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[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Elizabeth wrote: "Cannot resist - what came first?"

Cauliflower!

[Pam]

Read A Red Herring Without Mustard, 3rd in the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley and now on Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

[Natasha]

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

Will, I've been aware of him as someone I might get around to trying at some point. Is Expecting Someone Taller a good start?

[Will]

That's a hilarious book Natasha, I fell about laughing at it.

[Kath]

Just finished a supernatural type thriller - Where the Dead Walk by John Bowen. I enjoyed it - I think Pat will too. ;)

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

[Kath]

Just finished a short story by Elizabeth Haynes. I loved her 'Into the Darkest Corner' but this wasn't long enough to deal with the issues it brought up. It also ended at 64% which made me growl!

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

[Lexie]

64%!! That's the shortest I've heard of!

[Natasha]

Will wrote: "I fell about laughing at it."

Fantastic recommendation, Will. I've just bumped Expecting Someone Taller from 'one day' into my top ten. Thank you!

[Patti (baconater)]

Are all the Tom Holt books stand alone or do they need to be read in order?

[Pat ()]

Kath wrote: "Just finished a supernatural type thriller - Where the Dead Walk by John Bowen. I enjoyed it - I think Pat will too. ;)

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

Thanks Kath

[Elizabeth]

Just finished American Wife. A factional autobiography (?) based on Laura Bush. Interesting enough to make me look her up on Wiki, but the strands of socio-political description, bodily functions (presumably included to make the characters seem human like the rest of us) and first-person introspection don't sit all that comfortably together.
Back to Leviathan - now sitting at 41%

[Patti (baconater)]

You'll have come visit us in Barry, Charlie. I'll take you down the Island with a bag of 2pees.
If you're a very good boy, I'll get you a kiss me quick hat and some rock.

[Will]

All the Tom Holt books are stand alone, but I've not enjoyed them so much after May contain traces of magic. After that for me they fell away a bit. But the early ones are unbeatable comic fantasy.

I'd particularly recommend; Djinn Rummy

Flying Dutch

Paint Your Dragon

Who's Afraid of Beowulf?

[Lexie]

Just started The Three Evangelists which is brilliant so far - I love the strange eccentricities of the title characters, three historians down on their luck.

[Patti (baconater)]

Dave worked there as a kid, selling cockles and whelks from a barrow.

[Jud]

In Barry's fair city where little was pretty, I first set my eyes on our Patti's young Dave. As he wheeled his wheelbarrow through Butlins on Barry crying Cockles and Whelkies alive alive-oh.

[Patti (baconater)]

Jud, you're remarkable. :D

[Jud]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jud, you're remarkable. :D"

I have my moments

[Patti (baconater)]

Frequently.

[Pam]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "In Barry's fair city where little was pretty, I first set my eyes on our Patti's young Dave. As he wheeled his wheelbarrow through Butlins on Barry crying Cockles and Whelkies alive alive-oh."

Tee hee, love it Jud.

[Pam]

Just finished Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime , quite a good overview of real-world forensics.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

To rhyme, that should be "Alive alive-eh" (canadian influence showing)


And you do realise that the original Molly Malone of the song was a 'lady of negotiable virtue'?

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm willing to dicker.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

'Dicker'.... so thats what you call it?

[David]

Just finished The Ladykiller , which was the first of hers I've ever read and it was very good. I shall look out for more.

Just started The Mermaids Singing, which is another first time reading of an author.

[Kath]

I've read both authors before, David. Particularly like Val M. I've only read one Cole but enjoyed it.

[Jud]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "To rhyme, that should be "Alive alive-eh" (canadian influence showing)


And you do realise that the original Molly Malone of the song was a 'lady of negotiable virtue'?"

The tart with a cart

[David]

I reckon I'm getting better at deciding what to read, as for me, all three that I've just read were worthy of five stars:

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

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

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

[Marc]

just gave up on halfway through The Cauliflower: A Novel

My pretty scathing review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I hope the new Don Dellilo book turns up by the w/e so I can start reading it, otherwise it's one of these next:

The Tunnel

Zone

and both are mighty big tomes, the latter is one sentence running over 500 pages!

[Kath]

Oh, that would annoy the hell out of me!

[Patti (baconater)]

I wouldn't touch that Zone with a barge pole.

[Marc]

and therein lies the difference in our reading tastes I suspect :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Or you're just a weird little penguin. :D

[Marc]

I'll take that Patti x

[Marc]

It will require a bookmark to be sure...

[Marc]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I wouldn't touch that Zone with a barge pole."

out of context that can be taken in a whole different way :-0

[Patti (baconater)]

Let us know when you throw it against the wall.

[Jud]

Marc wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I wouldn't touch that Zone with a barge pole."

out of context that can be taken in a whole different way :-0"

*sniggers*

[Patti (baconater)]

Love our intelligent conversations.

[Marc]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Let us know when you throw it against the wall."

to do that is to risk subsiding the whole house, told you it's a weighty tome

[David]

Kath wrote: "I've read both authors before, David. Particularly like Val M. I've only read one Cole but enjoyed it."

I've seen interviews and stuff with Val M and liked her, always intending to read some of her stuff, but never got around to it until now.

[Jud]

I think Dundee University are naming their new £1million mortuary after Val McD

[Will]

She could probably fill it with her characters/victims.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

David wrote: "Just finished The Ladykiller , which was the first of hers I've ever read and it was very good. I shall look out for more.

Just started[bookcover:The..."

I like both authors.

[Kath]

Just finished a review for Netgalley of Dear Amy, due for publication on June 16th. Interesting idea which didn't really do it for me.

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

[David]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "David wrote: "I like both authors."

I hadn't really heard of Martina Cole, but I saw her name in a Best Crime & Thriller Authors of All Time list: http://blog.whsmith.co.uk/best-crime-...
Now I'm glad I did. There are a couple more names on that list new to me, that I want to try too now.

[David]

Just finished An Ocean Of Air: A Natural History Of The Atmosphere , which was excellent stuff. Very... er... atmospheric.

Just started Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, which should help my plans for world domination.

[Michael]

I've posted my review for Hunter Shea's Forest of Shadows, and while I had some issues with it, I did find it a decent horror read:

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

[Rennie]

I have finished lord of rings & start to read new one.

Thanks,
Rennie Bottali

[Pam]

Finished a 1970s children's book by Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe and gave up on Elizabeth Lynn's Sardonyx Net , something I do very rarely.