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[Jim]

I think they're a bit marmite. Like Stephen King is for me :-)

[Linda]

Just finisjed The Map of Salt and Stars and just started The Moonstone for Victober.

[Jud]

Kath wrote: "I only have 'ordinary telly' but in any case, I feel a film is always a weak reflection of a book. If I don't get on with the book I shan't bother with the film."

I have found, on occasion, where the book isn't great it can make a good film/TV series. Not always but sometimes. They don't stick with me the same way a good book does though so I will have to have a think to remind myself of an example (maybe that says it all!)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Come A Little Closer yesterday, didn't like the ending. Going to readWhat She Doesn't Know next

[Kath]

Just finished Two Miles Down by David McGowan. I've been reading his books for years (discovered him here, I believe). He usually wrotes sci-fi but this is more futuristic dystopian and I really enjoyed it.

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

[Kath]

Just read Force of Nature by Jane (The Dry) Harper. Didn't find it half as exciting. Didn't care who died!

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

[David]

Kath wrote: "Just read Force of Nature by Jane (The Dry) Harper. Didn't find it half as exciting. Didn't care who died!

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

Shame. I really liked The Dry.

[Kath]

Me too. Maybe my expectations were too high.

[Jud]

I've been reading the Bronze Horseman trilogy The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander and The Summer Garden.

The first two I really enjoyed and would give 4* to, maybe even 5.

The third book starts way back before the end of the 2nd book which was really weird at first but I soon forgot about it when I got in to the story. I'm at the final section of the book now and it has gone too far, I may not finish it. It's a real shame because I enjoyed the first two so much despite the questionable themes (Alexander is abusive towards Tatiana a fair few times and I would say she was raped several times but she doesn't seem to mind, apparently for her no really does mean yes...).

I loved the first two and I'm so disappointed in this. I bought my books secondhand and it turns out that the author has edited the second book to finish earlier so the third book flows on from it without jumping backwards in the story. Obviously she didn't plan for a trilogy and it definitely shows.

Sorry, this is turning into a bit of a review but I'm really frustrated by the last book.

[David]

Kath wrote: "Me too. Maybe my expectations were too high."

Maybe I'll like it then.

I always expect disappointment.

[Kath]

David wrote: "Kath wrote: "Me too. Maybe my expectations were too high."

Maybe I'll like it then.

I always expect disappointment."

Haha!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished What She Doesn't Know - really didn't guess the ending, lots of 'what' moments, think it will be a 4* book. Going to read Twisted next

[Pam]

Read book 2 in Tanya Huff's vampire series, Blood Trail and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539762383.

[Will]

Left the Iain M Banks as a DNF in the end

Started on a friend's book instead

The Birthday

[Jess]

Just finished The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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

and getting into The Girl in 6E

[Natasha]

Just finished The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. Lordy, that was a pointless slog. I agree with you, Kath!

Just started The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.

[Kath]

I loved The Red Tent. Speaks volumes about the lot of women and the sisterhood they shared.

[Jud]

Oh the red tent is one of my favourite books!!

[David]

Just finished A Man With One of Those Faces , which was very good. I'll be looking for the rest of the trilogy.

Just started Aztec.
Not sure about this at the beginning - very poor start.

But I'll give it a bit longer now it seems to have made a tentative stab at pondering if it should contemplate whether or not it could consider thinking about starting the story at some point in the near future.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Twisted last night, need to find a new book now, that goes with my colour challenge.

[Arbie]

I recently finished Little Fires Everywhere which was a different kind of read for me but I did end up enjoying it.

I'm now reading Yes Please on and off, moving through Boundless in Torment pretty quickly, and starting The Gray House for a bookclub read. I don't usually read more than one book at a time but I'm trying to read more.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Meh.

Just started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

[Kath]

Hmm. They say no two people read the same book. :)
Cloud Atlas is weird.

[David]

Just finished (re?)reading The Sailor on the Seas of Fate and I still can't remember if I've read it before or not.

What I have read a couple of times before and am now rereading is The Return of Reginald Perrin. If I remember correctly (see above) this is not as good as the 1st book, but better than the 3rd.

[Natasha]

Kath wrote: "Hmm. They say no two people read the same book. :)"

Love that!

Kath wrote: "Cloud Atlas is weird."

I'm rather hoping so.

[Pam]

Catching up on reviews - read Tanya Huff's Blood Lines, 3rd in her Vicki Nelson series, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2553418277.

[Pam]

Now reviewed the fourth volume of the Tanya Huff series - Blood Pact - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568234166.

[Pam]

Read and reviewed volume five of Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson series - that's the lot, won't bother to get number 6. Blood Debt - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2568266909.

[Tim]

Interesting, I've just started reading Tanya Huff, although her space opera series rather than urban fantasy.

[Jess]

Finished: Dracula

Started: Slade House The Good Immigrant War and Peace

[Kath]

Just read She Lies in Wait via Netgalley. This book promised so much. It was repetitive, to me, and didn't quite make it.

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

[Kath]

Just read She Lies in Wait via Netgalley. This book promised so much. It was repetitive, to me, and didn't quite make it.

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

[David]

Just finished The Hero With a Thousand Faces , which was very good and useful if you have an interest in story and where it comes from.

Just started Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Witnesses - a nice short read that I dragged out. Think I'm going to try and force myself to read the Freddie Mercury book while in the bath, save my M R James Ghost Stories till a bit closer to Halloween

[Kath]

Just started The Cold Years by Joel Hames. Shaping up.

[Alicia]

Finished a PD James, The Lighthouse, and liked it, but found it less artful than before I started writing - but I have to hand it to her: the clues were there, and I missed them. I get a bit lazy when I read mysteries - but I always check at the end to make sure the author did her job providing the clues.

[Pam]

Read a Witch World novel by Andre Norton, Year of the Unicorn and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716690839.

[Patti (baconater)]

I finished a book last night! Sai King's Christine.

Of course it was a re-read but I desperately needed a comfort book.
It took me three bedtimes to get through the final 10%!

Yeah, I'm not reading for pleasure much at all at the moment.

[Natasha]

Just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Weird indeed. Good weird. Wow.

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. Needing something rather lighter than the brain-taxing Cloud Atlas. ...

[Karen]

Have really enjoyed reading At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison, and All Among The Barley . A real breath of fresh air. I did finish but didn't think much of the v irritating The Girl Before. Girl indeed. Then the even more irritating Last Seen. Felt like shaking one or two of the characters... and far too tortuous and contrived plot twists.
Now I'm reading The Lollipop Shoes which is a delight - and a good seasonal read in the run-up to Christmas.

[Steven]

Just finnished heads you win by Jeffrey Archer and now reading the word is murder

[Jess]

Finished: The Good Immigrant
Started: A Murder in Time

[David]

Just finished rereading The Return of Reginald Perrin , which while not as great as the 1st book in the series is still good.

Just started rereading First Family. I reread the first in the series a few months ago and still liked it, so I thought I'd try this one too. I know the series goes off in the latter books, though.

[Will]

Patti, I love Christine. It was the book that first got me into King.

Presently reading The Sundowners, can't recall the writer. Reminds me pleasantly of Roy Clarke and Peter Tinniswood

[Kath]

Will wrote: "Patti, I love Christine. It was the book that first got me into King.

Presently reading The Sundowners, can't recall the writer. Reminds me pleasantly of Roy Clarke and Peter Tinniswood"

She's completely unmemmorable, I find. ;)

[Pam]

Forgot to post this review done a couple of weeks back for Ramsey Campbell's Nameless, The - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577164207.

[Pam]

Read Obsession by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577177885.

[Pam]

Read The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585625271.

[Pam]

Read book 2 of the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher, Fool Moon, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585728458.

[Will]

I'm a big Dresden fan. But avoid the DVD series.