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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "It's very hard to read when you are reading aloud, and as there weren't even commas, made for quite hard reading..."

I agree with you entirely, the punctuation is the..."

The odd thing is that it is one of my favourite traditional authors, and I've never noticed it before, so it is clearly deliberate.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Started At Risk yesterday

[Natasha]

Jim wrote: "Yes I vaguely remember Stig in the Dump. My sister was given a copy so I read that when I was about eleven or so :-"

I was about 11, too. Our school teacher read it to us. I'm curious to revisit it.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Jim wrote: "Yes I vaguely remember Stig in the Dump. My sister was given a copy so I read that when I was about eleven or so :-"

I was about 11, too. Our school teacher read it to us. I'm curious ..."

Not sure I ever read it, but think i watched it

[Pam]

I watched it, read it and a little while ago, re-read it!

[Pam]

Read Jim Butcher's Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2794063801.

[Pam]

Read Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2797908035.

[Jim]

Just read Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
I'd not seen the TV series
I enjoyed them, she writes them in an interesting manner, and it's stuff I can read without her style creeping into mine because I don't think I could comfortably copy her style even if I wanted to :-)

[Kath]

A Deficit of Bones is the latest corker from Lexie Conyngham. 19th Century crime in snowbound Aberdeen.
http://ignitebooks.blogspot.com/2019/...

[Kath]

Here's a nice selection of stories from Jim Webster, or should I say, poet Tallis Steelyard -
Tallis Steelyard. Deep waters, and other stories.

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.com/2019/...

[Jim]

glad you enjoyed them Kath

[Kath]

I always do!

[Pam]

Read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2804228573.

[Pam]

Read book 6 in Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Avatar, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2784951271.

[Karen]

I recently read Jane Harper's The Lost Man - don't think I've posted to say how much I enjoyed it. Certainly as good as her first, The Dry.
Have now started Ian Rankin's In a House of Lies which I've been saving... so far so good.

[David]

Just finished Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything .

Pretty good stuff - if you like the podcast, you'll like this and vise-versa.

Just started The English and their History

[Kath]

The final book in Allie Cresswell's Highbury trilogy was published last week. Dear Jane: The final book in the Highbury Trilogy, inspired by Jane Austen's 'Emma'. The three books give a back-story for many of the characters simply sketched out or mentioned in the original. I found all three very satisfying reads.

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.com/2019/...

[Kath]

Morning. Just pootling about with reviews and now I'm going to write something.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Think you’re in the wrong thread Kath ;)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Killing Art and started Darkhouse

[Kath]

Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Think you’re in the wrong thread Kath ;)"

I sometimes wonder if I'm in the wrong life!

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Think you’re in the wrong thread Kath ;)"

I sometimes wonder if I'm in the wrong life!"

you never know, if you ever have an early night and a good night's sleep, you might wake up in the right one :-)

[Kath]

I'll give it a go. 😁

[Pam]

Read the final volume in the Midori Snyder trilogy - Beldan's Fire - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2809469878.

[Pam]

Also re-read the first volume in the Isaac Asimov Foundation trilogy - Foundation - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2810631818.

[Natasha]

Just finished But She Is My Student by Kiki Archer. Imagine kissing someone in a club at the weekend ... to find that person in the classroom at your first teaching job on Monday morning. ...

Just started Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why by Greta Christina, which is like a sociological study of the US. Most people actually believe in a God there.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read and finished the following:

The Jameson Brothers - Leslie North

The Facilitator, part 2 - Tracie Podger

The Santangelos - Jackie Collins

Tempting Christa - Tracie Delaney

[Pam]

Re-read book 2 of Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Foundation and Empire and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2810634045.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "Re-read book 2 of Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Foundation and Empire and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."

your comments about the science, and small nuclear weapons etc are interesting
Some of it is a product of the time of writing. I can remember Buck Rogers using 'nuclear hand grenades'. This probably comes from the fact that in the 1950s there was a move to smaller, man-portable nuclear weapons, such as the Davy Crockett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Cr...

I know there was stuff in the SF literature at the time that they could get the weapon smaller when they worked out how to create 'fields' to contain the blast. Also I think there was an assumption that they'd produce nuclear weapons with less radiation and more blast.
But fortunately that's not the way the research went, something we have the various nuclear treaties to thank for :-)

[Pam]

Thanks Jim, that's interesting context. I didn't have such a problem with this in book 2, it was the idea of atomic powered kitchen knives, washing machines et al in book 1 that I found ridiculous. It didn't bother me enough to be irritating in the second volume.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "Thanks Jim, that's interesting context. I didn't have such a problem with this in book 2, it was the idea of atomic powered kitchen knives, washing machines et al in book 1 that I found ridiculous...."

It is fascinating how science and technology have advanced as opposed to how they were supposed to :-)

[Kath]

Fourth in a series here, but you could read them as stand-alones. No More Lies by Robert Crouch. I love this series, crime mixed with humour - they're more a mystery series as it's an environmental health officer rather than an officer of the law who gets involved.

http://ignitebooks.blogspot.com/2019/...

[Jud]

Finished 2 books in work today! The Dark Deeps and Signs and Wonders. Yesterday I finished The Shadow of Black Wings which I really enjoyed and will look out the next in the series once I've worked through a bit more of my TBR pile.

Of late I've finished 4 of my books from 2011 and 3 from 2012, only a couple of hundred to go :o) Probably time to read some of my more recently purchased books.

On to the next Fiji

[Jim]

Jud wrote: "Of late I've finished 4 of my books from 2011 and 3 from 2012, only a couple of hundred to go :o) Probably time to read some of my more recently purchased books.."

any decade now you might discover me :-)

Just out of curiosity, how big a 'too be read pile' do people have on their Kindle?

[Kath]

I only buy when I've read the previous one. Even if I miss a freebie. A big tbr pile accuses me and I quake under its tyranny.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "I only buy when I've read the previous one. Even if I miss a freebie. A big tbr pile accuses me and I quake under its tyranny."

I'm like that with ebooks on the kindle, so far :-)

[Pam]

I have a lot of books stacked up on Kindle including ones from authors on this group (***guilt***) but I have been trying hard the last few years to read and get rid of a large number of mostly science fiction and fantasy paperbacks. All books I want to read but for the most part am finding I don't want to keep and re-read. So a lot of my TBR consists of old books I'm afraid.

[Jim]

Pam wrote: "So a lot of my TBR consists of old books I'm afraid. .."

Don't be afraid, there is a lot of damned good stuff on our shelves already :-)
I suspect I might read The Complete Lyonesse AGAIN this year :-)

[Kath]

Just finished The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Fabulous. Heartily recommended.
http://ignitebooks.blogspot.com/2019/...

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jim wrote: "Jud wrote: "Of late I've finished 4 of my books from 2011 and 3 from 2012, only a couple of hundred to go :o) Probably time to read some of my more recently purchased books.."

any decade now you m..."

Too big! And i keep making it worse with bargains

[Pam]

Read Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2816412565.

[Natasha]

Just finished Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why by Greta Christina.

Just started The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson. Only just discovered there's a sequel to The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Hurrah!

[Kelly]

Just finished The Backpacking Housewife by Janice Horton. Really enjoyed it. It's a romantic adventure (didn't even know that was a genre). Really enjoyed it. Perfect read when lounging about on recent holiday.

[Pam]

Read Nora Robert's The Obsession and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818639873.

[Jud]

I've read your Justice 4.1, I loved it but I haven't got around to the Port Nain stuff :o) I do intend on reading them though.

[Jud]

I have over 350 books on my Kindle that I haven't read yet... I won't read them all because a load of them will be nonsense (like that Fiji one I started on Friday).

[Kath]

The Port Naain stuff is brilliant, Jud. I feel quite at home there now.

[Jud]

Ashamedly, I have only just bought it there now, plus the cartographers apprentice. I've bought a few new books lately (curses to late night insomnia shopping) so I think I'll need to reshuffle my TBR list.

[Jud]

Just finished Flotsam or Jetsam :o) I've been productive in work today.

Just started The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More.

You griped at the right moment Jim, I was in between books at the time!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jud wrote: "I have over 350 books on my Kindle that I haven't read yet... I won't read them all because a load of them will be nonsense (like that Fiji one I started on Friday)."

I dread to think how many I have, although like you say, not all the freebies will be worth reading.