I'm sure I mentioned a few years back how off putting I found it in his books, too.

It's probably my own fault. I'm used to the 'proper' use of speech marks.

I should be more open minded.

Bad Patti.

[Patti (baconater)]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Just thought I'd say how I've come to think of this as the "Just Farted" thread."

Not the 'Just Sharted' thread?"

I do now!!"

Sorry.

Hehehehehehahahahahehehe

[Pat ()]

Just finished and Jonathan & Kaths Is it her? Enjoyed them all Thank you each!

[Kath]

Thank YOU!

[Michael]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Just finished and Jonathan & Kaths Is it her? Enjoyed them all Thank you each!"

I enjoyed those as well.

[Pam]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Pam wrote: "now reading The Eyre Affair"

Ooh, that was bonkers. Never got round to reading more in the series, though. I don't ever seem to read beyond the first book of anything."

It was bonkers! I wasn't that impressed though I've now read book 2 as I already had it - Lost in a Good Book - and wasn't that keen on that either.

[Pam]

Will wrote: "Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

Jasper Fforde is a lovely bloke (and my female friends assure me that he's gorgeous)) but I can't get along with his books at all. T..."

Yes I found it all a bit too arch and self consciously clever with no character development or even an attempt to make the world really work - too many impossible things piled on top of one another.

[David]

Thank you, Pat. Good to know you enjoyed Void.

[Lexie]

Pam wrote: "Will wrote: "Kath wrote: "I read a bit of it; the style annoyed me to hell!"

Jasper Fforde is a lovely bloke (and my female friends assure me that he's gorgeous)) but I can't get along with his bo..."

Ah, well, each to their own - I love them. Though I'm still kicking myself over the Right to Arm Bears campaign versus the Right to Bear Arms campaign.

[Read On!]

Just finished
I found this book irritated me.
It was a combination of a weak psychological thriller and romance.
The author needs to choose to write one or the other and if its thrillers then seriously up her game.

[Jud]

That's a song

"There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be. Someone to watch, over me"

[Lexie]

Peggy Lee?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Still ploughing through Mary Poppins, there doesn't seem much going on so hard to read for any length of time

[Elizabeth]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Still ploughing through Mary Poppins, there doesn't seem much going on so hard to read for any length of time"

But easier without Dick van Dyke's accent to get through?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Elizabeth wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Still ploughing through Mary Poppins, there doesn't seem much going on so hard to read for any length of time"

But easier without Dick van Dyke's accent to get through?"

He hasn't been in it much, and Mary isn't as sweet in the book

[Will]

Actually Mary is quite dark in the book, and gets darker still in the second one.

[Kath]

That'll be the Disney saccharine effect.

[Kath]

A really refreshing take on the romance novel - with loads of acid in the mix! Miss Wrong and Mr Right by Robert Bryndza. I know him for his crime fiction but he started off with humour and he's very good at it.

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

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Will wrote: "Actually Mary is quite dark in the book, and gets darker still in the second one."

I'm on the third one, she certainly is quite dark. No wonder PL Travers didn't like the Disney version

[Will]

I've never read the third one. Must look it up.

[Lexie]

A spoonful of sugar helps the character go down?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Will wrote: "I've never read the third one. Must look it up."

I bought the collection last year, which is 6 books!

[Pam]

Read The Big Over Easy , first in another Fforde series, about The Nursery Crime Division. Not quite as wearing as the Thursday Next ones but a bit slow and the extended joke does start to grate a bit towards the end. Won't bother with any more.

[David]

Just finished Broken Dreams , which wasn't too bad at all. Definitely going to try the next in the series at some point.

Just started The Ladykiller, the first of hers I've ever tried.

[Will]

Pam wrote: "Read The Big Over Easy, first in another Fforde series, about The Nursery Crime Division. Not quite as wearing as the Thursday Next ones but a bit ..."

Has anyone looked at Fforde's series for children? Any good?

[Will]

Finished American Gods, and this time I loved it.

As the next book in the series comes out soon, I'm reading Foxglove Summer

[L.A.]

I have just finished reading Lionel Shriver's So Much for That, a novel which tackles issues about the paid health care system. I love this author as she is not hesitant about writing about issues that are not always comfortable for the reader. She does not create loveable characters but realistic ones with good traits and flaws. My favourite of her books remains 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' however, her other books interest me and she is a writer I admire.

[Kath]

Just finished Cleaver Square by the Campbell brothers. Very good crime story. It's the second in a serious but they stand alone. I bought the fourth which I'll be reading shortly.

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

[Natasha]

Just finished SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, which I found too meandering and heavy.

Just started The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, which is some great light relief after SPQR. Wonderfully silly.

[Jim]

PG Wodehouse is always good to fall back on :-)

[Pat ()]

Just finished Blood in the Sand. Very enjoyable read. Now on Windcatcher, interesting

[Sam]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: Just finished SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, which I found too meandering and heavy.

I'm still dipping in and out of it, Natasha. But my earlier enthusiasm has waned. Starting to find it a little dull.

[Natasha]

Sam wrote: "But my earlier enthusiasm has waned. Starting to find it a little dull."

And sometimes hard to follow, I found, such as too many emperors' names thrown around from out of the blue, and out of sequence.

[Patti (baconater)]

I finally finished Nightwoods. It was okay. 4 stars. The lack of speech marks was really annoying.

I've started The Goldfinch. Several friends here have recommended it and Dave is about 75% in. He's enjoying it, but I've not let him tell me anything about it.
It's a bit of a tome.
Apparently, it'll take me about 23 hours to read it.

[Michael]

I've just posted my review for Dan Simmons Endymion - the third book in the series. It follows the pattern of the first book and sets up well for the final book. I love this series!

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

[Pam]

Finished The Panic Hand collection of short stories by Jonathan Carroll.

Since then have been reading a children's book by Penelope Lively, and the third in the Alan Bradley crime series, A Red Herring Without Mustard Enjoying both of those so far.

[Will]

Feeling like some light relief:

May Contain Traces of Magic

[Natasha]

Will wrote: "Feeling like some light relief:

May Contain Traces of Magic"

Sounds bonkers. Now on my TBR list :-)

[Jim]

I still liked The SatNav of Doom for a talk of the real life of satnavs

[Will]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Will wrote: "Feeling like some light relief:

May Contain Traces of Magic"

Sounds bonkers. Now on my TBR list :-)"

If you have never read any, the early Tom Holt books are brilliant fun. Highly recommended.

[Will]

Jim wrote: "I still liked The SatNav of Doom for a talk of the real life of satnavs"

:-) Can't argue with that, Jim.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I read and really enjoyed Potatoes, Come Forth! recently.

[Elizabeth]

Cannot resist - what came first?