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[David]

Kath wrote: "Thank you! I want one of those - it's like a one man band for itchy-backed people!"

I keep a special 12-inch ruler for my itchy back.

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

I've got a back scratcher with a shoe horn on it, from the pound shop. Really handy for all sorts of things!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Vanessa (aka Dumbo) wrote: "I've got a back scratcher with a shoe horn on it, from the pound shop. Really handy for all sorts of things!"

I have two of them - both given to me as christmas presents. Extremely useful.

[Kath]

David wrote: "Kath wrote: "Thank you! I want one of those - it's like a one man band for itchy-backed people!"

I keep a special 12-inch ruler for my itchy back."

As in the old saw, 'It's twelve inches long but I don't use it as a rule.'

[David]

Kath wrote: "I keep a special 12-inch ruler for my itchy back."

As in the old saw, 'It's twelve inches long but I don't use it as a rule.' "

Getting a bit personal now.

As it goes, I do have an old saw in the shed somewhere, buried under the gubbins from about half a dozen ex-computers.

[Kath]

No wonder they're ex if you use a saw to mend them!

[David]

Kath wrote: "No wonder they're ex if you use a saw to mend them!"

I only use the saw when I can't find my hammer.

[Benjamin]

Just finished Devil's Day, by Andrew Michael Hurley - very atmospheric descriptions of evil lurking on the snowswept moors - and I've now started reading White is for Witching.

[Daniella]

Just finished "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson


Here's my 5-star Goodreads review: "Elegant, fluid prose. Helen Simonson spins a stirring story of class differences and love at the outset of World War I. This book will linger in the reader's mind long after the last page is turned."

Just started "This Was a Man" by Jeffrey Archer

[Pam]

Number 4 in Jayne Castle's Ghost Hunter series: Silver Master - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842657.

Also read book 5, Dark Light, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2169897988.

[David]

Just finished Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask which was pretty good as a basic introduction to the Romans and what they ever did for us.

Just started The Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Kings of the Wyld. Sword and sorcery with a difference: band of ageing mercenaries set off to save their world. Makes a change that this is a complete stand-alone story. Nice line in tongue-in-cheek humour and the end leaves you with the roar of battle in your ears and your mind clamouring for more of the same.

[Kath]

Just finished (fittingly on Halloween!) A Dark Night at Midsummer: A Letho Novella by Lexie Conyngham. It's a follow-up to a novel but I think there's enough in there to explain the story and it's rather creepy. Very well written, as hers always are.

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

[Karen]

Just finished The Child Garden which I really enjoyed tho, as often happens, unmasking the whodunnit was a bit disappointing somehow. Have now started some Nordic crime, The Frozen Woman but I can't say it's really grabbing me yet - maybe that's the effect of the translation.

[David]

Just finished Beneath the Ink which was excellent. Added it to the 5 star books thread.

Just started Die of Shame

[Karen]

So I gave up on The Frozen Woman, and am now well into Force of Nature which is intriguing - though not quite as good as her wonderful first book, The Dry

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished two books this week, neither overly impressed me despite being by authors I like. First was Before the Poison - could quite easily have been shorter without missing stuff due to how many descriptions we had of things like the contents of the welcome basket the estate agent gave him, so only gave it 3*
Then, Demons by Daylight- I thought it was a new book when I bought it, it's been digitised, and in some places, reads like it has been scanned, there are spaces and punctuation in wrong places. Plus some very odd stories that didn't really make much sense, so only gave it 2*

[Pam]

Read number 6 in the Jayne Castle Ghost Hunter/Harmony series - Obsidian Prey - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2169952866.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Finished two books this week, neither overly impressed me despite being by authors I like. First was Before the Poison - could quite easily have been shorter without missing stuff d..."

Demons by Daylight was first published in the early 70s Desley. Don't think I've got my copy any more otherwise I'd check for you what had gone on there.

[Pam]

a rare DNF for me - The Book of Kells by R A MacAvoy - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941468.The_Book_of_Kells.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm slogging my way through The Wonder, hoping something will happen soon.
Halfway through and it's a seemingly never ending cycle of prayer and obsessing about hidden food.

I'm afraid Emma only had one good book in her and this ain't it.

I will finish it. I'm hopeful it will improve.

[Benjamin]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm slogging my way through The Wonder, hoping something will happen soon.
Halfway through and it's a seemingly never ending cycle of prayer and obsessing about hidden food.

I'm af..."
Which one of hers did you like?

I wasn't sure about The Wonder myself to start with, but I really liked Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

[Kath]

I didn't think Room was it, either...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started Flash and Bones, quite short chapters so a quick read and QB1

[Patti (baconater)]

Benjamin wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm slogging my way through The Wonder, hoping something will happen soon.
Halfway through and it's a seemingly never ending cycle of prayer and obsessing ..."

Room. T'was fantastic.

[Kath]

'Twasn't...

[Elizabeth]

Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of 'society' and quite brilliant.

[Tim]

Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of 'society' and quit..."

Got that in my TBR pile . . .

[Benjamin]

Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of 'society' and quit..."

One of my favourites of the last couple of years - the sequels are excellent as well

[Patti (baconater)]

Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of 'society' and quit..."

Ooo, that sounds good. I'll have to seek it out.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of of 'society' and quit..."

Ooo, that sounds good. I'll have to seek it out. "

I thought it was terrible

[Patti (baconater)]

Different strokes, eh?

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Different strokes, eh?"

Yep.

Pity really, as I did quite fancy reading it when I heard about it, but we didn't get on.

[Patti (baconater)]

It's disappointing when a book doesn't live up to expectations.

[Pat ()]

Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of 'society' and quit..."

Thanks Elizabeth, I have just bought it.

[Natasha]

Finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt, about which I have mixed feelings. The second part did not seem worthy of the first.

60% through Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, which is delightful.

[Pam]

Re-read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1444115513. Glad I enjoyed it as I was a bit disappointed when I read the first part, which won a Hugo for novella, in The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 earlier this year.

[Elizabeth]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of ..."

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Started and finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie this weekend. Totally sci-fi, shades The Ship who Sang combined with God Emperor of Dune - horrible vision of ..."

Interested to know what you both think of it when you've read it.
: )

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finally finished my book about Hitchcock films, found a few interesting facts. Now starting my second classic, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

[Kelly]

Just finished A Time To Change which has left me too emotionally drained to start reading anything else at the moment. Have posted a link to my review on the blog posts. An amazing time-slip read.

[Kath]

Just finished Sawbones by Stuart MacBride. It's a novella and gruesome but a bit good!

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

Now reading Missing Persons by the Campbell brothers.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kelly wrote: "Just finished A Time To Change which has left me too emotionally drained to start reading anything else at the moment. Have posted a link to my review on the blog posts. An amazing ..."

Sounds good

[Patti (baconater)]

Kelly wrote: "Just finished A Time To Change which has left me too emotionally drained to start reading anything else at the moment. Have posted a link to my review on the blog posts. An amazing ..."

Book limbo!

[Philip]

Just finished

Here's my review;: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-...

[Jim]

glad you liked it Philip :-)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I appeparently read Ancillary Justice a couple of years ago. Can't remember a thing about it. Probably not a good sign.
I enjoy Stuart MacBride a lot.
Just finished The Narrows which was a good read, and the last of Chris Wooding's Tales of the Kitty Jay The Ace of Skulls which is definitely one of the better steampunk/fantasy type around.
I see there is a new Jack Reacher out. Probably will wait until it has come down in price. Ditto the fifth in the Traitor Son series The Fall of Dragons, excellent though that series is.

[Kath]

I've never read any MacBride before, but I can see that's going to change. He's a polished writer.

[Philip]

Just finished (I'm having a bit of a catch-up) by Janet Hurst-Nicholson

Here's my review: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R13F9...

[Pam]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "I appeparently read Ancillary Justice a couple of years ago. Can't remember a thing about it. Probably not a good sign...."

I get that a lot Rosemary! One of the reasons I always review my books in GR!

[Patti (baconater)]

If I recall correctly, I wasn't terribly impressed with the MacBride I read. Think it was his first.

I should probably try another as he does seem to be generally enjoyed.