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[Kath]

For our book group I read A Whole Life by robert Seethaler - reputed best seller. Less impressed than I hoped I'd be.

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

And I've just finished a jolly good YA fantasy story - set mainly in Britain but with portents of other stuff! Imogen's Secret Really enjoyed this.

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

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Name and Number which I enjoyed, an interesting view on prison life. Also finished The Venus Conspiracy an interesting medical thriller

[David]

Another winner from Angela Marsons

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

[Kelly]

Deads Souls by Angela Marsons is next on my list cant wait love the kim stone series but im just finishing up on Nothing But Trouble by Kerry Wilkinson which is great but keeping me hanging.

[David]

Lexie wrote: "Heard good things about The Ghosts of Belfast but Amazon was doing one of those odd things when I went to buy it and the only copy for sale was a used one for several thousand pounds - decided to wait! "

It is good - Amazon reckons they have a paperback for 41p today, but it is interesting what you can find on the bookshelf in a jury room.

[Kelly]

Am raiding the bookshelves in our holiday apartment.

In two days I have read Not Quite Nice and The Shakespeare Secret. Loved them both. The Celia Imrie book was witty and charming, with recipes scattered through it, and the Carroll one was fast-paced and an adventure. Going to go and peruse the shelves now for my next read.

[Kelly]

Just finished book five of a series, Nigerian Connection by Keith Hoare. Oh my god, I'm still reeling.
My experiences of series books they don't often get better, I read them because you get used to the characters, but this one topped the lot. If you enjoy crime, particularly international crime, it doesn't get any better.
I've started Russian Connection now, seems like I'm hooked to read all 13 in the series. I'll tell you how I get on.

[Kath]

Just finished a pretty decent crime book set in Harrogate. Hell's Gate, by Malcolm Hollindrake.

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

[Patti (baconater)]

Just a minute ago finished A Man Called Ove and had to rush in tell everyone who hasn't yet to read it NOW!

Such a lovely book.
I'm still sobbing a bit.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm going to give The Light Between Oceans a whirl next.

[Kath]

It's brilliant! However, his next book - My Grandmother sends her apologies and somthing else - I was disappointed in.

[Kelly]

Okay doke - been raiding the holiday apartment bookshelves again!

Just finished Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer and immediately hit my kindle and downloaded and started The Sins of the Father. Enjoying them.

[David]

Finished The Girl from Venice the other day. Fair enough I suppose, not a patch on Gorky Park.

Started A Good Day to Die

[Patti (baconater)]

Kath, have you read Sword at Sunset?

Dave is reading it at the moment and was just telling me about it. I thought it might be something you'd enjoy.

[Kath]

I haven't. Who wrote it?

[Patti (baconater)]

Rosemary Sutcliff. She's written a load of YA books but this one is aimed at adults.

[Kath]

Oh, I've read a few of hers.

[Patti (baconater)]

Thought you had.

[David]

Just finished The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology , which was more than excellent. A recommended book.

Just started The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939.

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Kath, have you read Sword at Sunset?

Dave is reading it at the moment and was just telling me about it. I thought it might be something you'd enjoy."

Read this years ago; picked up a copy secondhand as it was long out of print, so nice to see it's available now on Kindle. The story of King Arthur but as a Roman Britain warlord with Celtic elements, which must have been one of the earliest of those takes on the Arthurian legend. Enjoyed it as I recall. I've just checked and it was also a sequel to her YA The Lantern Bearers.

[Pam]

Read book 4 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Warlock of the Witch World - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954249088.

[Kath]

Roam by Erik Therme. The cast are young American kids but their problems are ours. Who are people?

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[Patti (baconater)]

I'm becoming bored with The Light Between Oceans. I'll pick it up before bed again tonight but if it doesn't improve, I think I'll ditch it.

[Kath]

Philistine!

[Patti (baconater)]

Life is too short to read books that aren't enjoyable.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Life is too short to read books that aren't enjoyable."

Too true, even with books that have been enjoyed by thousands. I recently gave up on I See You at chapter 4. Maybe I wasn't in the right place at that time for that story, but it totally bored me, despite its 4* average with 10,000 ratings of Goodreads.

[Tim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Life is too short to read books that aren't enjoyable."

Too true. I recently gave up on Reamde, even though it had been recommended to me by multiple people, because it was just so dull.

[Jim]

Just finished Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

Whilst non-fiction it's such a good read that I think it's worth including here. It's a chunky book, well over 400 pages but fascinating

[Patti (baconater)]

I dumped The Light Between Oceans this morning.
I found myself making mental summer shopping lists as I was reading it.

I didn't even bother flipping through to the end.

[Jim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I dumped The Light Between Oceans this morning.
I found myself making mental summer shopping lists as I was reading it.

I didn't even bother flipping through to the end."

I think I saw it raved about by a newspaper book reviewer which is normally enough to put me off :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Seems it's been made into a film.

[Kath]

I love it and our book group unanimously loved it too. We usually disagree.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Not Dead Yet - only 3* as some of the underlying themes to the season are annoying me. Reading Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia on the old kindle, quite enjoying it. Just about to start Stone Kiss (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #14) in paperback

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kelly wrote: "Okay doke - been raiding the holiday apartment bookshelves again!

Just finished Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer and immediately hit my kindle and downloaded and started [book..."

I've got both of those, might bump them up

[David]

Finished rereading (possibly) Sign of the Unicorn , which was remarkably dull.

Just started rereading Fahrenheit 451, not sure how many times I've read it before, but at least once.

[Pat ()]

Finished Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon. Latest 'Varta' book. Excellent read. Really enjoyed this mew one.

[Pat ()]

Also Audio book and will read more by this author.

[Pam]

David wrote: "Finished rereading (possibly) Sign of the Unicorn , which was remarkably dull.

Just started rereading [book:Fahre..."

Yes, I re-read the Amber series (first one and books 1 and 2 of second) a little while ago and found most of them disappointing.

[Pam]

Finished a police procedural Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946614275.

[Kelly]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Okay doke - been raiding the holiday apartment bookshelves again!

Just finished Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer and immediately hit my kindle and downloaded and..."

I really enjoyed them and downloaded the third one straight away but ... I kind of lost interest and moved onto something else! Read Queenie by Michael Korda which I first read in this very same apartment about 20 years ago!! Still loved it. Am now reading Gone for Good by Harlan Coben. Been zooming through it today.

[Kath]

Out today - The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve. I've read quite a few of hers so when I got the offer of this from Netgalley I snapped their hand off!

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

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just started A Game of Proof

[Kath]

Finished Angela Marsons' Blood Lines. This series continues to grip me. There's a new one I must catch up with.

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[David]

Pam wrote: "David wrote: "Yes, I re-read the Amber series (first one and books 1 and 2 of second) a little while ago and found most of them disappointing. "

I reread the 1st couple a while ago and found them okayish, but this one was little more than a heap of static conversations that never really went anywhere.

[David]

Just finished A Good Day to Die , which was pretty good stuff.

Just started After the Crash, which was 99p on Amazon a few days or so ago.

[Pam]

David wrote: "Pam wrote: "David wrote: "Yes, I re-read the Amber series (first one and books 1 and 2 of second) a little while ago and found most of them disappointing. "

I reread the 1st couple a while ago and..."

Funnily enough I quite liked this one as it reminded me of an Agatha Christie whodunnit - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1738943707. But not a keeper; the whole series has had to go sadly, after memories of it being fantastic - seem to have changed my opinion since my teens!

[Elizabeth]

Jim wrote: "Just finished Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

Whilst non-fiction it's such a good read that I think it's worth including here. It's a chunky book, well over 400 page..."

Alexandre Dumas and Jean Plaidy did interesting jobs on her...

[Jim]

I confess to not reading either, but she's appeared in several of the histories of the period I've read and 'doesn't come out of it well' :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Inspired by Kelly, I looked through the Harlen Corben books I've got and started Tell No One.

Quite a good page turner so far.

[Patti (baconater)]

Kath wrote: "Out today - The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve. I've read quite a few of hers so when I got the offer of this from Netgalley I snapped their hand off!

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.c..."

I've enjoyed the Shreves I've read. I find I need to read a light comedy afterward, though. Same as after reading anything by Diane Chamberlain.