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[Jud]

Just finished The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More, long time overdue buying and reading these last books :o) and now I'll have to read the rest.

Going back to my newly shuffled TBR list so it's Storm Damage next.

[David]

Just finished A Column of Fire , book 3 of the Kingsbridge series - as good as the others.

Just started The Butterfly Garden

[Jud]

I loved the Kingsbridge series!

[David]

Jud wrote: "I loved the Kingsbridge series!"

Yes.

It has been very good so far, I think.

I don't know if he is planning to take it any further though. I hope he does.

[Jim]

Jud wrote: "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."

I must do something with the SF Stuff as when Safkhet went down it was unpublished, so I really need to put it up again

[Jud]

You should!

I've read Flotsam or Jetsam now too :o)

[Natasha]

Just finished The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson. It was good, but not a patch on the original.

Just started Women Invent the Future: A Science Fiction Anthology by Madeline Ashby, Anne Charnock, Molly Flatt, Cassandra Khaw, Becky Chambers, Liz Williams, Walidah Imarisha.

[David]

Finished The Butterfly Garden .

As others have said - an excellent thing.

Now about halfway through Bodies: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty.

Good so far.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Darkhouse couldn't tell you much about it, only finished it because it hit lots of targets for a challenge. Read the first chapter of Hour Game - not looking forward to a 700+ page paperback

[Natasha]

Just finished The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp. A book from my childhood. Wonderful ending.

Just started Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking the New Testament by C.J. Werleman.

[Pam]

Read The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839047767
and
Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2819905541.

[David]

Finished Bodies: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty .

Very good.

Just started The Passengers.

[Pam]

Just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2840839587.

[David]

Just finished The Passengers . As good as the first one. This one has elements that refer back to The One, so it could be worthwhile to read that one first, but not essential.

Just about to start Red Seas Under Red Skies

[Pam]

A catch-up on my last 2 reads:

Phil Rickman's The Wine of Angels - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839108055

and
The Terminal Velocity of Cats by Carol Westron - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849651732.

[Natasha]

Just finished Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking the New Testament by C.J. Werleman.

Just started The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth. Looking forward to a good thriller!

[Kath]

I'm catching up on three reviews for recently-read books.
Treble Clef by Malcolm Hollingdrake. #8 in a series of crime stories set in Harrogate, and they're most unusual.

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Queen of the Warrior Bees by Jean Gill, which is very good YS fantasy and first in a proposed series.

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And finally for the sci-fi readers (I can't be the only one!) there's Transformation Protocol by David M Kelly, a Yorkshireman now living in Canada.

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[Pam]

Read The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852179688.

[Kath]

Just finished The Daughters of Ironbridge by Mollie Walton, pen name of Rebecca Mascull. Brilliant first book in a historical saga.

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[Pam]

Read Rebecca Tope's Peril in the Cotswolds and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852307721.

[Kath]

Newly published today - Recursion by Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter. He's done it again.

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[Natasha]

Just finished The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth, which was brilliantly entertaining.

Just started Beartown by Fredrik Backman.

[Pam]

Read Ian Rankin's Set in Darkness and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2855932448.

[Kath]

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne is such a good story. Brilliant characters in a twisted world of authors and publishers.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Dark House - wasn't easy to hold a 726 page paperback, but was a quick read. Started Deception, wish I'd bought Cruelty instead of War.

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The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI

[Jess]

Just finished The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

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Just Started: The Passage

[Pam]

Read The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2859224316.

[Jud]

Just finished One Day, I was not happy with the ending and I have started The Knife of Never Letting Go

[David]

Just finished rereading And Another Thing and just started rereading The Grapes of Wrath

[Leslie]

From the sublime to the ridiculous???

[Kath]

Andy Barrett's latest, The Death Of Jessica Ripley is launched today, though it's been out for a couple of days. It's jolly spiffing - a real roller-coaster of a book.

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[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished Deception last night, quite enjoyed it, I hadn’t read many of the stories before. Started Kane and Abel this morning.

[Pam]

Read Rebecca Tope's A Death to Record and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946597025.

[Pam]

Read A Sudden Wild Magic by Dianna Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867985171.

[Will]

Love Diana Wynne Jones' stuff. If any writers haven't seen it, her Tough Guide to Fantasyland is a hoot.

Just been reading The Vinyl Detective series. Not a 5* collection, but great fun as detective stories with a musical edge

[Jud]

Finished The Knife of Never Letting Go and Secrets From The Dust. I really enjoyed both, I recommend Secrets from the Dust

[Natasha]

Just finished Beartown by Fredrik Backman, which was knockout.

Just started Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better by Brant Hansen.

[Bernie]

Just finished The Yorkshire Pudding Club. Loved all the Briticisms and witticisms. Will follow this author and look for more books. A brilliant read.

[Kath]

Catching up again - St. Benet's by David Blake. And enjoyable romp in the realms of Satanic nastiness. Norfolk Broads crime.
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Cosy crime from Alice Castle in The Body in Belair Park. Funny and wise.

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I also read The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. It's been raved about by many people but I couldn't stand the style. When I read that it was her first novel and she'd been a screenplay writer it clicked into place.

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[Jud]

Finished The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women which I recommend, Saturday Night at Eddie's which also was good and The Shadow of the Wind which I LOVED! I've been meaning to read that one for years and finally found a copy in the charity shop :o)

[Kath]

I loved that (TSOTW) Jud, but the last in the series I really didn't enjoy. If I hadn't been reading it for Netgalley I'd have ditched it.

[Jud]

Just finished Outlander, I have been meaning to read it for years and finally got around to it :o). I was a little disappointed with it (more the writing than the story) so I don't know if I'll read more of the series. I did laugh out loud when Claire shouted "Erin go bragh" at a bunch of drunk Scotsmen who were molesting her. She either didn't research her gaelic translations properly or she is a passionate advocate for Irish independence.

Also finished Seven Continents: A Travel Memoir which was rubbish, I found it really obnoxious and preachy.

Finally read The Shadow of the Wind, another one I've been meaning to read for years :o) Loved it.

Water for Elephants was a slow starter and a bit of a damp squib, I don't recommend it. I'll have to watch the film, maybe it is one of the rare instances where the film is better than the book.

I also recommend The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.

I've started Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two which started off as rubbish but is getting better. And The Unbroken Line of the Moon which I'm loving at only 6% in.

[Natasha]

Just finished Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better by Brant Hansen, which was more of a Christian tract than actual pointers on how to be unoffendable.

Just started Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women by Candace Walsh and Laura André.

[Jud]

Finished Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two, it was good but it's weird reading a play without all the context around the dialogue that a novel gives you. Still really want to go see it.

[Jud]

Finished The Unbroken Line of the Moon which I really enjoyed. Started and finished The Sister, it was good too.

Now I've started The Secret Garden and no doubt I'll finish that in an hour or two. I'll have to decide what to read next.

[Kath]

Just read XX by Angela Chadwick. Speculative fiction but with very far-reaching consequences. Brill stuff.

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[Pam]

Didn't get time to post links to these reviews written over a week ago:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1389245412.

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404851594.

[Jud]

Finished The Secret Garden and started and finished Children on Death Row, Holocaust and Beyond, it wasn't great. Needs a native English speaker to go through and edit it, at one point a couple "gave up on saving their daughter" I'm pretty sure that's not what was meant.

Started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I'm only 10 years behind the masses

[Kath]

Finished The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths. It seems to have had several covers in its short life! Brilliant story, though.

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