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[David]

Just finished Play Dead which I thought was the best of the series I've read so far. A 5*.

Just started Going Postal.

Just finishedSpent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior which was pretty good.

Just started 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

[Kath]

Just finished Books 2 and 3 in a trilogy I started before I went away. They're brilliant, thought-provoking and there are some very pointed nods in the direction of our current political leaders in Book 3. They will stand to be read alone but as usual, you get better depth of character if you follow them through. The first is The Hack, second The Hunter: International Crime Thriller and the third is The Hangman: International Crime Thriller

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

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

[Kath]

I've just reviewed Game Players by Anita Waller. I've read a couple of her books and like her style. Had reservations about the dialogue here between 9-11 year olds. Sounded a bit stilted. Story great, though.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I loved his other books I read back in the day. Especially The Crysalids.
Watching The Twilight Zone has made me nostalgic for olde time pulp fiction, so I sought out a Wyndham I hadn't read.

Perh..."

Believe Chocky was meant to be a children's book - they made a TV version shown on children's TV years ago, think BBC.

[Pam]

Read Andre Norton's Moon of Three Rings and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2397523288.

[Pam]

Read The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon - started off really interesting but went down the tubes suddenly in the last third or so - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2397522524.

[Patti (baconater)]

Pam wrote: "Read The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon - started off really interesting but went down the tubes suddenly in the last third or so - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.c..."

Thanks Pam. I shan't be seeking that one out!

[Patti (baconater)]

Pam wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I loved his other books I read back in the day. Especially The Crysalids.
Watching The Twilight Zone has made me nostalgic for olde time pulp fiction, so I sought out a Wy..."

Wow, really? I wonder how the kids at school here would get on with it. Not well, I expect.

[Jud]

I just finished Riven and started 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle.

I really enjoyed Riven but anyone who dislikes reading about religion and specificially Christianity probably wouldn't enjoy it so much.

101 things is okay so far. For some reason the author will explain the meaning of one gaelic word but not another and some of the writing is very amateur but it is interesting enough and you could easily follow up any section with your own research or another book.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Only Time Will Tell and when June starts, will read the second book. Till then, trying to finish Littlefield: The Red Church / Drummer Boy - been reading it since March, not sure why I keep persevering actually.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've got 9% of the King left.

I'm down to reading a half page at a time.

Argh!!!

I pity the book I read after this one.

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Warrior Wench by Marie Andreas. The dreadful title is an in-joke which can only be appreciated if you read the book - and because of it I nearly didn't! Anyway, Andre Norton meets Elizabeth Moon (Vatta's War) and I rather enjoyed it, so will read the second in the series.

[Patti (baconater)]

Hmm. You've just mentioned two of my favourite fantasy authors, so I'm gonna have to check it out.

Yes, in spite of the title.

[Kath]

Just reviewed Zip! Zap! Boing! by our own Andrew Lawston. It's a great comedy romp of a space opera. There'll be more and I'll be reading it!

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

[Benjamin]

I've finished Andrew Caldecott's Wyntertide: Rotherweird Book II (think whimsical gothic fantasy in the style of Gormenghast) and started John Harwood's The Ghost Writer.

[David]

Just finished Going Postal Which I thought was excellent. 5*

About to start The Dry

[Kath]

David wrote: "Just finished Going Postal Which I thought was excellent. 5*

About to start The Dry"

I loved both of these - in very different ways!

[Pam]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "I loved his other books I read back in the day. Especially The Crysalids.
Watching The Twilight Zone has made me nostalgic for olde time pulp fiction, so I sou..."

I looked up the Chocky TV series on Youtube - the series was made by Thames TV in fact, not the Beeb - link to the first episode. Be warned that the title sequence is rather 'screamy' and loud on YT.

The opening scene is historical indeed - set in the London Planetarium, which is no more - think it was taken over by Madame Tusade's next door which is also mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GEICZux9Jg.

[David]

Kath wrote: "I loved both of these - in very different ways! "

Yes. I'm a few chapters into The Dry now and it is looking good.

One thing I do like to do is read a book that is very different from the one I've just read whenever possible.

[Natasha]

Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. ... Good grief. What was that about? ...

Just started Chariots of The Gods? by Erich von Däniken. Bonkers. Liking it.

[Jim]

Good grief, it must be 1970 I read Chariots of the Gods! As you say, Bonkers
Mind you it inspired me to read a lot of ancient history :-)

(apparently a lot of this stuff actually goes back to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I read that as a teenager and I remember thinking it was fiction. When I realised it was supposed to be fact I was totally slumguzzled!

[Natasha]

Jim wrote: "As you say, Bonkers
Mind you it inspired me to read a lot of ancient history :-)"

I can see I'm in for a trippy ride. ...

[Kath]

I loved American Gods. Bought Chariot OTG last year for research purposes. Kept wondering what he was on, and whether I could afford a pint of it!

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "I loved American Gods."

I feel I would have enjoyed it if I'd had a clue what was going on. ...

[Patti (baconater)]

Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "I read that as a teenager and I remember thinking it was fiction. When I realised it was supposed to be fact I was totally slumguzzled!"

Slumguzzled is a great word.

[Benjamin]

I liked American Gods as well - and the sequal, Anansi Boys. I met Gaiman on the signing tour of that one.

[Pam]

Read Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2409078286.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "Read Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."

interesting
I wonder if the author, being a historian, didn't feel it was within his competence to provide a psychological explanation but instead to provide the broader explanation?
The wiki entry about him is interesting in this regard

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

[L.A.]

#just finished just started . Re-reading these Peter James books and really enjoying them again.

[David]

Just finished The Dry . Very good indeed. Five stars.

Just about to start
Children of Time

[Pam]

Read Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2413420051.

Then back to fiction with Grave Concerns, book 2 in the Drew Slocombe cosy crime series by Rebecca Tope, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2409077080.

[Natasha]

Just finished Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken, which was fun.

Just started The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn. Non-fiction story of the cult leader. Good stuff.

[Benjamin]

I've finished Anne-Marie Mclemore's queer magical realist novel Wild Beauty, and started reading The House Next Door

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

L.A. wrote: "#just finished just started . Re-reading these Peter James books and really enjoying them again."

Ooh, not read those.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm about halfway through Into the Free and quite enjoying it.
It's heavy on christianity and bible quotes, which I usually get very impatient with but its not detracting from the story too much.

It very much fits the sub genre of books set in the southern United States.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finally finished Littlefield: The Red Church / Drummer Boy really not sure why I have persevered so long, and not sure whether to read any of his other books. Now started The Sins of the Father already 12% in

[Kath]

I enjoyed The Red Church.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kath wrote: "I enjoyed The Red Church."

That's the one I struggled with the most!

[Kath]

Good job we're not all the same!

[Pam]

Reading a fantasy trilogy by R A MacAvoy. So far read books 1 and 2: Damiano - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381969927 and Damiano's Lute - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381970298.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Good job we're not all the same!"

it is indeed
There are people out there whom I know, like and respect but I long ago discovered I never enjoy their book recommendations
It's just life :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

I finished Into the Free. Meh. Three stars.

Too bible thumpy and woe is me. The ending was rushed and could be seen from a hundred miles away. I won't be reading anything else by her, although it was generally well written.

I've started Circe. Only one chapter in and I'm already hooked.

I love a good myth, me.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn. ... OMG. ... Am now obsessively googling all footage. Photos, videos, audio recordings. Horrific. And addictive. ...

Just started Infinite Love is the Only Truth: Everything Else is Illusion by David Icke for another round of educational bonkers. ...

[David]

Just finished Children of Time which was very good indeed.

Highly recommended, but perhaps not for arachnophobes.

Just started If Angels Fall.

[David]

Just finished 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos . Very good.

Just starting Man's Search for Meaning.

[Pam]

e-read book 1 of Mary Renault's two book series based on the myth of Theseus - The King Must Die: A Novel - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2423816387.

[Kath]

I love Mary Renault's books.

[Jim]

yes she's very good

[Elizabeth]

Haven't read her books for years, but she was one of my favourites.