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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "I am constantly amazed at the erudition of your cats :-)"

To be fair, they just like being talked to, and your blogs are easier to read out loud (well, apart from Tallis) than the horror/thriller/crime that I would normally read

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have read the following since 1st January 2019

Inquisition - F.D. Gross

The Billionaire's Sham Girlfriend - Leslie North

The Billionaire’s False Fiancée - Leslie North

The Billionaire's Last Chance - Leslie North

Currently reading: Impeding Justice - M.A. Comley

[Pam]

Read Jane Yolen's short story collection, Tales of Wonder and reviewed it -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683850898.

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Jim wrote: "I am constantly amazed at the erudition of your cats :-)"

To be fair, they just like being talked to, and your blogs are easier to read out loud (well, apart from Tallis) than the horr..."

Tallis does tend to use long words and prefers to use two or three where one would do :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I call it lavender prose.

[Pam]

Read Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt the Night and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2442804694.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Jim wrote: "I am constantly amazed at the erudition of your cats :-)"

To be fair, they just like being talked to, and your blogs are easier to read out loud (well, ap..."

Its the unusual words i struggle with

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Its the unusual words i struggle with

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Look on the bright side, they're not so unusual any more and your cats can drop them into conversation and impress everybody :-)

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Deleter of Worlds wrote: "I call it lavender prose."

yes, far more refined than purple :-)

[Pam]

Read book 3 of Barbara Hambly's James Asher series - Blood Maidens and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2442822767. Not such a page turner as the first 2

[Jim]

Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Deleter of Worlds wrote: "I call it lavender prose."

yes, far more refined than purple :-)"

rather than just washed out?

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Impeding Justice - M.A. Comley

[Pam]

Read vol 5 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series The Kindred of Darkness and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2699419110.

[David]

Just finished The Bone Keeper , which was ok(ish).

Just started The One.

[Jess]

I just finished

and started

[Pam]

Read book 6 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Darkness on his Bones and reviewed it, explaining why I won't be bothering with any more of these - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2699418073.

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Just finished The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. Review link is below. I doubt very much I’ll be reading the sequal!

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

[Karen]

Got myself organised and stopped reading The Boy in the Snow while I went back and read the first in the series, White Heat, so now up to date and ready for the third! Great books, and I've learned a lot about Inuit life! don't think I'd survive the conditions very long.
For a complete change, I then read the wonderful blackly comic The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth, then on to a more conventional psychological thriller, Now You See Her which was a quick read.
Think I might start The Coroner's Daughter later, it looks intriguing.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished War yesterday, when I first picked it up I was a bit annoyed by my choice as the majority was Going Solo, but then I realised I didn't own that. I read it probably when I was a teenager, but felt it was a different experience now, especially reading that out of the 16 lads who went to pilot training, only 3 survived the war. Now started Life Support

[Jud]

I finished Nicholas Nickleby, I loved it, gave it 5 stars. , and started Mary Poppins on audible and the DTB The Man I Think I Know for our new book club one of the girls has started! I'm quite excited for it. We aren't meeting till 8th March though

[Fiona (Titch)]

Read and finished Tempting the Rancher - Leslie North

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Forgot, I also started Fancy meeting you here

[Pam]

Had a break from fantasy and SF to read Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707642291.

[Pam]

Also read a biography but didn't find it as interesting as I'd hoped - Bryan Magee's Growing Up in a War - and reviewed it -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707641176.

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Forgot, I also started Fancy meeting you here"

I trust that the cats approve :-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Forgot, I also started Fancy meeting you here"

I trust that the cats approve :-)"

Seem to be. I was baffled by sheep having more lambs than they have nipples, seems an odd thing for Mother Nature to allow

[Jim]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Jim wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Forgot, I also started Fancy meeting you here"

I trust that the cats approve :-)"

Seem to be. I was baffled by sheep having more lambs th..."

yes, farmers explain this by just shrugging and muttering 'sheep' as if this explains everything :-)

[David]

Just finished The One , which was very good indeed.

Just started The Force.

Also just finished Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence . Interesting bits of brain science with some jokes, A good read.

Just started The Great University Con: How we broke our universities and betrayed a generation.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by Will Self. Challenging!

Just started The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro.

[Karen]

Enjoyed The Coroner's Daughter tho you have to overlook the amount of times the lass was out and about on her own in 1816! That said, I hope there is another book in the offing.
Have now started Scrublands which is promising.
Delighted to see Jane Harper has another book out, The Lost Man, so may read that next. Loved her first two novels.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Read and finished Redeeming the Rancher - Leslie North

[Fiona (Titch)]

Read and finished Bad Billionaire - Julie Kriss

[Jud]

I finished Mary Poppins, I quite enjoyed it I was surprised at how different it was to the film, although I knew it would be. It was a lovely, lighthearted and short listen after Nicholas Nickleby. I would like to read the next one.

I also finished The Man I Think I Know wish was another lovely story but nothing groundbreaking. I feel like it has got it's acclaim purely because the story is based around the care of a man with a brain injury and how one man treats him like an average person. It doesn't sit easy with me the way this is portrayed, it may be true but that doesn't mean it is right and perhaps this is the genius of the book and the details are irrelevant. I found the writing a bit awkward at times and at one point I almost stopped reading, I only continued because it is for book club and I didn't want to not finish the book for my first meeting! It did improve from there though.

[Jud]

Now I've started All That Remains: A Life in Death (narrated by Sue Black herself) which is AMAZING! I think everyone should read it, although if you are squeamish you may want to skip the chapter with the details of the post death process. She is so candid and matter of fact throughout. It is making me fan girl over her, this is 5* material in my mind, I would love to know if the script for the audio book is exactly the same as the written book or if it has been altered to suit the narration better.

Also reading The Power which I'm really enjoying and if it continues the way it started I'll be giving it 5*'s.

[Jess]

Just finished The Mystery of the Yellow Room

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

and started A Twist in Time and Reckless

[Pam]

A catchup of recent reads -

Patricia Briggs' Raven's Strike - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2715528753

Clifford D Simak's City - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2726428122

Clark Ashton Smith's short story collection - The Abominations of Yondo - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2723480061

[Jim]

I tend to agree. Clark Ashton Smith's short stories are variable. I suspect they were churned out for the market at the and some are better than others

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Life Support on Wed, and started Written in Blood

[Jud]

I finished yesterday. It was really good but I feel the ending let it down so it only got 4* I would recommend it

I started , I forgot how much I love Wilkie Collins! 25% through already.

[David]

Just finished The Force which was rather good. Looking out for more from him.

Just about to start The Book Thief

[Pam]

Read Diana Wynne Jones' last book, completed by one of her sisters - The Islands of Chaldea - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2732386892.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Read and finished Confessions of a Wild Child - Jackie Collins & The Billionaire Bargain #1 - Sierra Rose

[Karen]

Well, Scrublands was ok but went on a bit. It did pick up the pace in the second half but think there were too many plot twists. Just finished What Dark Clouds Hide which was a bit disappointing as I usually enjoy her books. The whodunnit wasn't a surprise and the ending, well, it was a bit sudden as if she'd got fed up with writing it!
Think I'll start Amnesia as it's been on the To Read list since the start of 2018. I hadn't forgotten it...

[Jess]

Just finished A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

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

[Fiona (Titch)]

Read and finished Claiming the Cowboy - Leslie North

[Jim]

Just rereading Peter Pan

It seems to be the original version. I was loaned the book when I was perhaps seven or eight, devoured it during the course of an afternoon and evening, and haven't read it since
But of course I've seen the Disney version several times :-)

Fascinating to read the original, the subtle humour and the way Barrie talks to his reader :-)

[Natasha]

Just finished The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro, which I found pretty tedious.

Just started Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe for some light relief.

[Jud]

Just finished Summer at Lavender Bay, I don't recommend it. It was a very predictable, light hearted chick flick and I don't know if I'd have finished it if I hadn't given up on the book I was reading before this one. It was an okay story but there seemed to be a lot of places where she threw in random unnecessary descriptions.

I'm just surprised that he didn't propose in the end after what seemed like 3 days of dating, that's the way it was heading

[Carol]

Just finished Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa. Liked it but I feel like I'm missing part of the subtext, will read it again in the future.
Starting Strange Weather in Tokyo today.

[Nigel]

I recently finished Willy Vlautin's latest, Don't Skip Out on Mewhich I think will be my favourite read of 2019 (yes, already). It has many of his usual themes, wrapped up in a boxing novel of sorts. Emotionally charged and terribly moving throughout. I wanted to recommend it in case you've not read a book by Mr Vlautin before. The one I've picked up since isn't cutting the mustard, so I'll pass on letting you know about that one.