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[Marc]

Natasha (diarist) wrote: "Just finished Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (brief four star review).

Just started Strange Sisters by Fletcher Flora. This is my first attempt at a 1950s lesbian pulp fiction novel."

sounds intriguing :-)

[Natasha]

Marc wrote: "sounds intriguing :-) "

Yeah, despite the decidedly dodgy title. ...
Written in 1954?!
And by a man. ...
I'll report back.

[Jud]

Please do Natasha!

Sounds very interesting.

[Natasha]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Please do Natasha!"

I promise!

[Lorraine]

Finished All The Pretty Dead Girls,awful,have got a couple more of his,but i don't think i'll bother.Started Thrilled to Death.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I need a new series,2% into the second Robert W Walker book and the MC is going on a long short flight! My letter C book is going to be an Agatha Christie book, don't know How to pick one though. Need to go through manage my kindle, start picking older books for my challenge

[Mo]

I have Just finished The Rough Collier and am off to read for the first time as an adult (I did read it about 50 years ago.)Pride and Prejudice It was not my cup of tea as a teenager and so far it feels like a teenage common room, who want whom and what their attributes are. As you may have guessed I am not really into romances and regency one of the highest calibre still doesn't pull my strings. I am re-reading it because I heard on the radio that it is totally different when read as an adult. I will persevere. I know this makes me a philistine in many peoples eyes but twittering women never did it for me.

[Kath]

Just finished Pond Life by Sam Kates. What a find this chap is. It's short stories but they are beautifully written. Not dead poetic, just brilliant writing. I'm off to review it - and it'll get a place on the blog. It's a little gem!

Just started Michael Brookes' The Cult of Me - thought it was time I caught up!

[Karen]

Just finished Purge, which was a good read despite the grim subject and the seemingly eternal cycle of cruelty, depravity and inhumanity, and the corrupting effect of power.
Now for something completely different - Cut, Crop & Die

[Kath]

just finished Sheer Folly it was a race against time to finish the book before the library stole it back from me - managed it with just under an hour to go! going back to Warned Off now which i am just over half way through and been reading at lunchtime at work :)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished Destined to Feel - Indigo Bloome. Now I am about to embark on Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine.

[Sam]

Just finished Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein. Not my favourite of his by a long chalk - I found the second half of the book hard going.

Just started The Land of Later on by Anthony Weller. A few chapters in - interesting so far.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading by John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath is a beautifully written but extremely moving and heartbreaking novel with interesting, realistic and well-developed characters. I love John Steinbeck's wonderful writing style. I just loved his fantastic vivid descriptions of the landscape and the people. At times the descriptions of the barren landscape and the appalling conditions the family have to put up with is very depressing. I wanted to put the book down sometimes due to this but I'm glad a persevered through and finished the novel.This novel well deserved the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction it won in 1940 and it really is a masterpiece of 20th Century literature. It is definitely a must read! Four stars!
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


Now I'm about to start on by Nicholas Evans.

[Jud]

I finished Excession and have started Mr. Planemaker's Diving Machine

I seem to have a lot of books on the go at the minute, i should really finish the ones I have started before starting more!

[Elle]

I'm currently reading both The Complete Maus (awesome) and The History of the Peloponnesian War (shoot me).

[Marc]

Just finished very disturbing book in so many ways, but highly recommended for anyone who might want to penetrate the mindset of britain's underclass youth. Will post review later

[Jonathan]

Just finished The Devil Walks, a spooky thriller aimed at older children. I gave it 4/5 on my blog.

[Kath]

Just finished a couple of absolute corkers. The Cult of Me by Michael Brookes is most unusual. Philosophy, metaphysics, dark psychological thriller - all rolled into one. Four star review - very interesting reading.

Also Into Pieces by AK Dawson. Five stars for this very dark thriller set partly in Britain, partly in South Africa with the corrupt police force impeding progress. Five stars for this.
http://www.ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk...

Hoping to start The Showing by will Macmillan Jones but I have a few proof readings standing between it and me!

[Jonathan]

Just started The Third Rule - Part One: Atrocities. I'm only 7% in but feel involved already, which is a good sign!

[Kath]

Oh I think this is absolutely stunning Jonathan. I was pulled in and read all three back to back. I didn't immediately like the main character, Eddie, but he's been portrayed beautifully as a man at the very bottom. I ended up rooting for him and holding his coat when he got stuck in to fight for justice!

[Jonathan]

I'm very much looking forward to seeing how it all plays out, Ignite. I suspect from what I have heard from yourself and others that I won't have too much trouble deciding on my next two reads after this one!

[Sarah]

I have just finished reading Animal Farm which I have been meaning to get around to for ages. Didn't take me long to read at all and really enjoyed it.

I have just started reading Bitten which I bought on kindle ages ago. The only thing I'm worried about with this one is that it's the first in the series and if I get hooked I'll want to read all of them which will blow my plan out the window of reading all the books I currently have on my kindle before buying any more!

[Lorraine]

Finished Thrilled to Death,starting The Disappeared.

[Joo]

Just finished by Arthur Slade. The third in the series.

I will definitely finish Sherlock Holmes today, I won't go to sleep until I have as I've been reading it for the best part of 2 years :)

The I shall do so I can go onto The Third Rule without thinking I should have finished the first series first

[Snoozie Suzie]

Just finished The Bridges of Madison County, just started 11/22/63. I could be a while ......

[Tim]

Finished Excession. Next up is Ice Diaries

[Jud]

I finished Mr. Planemaker's Diving Machine and Wideacre. Wideacre completely blew me away! I loved it, I've never read a book where the main character was such a horribly selfish person but yet I couldn't help but want her to win!

[Jay-me (Janet)]

Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I shall do so I can go onto The Third Rule without thinking I should have finished the first series first
"


That is what I should do too.

[Lorna]

I am currently wading through The Thread, by Victoria Hislop. I say wading, not because I'm not enjoying it, but I never seem to have more than half an hour to read at one sitting, so it has taken me some time to get through it. But the pace is good, and I'm keen to find out what happens next.

[Mo]

Finished Pride and Prejudice, not as bad as I remembered but still not my genre and started The Plague which is quite interesting. I did start The Forsyth Saga on audible, to try another period drama but the reading of it was so terrible I asked for my money back. It was slow (far too slow) and precise and proper.

[Marc]

The Plague was the first grown up book I ever read. At about age 14 I think. It turned me on to reading when before I only really read kids' comics & Tintin etc.

[Karen]

I finished Cut, Crop & Die which was ok for a cozy. Next up is Lexi's Ice Diaries

[Karen]

Just finished Lexi's Ice Diaries - despite the snowy setting, a warm and witty read. Next to read is The Last Queen of England, which I'm looking forward to.

[Natasha]

Natasha wrote: I'll report back.
Jud wrote: Please do Natasha!

So, just finished Strange Sisters by Fletcher Flora. This was the first (and likely the last) lesbian pulp fiction book I've read. It was written (by a man) in 1954. I just read it out of curiosity. It's not really my thing. Considering the year this book was written, I was struck by how lacking it is in intolerance, although it does, of course, drive the message home, that no good can come of being gay. ... Nevertheless, it's a fun, easy read.

The protagonist is a beautiful young lesbian, Kathy, who falls into relationships with women. However, feeling unnatural, she starts to experience bouts of depression that become so intense and protracted, that she tries to escape by letting a man she meets in a bar date her. When the man makes a sexual advance at her, Kathy is so overcome by repulsion that she attacks him violently. Will she get away with it?

I've just started The Other Hand by Chris Cleave.

[Marc]

That Cleave book is on my TBR pile. I liked his debut novel.

Just started Running Dog by my favourite living author Don DeLillo. He's written 15 novels and this will be my 12th of his read.

[Natasha]

Marc wrote: "That Cleave book is on my TBR pile. I liked his debut novel."

I'm just nearing the end of the first chapter, but it's absorbing so far, Marc.

[Lorraine]

Finished The Disappeared,the second in the series,was ok.Started The Perfect Woman.

[Jud]

I just finished Hush, Hush I really enjoyed it and think it might be something Elle would like too although it doesn't seem to be available on Kindle any more...
So I've started The Secret of Chimneys to get on with my challenge a bit more

[Joo]

Jay-me (Janet) ~plum chutney is best~ wrote: "Joo The Grand Inquisitor wrote: "I shall do so I can go onto The Third Rule without thinking I should have finished the first series first
"
That is what I s..."

Janet, I think I like this one best of this trilogy. I'm reaching for my kindle at every chance to get on with it :)

[Kath]

Oh, wait till you get to The Third Rule - it's my favourite book (trilogy) in the world. The whole world and that's a huge place!

[Kath]

Just finished Sam Kates' fabulous and subtle horror novel http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...

His writing's so beautiful, evocative and plaintive and articulate. It's a winner, this.

[Jonathan]

Thanks, Ignite. I have added this latest recommendation to my list.

(Thus far, I can echo what Ignite says about The Third Rule - it's an excellent read)

[Alexandria]

i just started and finished

i found it as a bargin for only $.99

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Caster-Bo...

i think the book reviews on GoodReads will speak for themselves

[Lorraine]

Finished The Perfect Woman.Started About Time Already.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Gave up on Fatal Instinct, started 15 year old wife, but need to read the blurb

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished reading Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read Hearts and Arrows - David G. Pearce.

[Karen]

Just finished the intriguing The Last Queen of England - a cracking read. Think I need something a little gentler paced now! Off to start Mist

[Lorraine]

Finished About Time Already,was free,so the only thing i lost was my time.Started Shadow Of The Serpent.

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I've just finished Summer on the Mountain which I thoroughly enjoyed - escapist and lighthearted read. I've had it on my kindle for a year but had forgotten it was there until it went free again recently!

Not sure what to read next...

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm not sure if I want to crack on with Seventh Son

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seventh-Son-N...

As I've already started it or get stuck in with more short stories and novellas from our authors...