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[Kath]

I loved The Island. I've loved all of hers that I've read, in fact.

Just finished a British (Brighton) detective story which I enjoyed a lot. You Can't Make Old Friends

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[Pat ()]

Whisky From Small GlassesJust finished Whisky in Small Glasses. Enjoyable read.

Started the next in the series, The Last Witness. Also enjoyable

[Kathy]

Just finished Maigret's First Case which I enjoyed. Just started The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea

[Daniella]

I'm reading "Marriage Can Be Murder" by Emma Jameson

[Loretta]

I just finished The Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika. Lol, at first, I thought the title was a typo but now i think it might have been intentional. It's my fave genre, medieval time travel and although it has some historical bloopers, it's a cracking story. I'm going to get the rest to read later. First, I need to do some more research so it will be stuff like Roger de Wendover next. Sigh.

Ah, hang it, maybe I'll read book two of Blue Bells first. I deserve a treat.

[Elizabeth]

Loretta wrote: "I just finished The Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika. Lol, at first, I thought the title was a typo but now i think it might have been intentional. It's my fave genre, medieval time travel an..."

Isn't it glorious when you have books you can regard as treats all lined up?

[Loretta]

Elizabeth wrote: "Loretta wrote: "I just finished The Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika. Lol, at first, I thought the title was a typo but now i think it might have been intentional. It's my fave genre, medieva..."

It really is. :-)

[Pam]

Read Dark Undertakings by Rebecca Tope, and wrote a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2028502124.

[Patti (baconater)]

Just finished The Island. Four stars. The chick lit type beginning and the bit tacked onto the end kept it from being five stars for me.
The descriptions of Crete made my mouth water for our visit!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished all three of my books this weekend, some very good reads

Sacrifice - 4*. Didn't realise it was a debut book until I'd read it, it was so gripping the only thing that stopped me reading it quicker was lack of time - towards the end, I even carried on reading rather than eating!! Would definitely recommend, and will read more of hers.

Chinese Whispers - 4*. I'd bought this a few years ago when they kept doing 20p books, I've not read the other 5 in the series, so nearly gave up on it, so glad I didn't. Ironically, I didn't read the back of it before starting it, so was really happy when I realised it was someone basing his killings on Jack the Ripper.

Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia - 3* - this was another book I'd got for free a while ago, and for some reason kept putting off, but really enjoyed it. There are reviews saying it isn't very historically correct, but I don't know much about the Borgias, so I didn't notice that. Could do with a bit of a proof read though.

Started Paid In Blood, 30% in

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Just bought A Doctor to Dragons and am planning to start it tonight. Apparently it's like a James Herriot for mythical creatures. Sounds irresistable.

Just finished it. Consisted of 2 short stories. Good ones, I will admit, but really??

[Karen]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Just finished The Island. Four stars. The chick lit type beginning and the bit tacked onto the end kept it from being five stars for me.
The descriptions of Crete made my mouth water ..."

I thoroughly enjoyed The Island too, not my usual sort of read.
I've been catching up a bit, and have just finished the excellent Joanne Harris books Gentlemen and Players swiftly followed by Different Class - though I kept imagining Alan Bennett's The History Boys film as I was reading them - with the wonderful Richard Griffiths as the Latin master Straitley.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've started The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse mostly because the title is so awesome.

Only 23 pages in, so we'll see...

[David]

Just finished Sharpe's Battle , in which they had a battle and Sharpe was there.

A good read.

Just about to start The Departure.

[Tim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've started The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse mostly because the title is so awesome.

Only 23 pages in, so we'll see..."

Loved that :)

[Patti (baconater)]

Tim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've started The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse mostly because the title is so awesome.

Only 23 pages in, so we'll see..."

Loved that :)"

Gave up on it. Might revisit it one day. Didn't fit my current mood.

[Kath]

Just finished the delightful The Sound Of Everything by Stuart Warner. A really lovely read.

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[David]

Just finished Climbing Mount Improbable which was pretty good as usual.

Just started The Silk Roads: A New History of the World which I picked up from Amazon for 99p a few days ago.

[Patti (baconater)]

Has anyone heard of The Fifth Child or the author Doris Lessing? Apparently, she won the Nobel prize for literature several years back.

[Kath]

Heard of the author but not read her work.

[Jim]

read some of her SF, Canopus in Argos, but never got into it and never finished it

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Kath wrote: "Heard of the author but not read her work."

Ditto

[Patti (baconater)]

Well, I'm reading The Fifth Child at the moment and I must say I'm impressed with her writing style. It's only short. 134 pages, according to my kindle. If I didn't keep falling asleep, I would have finished it last night!

I'll get back to you when I'm done but I think there's a great number of groupites who'd like it.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I read it a long time ago. Creepy! Also On Cats

[Patti (baconater)]

You're right, it is deliciously creepy.

I may have downloaded a few more of her books this morning. Oops.

Don't tell Dave.

I don't feel guilty enough to return them, mind. ;)

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Has anyone heard of The Fifth Child or the author Doris Lessing? Apparently, she won the Nobel prize for literature several years back."

I read a few of hers a long time ago.

The Grass is Singing is good
The Golden Notebook is extraordinarily dull
There were a couple of others I read but I can't remember which ones.

[Patti (baconater)]

Uh oh. I grabbed The Golden Notebook. The blurb grabbed me.

[David]

I began The Cleft but didn't finish it. I recall liking the style but got bored of the content.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Uh oh. I grabbed The Golden Notebook. The blurb grabbed me."

Yeah. I was quite keen to read it at the time. I'm not sure if I got all the way to the end. I found it years after I'd put it down still with a bookmark in it.

You might like the Africa bits.

I remember I found the communism bits very tedious, but then I'd just finished reading Das Kapital at the time.

[Patti (baconater)]

Just now finished The Fifth Child. Ooooooooo it was good! Creepy, as Rosemary said. Sparsely written, not a single unnecessary word, I'd say.

Kath, I think you'd like it especially.

I'm going to read the sequel Ben, In the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child right this minute!

[Kath]

I shall look out for it when I have a gap in my reading schedule!

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Has anyone heard of The Fifth Child or the author Doris Lessing? Apparently, she won the Nobel prize for literature several years back."

She was pretty famous in her prime for books like The Golden Notebook. I did read her Canopus books but they were very odd.

[Pam]

Read Death of a Friend by Rebecca Tope and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946596005.

[Patti (baconater)]

Just finished Ben, In the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child. T'was good but not quite as gripping as the first book.

Not sure what I'm in the mood for next.

[Kath]

Tried Norris? I loved it!

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm saving Norris for my flight and first few days in Crete. It's my summer treat!

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm about 50 pages into Song of Slaves in the Desert

Quite good. I'm interested to see how it all comes together.

[Stuart]

Finished Fat Man Blues which was wonderful. And before that I finished The Bolivian Diary: Authorized Edition. I have just started Little Dorrit

[Pam]

Read Jayge Carr's first science fiction novel, Leviathan's Deep, and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2037051453.

[Kath]

Just finished That Elusive Something by Sam Kates. I enjoy his style and the story has funny and thoughtful elements - a good combination.

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[Pam]

Finished Jane Yolen's Merlin's Booke and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040150360.

[Pam]

Just read a short prequel which is available free via a link on the Goodreads page to the Patrick Ness trilogy - The New World - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040237297.

[Nigel]

Race to the Bottom is dark and broody noir about the downward spiral that is Roy's life. Depressing and somehow uplifting at the same time. I believe that Chris Rhatigan is going to write something of real significance to a generation at some point in the near future. Here's hoping.

[Jim]

Just reading the Shardlake stories by C J Sansom. A series of good Tudor 'detective' stories

http://www.cjsansom.com/Shardlake

[Kath]

Just finished Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain by journalist Paul Flynn, and it was an eye-opener. It will mean more to those who have an ear to popular culture (I had to look musicians, TV stars and sportsmen up on Google!) but it's a totally engrossing read.

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[Pam]

Just finished volume 1 in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505728.

[Kath]

This one's newly published but I think it'll go far. I got a copy from the publisher via Netgalley and it's fantastic. Currently at £7.99 for the ebook (!!??!!) but prices go down when the paperback is published. Look out for it when the price drops. I think it's worth full price but then if you wait you'll get more books for your dosh and everyone wins!

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[Patti (baconater)]

Pam wrote: "Just finished volume 1 in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."

Yes! Wonderful review! You commented on pretty much every aspect that I found disappointing.

Will you sacrifice further reading time on the series?

[Patti (baconater)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm about 50 pages into Song of Slaves in the Desert

Quite good. I'm interested to see how it all comes together."

I'm still enjoying this, for the most part. I should put down my iPad and spend more time on my kindle if I want to start something new on my flight..

[Kathy]

Just finished The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea which was quite enjoyable but I only got into it in the second half. Very slow. Have just started Maigret's Revolver