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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year - typical of short story collections, some good, some not.

[Pam]

Finished The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2062140806.

[Pam]

Finished my re-read of Louise Cooper's Lord Of No Time and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1422905458.

[Elizabeth]

Just downloaded A Wrinkle in Time because I've never read it! Not sure about the synopsis, but as a modern classic, I'm willing to give it a go.

[Pam]

Re-read of book 1 of Louise Cooper's Time Master series, The Initiate which I reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064525583

[Pam]

A re-read of book 2 of the Time Master trilogy, The Outcast, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2067720202

[Stuart]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yes, that's where I learned it. ;)

I finished the Koontz and then almost started Oscar and Lucinda but my copy seems to have issues. Couldn't be bothered putting wifi on my kindle to..."

Loved Last Night in Twisted River!

[David]

Just finished Slur . I know that somewhere deep in my Kindle unread folder there is the second one in this series.

When I find it, I will read it.

Just started The Beautiful Deadwhich is a Belinda Bauer book, and therefore excellent.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Needed a new kindle book, picked a book of flash fiction, not sure if it will be my cup of tea or not though Just A Little Terrible

[Jim]

Well I've finished the Shardlake series

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I've read all six of them and there isn't a bad one among them. All cracking good stories which I enjoyed immensely :-)

[Natasha]

Just finished The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson. Not his finest.

Just started You by Caroline Kepnes, about a boy's sinister obsession with a girl who walks into the bookshop where he works.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Thornyhold by Mary Stewart which I think Pat mentioned a while back. Lovely read picked up for 50p in a second-hand record and book shop.

Must start Heresy if I'm to contribute anything to the book club.

[Harry]

I managed the first half of Orlando by Virginia Wolf. That must count for something - but I felt better about life doing a bit of weeding in the garden.

[Kath]

I threw Orlando across the bedroom after half! I was losing the will to live. Nice to see you again, Harry.

Just read and reviewed RED IS THE COLOUR. A new direction for Mark - I love a versatile author - and the first of a crime series. Great stuff and, as in real life, not all ends are tied up.

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[Harry]

Hello, Kath. I've been absent for a while but, in the garden, I sometimes remember how you husband seeds from your veg plants and grow them on - and come up with unique strains. That will be an interesting pursuit, and one that promotes patience.

[Kath]

It does! The hardest part is discarding the 'also rans' - although you can eat them first!

[Loretta]

Just finished The Enchanter's Forest - I did enjoy it but I don't much care for the paranormal stuff she uses more frequently now. I'll probably still read the rest as I want to know what happens to Helewise and Josse, but I shall wait until the price reduces on the more recent ones as over £6 is too much for me to pay for an ebook.

[Karen]

Jim wrote: "Well I've finished the Shardlake series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardla...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Diss...


I've read all six of them and..."

So glad you enjoyed them - I loved them.

I've finished Peter May's Enzo series - entertaining enough but they didn't really grab me as much as his Lewis trilogy. And started Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series, Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem but abandoned it half way as I really didn't like the writing style and couldn't care less what happened. I'm now back on safe ground with Christobel Kent, The Day She Disappeared. I have enjoyed her books in the past, so have high hopes for this one.

[Kath]

Just finshed a couple I'd recommend, in two different genres.

Debbie McGowan's LGBT novel of wartime When Skies Have Fallen which is currently free and a real thought-provoking story,

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and a crime novel, which is 3rd in a series but which I read as a stand-alone, and it really works - Deadly Friendship by Tara Lyons.

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[Pam]

First in a catchup as I haven't yet reviewed the one just finished - book 3 of the Time Master trilogy, The Master, by Louise Cooper and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064528040.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Heresy by SJ Parris. First in an Elizabethan 'detective' series featuring Giordano Bruno (who really existed and was known for his support of Copernicus' theory that the planets moved around the sun). Quite a good story - kept me guessing, but I was distracted on a couple of occasions - firstly by wondering exactly how a renegade monk would have acquired civilian clothes that disguised him sufficiently from the hotly pursuing Inquisitors, and secondly by the existence of tricorne-wearing university officials (in the mid 1500s? Well, maybe).

[Pam]

Read Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2077985229.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Mayhem: A Collection of Stories - as usual, it was a mix of good and bad, but some 'stories' were only a page and a half, plus there were typos. Looking forward to starting Go Set a Watchman tomorrow

[Karen]

Elizabeth wrote: "Just finished Heresy by SJ Parris. First in an Elizabethan 'detective' series featuring Giordano Bruno (who really existed and was known for his support of Copernicus' theory that th..."

I've loved her books so far - I don't think I've read Conspiracy yet, and I see there's a sixth due out next year. Something to look forward to.
Struggling a bit with Christobel Kent's 'Day she disappeared' but I'll persevere a bit longer...

[David]

Just finished The Beautiful Dead which was - of course - excellent.

Highly recommended (and it is still only £1.99 at Amazon).

Just started All Fall Down, which like the other book of his I read - See How They Run - starts off really well.

[Karen]

David wrote: "Just finished The Beautiful Dead which was - of course - excellent.

Highly recommended (and it is still only £1.99 at Amazon).

Just starte..."

Oh I'd not noticed another Belinda Bauer - have just bought it, thanks!

[Daniella]

Just finished "The Kaiser's Last Kiss" by Alan Judd

Just started "Gilded Deceit" by Tracy Grant

[Kath]

Just read a little shortie by J A Clement A Sprig of Holly which I can see myself reading to the Grandgirls over the summer.

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[Pam]

Catchup for two books just read:

The Bridge by Iain Banks, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2078259886
The Turning Wheel, And Other Stories by Philip K Dick, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2081242865

[Kath]

Dying Art by Malcolm Hollingdrake. Number 5 in a series but you can read it as a stand-alone. I did.

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[Pam]

Read book 3 of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505943.

[Pam]

Read the short story which wraps up the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness - Snowscape - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2041750620.

[Patti (baconater)]

Don't know how you managed to finish the Ness series, Pam.

I couldn't waste any more reading time on it.

I've got to update my summer reading. Soon.

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Don't know how you managed to finish the Ness series, Pam.

I couldn't waste any more reading time on it."

I'm nothing if not stubborn, Patti ;-)

Just finished books 1 and 2 of a Michael Moorcock trilogy, The Chronicles of Castle Brass:

book 1 - Count Brass and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083283951.

book 2 - The Champion of Garathorm, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083501935.

[Patti (baconater)]

Stubborn, I dunno. Tenacious, absolutely.

After going through a long, disappointing, dry reading spell, I started Hocus Pocus yesterday. Just what I needed.

Looking forward to immersing myself into it tomorrow.

[Pam]

I'll take tenacious Patti!

Read volume 3, The Quest for Tanelorn in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy by Michael Moorcock and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2084298667.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "I'll take tenacious Patti!

Read volume 3, The Quest for Tanelorn in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy by Michael Moorcock and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho..."

years since I read them Pam,

[Pam]

Jim wrote: "Pam wrote: Read volume 3, The Quest for Tanelorn in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy by Michael Moorcock and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.co..."

years since I read them Pam,


Years since I've read any Moorcock either, Jim. Passed most of them on years ago, but still had this trilogy and the Elric books which I will re-read hopefully before too long.

[Tim]

Just finished Dying Games by Steve Robinson. Loved it much more than the earlier ones that jump about in time.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone, first in his Craftwork series, and thoroughly enjoyed it - fantasy meets technology and includes corporate lawyers, zombies and gods.

[Kath]

Just finished Song of the Ice Lord by J A Clement. Reminded me of the Norse sagas - great stuff. Fantasy.

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[Natasha]

Just finished You by Caroline Kepnes, a fairly gripping dose of sociopathic obsession.

Just started Money by Martin Amis.

[Elizabeth]

Just started Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone. Same world, different characters but still addictive.

[Debbie]

I have just finished The Golf Widows by Ian Jones, it vis without doubt the best read I have had in a very long time. Over 400 pages that I finished in three days I could just not put it down. It is both funny and frightening in places. It is different to most books that I have read. It centres around three couples from Manchester on holiday in Fuengirola, Spain. They have adventures and misadventures in equal measure. I don't want to spoil the content for you butit is a definite page turner.

[David]

Just finished rereading Strangers which remains - probably - my favourite of his books.

Just started rereading The Talisman. I've been meaning to start my rereading of King for some time, and this is where it begins.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Two Serpents Rise. Just started Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone. I don't quite understand why he isn't better known as a stonkingly good original fantasy series author.

[Pam]

Elizabeth wrote: "Just finished Two Serpents Rise. Just started Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone. I don't quite understand why he isn't better known as a stonkingly good original fantasy series author."

Sounds like an interesting concept but I can't add any more to my TBR apart from books I already have!

[Pam]

Finished The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465827.

[Kath]

Just finished Cold Sweats and Vignettes by John Bowen. Four short stories and very good indeed.

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and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Sci-fi with a really gripping story line.

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[David]

Just finished The Silk Roads: A New History of the World , which is very very good and highly recommended. A history of the world seen through the context of trade where east meets west.

Just started The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature which I have read before, but I want to reread.