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[Patti (baconater)]

Jud wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Yesterday one of my friends in Baku told me she has run out of books to read.

Can you imagine????"

Eh, what? I think she is deluded"

She's finally getting a kindle. And about time, too.

[Benjamin]

Erica wrote: "I absolutely love T Kingfisher's anthologies, I'm planning to buy the Halcyon Book of Tales soon. Can I recommend Rosamund Hodge's Short Stories too?
http://www.rosamundhodge.net/short-st..."

I'm planning to buy it soon as well! And thank you, I'll add her to my list.

[Kath]

The second in a crime series by Mark Fowler Blue Murder Great intrigue.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Actually, just changed my mind and now reading Islands

[Elizabeth]

Just finished Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff - second in his Nevernight trilogy. Very bloody but a must after the first. It didn't hurt that it's currently £1.99 on KIndle. Addict alert: the third book isn't out until September 2019.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Adorable!

Just started H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald--non-fiction in which the author addresses the grief of suddenly losing her father, by taking on the enormous task of taming a goshawk.

[Kath]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Adorable!


You must try The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Equally brilliant, if not more so.

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "You must try The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Equally brilliant, if not more so."

Already on my to-read list, Kath. Possibly after my current read :-)

[David]

Just finished Black Wood which was pretty good in the end.

Just started Seven Eves.

[Daniella]

Just finished "Magpie Murders" by Anthony Horowitz

Here's my Goodreads review:
Absolutely brilliant. Two mysteries laced together with such finesse to tease the reader's intellect. It is a delicious pleasure to unravel the tales one delicate strand at a time. Anthony Horowitz is a master storyteller.

Just started "The Paris Spy" by Susan Elia MacNeal

[Patti (baconater)]

Every time I look in this thread my TBR pile gets bigger.

[Pam]

Just read book 3 of the magic trilogy by Lyndon Hardy, Riddle of the Seven Realms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473327558.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I know the feeling Patti! I just finished Islands - thanks for the recommendation Kelly, I really enjoyed it, especially knowing so many of the places mentioned. Trying to finish my paperback this weekend, then not sure what to read next

[Natasha]

Alongside the unusual H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (the author trains a goshawk to address the grief she feels over her father's death), I am now reading The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce--companion book to the wonderful The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started Run for the Shadows glad I had a few hours spare, found it hard to put down. Just finished Last Witness found her style awkward. Think I'll read I'm Watching You next

[Kath]

Just finsihed a cracking book of short stories on the crime theme - Crime Bites

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[Kelly]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I know the feeling Patti! I just finished Islands - thanks for the recommendation Kelly, I really enjoyed it, especially knowing so many of the places mentioned. Trying to finish my..."
Ah, that is lovely, Desley. Gwyn was a journalist (actually still is - as she is now the JEP business editor) and was in Jersey, and reporting on, the issue in the book. x

[Kelly]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Started Run for the Shadows glad I had a few hours spare, found it hard to put down. Just finished Last Witness found her style awkward. Think I'll read [book:I'm Watch..."

Debs will be delighted. Glad you enjoyed it. x

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kelly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I know the feeling Patti! I just finished Islands - thanks for the recommendation Kelly, I really enjoyed it, especially knowing so many of the places ..."

Wow! Quite ironic about the flashbacks to 1976's heatwave as it is mentioned quite frequently at the moment, and heatwaves are also mentioned in Run for the Shadows

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kelly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Started Run for the Shadows glad I had a few hours spare, found it hard to put down. Just finished Last Witness found her style awkward. T..."

:) not quite finished yet, just read some while at thd vets!

[Kath]

Just finished The Wages of Sin by Bo Brennan. Stonking. Deals with subjects like grooming of young girls and FGM.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished Run for the Shadows really enjoyed it, 4* read. Going to read another of our authors next, Rachel Abbott.

[L.A.]

Halfway through 'The Party' by Elizabeth Day. The characters are developing and I am intrigued.

[Daniella]

Just finished "The Paris Spy" by Susan Elia MacNeal. It's part of her Maggie Hope spy/mystery series set in World War II.
Here's my Goodreads review:
Steeped in intrigue, "The Paris Spy" is a multilayered spy/mystery thriller that vividly depicts the fraught tensions and sacrifices made during World War II. I couldn't put this book down.

Just started "Death in St. Petersburg" by Tasha Alexander

[David]

Just finished How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking which was very good indeed, not least for including one of my favourite maths anecdotes - Abraham Wald and the bullet holes.

Just started The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1. This is a reread, but I first read it such a long time ago, it could count as a new read.

[Pam]

Read a fantasy series by R A MacAvoy which I really enjoyed:

Lens of the World - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2478479405.

King of the Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745

Winter of the Wolf - known in the USA as Belly of the Wolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745.

Then started reading some Mercedes Lackey -

By the Sword - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1423356426.

and an earlier book set in the same country/set up with two of the characters in their much younger days - The Oathbound - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520199

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Mercedes Lackey is one of my all time favourite authors. And those books are superb :)

[Kath]

Just finished Kelly Clayton's latest book under the name of Julia Hardy. Fortune's Hostage Change of genre but a good writer is a good writer!

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Just started The Puppet Show by M W Craven. Shaping up very well.

[Pam]

Read the second in the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey Oathbreakers - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520299.

[Natasha]

Just finished H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, which was OK.

Also just finished The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce, which was a great companion book to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

Just started In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

[Kath]

I've just finished The Puppet Show which is a top notch crime story with fabulous character.

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Just started a book for Netgalley The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruis Zafon. Love his books so I snapped this up when it was offered. It's long, though. I may be gone some time!

[Pam]

Read a collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey Werehunter and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498547334.

[David]

Just finished Snap . Another great one from her.

A five star job.

Just started Thud!.

[Elizabeth]

As soon as I finished Thud! I went out and bought Where's My Cow?...

[Kath]

We bought that for our son to read to our grandson!

[Karen]

finished Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy, which was terrific. I learnt a lot! Then just finished a relatively quick read, Take Me In which was entertaining if annoying. Have now started Our Friends in Berlin which I am struggling with a bit as the style is rather stilted. Hopefully it will get going soon so will persevere

[Pam]

Read Robert O'Brien's The Silver Crown and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2507174991.

[Jim]

Just finished Cryptonomicon

Cracking story, a good book for somebody who wants a long read :-) The story runs to over 900 pages and starts in Shanghai before the war and ends up in the Philippines soon

[Pam]

A re-read of the tense post apocalypse novel by Robert O'Brien, Z For Zachariah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391795001.

[Kelly]

Reading The Love Letter from Lucinda Riley. Fairly cracking through it - very enjoyable.

[Natasha]

Just finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, which will certainly stay with me for a while.

Just started The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Kill Me Again - found the last 50% so gripping that I barely noticed the bath had gone cold, and then had to finish the last half an hour.

I really want to read In Cold Blood.

[Kath]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Finished Kill Me Again - found the last 50% so gripping that I barely noticed the bath had gone cold, and then had to finish the last half an hour.

I really want to read In Cold B..."

I loved Kill Me Again. Love all her work actually.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Kath wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Finished Kill Me Again - found the last 50% so gripping that I barely noticed the bath had gone cold, and then had to finish the last half an hour.

I..."

Me too

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started I Am Watching You enjoying the mystery

[Natasha]

Just finished The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth. A twelve-year-old girl kisses another girl hours before her parents die in a car crash. She connects the two events in her mind. A book about growing up gay in the 1980s and 1990s in small-town America.

Just started The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.

[Pam]

Read book 1 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Shaman's Crossing and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405973336.

[David]

Just finished Thud! .

Where's my Cow?

Excellent.

Just started Blood Lines: An absolutely gripping thriller that will have you hooked.

[L.A.]

Just finished loved it and just started . So far so good!

[Pam]

Forgot to mention this collection, read between Z for Zachariah and Shaman's Crossing, by Charles Beaumont - Best of Beaumont - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2514502770.