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[Jim]

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

Who?"

The guy who had three legions."

and didn't bring them back

[Will]

Anyway, Lindsey davis' description of Falco finding the battlefield is atmospheric and brilliant. Jim, you should read The Iron hand of Mars, you'd love it.

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "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-fict..."

Goodreads seems to have eaten my reply. Anyway, the one of Heyer's that I read some years ago and enjoyed was her serious historical novel My Lord John set in the reign of Richard I I.

[Pam]

Finished Book 1 in Jenny Nimmo's fantasy trilogy for children - The Snow Spider , and Jambusters about the contribution of countrywomen organised by the Womens' Institute during WWII.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Anyway, Lindsey davis' description of Falco finding the battlefield is atmospheric and brilliant. Jim, you should read The Iron hand of Mars, you'd love it."

Falco is one of the characters I'm going to get into at some point

[Lexie]

Jim wrote: "Will wrote: "Anyway, Lindsey davis' description of Falco finding the battlefield is atmospheric and brilliant. Jim, you should read The Iron hand of Mars, you'd love it."

Falco is one of the chara..."

They are brilliant - though I haven't tried the new series.

[Jud]

I finished My Cousin Rachel, it was excellent and lovely to listen to. I've now started Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.

I have almost finished The Passage

[Kath]

Just finished Will MJ's Malevolent, Macabre and Mysterious. It's a quick read and the darker tales are interspersed with some lovely, short poems. If you've only read his funny stuff this will give you a taste of his twisted mind! A great short read.

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

[Pam]

Finished book 2 of Jenny Nimmo's children's fantasy trilogy - Emlyn's Moon.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Well I've eventually finished

Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

..... and it was hard work - but ended up ok.

Now started

PRIDE'S CHILDREN: PURGATORY
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Just finished Will MJ's Malevolent, Macabre and Mysterious. It's a quick read and the darker tales are interspersed with some lovely, short poems. If you've only read his funny stuf..."

just to second that

[Will]

Kath wrote: "Just finished Will MJ's Malevolent, Macabre and Mysterious. It's a quick read and the darker tales are interspersed with some lovely, short poems. If you've only read his funny stuf..."

Thanks to Kath and Jim. I'm already enjoying working on the sequel, as well as the romance and the next Banned Underground, and the horror series... er might have bitten off a bit too much there.

[Jud]

finally finished the passage! I loved it but it is long and it's hard to find time to read with a toddler. I recommend, it reminded me a little of Stephen King's The Stand

[Will]

Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram

Just finished. I've learnt a bit about whisky, a lot about Iain Banks and a bit about cars. I've discovered that I would have loved to spend time in a Fantasycon bar with him, as we have (or in his case had) very similar tastes in music, cars, whisky - the same favourite malt - and, it would seem, reading genres.

Highly recommended for an insight into a great writer. And complete lunatic.

[David]

Just finished Dare Me which was dire. One of those books you wonder why you are still reading it, but carry on in the - vain - hope that it will turn out worthwhile in the end.

It didn't.

Obvious and dull.

Just started The Lewis Man, the 2nd in the trilogy. I liked the first one so I'm expecting good things from this one.

[Will]

Just completed 'Salem's Lot

Good, but as often the case, the ending disappoints

[Jane]

Will wrote: "Just completed 'Salem's Lot

Good, but as often the case, the ending disappoints"

Don't it just. Frustrating

[Natasha]

Really enjoyed Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin. Couldn't wait for The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings to end.

Now reading The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett and 1971 - Never a Dull Moment by David Hepworth. Very much enjoying both.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finally finished Titanic 2012 and I echo Daves sentiment, a book you wonder why you are reading! Now reading Judgment

[David]

Just finished rereading House of Cards . On the whole I think the TV version (The UK one - I haven't seen the US one) is better than the book.

Just started rereading Scaredy Cat. The Thorne TV version wasn't bad either, but I seem to remember the books were better.

[Will]

I've been trying to re read May Contain Traces of Magic and struggling to get along with this. Confirms my impression that the later books are much less well written, more formulaic

[Patti (baconater)]

I've started A Death in the Family.

It won the Pulitzer many years ago.

I'm finding it very hard to put down.

[Patti (baconater)]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "finally finished the passage! I loved it but it is long and it's hard to find time to read with a toddler. I recommend, it reminded me a little of Stephen King's The Stand"

Can I please have a link, Jud? Sounds like something I'd enjoy.

[Patti (baconater)]

Never mind. I found the link you posted in an earlier comment. X

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "finally finished the passage! I loved it but it is long and it's hard to find time to read with a toddler. I recommend, it reminded me a little of Stephen King's The Stand..."

I've read that one too - pretty decent. There is a sequel as well, which I haven't got around to, yet.

[Pam]

Finished the fourth Flavia de Luce mystery, I am Half-Sick of Shadows.

[Kath]

Just finished a short story by David Wailing. It's a prequel to a novel coming soon (I hope) and for those who love a bit of unsettling horror, this is right up your street.

Signal Failure

My review - http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Kath]

Just finished a great crime/thriller by a Liverpool/Italian named Luca Veste. It's apparently the third in a series but you wouldn't know. I bought it because I'd heard of him and it was reduced to 99p - I'm so shallow.

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

[Jane]

Just finished



Yay!

[Michael]

I've just posted my review of Peter F Hamilton's second book in The Void Trilogy - The Temporal Void. While I'm not a fan of the dream sequences, I did enjoy the threads outside the Void, and it ends with a fascinating revelation:

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

[Jim]

Jane wrote: "Just finished



Yay!"

glad you liked it :-)

[David]

Just finished rereading Straight and Crooked Thinking . This newer edition is well worth reading just to see the changes from the 1930s original and previous updates.

Just started The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900.

[Pam]

Sounds really creepy Kath.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Just Finished - and enjoyed very much
Ravenfold by Kath Middleton

Just started
Hide in Time by Anna Faversham

[Kath]

Glad to hear that, Flo. :)
Thanks for reading.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I had to slow up a bit toward the end as I didn't want it to finish!

[Kath]

Awww! :)

[Michael]

I've posted my review for David Wailing's new short story - Signal Failure. It's a delightfully scary tale of Emily's journey home on the underground. Highly recommended, and I can't wait for the novel to be released!

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

[Kelly]

just finished Lucinda Riley's The Storm Sister, really enjoyed it and look forward to reading the next one which is out later this year.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/...

just started The Ghost by Robert Harris.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/...

[David]

Just finished The Lewis Man which I thought was excellent. I don't often give 5 stars to a book on GR, but I thought this one deserved it.

Just started Blood Guilt, which is better, once it gets going, than the first few pages would suggest.

[L.A.]

Just finished Unremembered. First young adult I have read since Pullman and it was good.

[Michael]

I've just posted my review for Legion of the Damned by Rob Sanders, and while it lacked a decent presence of the named chapter, it was still a decent battle in the 40K universe:

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

[Patti (baconater)]

Finished the death book. Depressing but beautifully written.

On Dave's insistence, I'm going to try Rivers of London.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I really enjoyed the beginning of that one - it showed real promise - but then it tapered off a bit and ended up just ok.

[Patti (baconater)]

Dave says the same about it, Flo.

Also says it was good enough that he'd read the next in the series at some point.

[Jamie]

Just finished The Bazaar of Bad Dreams which was great, in places. It being a book of shorter stories some were great, some just okay. Have just started When She Was Bad. Feeble so far but then I'm not a fan of psyschological thrillers. Girl on a Train. Crap. Sudden disappearance of the Frasers. Very poor. This is no different so far. We shall see.

[Patti (baconater)]

Can't say I'm impressed with Rivers of London.
I may set it aside today.

A friend sent me a link to this list.

http://www.powells.com/post/lists/25-...

I quite like getting ideas from lists like this.
I've read a couple. Blindness and Half of a Yellow Sun.

Would anyone reccie any others from the list?

[Jim]

I'm afraid I've not heard of most of them and have read none of them :-(

[Kath]

Just finished a book I can't find on here - but it's just been published. Short sci-fic speculative stories and very good indeed. The author has my maiden name, too. I wondered where I'd left it.

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

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Can't say I'm impressed with Rivers of London.
I may set it aside today.

A friend sent me a link to this list.

http://www.powells.com/post/lists/25-...

I q..."

I've read part of The Master and Margarita and got bored.

I read Invisible Cities a long time ago and can't remember much about it, but there was a time when I liked Calvino for his textual games. But I was young then.

Life and Times of Michael K I read back when I used to read Booker winners. It was ok for a Booker book.

I've read one by Murakami and thought it ok, but not that one.

I've vaguely heard of a couple of the other writers, but the rest I have no idea about.