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[Mo]

I have just finished The Big Ben Mystery, Black Rock Prison volumes 1 and 2 (3 not out yet in English)and The Last Game All by Fernando Trujillo Sanz. All seriously weird but very good. I think I got the first for nothing and just happened to read it. I have not quite organised my reading since Christmas but will maybe happen upon something else hopefully as enjoyable. That is always a bonus.

[Philip (sarah)]

Read Fractured Lives and really enjoyed the variety of stories.Finished early though with chapters from next book!

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I've read three Agatha Raisins in a row, but then they started to depress me.

Then I bought and read a Donna Fasano romance, Take Me, I'm Yours, which was light and enjoyable.

Now I've gone right to the beginning of my kindle list on manage my kindle and downloaded a few books that I'd bought in 2010 when my first got my kindle. Not sure what I fancy reading first, but they will help me with my 2013 reading challenge!

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[[deleted user]]

I've read three Agatha Raisins in a row, but then they started to depress me.

Then I bought and read a Donna Fasano romance, Take Me, I'm Yours, which was light and enjoyable.

Now I've gone right to the beginning of my kindle list on manage my kindle and downloaded a few books that I'd bought in 2010 when my first got my kindle. Not sure what I fancy reading first, but they will help me with my 2013 reading challenge!

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[Kath]

Ha! I only managed three Agatha Raisins - then I wanted to scratch me own eyes out! All depressingly similar. I've nearly finished (98%) The 24 Hour Jazz Cafe. It's a bit good!

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Ignite wrote: "Ha! I only managed three Agatha Raisins - then I wanted to scratch me own eyes out! All depressingly similar. I've nearly finished (98%) The 24 Hour Jazz Cafe. It's a bit good!"

Her obsession with selfish men is depressing me!

[Freddiesmum]

Karen (Kew) wrote: "Ignite wrote: "Ha! I only managed three Agatha Raisins - then I wanted to scratch me own eyes out! All depressingly similar. I've nearly finished (98%) The 24 Hour Jazz Cafe. It's a bit good!"
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I found Agatha Raisin annoyed the heck out of me and I gave her up as a very bad habit !!
I have just bought all 6 of the 'School for' books that are in the sale...I hope I like those..they look like I will as I am a bit..[no, quite a large actually] closet fan of Regency novels...dont tell anyone...lol

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Freddiesmum wrote: "I have just bought all 6 of the 'School for' books that are in the sale...I hope I like those..they look like I will as I am a bit..[no, quite a large actually] closet fan of Regency novels...dont tell anyone...lol
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I bought them and read them in a couple of days, thoroughly enjoyed them. Loved the Tribble sisters, though I could have shaken Effie a few times...

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[Marc]

currently re-reading Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story for a short story I'm writing involving schizophrenia.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just started More blood, sweat tears and another cup of tea, really enjoying it. Shall be the first in my series challenge next

[Karen]

Just finished Anne Holt's excellent Blind Goddess - some well drawn characters.
Still slowly getting thru Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna, which I'm reading as a DTB unfortunately cos it was cheaper than kindle, but regretting it now cos the book is sooo thick (which is really annoying as the lines are one and a half spaced, so I reckon the book shd have been a third thinner!) - hope it will keep up the pace. I enjoyed her 'Poisonwood Bible' but thought that could easily have been edited down to two thirds without losing anything, there was a lot of repetition.

[Lorraine]

I've got that Desley,one of the first books i downloaded and still waiting to be read.Just finished The Calling,the worst of the series so far,really slow and drawn out,even tho you no whodunit right from the beginning.Just started Black Dog.

[Freddiesmum]

just finished http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...

really enjoyed it!
now to start the http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...

hope I enjoy them as much!!

[Kath]

Just finished The 24 Hour Jazz Cafe - great story and thank you for the freebie Jamie.
Just started Mind Games by David Richard s - another group Christmas Gift.

[Kath]

just started my first book of the year :)

[Marc]

also reading The Miracle Inspector

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Lorraine wrote: "I've got that Desley,one of the first books i downloaded and still waiting to be read.Just finished The Calling,the worst of the series so far,really slow and drawn out,even tho you no whodunit rig..."

It's the first book I bought for my kindle, and that was over a year ago, so thought it apt that it was my last read of 2012. Tears and laughter while reading it.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished by Sanjay Gupta yesterday morning. I really enjoyed this novel. It is actually very similar to ER. At times during reading this book, I did feel like I was reading an ER script just with different characters! The plot was interesting, gripping, well-developed and well-written. The medical lingo was easy to understand.The characters were interesting, vivid and well-developed. My only gripe about this novel was that I would have liked to learn more about what happened to the characters at the end of the novel.
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


Now I'm a few chapters into by Liane Moriarty. Great book so far!

[Suzy]

Free from Jan 2-6th..an author I have been following; Carolann Hays, and I love her books..here's her latest, The Companion.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Companion

[Stuart]

Just finished Nicholas Nickleby - Phew! Wow!

Review to follow!!

[Elle]

Suzy wrote: "Free from Jan 2-6th..an author I have been following; Carolann Hays, and I love her books..here's her latest, The Companion.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Companion"

STICK. STICK. STICK.

[Elle]

Stuart wrote: "Just finished Nicholas Nickleby - Phew! Wow!

Review to follow!!"

i love the title but couldn't even tell you a single thing it's about (apart from a bloke called Nicholas!)

[Stuart]

Oh it's about anything you can think of!!! I feel like I've been living in mid-nineteenth century England for the last few months whilst I've been reading it! (although being in Tollesbury is about the same!)

[Elle]

Is it ridiculously long? Long books petrify me!

[Stuart]

It was only when it seemed I'd been reading it forever on my Kindle I checked on the internet to see how many pages it actually was...847!!

Each chapter is about a bus ride from Tollesbury to where I work in Maldon so it was quite handy. Very much worth persevering with though but I'm not sure I'd have started it had I known how long it was - very happy I did though!

[Elle]

EEP!

*shivers*

[Will]

Just finished 'Whispers Underground'.

Fancy The Hobbit next (again)

[Patti (baconater)]

Dave has started re-reading The Lord of the Rings again. Says he's really enjoying rediscovering all the bits that were left out of the films.

[Stuart]

Just started The Prophet

[Lorraine]

Finished Black Dog and started The Black Echo.

[Marc]

finished rereading Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story and The Miracle Inspector

Just started Callisto: A Novel

[Kath]

Finished Mind Games - one of the free Christmas books. Also finished Marc's 52FF which is a collection of flash fiction. All very different but all with his gift of words.
Currently reading The Great Rock N Roll Doomsday Tour by Darren H.

Stuart, I've read The Prohpet loads of times. Very though provoking. I read a bit from there at my Dad's funeral.

[Stuart]

Me too. It is very beautiful.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Is it ridiculously long? Long books petrify me!"

The advantage of kindles, you don't need to know how long your book is anymore!!

[Joo]

I am reading Nicholas Nickleby too. But I'm treating it as a collection of short stories and dipping in and out. Yes, it will take forever, but it is very readable.
At Christmas up the BIL's house, he had a copy in his library. It didn't seem too thick, but when I opened it to work out what page I was on, I went "whoa, how small is that text" I couldn't find the button to make the font larger :)

I am reading Natural Deselection by P.A. Fenton. I found the first part rather slow. I didn't know where it was going. But Ignite said it was rather good, so I'm sticking with it.

[Kath]

I love his writing style Joo. It's the way he tells 'em! I thought the story was good too - it does move much faster as it progresses.

[Stuart]

Just reviewed Nicholas Nickleby - http://tollesburytimeforever.blogspot...

[Elle]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Is it ridiculously long? Long books petrify me!"

The advantage of kindles, you don't need to know how long your book is anymore!!"

True trueeeee!

[Karen]

Stuart wrote: "It was only when it seemed I'd been reading it forever on my Kindle I checked on the internet to see how many pages it actually was...847!!

Each chapter is about a bus ride from Tollesbury to wher..."

I read all of Dickens' novels over the six or seven years I spent commuting between East Croydon and Victoria. They were a set my great grandparents had bought, and gave me as I was always a bookworm. Very thin pages and tiny print! Luckily I've got most of them on kindle now, so a darn sight easier on the eyes.

I was intending to start into my TBR pile, but got distracted by the The Woman in White who's been sitting by my bed for months. It's a DTB unfortunately and the print is a bit small - will have to find a free download somewhere.

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Karen wrote: "I was intending to start into my TBR pile, but got distracted by the The Woman in White who's been sitting by my bed for months. It's a DTB unfortunately and the print is a bit small - will have to find a free download somewhere. "

If it's not available on amazon, try manybooks.net

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[Karen]

ooh thanks Karen. will go look

...just looked. It IS on amazon, for free. Sure it wasn't there last time I looked! got it now.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have finally finished Locked In - Kerry Wilkinson. Now about to embark on But Inside I'm Screaming - Elizabeth Flock.

[Kath]

finished another one i bought in 2011 to satisfy my "read what you have already bought before you buy any more" challenge.

also broke the rules and read which I had to buy cos it was in the 12DoK sale so it's kinda justifed... moreso cos it is a great read - if you like cricket, and biographies and have heard of him!

[Joo]

Ignite wrote: "I love his writing style Joo. It's the way he tells 'em! I thought the story was good too - it does move much faster as it progresses."

You weren't wrong there Kath !!!!!
I had to have a bit longer than my half hour lunch and finished work early to get home to continue and finish it.

[Elle]

I finished a short earlier.

I'm bias cause I've known the author for years but I loved it

Traditions from the Heart

(it's a slash book)

[[deleted user]]

I've been reading for my 2013 challenge too.

Read Dancing In The Moonlight and Invisible, both on my kindle for well over a year, but both were a bit naff.

Now I'm reading Deed to Death: A Novel which I bought in 2010 and is a much better read so far.

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[Jamie]

morning gang.
I've just this minute finished the new Ian Rankin novel, Standing in another man's grave.
I'm a big Rankin fan and this book was very good. For rebus fans it's like he's never been away. Malcolm Fox feels a bit shoehorned in and doesn't add much to the book but in terms of the plot it's classic Rebus.

[Karen]

Jamie wrote: "morning gang.
I've just this minute finished the new Ian Rankin novel, Standing in another man's grave.
I'm a big Rankin fan and this book was very good. For rebus fans it's like he's never been ..."

Exactly what I thought, Jamie. Sooo glad Rebus is back!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Just finished More Sweat, more blood and another cup of tea, and just about to start the first of my A-Z challenge, rather than go back to my first books I bought, I'm actually going to read a booki bought recently, Rachel Abbotts Only the Innocent, I'm really looking forward to it

[Kath]

Just finished Darren H's Rock n Roll thingie - I think his story telling has matured but his writing style is still recognisably similar.

Started Fuel to the File by David Staniforth which doesn't seem to be here. I found it on the Amazon MOA threads. Not a bad story and a good writing style but sprinkled liberally with Indie errors.

Will be pre-publication reading for someone from tomorrow so I shan't get another read in the immediate future.