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[Pam]

Just finished a Ramsey Campbell short story collection, Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2358402880.

[David]

Just finished rereading Cloud Warrior . It seems to have held up well since the last time I read it, even if the mutes are a tad over-Rousseaued.

Just started rereading The Drowned World.

[Kath]

Finished A Fractured Winter by Alison Baillie last night. Jolly unnerving!

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

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Dead Girls Can't Lie - debating between 2 and 3*, seemed a bit YA so was surprised to find the MC was 32, and was hard to work out where it was set. Bit too much backstory for me. Going to read In the Blood next, reading Chasing the Ripper but not enjoying it

[Natasha]

Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Wow. ...

Just started 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Not sure what to expect with this one. ...

[Will]

I've a couple of books on basic cosmology to start. I may be some time.

[Pam]

Read The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII edited by Karl Edward Wagner and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2358910497.

[Pam]

Read Rider at the Gate by C J Cherryh and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2228498910.

[L.A.]

Just finished the Reacher series, just started CJ Box's Picket series

[Patti (baconater)]

Ive been snatching a few minutes here and there to read some non-fiction I've got on my kindle app on my iPad.

I don't enjoy reading fiction on this screen at all but non-fiction works well.

[Patti (baconater)]

Sheesh. No one reading these days???

I finished Gathering Blue

It's a 'companion' book to The Giver, apparently.

I gave them both four stars. There was just a bit of something missing that kept them from five stars.

I've started The Secret Life of Bees which I thought I'd read before but no bells are ringing so far.

[Kath]

Loved The Secret Life...
Reading loads but mainly beta reading and they're not published yet.

[Patti (baconater)]

Yeah, expected that from you Kath.

I'm sure I'll be getting a huge TBR list off of you soon.

Stephen King has a new book coming out May 22nd.

Any hints on how I could get my hands on an advance copy?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

2 books finished this week, first was Chasing the Ripper 2* - I read a lot about Jack the Ripper, and do own the first book she wrote about him, but nearly didn't get past the prologue on this, and only did because it was short and my bathroom book. Shame, as I do like her as an author, but she has gone down a bit now.
Just finished In the Blood - 3* just because I found the flitting between past and present a bit confusing at times. Would read more though.

[Kath]

I doubt SK needs Netgalley, Patti. Probably doesn't need to send out advance copies.

[Pam]

Read the sequel to Rider at the Gate by C J Cherry - Cloud's Rider and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2228499001.

Also read: Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2370498624.

[Pam]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "2 books finished this week, first was Chasing the Ripper 2* - I read a lot about Jack the Ripper, and do own the first book she wrote about him, but nearly didn't get past the prolo..."

Is she the one who slashed a Sickert painting to pieces trying to prove her theory?

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just started The Complaints

[David]

Just finished Sarum: The Novel of England . A long book, but very good.

Just started Dead Men Whistling, the newest - and 9th - in the excellent Katie Maguire series.

[Pat ()]

Blue Mars Just finished Red Mars and Green Mars and starting Blue Mars. Listening to them this time read them years ago. Finding them different to what I remember. A lot slower, I think.

[Kath]

I do think books have become 'faster', Pat. Modern readers seem to demand action on every page, and authors throw in twists and turns just to wrong-foot the reader. '...with the shocking twist you won't see coming' is the strapline for so many books these days. Sometimes the slower pace gives you time to think.

[Pat ()]

Kath wrote: "I do think books have become 'faster', Pat. Modern readers seem to demand action on every page, and authors throw in twists and turns just to wrong-foot the reader. '...with the shocking twist you ..."

Yes, this is very true.

[Pat ()]

Perfect Prey and Perfect Death Excellent reads. Awaiting the next.

Also the amusing Chronicles of St Mary's.

[Daniella]

Just finished "The English Wife" by Lauren Willig

Here's my Goodreads review:
"The English Wife" is a like a finely woven piece of antique lace—delicate and intricate at the same time. Lauren Willig spins an intriguing mystery steeped in secrets and the morés of another time. The beautiful writing and attention to detail capture the reader's attention from the first page. Willig is an author of tremendous skill and imagination.

Just started "When Death Imitates Art" by P.D. Halt

[Pam]

Read Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2369821906.

[Pam]

Read a couple more:

The House on Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2376656367
and
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2376683257

[Daniella]

I just finished "When Death Imitates Art" by P.D. Halt

Here's my Goodreads review:
Gripping, fast-paced and drenched in suspense. P.D. Halt provides an intriguing glimpse into the dark side of the art world. "When Death Imitates Art" captures the reader's attention on page one and doesn't let go.

Just started "The Hellfire Club" by Jake Tapper

[Benjamin]

I've finished Red Sister (which wasn't bad, but has a bit of chosen-one syndrome going on) and started Michael McDowell's Blackwater: The Complete Saga

[David]

Fihnished From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds , which was pretty decent argument for the evolution of minds.

Just started Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior.

Seems as though a sort of evolutionary theme to my reading may be evolving here.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Notes From The Firehouse: Seventeen Firefighting Stories From A Retired Firefighter - definitely saw a different side of firefighters. Going to start The Neighbour next

[Pat ()]

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan Just finished this one and enjoyed it and the next in line too. Just finished listening to Alliance Stars by Michael Wallace. Space wars and enjoyable but the narrator was so wrong for this story. Which was a shame, I hope the next book is read by someone else. Due out next month.

[Pam]

Read Eclipse by Margaret Tabor - nothing about an eclipse, but more an alternative universe tale - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2378838777.

[David]

Just finished Dead Men Whistling . The ninth book in a great series. Waiting for the next one now.

Just started March Violets. Looking good so far.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Neighbour and The Complaints this weekend, started September Fair

[Daniella]

Just finished "The Hellfire Club" by Jake Tapper
It was excellent.

Here's my Goodreads review:
"A taut, tense thriller steeped in intrigue. Jake Tapper deftly weaves a story about the insidious and corrosive political landscape during the McCarthy era. There are eerie parallels to today's Washington. I couldn't put the book down."

Just started "Death on the Vine" by L. Lee Kane

[Jud]

I've read London: A Brief HistoryParis: A Brief History and Rome: A Brief History. I'm now onto New York: A Brief History, it's not so much a brief history as a brief over view of the recent past. They have been good, but they are so brief they are a bit of a waste of time. They only take 30 minutes or so to read though so didn't mind too much and now I can clear them from my 2011 list.

I also read The Mill on the Floss which took me forever seeing as I mostly read it during night feeds. Quite a depressing book really but I enjoyed it. I was stunned at the end

[Benjamin]

I've just finished The Last Days of New Paris (short but imaginative) and started The Raw Shark Texts

[Kath]

I read The Mill on the Floss at school. Enough said. That can kill any book.

[Jud]

Kath wrote: "I read The Mill on the Floss at school. Enough said. That can kill any book."

Too true.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "I read The Mill on the Floss at school. Enough said. That can kill any book."

for reasons I've never understood I was dumped in the CSE English Lit set, so we didn't read any book 'properly' as you had to for GCE. We just read books. So I read all sorts of stuff, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a real find

[Patti (baconater)]

I always took great delight in disecting books in school.

[Jim]

Due to these circumstances it's something I never did :-)

[Will]

It's a funny thing. School, GCSE, A levels, then an English Literature degree made it harder for me to read novels, but easier to appreciate poetry and Shakespeare.

Writing and editing my own books has made it even harder to read novels. I can't help reaching for the metaphorical red pen when I should be letting the story waft over me.

[David]

I always loved to read, but I loathed 'doing' books at school.

So, how I ended up several years later doing English and philosophy as a mature student was a bit of a mystery.

It didn't last long though.

[Lisa]

The thing I hated most was reading in class. I always used to read ahead silently, get lost and then get in trouble for "not paying attention".

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Lisa wrote: "The thing I hated most was reading in class. I always used to read ahead silently, get lost and then get in trouble for "not paying attention"."

Yes, I did that a lot.

[Lisa]

Yes, I always wanted to find out what happened next. :)

[Patti (baconater)]

Having to follow along with someone who isn't a fluent reader who is reading aloud can be really painful and frustrating for fluent readers.
I always do my utmost to group readers together properly and to look for cues from the kids if they're struggling.

In my opinion, reading should never cause stress in a child. If it does, the teacher needs to rethink their approach.

And sending a kid off to 'look at a book' as a punishment angers me no end.
I use that as a reward.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh and I've started reading The Other Boleyn Girl

Not something I'd ever considered reading, in spite of my mother and sister in law mithering me to try Gregory for years.

So far I'm finding it rather 'meh' but I'll probably stick with it.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Yep, if I go Tudor, I go Shardlake