Siege - Simon Kernick
Nailbiting thriller, about a small group of armed terrorists, holding a large grou;p of hostages
in a London hotel. The pace never lets up, and there are plenty of innocent individuals caught up in this very tense drama
This had me gripped from the start, and made me impatient to read more, when I could.
I've just started The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
Maybe it's because she's a playwright, but the dialogue really makes the novel stand-out, and rips the story along at a great pace. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Just starting Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. The premise of the story sounds interesting 'what if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right'.
Just finished The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid - excellent thriller, with so many twists you'll never guess whodunit! - and have now started Girl 4, by Will Carver, which looks good.
Just started 'Bertie Plays the Blues' which is the most recent book by Alexander McCall Smith in the 44 Scotland Street series. I've read all the previous books in the series and found them quietly enjoyable, although I seem to be in a minority there. They don't seem to get taken out of the library very often compared with the No1 Ladies' Detective Agency series which is much more popular.
Summer with my sister - Lucy Diamond
Enjoyable chic lit about a high powered City achiever who is abruptly made redundant from her job, and is forced to sell her luxury house, and retreat to her estranged family's home, out of town, in a nice cosy village. While she licks her wounds and plans her future, she gradually reconnects with the her family and her past.
Funny and sad, written with warmth.
Dead Mans Time by Peter James
This is the ninth book in the series
about Supt Roy Grace who runs the
Brighton Murder Squad and its every
bit as much a page turner as the previous
eight!
The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. An audiobook read by Hannah Gordon. I'm about 25 years later than everybody else with this one. It's very listenable but is sounding rather dated for a book written in the eighties. I guess that I'm supposed to like Penelope and Olivia and to dislike Nancy and Noel. I'm not taking to any of them yet but am enjoying the story telling and narration.
I'm reading Edward Adrift by Craig Lancaster on my KIndle. I'm only a couple of chapters in but things are shaping up nicely and I think that the book will live up to 600 Hours of Edward. I'm quite relieved to see that Edward has given up on Dragnet.
I'm re-reading all of Raymond E Feist's 'Riftwar Saga' as a lead up to reading the latest and final book, Magician's End, which has just been released - in the last couple of weeks so far I have read:
The Magician
Silverthorne
Darkness at Sethanon
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire
Prince of the Blood
The King's Buccaneer
Shadow of a Dark Queen
Rise of a Merchant Prince
Rage of a Demon King
Shards of a Broken Crown
Krondor the Betrayal
Krondor the Assassins
and am currently nearly finished
Krondor Tear of the Gods
and am about to move on to
Jimmy and the Crawler
After that there will be anther 14 to go including Magician's End
Still ploughing through my Feist Odyssey, since this post I have continued with:-
Honoured Enemy
Murder in LaMut
Jimmy the Hand
Talon of the Silver Hawk
King of Foxes
Exiles Return
Flight of the Nighthawks
Into a Dark Realm
Wrath of a Mad God
Go-go girls of the Apocalypse, a literary equivalent of the B-movie, all very 'Planet Terror' by Victor Gischler
Ian Rankin's Impossible Dead
and an audiobook - Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy.
Finished Girl 4 by Will Carver, which was ok, nothing special, a bit formulaic. I could see the ending coming a mile off. Have got 2 on the go now: The Queen of New Beginnings by Erica James, and Siege by Simon Kernick.
Nearly finishing Cowards Get Cancer Too by John Diamond. OMG the best but the most harrowing book I've ever read. I don't normally read this kind of thing (what I thought it would be) but I was transfixed from the start because I could psychologically relate to everything he conveyed. Very uncomfortable reading but at the same time 'enjoyable' and funny.
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Nailbiting thriller, about a small group of armed terrorists, holding a large grou;p of hostages
in a London hotel. The pace never lets up, and there are plenty of innocent individuals caught up in this very tense drama
This had me gripped from the start, and made me impatient to read more, when I could.
Maybe it's because she's a playwright, but the dialogue really makes the novel stand-out, and rips the story along at a great pace. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Enjoyable chic lit about a high powered City achiever who is abruptly made redundant from her job, and is forced to sell her luxury house, and retreat to her estranged family's home, out of town, in a nice cosy village. While she licks her wounds and plans her future, she gradually reconnects with the her family and her past.
Funny and sad, written with warmth.
This is the ninth book in the series
about Supt Roy Grace who runs the
Brighton Murder Squad and its every
bit as much a page turner as the previous
eight!
The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. An audiobook read by Hannah Gordon. I'm about 25 years later than everybody else with this one. It's very listenable but is sounding rather dated for a book written in the eighties. I guess that I'm supposed to like Penelope and Olivia and to dislike Nancy and Noel. I'm not taking to any of them yet but am enjoying the story telling and narration.
I'm reading Edward Adrift by Craig Lancaster on my KIndle. I'm only a couple of chapters in but things are shaping up nicely and I think that the book will live up to 600 Hours of Edward. I'm quite relieved to see that Edward has given up on Dragnet.
Honoured Enemy
Murder in LaMut
Jimmy the Hand
Talon of the Silver Hawk
King of Foxes
Exiles Return
Flight of the Nighthawks
Into a Dark Realm
Wrath of a Mad God
and am just about to start:
Rides a Dread Legion
5 more including this to go
Go-go girls of the Apocalypse, a literary equivalent of the B-movie, all very 'Planet Terror' by Victor Gischler
Ian Rankin's Impossible Dead
and an audiobook - Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy.
Finding it virtually impossible to put down. Fantastic blend of humour and pathos.
A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery
Gentle, story of an unconventional village bobby, in the Highlands solving a murder.
Quite liked it. Different to what I expected.