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[Kath]

A few here know the work of John Marrs. I've enjoyed all his books, different though they are. His latest, A Thousand Small Explosions is fantastic.

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

[Pam]

Sounds a fascinating idea Kath. So many good books that I am tempted to add to my TBR but I must concentrate on the paper books I already have as I've been tempted enough by the library and charity shops lately!

[Pat ()]

I am reading Windcatcher It is Fantastic!

[Pam]

That's interesting Pat. I recognise the blurb - the author posted it for a crit in another GR group some months ago, might have been the 'Support Indie Authors' group. Anyway, nice to hear that the book is so good.

[Kath]

Just finished The Girl from the Sea by Shalini Bolannd, which really drew me in.

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[Pam]

Finished The Best of Murray Leinster

[Jamie]

I've been cracking on with by Stephen King. Mixture of short stories and even a poem. Hit and miss but the story about the Kindle is an absolute gem. Bit longer but classic King.

[Lexie]

Just finished Ginger Cat Mystery: and, a few days ago, Jim Webster's Woman in Love. I enjoyed the latter: the former was a struggle.

[Pam]

Read A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner.

[Jim]

Due to not being able to waste my time on the web, I sat down and re-read the complete Banned Underground stories, starting with the The Amulet of Kings

Read together they're even better, and I keep loving them more

[Leslie]

I am still stuck with St Augustine and his pear tree!

[Pam]

Read Revenge in the Cotswolds by Rebecca Tope .

[Natasha]

Finished Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner, which was interesting.

Have been reading The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings, which is heavy-going.

Have just started Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin, which I'm anticipating will be excellent.

[Jud]

I finished Azincourt, it was the book chosen by one of my friends for our book swap group and I would never have picked it up myself in a million years so it was a lovely surprise when I really enjoyed it. Made it really satisfying, it was the whole reason for the book swap, to introduce ourselves to books we wouldn't pick ourselves :o)

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Not just finished or just started - more like plodding along through treacle...... but the story is there in the middle of the treacle - think I'll stick with it !

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

[Jane]

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "Not just finished or just started - more like plodding along through treacle...... but the story is there in the middle of the treacle - think I'll stick with it !

[bookcover:Desperate Remedies|2..."

Studied the nineteenth century novel as part of my degree. And learned I don't actually like many of them. Thomas Hardy, sadly, is on the list of don't like. I find him very slow in pace and excessively moralistic, even given that his work is of its time.

[Lexie]

Jane wrote: "T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "Not just finished or just started - more like plodding along through treacle...... but the story is there in the middle of the treacle - think I'll stick with it !

[bo..."
Hm, I loathed Hardy at school, though I love every one of his contemporaries I've read. The Woodlanders, I think, was the abyss.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I enjoyed Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess o.t.D, but not this one!

[Pam]

Just read Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

[Kath]

Just finished Beside Myself by Ann Morgan. Gripping story but I wasn't totally convinced.

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

[Kath]

Just finished The Bestowing Sun by Neil Grimmett. I read two of his books last year and really enjoyed them. I was sad to hear that he'd died after a short illness in November last. This June three more of his works have been published and I hope to have time to read them all.

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[Pam]

Finished a collection of Lovecraft spinoffs - The Disciples of Cthulhu.

[David]

While I was away I finished Mystic River , which was very good indeed. I also read Behind Closed Doors, which was readable, if a bit lacking in credibility.

I also stopped reading Story Structure Architect: A Writer's Guide to Building Dramatic Situations and Compelling Characters , although I may return to it, skipping the boring bit.

I finished The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life too, which is interesting.

I also started rereading Straight and Crooked Thinking which I first read sometime in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember passing it on to a mate who said that if everybody read it, it would put an end to nearly all pub arguments and debates, which he regarded as a bad thing.

I have reread it a couple of times since then. Over the years, t is probably its - and similar books - influence that made me find a good many crude and simplistic internet arguments quickly becoming tiresome and not worth wasting any more time on.

I also just started Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

[Kath]

I've just finished Untouchable by Sibel Hodge. Gripping, quite horrifying but a very good read.

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[Pam]

Just finished The Earth Witch by Louise Lawrence.

[Kath]

Just finished Bloq by Alan Jones. Good thriller - very thrilling at times - but with a few totally unbelievable aspects. Still, four stars and well worth a read.

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

[Kath]

And a very quick read - but if you like a dark tale, you'll enjoy this.
Walking After Midnight: A Psychological Suspense Novella.

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

[Lexie]

Been stuck on a park bench for an hour, a situation made entirely bearable by it being exactly the amount of time needed to finish The Damage Done. I absolutely love this series, solid and entertaining Edinburgh police procedural with a strong supernatural element. Ignore those who say he's the new Ian Rankin - he's much better than that.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I love James Oswald's Inspector McLean books!
Disappointed by his silly dragon novel though :(

[Pam]

Kath wrote: "And a very quick read - but if you like a dark tale, you'll enjoy this.
Walking After Midnight: A Psychological Suspense Novella.

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

Sounds good Kath.

[Pam]

Rosemary what's that coming over the hill wrote: "I love James Oswald's Inspector McLean books!
Disappointed by his silly dragon novel though :("

Oh dear I usually like dragon novels too.

[Lexie]

Pam wrote: "Rosemary what's that coming over the hill wrote: "I love James Oswald's Inspector McLean books!
Disappointed by his silly dragon novel though :("

Oh dear I usually like dragon novels too."
Hm, haven't read it - and by the sound of it, probably shan't!

[Natasha]

Just finished the rather fab psychological thriller Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin.

Just started the excellent 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year by David Hepworth.

Still reading the tedious The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm slowly coming to the end of Arabella.

It's okay but not gripping. A formulaic romance, essentially.
Don't know if I'll bother with any more Heyers.

Think I'll read some non-fiction when I'm finished. Got several interesting looking ones in my queue.

[Will]

I'm still in shock at seeing that Jim read all my series in one sitting. Maybe he needs to be in a darkened room somewhere...

Just started Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram and thoroughly enjoying it.

I'm a bit of a Lindsey Davis fanboy, got all her Falco series in hardback, several signed. fave being The Iron Hand of Mars which I would recommend Davis, and in fact to anyone who ever pondered the mystery of Varus and his 3 legions.

[Patti (baconater)]

Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?

[David]

Just finished Hard Girls which was alright enough, although a bit overwritten, and it turned out to by the third in the series, not the second as I thought - which was also irritating.

Just started Dare Me which is apparently involves that strange American phenomenon - cheerleaders. It is also written in a style that may irritate me enough to drop it, but we'll see.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?"

The guy who had three legions.

[Elizabeth]

Will wrote: "I'm still in shock at seeing that Jim read all my series in one sitting. Maybe he needs to be in a darkened room somewhere...

Just started Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram a..."

Puzzle solved in Bubble of Time (Book One Lyonnesse Tales

[Pat ()]

Just finished
Recommended by Anita. Yes I enjoyed it.
Listening to Read it once now on Audio.

[Will]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?"

The guy who had three legions."

And lost them in Germany.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

How careless of him!

Or were they lesions, and he found a doctor.

[Lexie]

Will wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?"

The guy who had three legions."

And lost them in Germany."

Was that the one with the oryx?

[Elizabeth]

Will wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?"

The guy who had three legions."

And lost them in Germany."

Sorry - must have got the wrong guy - I thought he was the one who lost a legion in Britain

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

[Will]

Elizabeth wrote: "Will wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yeah, here I am, pondering the mystery of Varus.

Who?"

The guy who had three legions."

And lost them in Germany."

So..."

The legion that vanished in Britain was the 9th Hispana - subject of the brilliant Rosemary Sutcliffe book The Eagle of the Ninth that has inspired loads of writers since.

[Jane]

Publius Quintus Varus?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Publius Quinctilius Varus according to the Wikipedia article. Maybe Quintus was a nickname.

[Jane]

Yeah probably. I was just doing memory. And I'm quite old

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I watched a documentary on this within the last 2 years, and I had completely forgotten his name.