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[Tim]

The TV series is okay, but best treated as 'based on' rather than gospel.

[Kath]

While we were away I finished The Unexpected Genius of Pigs via Netgalley. It was okay but felt like magazone articles cobbled together.

Also finished Goth of Christmas Past by Debbie McGowan. Much more to my taste.
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[Pam]

Read Alan Nourse's short story collection, The Counterfeit Man and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391800084.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished an M R James collection that I can't link to, found it very hard to read, which I didn't expect as I've read a few of his. Also struggled to finish LIFE, ART AND FREDDIE MERCURY: 1968-70 which I only finished because I love Freddie Mercury and was curious about his early life, but it could do with a good edit, random italics and things like 'I forgot I had committed herself to attend' Going to read Veiled Eyes next

[Pam]

Finished Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2590832124. Sadly, didn't love it as much as I usually enjoy her books.

[Kath]

Just finished two really great books - entirely different!

Dead Crow by David Haynes - fantastic horror with a touch of sci-fi.

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And The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen. A Book Group choice which I doubt I'd have come across.

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[Will]

Enjoyed Kath's The Sundowners, now starting a Conan The Barbarian collection I got free.

[Kath]

Thank you, young man. I think Conan will be a total contrast!

[Will]

Old ladies can be quite bloodthirsty in my experience.

I did rate & review on Goodreads, but thought I had better leave Amazon alone right now, even though it was a verified purchase

[Kath]

I totally understand. Thanks for the GR review. Made my day!

[Pam]

Read Diana Wynne Jones' Conrad's Fate and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914572834.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. No idea what that was about.

Just started The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. Wow. ...

[David]

Just finished Aztec which was good enough to read to the end (of quite a big book), but not good enough to enthuse over to any great extent.

Just started At the Wedding.

[Pam]

Read Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2595339121.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

Just started Night by Elie Wiesel.

[Will]

Happily ploughing through The Complete Conan collection I nabbed free a week or so ago

[Pam]

Read The Other by Thomas Tryon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2595338387.

[Natasha]

Just finished Night by Elie Wiesel, a real life account of life in Auschwitz concentration camp. Horrendous, of course.

Just started A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre.

[Pam]

Finished Cards of Grief by Jane Yolan - my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2603217174.

[Will]

Finished Lies Sleeping solid rather than spectacular.

Now on The Accusers

[David]

Finished At the Wedding which was... so so.

Just started January Window.

[Jess]

Finished - The Unseen
Started - The Good Girl

[Pam]

Finished book 1 of Jane Yolen's series, Sister Light, Sister Dark - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606476310.

[Jud]

I've started You Were Gone on audible and I think if it wasn't an audiobook I would have given up by now. It's predictable and the narrative is irritating at times. I wouldn't recommend it, I'll probably keep listening to it as it takes no effort, hopefully the ending is good

[Jud]

I may not even finish it on audible. It's a struggle

[Natasha]

Just finished A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre, which was a solid witty crime thriller.

20% into The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence. Very enjoyable.

[Martin]

Tend to switch between fiction and non fiction. Just finished The Korean War by Max Hastings. At least I now know the causes of the current situation of the Korean Peninsula. Just started The Passage by Justin Cronin, that’s a book that gets behind your eyes. Quite a grim read but engaging.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence, which was sweetly enjoyable.

Just started Preferred Risk by Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey, a dystopian novel published in 1955.

[Natasha]

Just finished Preferred Risk by Frederik Pohl & Lester del Rey, which was bonkers.

Just started The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, which could be life-changing.

[Pam]

Finished Jane Yolen's White Jenna but was as unimpressed as with volume one - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2617947137.

[Pam]

Read a historical crime novel set in the English Civil War - The Royalist by S J Deas - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2628656488.

[David]

Just finished Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Another excellent Pinker book - 5 stars.

About halfway through This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor. Very good, very funny so far.

[Jud]

Finally finished listening to You Were Gone, it was almost painful. I feel bad because I could never write a novel and I'm sure the author put in a lot of hard work but I found it so irritating. He didn't let the suspense build up, he kept pointing out the obvious and saying what didn't need said.

I had no inkling that it was the 9th in a series though! I was surprised but that is about the only good thing I have to say about it. Well, that and the story line concept was brilliant but just not executed as well as it could have been, except for the ending, the "twist" at the end had me rolling my eyes.

This wasn't for me. I wouldn't have finished it if I was reading the hard copy, I only finished it because it was on audible. The narrator was really good.

[Patti (baconater)]

I actually have an update for in here!

During the long journey here I read Vernon God Little

Was a reccie from a new friend/colleague. He actually gave me a DTB copy but I downloaded onto my kindle, of course.

Weird book. Really good imagery but a really weird book.

This morning I started The Space Between Us

Excellent so far.

[David]

Just finished This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Which was very good.

Just about to start The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money.

[Kath]

Just finished a short, seasonal funny from Jonathan Hill. Mo Mo Mo! Merry Christmas, Maureen!. Daft and, as always, slightly bitter-sweet in places.

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[Jessica]

I just finished A Touch of Death by Rebecca Crunden, and went straight into the next one A History of Madness. Really great adult dystopias, and have the next two on the Kindle awaiting my arrival!

[Natasha]

Just finished The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben. Great information, but too much meandering detail.

Just started Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A land with only women in it, that gets invaded by three young men. Written in 1915. A quarter of the way through. Really enjoying it so far.

[Pam]

Read book 2 of the S J Deas Civil War series, The Protector, but didn't find it quite came up to the first - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2636045764.

[Pam]

Read book 1 of a series which seems to straddle fantasy and SF genres - The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639478127.
The Boy with the Porcelain Blade

[David]

Just finished rereading First Family , not as good as the first one, but good enough to continue rereading the series with the next one sometime.

Just started rereading (again) The Inimitable Jeeves, which is Wodehouse and therefore an excellent thing.

[Kath]

Night Watcher by Chris Longmuir is a creey stalking story - but who is stalking whom?

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[David]

Just finished The Pagan Lord - pretty good.

Just started The Night Gardener

[Natasha]

Just finished feminist Utopian novel from 1915, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Now dipping into a work book, Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript by David Herman.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Don't think I've been that good at keeping up recently, read the short story by Stephen King that Patti posted on Sun, finished Genesis. Started The Husband today, hoping to start 2 more tomorrow.

[David]

Finished The Night Gardener - pretty good.

Just started Tuesday Falling.

[Kath]

I loved Tuesday Falling.

[Pam]

Catch up - read Keith Badman's Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639561849 and
The One-Armed Queen by Jane Yolen - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2628671752.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started BRITISH MYSTERIES - Boxed Set: 40+ Thriller Classics, Detective Novels & Crime Stories: The Mill House Murder, Dead Men's Money, The Paradise Mystery, ... Sea Fog, The Solution of a Mystery… - at 7773 pages, suspect it will take most of the year to read!

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Just started Order! Order! Order! The rise and fall of political drinking. Most entertaining so far.