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My copy of the Kings Speech is actually this one - The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel LogueDon't know what the difference is meant to be
Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "Dave just finished The Midden Said it was rubbish."
Well Ignite has just finished the final proof of I Woke Up This Morning...
Stuart wrote: "Well Ignite has just finished the final proof of I Woke Up This Morning..."And? And? Oh, I bet it's top secret!
Well I have just worked out that there are 78 words that she has left in that Microsoft Word still refuses to recognise. Basically because I made them up. Fair play to the fine lady!
Stuart wrote: "Well I have just worked out that there are 78 words that she has left in that Microsoft Word still refuses to recognise. Basically because I made them up. Fair play to the fine lady!"I'm all about the neologisms!
I think there ought to be some sort of "Ayris Dictionary" to rival the Oxford English. I'm sure it would be far more interesting.
I agree! I will put on my author thread a link to the blogpost that gives the list of words...
Better not go on Countdown, Stu...
You can have another run through if you like Stu? All part of the service.
I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Seven: Fade Out - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read The Morganville Vampires Book Eight: Kiss of Death - Rachel Caine.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "My copy of the Kings Speech is actually this one - The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue
Don't know what the difference is meant to be"
I read this one some time ago and found it fascinating. It's written by Logue's grandson and he has access to many documents, diary entries and newspaper clippings from the time.
Don't know what the difference is meant to be"
I read this one some time ago and found it fascinating. It's written by Logue's grandson and he has access to many documents, diary entries and newspaper clippings from the time.
I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Eight: Kiss of Death - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read The Morganville Vampires Book Nine: Ghost Town - Rachel Caine.
It's ages since I've commented on this thread, but I've read a lot of mediocre stuff that wasn't worth sharing. I've just read three good books in a row though, two by "our" authors.
The Boy Who Kissed The Sky, one of this months' group reads which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then A Novel Way to Die, a lighthearted cosy locked room mystery by Lynda Wilcox.
Now I've just finished Abandoned Ship: An Intimate Account of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck written by one of the survivors. He describes the lack of care afterwards that was given by the American and Chinese embassies in Rome - even though the embassies from most other countries were quick to visit their countrymen to help them out. What also surprised me was the comments from some of the reviewers on amazon who described the author as "greedy" and why should the embassies give them any help? When people have survived a ship wreck, nearly lost their lives and lost all their possessions except the clothes they were standing up in (which were wet!) of course you would expect some compassion from your country's embassy - especially as the ambassadors of england, ireland, most other european countries, Japan and Australia all personally sought out their countrymen to offer help; both the american and chinese embassies insisted the author and his wife (author is american, wife chinese) get to their embassies by taxi, and when they explained that their money and credit cards were at the bottom of the sea, just told them to borrow the money. They were then treated with rudeness and indifference, in fact they were shouted at and chased away from outside the chinese embassy where they were waiting for a taxi home because they were having a party for the local dignitaries and they didn't want said dignitaries to have to see scruffy damp ship wreck survivors. Some of the reviewers on amazon thought that the author and his wife were unreasonable and greedy expecting to get the same help from their embassies that all the other foreign embassies given to their nationals. I'm just as annoyed by the comments of those reviewers as I was to read about the inhumane treatment of those large organisations.
The Boy Who Kissed The Sky, one of this months' group reads which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then A Novel Way to Die, a lighthearted cosy locked room mystery by Lynda Wilcox.
Now I've just finished Abandoned Ship: An Intimate Account of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck written by one of the survivors. He describes the lack of care afterwards that was given by the American and Chinese embassies in Rome - even though the embassies from most other countries were quick to visit their countrymen to help them out. What also surprised me was the comments from some of the reviewers on amazon who described the author as "greedy" and why should the embassies give them any help? When people have survived a ship wreck, nearly lost their lives and lost all their possessions except the clothes they were standing up in (which were wet!) of course you would expect some compassion from your country's embassy - especially as the ambassadors of england, ireland, most other european countries, Japan and Australia all personally sought out their countrymen to offer help; both the american and chinese embassies insisted the author and his wife (author is american, wife chinese) get to their embassies by taxi, and when they explained that their money and credit cards were at the bottom of the sea, just told them to borrow the money. They were then treated with rudeness and indifference, in fact they were shouted at and chased away from outside the chinese embassy where they were waiting for a taxi home because they were having a party for the local dignitaries and they didn't want said dignitaries to have to see scruffy damp ship wreck survivors. Some of the reviewers on amazon thought that the author and his wife were unreasonable and greedy expecting to get the same help from their embassies that all the other foreign embassies given to their nationals. I'm just as annoyed by the comments of those reviewers as I was to read about the inhumane treatment of those large organisations.
I've posted my impressions of 'I Am Eternal' by Athanasios:http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...
If you enjoy vampire tales, then check it out.
Finished Patricia Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure which didn't really get going, for me, till a third of the way through and I nearly gave up on it, but glad I stuck with it. Pity the end was so rushed tho. Now looking forward to starting Exiles which sounds like fun - it's set in the Auvergne, which is an area I love. Unfortunately the book isn't on kindle, so it's a secondhand DTB.
Just finished The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Very enjoyable read; in parts, very amusing, though I wouldn't describe it as hilarious. I felt it was a little long and started to drag towards the end, which is why it took me longer than normal to finish. Without spoiling it for others, the protagonist does something very early on in the book that made me stop and think, "No way! Why did he do that? He just wouldn't have done that," and I couldn't shake this thought for the next few chapters. I can see why the author wrote him doing it - most of what follows are consequences of what he did - but it felt too much like author intrusion. Overall, though, I enjoyed and would recommend it.
Finished To Tell The Truth,starting Loisaida -- A New York Story,which is my last stand alone paid for book from 2010.
Sam wrote: "Just finished The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Very enjoyable read; in parts, very amusing, though I wouldn't describe it as hilarious. I felt it was a little..."I just read this too! I found it good but not really funny, more of a first person account of some of the important world events of the past 100 years. But definitely worth the 20p I paid for it! :D
Struggling to find time to read, Am 4 books behind my target, so think I Am going to have to read a few shorts. Am 67% into Ash, but had to skim read a chapter due to the subject manner.
Just finished Seb Kirby's Regret No More. Thriller, still partly involved with the art world but there are drug barons involved. If you enjoyed the first you'll love this too.I'm slogging through the one for the village book club though. Dire. Needs editing - and then it'll be average :( Just Whistle
Good isn't it? I loved the way that for a complete non-mountaineer it wasn't at all off-putting. He's got a way with words that I enjoyed too.
I finished The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue and actually found it quite moving at the end. Have started The Boy Who Kissed The Sky
Ignite wrote: "Good isn't it? I loved the way that for a complete non-mountaineer it wasn't at all off-putting. He's got a way with words that I enjoyed too."Very good!
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I finished The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue and actually found it quite moving at the end. Have started The Boy Who Kissed The Sky"
Oh crikey! I hope you enjoy it Jud!
David wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I finished The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue and actually found it quite moving at the end. Have started The Boy Who Kissed Th..."
You and me both David
Just finished The Rules of Wealth by Richard Templar. (My review)Just starting Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I hadn't realised there was a follow-up to The Power of Now (one of the few books I've read twice), but this has just been recommended to me by a friend.
Just - this very minute - finished Just Whistle by Alfie Robins. I hasten to add that I'm reading it for the village book group or I wouldn't have persisted. Off to write a review.
Well; done that, washed my hands! Just about to start Ali Cooper's The Cat and the Cathedral. YA novel from the author of The Girl on the Swing - one of my first indie reads. It's not on here. :(
Ignite wrote: "Well; done that, washed my hands! Just about to start Ali Cooper's The Cat and the Cathedral. YA novel from the author of The Girl on the Swing - one of my first indie reads. It's not on here. :("Is 'The Girl on the Swing' the one that's been likened to 'The Time Traveller's Wife'?
I've just finished Marie Browne's 'Qualia', a fantastic novel based around Lucifer's fall.
http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...
I'm now onto The Clearing by Thomas Rydder.
when I was still writing theatre plays and when Saatchi & Saatchi determined what everyone in the UK could think and aspire to, I wrote a play about Lucifer's return to Earth being managed by an advertising and PR company, in which Lucifer realised he couldn't compete with the evil advertising men... It never got produced
Last evening (because it's not very long) I read and really enjoyed The Cat and the Cathedral by Ali Cooper. First part of a YA trilogy and I really look forward to the next!
Recently finished The Book Thief. Now working on Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Trading Poisons. Both are good so far!
I only got about half way through wicked before I have up!
I just finished The Boy Who Kissed The Sky which was random but I loved it. Have started My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress
Jim wrote: "Just got into The Other and enjoying it"Just to say I just finished The Other and enjoyed it ;-)
Finished Loisaida -- A New York Story,can't believe i paid for it,awful,didn't like the characters and if ingrid hadn't have been murdered, i would have been quite happy to do it.Started Dancing With The Virgins.
Just finished A Letter for Maureen by Jonathan Hill - a wonderful and funny story, if you haven't read it, you should do!Just starting An Odd Quartet by Michael Brookes
Just read The Rocks Below by Nigel Bird. I've read and enjoyed some of this stuff before and this one's a little corker. A novella. Will be reviewing it when I've got outside of my cuppa!
David wrote: "Just finished A Letter for Maureen by Jonathan Hill - a wonderful and funny story, if you haven't read it, you should do!Just starting An Odd Quartet by Michael Brookes"
Seconded on the A letter for Maureen and good choice on your new book :-)
I'm most of the way through my favourite book of the year so far Don't Need The Whole Dog! by Tony James Slater, author of That Bear Ate My Pants.Again, it is a snortlingly funny book (well I was snortling as I was eating my lunch at the time).
The first part is where he and his family are doing up a house in Treorchy in the Welsh Valleys - whilst being filmed for Property Ladder. It's certainly interesting reading his version before watching it on youtube.
Just finished
The Dawn Patrol
by Don Winslow. Another exercise in authorial style and attitude from the creator of Savages, this one somewhat more tethered to reality and more accessible. Southern California noir mixed with surfer culture; four stars.If you're interested, check the review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....
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Think I'll read The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy next