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[Kath]

Some of these lists are compiled by people who want to sound clever! I've read Half of a Yellow Sun and I thought it was stonking. Not tempted by anything else on there, though.

[Elizabeth]

I haven't read any of them - but I shall now go and look for Tove Jansson's Summer Book because, (as y'all may expect by now,) I've read all her Moomin stories.
Um, and actually still own them all in dead-tree form.

[Kath]

My daughter loves Tove Jansson. I suspect she's read it.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

I haven't read or heard of any on the list..... but I think there's one that might interest some of our members

The Street Of Crocodiles and Other Stories
by Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska

:-0 :-)

[Pam]

Elizabeth wrote: "I haven't read any of them - but I shall now go and look for Tove Jansson's Summer Book because, (as y'all may expect by now,) I've read all her Moomin stories.
Um, and actually still own them all..."

Don't be shy about loving the Moomin stories - I do too! I wish I still had my original copies. I did manage to get some last year in the recent ones, but I preferred the old Penguin edition ones.

[Pam]

Read a weighty tome on the Salem witchcraft trials - The Witches: 1692. Not that keen. Am reading a different one on the same subject which is written much more plainly and straightforwardly and is better but again a huge tome.

[Jim]

Finished Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories

Classic 40s SF with touches of Howard, Lovecraft but a very strong style of her own. One of the early female SF/Fantasy writers

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

you need to read The Summer Book!! It is one of my all time favourites.
Although from experience of recommending it to other people if you don't find the first page and the false teeth amusing, it might not appeal.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Haven't read any of the others...

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

And "25 books to read before you die"? Not going to read them after, are you?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started Good As Dead

[Patti (baconater)]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "And "25 books to read before you die"? Not going to read them after, are you?"

Captain Obvious.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I prefer Captain Morgan. He does a very nice spiced rum.

[Michael]

I've posted my review for William Meikle's collection of short stories Dark Melodies. It's a decent read with some good ideas, but it doesn't quite achieve greatness:

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

[Jud]

I finished The Shadow Within (Legend of the Guardian Kings) last night. I really enjoyed it and will have to add the next book to my ever growing tbr list. I'll be reading The Red Tent again next for my read one and pass it on event with my August mums :-)
I think this would be a really great idea for this group to do too if anyone was interested. I'm loving it,

[Kath]

When they tell you what books you should read before you die, I feel I'm staving off Death by not reading them. You can't kill me yet, I've not read these books!

[Lexie]

I thought Half of a Yellow Sun sounded familiar - it's in a great heap of books someone has passed on to me. I'll try that one next, then - so far the heap has yielded Fred Vargas books, which I really enjoyed.

[Patti (baconater)]

I recall enjoying Blindness but I think the ending was a let down.

Dave told me of a book he finished yesterday morning he said he really enjoyed. Written by an Ozzie, I believe.

I'll get the title and author off him when he wakes up.

Did I mention I'm reading Heartsick?

So far, a very decent thriller. A page turner with very short chapters.
Characters are rather stereotypical.
The damaged cop.
The feisty journalist.
The clever psychopath.

Illywhacker
That's the one Dave sez is worth a read.

[Elizabeth]

Just started The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. Currently only 99p on kindle (much to my surprise) so another incentive to investigate it.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh, thanks Elizabeth!

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Illywhacker
That's the one Dave sez is worth a read."

I've read a few Peter Carey books, but not that one.

[David]

Just finished Blood Guilt which has a few problems, but ended up being a decent read on the whole.

Just started Faceless Killers.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I recall enjoying Blindness but I think the ending was a let down.

Dave told me of a book he finished yesterday morning he said he really enjoyed. Written by an Ozzie, I believe.

I'll get the tit..."

I like Chelsea Cain. Just finished The Jury Series think they'd be better read as standalone books and I would have preferred it to be a trilogy, wasn't keen on the fourth. Enjoying Good As Dead

[Kath]

On Friday I finished Edward Adrift which is the second in a series. 600 Hours of Edward is the first and I can't wait to have time to read the third. Fantastic characters.

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

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Just finished
Hide in Time by Anna Faversham

Just Started
Tollesbury Time Forever by Stuart Ayris

[Patti (baconater)]

I've got a couple more Cheslea Cain, Desley.
I'll probably read them at some point.

Right now I'm re-reading Finders Keepers

as I've been gifted with a copy of End of Watch

and want the story fresh in my mind before I start it.

[Pam]

Jim wrote: "Finished Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories

Classic 40s SF with touches of Howard, Lovecraft but a very strong style of her own. One of the early female SF/Fantasy writers"

Yes read her when she was reprinted some years ago. C L Moore was another around that time.

[Pam]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "you need to read The Summer Book!! It is one of my all time favourites.
Although from experience of recommending it to other people if you don't find the first page and the false teeth amusing, it ..."

I think it's on my TBR and I have a copy around here somewhere. It's getting around to it with so many others clamouring....

[Pam]

I've just read the massive reference tome on the Salem witchcraft persecutions - The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community under Seige .

A good background reference book against which to assess others on the subject.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "Yes read her when she was reprinted some years ago. C L Moore was another around that time. ..."

both writers well worth reading

[Jim]

picked up second hand (at least) in a Charity shop The Rediscovery of Man . I read the stories years ago but it was great to read them again. A very different SF for the period

[Pam]

Just finished Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny, a re-read of a book I loved years ago but now can only manage a 3 star 'like' given the flaws that spoil it a bit for me now.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started The Undertaker's Cabinet

[Pam]

Started Nine Princes in Amber, a bit trepidatious as this was an absolute favourite in my teens, and I wonder if it's going to fall short as Jack of Shadows did.

[Elizabeth]

Hope not!!

[Michael]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Started The Undertaker's Cabinet"

I loved that book :-)

[David]

Pam wrote: "Started Nine Princes in Amber, a bit trepidatious as this was an absolute favourite in my teens, and I wonder if it's going to fall short as Jack of Shadows did."

Yes. I remember liking Zelazny at around that age too and I loved the Amber books. I tried rereading them recently(ish) and only managed the first two in the series and haven't reread any of the rest.

[Jamie]

Just this minute finished When She Was Bad. Did nothing for me. Felt really dated. Like a chick-lit book but with a parallel abuse/murder plot included.

[Karen]

Finished Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, first in the Cicero trilogy, which was entertaining. Now half way through The Miniaturist, which is intriguing.

[Patti (baconater)]

I tried to like Imperium but just couldn't get on with it.

Loved his Pompeii, though.

[Michael]

I've posted my review for William Hertling's novel The Turing Exception - it's an excellent look at the technological singularity, and a cracking read:

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

[Lexie]

Karen wrote: "Finished Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, first in the Cicero trilogy, which was entertaining. Now half way through The Miniaturist, which is intriguing."

I loved Imperium - always had a soft spot for Cicero.

[Jim]

Lexie wrote: "I loved Imperium - always had a soft spot for Cicero. ..."

So had Fulvia

[Lexie]

Jim wrote: "Lexie wrote: "I loved Imperium - always had a soft spot for Cicero. ..."

So had Fulvia"

Ho ho! I know he looks like a pompous ass but if you read his letters he's a much nicer chap.

[Karen]

Elizabeth wrote: "Just started The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. Currently only 99p on kindle (much to my surprise) so another incentive to investigate it."

Thanks for that, I've downloaded it. BBC 4 did a lovely prog about her life but it isn't on catch-up any more. Looking forward to reading it after I've finished The Miniaturist.

[Elizabeth]

Karen wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Just started The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. Currently only 99p on kindle (much to my surprise) so another incentive to investigate it."

Thanks for that, I've downl..."


I'm still reading it with breaks between chapters because I've found it's like an exquisite box of chocolates - you don't want to run out too soon! And the echoes of Moominland are wonderful.

[David]

Gave up on Impeding Justice .

Instead turned to Blacklands which like all Bauer's books I've read so far is really good.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

How come you gave up on Impeding Justice David?

Finished two books this weekend, Good As Dead not read one of his for a while, slightly unbelievable in places and didn't like the ending. Then finished The Undertaker's Cabinet different to his Macabre series that I read last year, but an enjoyable read. No idea what I am going to read next

[David]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "How come you gave up on Impeding Justice David?"

I dunno it seemed very poor compared to the first one, in style, in subject matter, in all sorts of ways. I liked the first one in the series, but this one just didn't work for me.

[Graeme]

I love Zelazny's princes in amber series - still do.