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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Kath really likes Arthurian stuff. You read Bradshaw, Kath?

Is Go Set a Watchman a prequel, Desley? I thought it was a sequel. I plan on reading it soon."

Sorry, you are right, it's a sequel. Let me know what you think, it's got very mixed reviews

[Pam]

Read and reviewed two books of TV and social criticism from the late 60s/early 70s by Harlan Ellison - The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat.

[Patti (baconater)]

Will do, Desley. Not sure when I'll get to it.

[PattyMacDotComma]

TASMANIA - what a story!
I just finished Aussie author: Saroo Brierley's memoir, now a new film called LION, A Long Way Home.



A five-year old Indian boy's memory beats ours, for sure, and it's not just the fresh Tasmanian air of his adopted country that did it.

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

[David]

Petra wrote: "I hope it's ok to ask because I'm nosy, but is the false memory book part of writing research? I ask because a friend of mine wrote a character with similar problems, and he got very caught up in the topic. "

Not especially. But I've always been fascinated by how the mind works, and I'm especially intrigued by the current understanding of how memories are newly created each time rather than recalled.

Of course, that doesn't mean it may turn up in a book of mine one day.

[David]

Just finished Ender's Game . Rather disappointing, considering how many seem to rave over it.

Just started The Defense.

Finished rereading The Day of the Jackal . Still a good book and not that dated.

[L.A.]

Just finished Before the Poison which i enjoyed and is very different from the DI Bank series even though there is some private sleuthing. and just started The Ice House which I'm also really enjoying. I've read it before - good old blast from the past but really well written, with humour, and gruesome descriptions that are dealt with very well in the telling.

[PattyMacDotComma]

You can read excerpts from 40 new books in Buzz Books 2017 Spring/Summer, including fiction from well-known writers, debut fiction, and also some non-fiction choices.

I've picked 10 books that I particularly liked and given a bit of info in my review:

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

[Jonathan]

Just finished 'End of Watch' by Stephen King (one down for the year). Just starting 'At the Mountains of Madness' by H.P. Lovecraft. Someone suggested I try a little Lovecraft as I haven't really read many classics.....

Looking forward to something a bit different...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jonathan wrote: "Just finished 'End of Watch' by Stephen King (one down for the year). Just starting 'At the Mountains of Madness' by H.P. Lovecraft. Someone suggested I try a little Lovecraft as I haven't really r..."

I really struggle with Lovecraft.

[Jonathan]

To be honest the tone is something very different for me. I'm going to stick at it as a lot of people say he is the inspiration for a lot of modern horror

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jonathan wrote: "To be honest the tone is something very different for me. I'm going to stick at it as a lot of people say he is the inspiration for a lot of modern horror"

I find I can only read small amounts of him at a time.

[Patti (baconater)]

I read a lot of Lovecraft and Poe way back when I was in high school. My art teacher got me on to them and I adored them both.

He was a wonderful teacher. Dr Walter. I owe him a lot.

[Lexie]

Jonathan wrote: "Just finished 'End of Watch' by Stephen King (one down for the year). Just starting 'At the Mountains of Madness' by H.P. Lovecraft. Someone suggested I try a little Lovecraft as I haven't really r..."

Lovecraft is definitely good stuff. Just don't expect to sleep well tonight!

[Jagriti]

Just finished 'Caged' by debut author Alaska Jones. Just starting 'The secret of Nagas' by Amish. Loved the first part 'Immortals of Meluha'. Hope this will be as good!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just started Matched for my colour challenge, not sure it's my kind of book

[Pam]

Read an indie SF novel, post apocalyptic set in Belfast by Jo Zebedee - Inish Carraig - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638858471

[Sam]

David wrote: "Just finished Ender's Game. Rather disappointing, considering how many seem to rave over it..."

Funny, in a good way, how we're all so different, David. I thought Ender's Game was superb (despite my distatste for the author's views), though I could have probably done without the set-ups for the sequels which I have no interest in reading.

[Patti (baconater)]

I agree with you, Sam. Ender's Game I enjoyed but then he just flogged it to death. Over and over again. And again.

[Patti (baconater)]

Jagriti wrote: "Just finished 'Caged' by debut author Alaska Jones. Just starting 'The secret of Nagas' by Amish. Loved the first part 'Immortals of Meluha'. Hope this will be as good!"

Hey, Jagriti, if you'd like to add goodreads links to the books you've read, you can click the add book/author link at the top of the comment box and type in the title of the book in the box that opens. It'll automatically appear in your comments.
Not necessary, of course, but rather fun and makes it easier for others to check out the book information. :)

[David]

Sam wrote: "Funny, in a good way, how we're all so different, David. I thought Ender's Game was superb "

It is odd. I was expecting to really like it, but somehow it just didn't click with me at all.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've definitely not read this Lisa Gardner series before. Must have been a different series of her's I started reading.

Couple things in this book have irked me. Actions and dialogue that don't fit the characters, mostly.
I really dislike being pulled out the story by stuff like that. I've started skip reading it. Never a good sign.

[L.A.]

Just finished which i really enjoyed, so just started . Didn't get off to a great start as with Patti above as I wondered what the hell the first section actually was - at that point the book didn't seem like a novel at all, so i skipped it. Now I'm into the book a bit more and didn't think the first section was necessary, but will keep going as I'm now enjoying it. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

[Pam]

Finished Broken, bit disappointing. Reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1901548933

[B J]

Finished Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid. An excellent collection of characters with a gripping plot. I've moved onto Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith that again features investigator Arkady Renko and is set in Putin's frighteningly grim Russia. My eye was quickly caught by the sentence, "He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment that had steeped for years."

[Pat ()]

Just finished listening to I loved it!

also finished a series of books The Mycroft Holmes Advenures (short) and the following 5. I enjoyed them

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished C.S. Lewis: A Life Inspired - felt it was a bit short and sketchy, although I did find out quite a lot about his life - never realised just how much he published.
Just started No Safe House

[Patti (baconater)]

I finished The Perfect Husband yesterday. Crap. Really disappointing as I know she's written some great books.

I've started re-reading Alaska. I really enjoyed it when I read it years ago. Not sure if I'll re-read the whole thing.

[Natasha]

Have only read spiritual and technical non-fiction so far this year. Currently ...

All Love: A Guidebook for Healing with Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki and SKHM by Diane Ruth Shewmaker

Numbers: A Very Short Introduction by Peter M. Higgins

Exciting stuff!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Matched - I can understand the mixed reviews, but I rarely read dystopia books so some of the negatives bypassed me. Did feel it could have been more fleshed out in places though. Think I'll read Severed next

[PattyMacDotComma]

Loved Claire Fuller's new novel Swimming Lessons. How much do kids overhear? How much do they know? What happened to mum, and why?
.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[David]

Just finished The Defense , which was pretty good. I read it because the author is one of the hosts of the rather excellent Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast.

Just started The Magpies mainly because of an interview with Mark Edwards on the aforesaid podcast.

[Kath]

Wasn't totally convinced by that one, David. I'll be interested in your take on it.

[David]

Kath wrote: "Wasn't totally convinced by that one, David. I'll be interested in your take on it."

I haven't read any of his solo stuff, but I quite liked the ones he did with Louise Voss.

[Pam]

Finished a book that initially looked very promising, but sadly didn't deliver - Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth Lynn - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638824780

[Lexie]

Not long finished Melvyn Bragg's Now is the Time and, on a lighter note, Speaking Of Jennings - mixed feelings about the first, enjoyed the second as ever. Now back to My Animals and Other Family, though I don't get on terribly well with autobiography.

[Jim]

read my Family and Other animals at school when I was probably not a lot older than the protagonist :-)
Enjoyed it

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've just read Aussie author Sarah Ridout's debut novel, a mystery of sorts, Le Chateau.

I think she will attract plenty of romance readers, but it wasn't for me. (This novel, I mean, not romance!)

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

[Lexie]

Jim wrote: "read my Family and Other animals at school when I was probably not a lot older than the protagonist :-)
Enjoyed it"

I loved it, but this is the Claire Balding version. Interesting, but then I like horse racing.

[Kath]

Just finished Mr Brown's Suitcase by Kate Hughes. Great story for top juniors (and me!)

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

[Pam]

Finished first in a series by Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1908983536

[Kathy]

Just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story which was a little slow but quite fascinating. Just started (for something completely different) The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths.

[Lexie]

Just finished My Animals and Other Family - as I said, I'm not a great autobiography reader and this is more of a memoir, I suppose. It took me a little while to get into it but I did enjoy it - I like books about racing and knew a few of the names, which gave me a context. Back to working through the massive TBR heaps.

[T4bsF (Call me Flo)]

Lexie wrote: "Just finished My Animals and Other Family - as I said, I'm not a great autobiography reader and this is more of a memoir, I suppose. It took me a little while to get into it but I d..."

I mixed that book up for a minute and thought "what on earth has Gerald Durrell got to do with racing" - then I realised!! Trust me!!

[Jim]

Don't worry Flo, I made the same assumption :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Kathy wrote: "Just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story which was a little slow but quite fascinating. Just started (for something completely different) [book:The Woma..."

I thoroughly enjoyed Midnight...
Have you seen the film? It's worth a watch.

[Kathy]

Ashamed to say I didn't even know there was a film. I'd love to see it though. The characters knocked fictional ones into a cocked hat!

[Kathy]

Ah, I see it now: John Cusack. Will have to try it. Thanks, Patti.

[Patti (baconater)]

Pleasure. :)

[Pam]

Catch-up:
Read the sequel to Suzy McKee Charnas' book, which is much better than the first: Motherlines and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1909068219

then finished The Pigman by Paul Zindel and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1883148433.