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[Tim]

You're only one behind me - I just finished Without Fail!

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm still plodding along with Cold Comfort Farm.

This working malarkey really interferes with my reading time.

I'm considering setting it aside, actually. Perhaps I'd be better with short stories at present.

[Jim]

I confess I rather enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm but I finally got round to reading it after watching the film

[Jim]

But thinking about it, given the stress you're under at the moment with the Flat and Dave having to travel, I think light short stories might be ideal

Alternatively do you like PG Wodehouse?

[Patti (baconater)]

I've tried Wodehouse. Can't say he does it for me. Or hasn't yet, anyway. I may try something else by him at some point.

Brainless tv seems best tonight.

I expect as soon as I pick up my kindle, I'll conk out.

[Jim]

I think with Wodehouse, if you love him, you love him and that's an end to it
At times of acute stress I read Asterix the Gaul :-)

[David]

Jim wrote: "I think with Wodehouse, if you love him, you love him and that's an end to it
At times of acute stress I read Asterix the Gaul :-)"

Now available in Wienerisch!

https://www.amazon.de/Asterix-redt-Wienerisch-gro%C3%9Fe-Mundart-Sammelband/dp/3770438884

[David]

Just finished The Girl Who Wouldn't Die Not bad at all.

Just started An Officer and a Spy

Just finished rereading The Siege of Trencher's Farm which is very good - recommended. Much much better than the film Straw Dogs that was based on it.

Just started rereading Cloud Warrior

[Tim]

Ah, the Amtrak Wars - haven't read those books in decades! Wonder if they've stood the test of time . . .

[Kath]

Sounds like a face-off between Amtrak, DHL and Yodel.

[Tim]

Not far off. It's one of the very early post-apocalyptics (before that was a "thing"). High tech survivors living deep in bunkers vs low tech "mutes" living on the surface . . .

[Kath]

I remember reading something like that from the childrens' library when I was about 10.
No wonder I'm weird...

[Tim]

Just finished: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, narrated as ever by Will Wheaton. Political thriller as the hyperspace links (called "the Flow") between the planets of The Interdependency start to collapse. First book in a new series.

[Anna]

Just finished

Just starting - not sure if I'll continue, mostly through lack of time and I have, perhaps, more interesting (to me) books on my Kindle.

[Patti (baconater)]

I returned to Sai King for comfort reading before sleep this week.

Oh, think I'll start a new thread on that topic.

[David]

Tim wrote: "Ah, the Amtrak Wars - haven't read those books in decades! Wonder if they've stood the test of time . . ."

That's partly why I'm rereading this one.

Already, only a couple of chapters in there are things that have become genre cliches since these were written.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started 2 paperbacks, Ginger the Gangster Cat which the foster cats are enjoying being read to them and Praying for Sleep so 4 books on the go!

[Kath]

Just finished The Pact by Susie Lynes. It only came out last week but I loved her other two books so I read it as soon as I could - a rare pre-order.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories good mix. Now started Nineteen Seventy Four

[Pam]

Read Tanith Lee's Lycanthia: or The Children of Wolves and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2312862229.

[Pam]

Read a short work by Stephen Baxter which is a follow up to H G Wells' War of the Worlds and apparently a prequel to Baxter's own novel-length sequel - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2319711846.

[Elizabeth]

Just started The Wonder Engine sequel to Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher - four chapters in and have already had two laugh out loud moments. Hope you've discovered it already, Rosemary.

[Benjamin]

I've finished One Thousand Monsters and started The Hydrogen Sonata

[Will]

Norse Mythology Bit disappointing after all the hype.

And Under which reminded me rather too much of Aaronovitch's Whispers Underground for comfort or to make it a 5* read

[Pam]

There is a huge ho-ha about the policy change Goodreads has announced regarding ISBN numbers. If I've understood this correctly, if a book is republished with the same one, the number now has to travel to the newest version leaving the old one dangling without an ISBN as you cant have two entries on GR with the same one. Has created a massive upset - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19254140-announcement-updated-policy-on-isbns-and-asins. A lot of people are asking how people are to find the older version of a book - since a lot of people, including me, are reading older editions.

[Emma]

I am totally addicted to J R Wards Black Dagger Brotherhood series and just finished the second one Lover Eternal and already started the third Lover Awakened

[Kath]

Just finished The Dry by Jane Harper The Dry Set in Australia and blimmin good.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I think I'm going to give up on Nineteen Seventy Four - language isn't that much an issue, but the character rambles and repeats himself a lot

[Will]

I've just finished a volume of stories about Anansi, the trickster and have a book full of african folk tales to follow.

[Tim]

If you're into audible, check out Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, narrated by Lenny Henry. It's friction' awesome!

[Tim]

frickin'

friction' auto corrupt!

[Tim]

Gaaah!!!!!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You have too much friction in your life Tim!

[Natasha]

Just finished The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.

Just started Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi.

[Karen]

Just finished three good reads... not simultaneously...
Glad I persevered with Anatomy of a Scandal, as the multiple narrators and cutting back and for in time was offputting to start with. Ended up a good read. Then, Sycamore Gap, which had plenty of twists and turns, and a good follow up to Holy Island, the first in the series. And then, out of sequence I now realise, Gallowglass, as I'd enjoyed the Hanging Shed some while ago.
Am now well into Hell Bay and looking forward to seeing how the dog is going to fare. So far so good

[David]

Finished An Officer and a Spy while on flight to holiday.

Not overly impressed, but good enough to carry on to the end.

Started and finished The Enemy while away.

Excellent.

Started Run (which doesn't have a cover pic on GR for some reason).

Finished Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery which is very good indeed. Highly recommended, especially if you want to learn a great deal about brain tumours.

Just started Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still

[Kath]

Just finished Dark Pines by Will Dean. Dark, as it suggests, unsettling, and an excellent debut novel.

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[Patti (baconater)]

I started a book yesterday that Dave randomly put on my kindle a couple weeks ago cuz he thought I'd enjoy it.

At the Edge of the Orchard

So far, I'm enjoying it immensely.

[Benjamin]

I've just finished The Darkest Part of the Forest and started Use of Weapons.

[Kath]

I've read some Tracy Chevallier, Patti, though not this one. I like her writing style.

[Patti (baconater)]

I do, too. It's very clean.

Not sure if Ive read her before. I'll have a look at her backlist.

I think you'd enjoy this one. Can you reccie any of her others?

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh! She wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Don't think I've read it. I vaguely recall being bored to tears by the film.

[David]

Finished Run (no cover on GR). Moves along well enough to finish.

Just started - well, about over halfway through now - The Killing Of The Tinkers the 2nd in the series which is very good indeed so far. Ken Bruen is an excellent writer.

Although, from what I remember it is very different to the TV version, which was not in the same series order as the books anyway.

[Kath]

I enjoyed the book of The Girl with the Pearl Earring - also Remarkable Creatures. About female fossil hunters -Mary Anning being the most famous. When they took their observations to the Royal Society they had to wait outside on the stairs while they were discussed. Women not allowed!

[Daniella]

I just finished "The Woman in the Water" by Charles Finch It's the prequel to his wonderful Charles Lenox mystery series.
Here's my Goodreads review:
"The Woman In The Water" is a cerebral, polished and highly entertaining mystery. Charles Finch takes an introspective journey into the past to provide a richer portrait of Lenox and his fellow characters, whom readers have come to care for deeply. With master brushstrokes, Finch unravels a nuanced and intriguing puzzle that tests the mettle, intellect and youthful zeal of the detective on his first important case.

Just started "Midwinter Intrigue" by Tracy Grant It's part of her Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch historical mystery series

[Patti (baconater)]

Well, Dave was right. I loved it.
Don't recall the last time I binge read a book in less than 24 hours.

Gonna start The Light of the Fireflies, another he chose for me.

[Pam]

Finally got round to doing review for The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg and reviewing it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2318899866.

[Pam]

Also read The Best of C.L. Moore and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2334266276.

[Pam]

And The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons, and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2334278660.

[David]

Finished The Killing Of The Tinkers - excellent stuff.

Just about to start Sarum: The Novel of England, which is something like 900 DT pages.

I may be some time.