Karen Joy Fowler - We are all completely beside ourselves
I've just bought it after reading the free sample chapters. Looks very good, though I may have spoilt it for myself a bit by reading some of the reviews. Will get round to reading it properly when I've finished my current book.
I've also bought The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. It's on the Man Booker Prize Longlist and is about resistance to William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion. It's written in a made-up version of Old English which may take some getting used to.
I've just bought it after reading the free sample chapters. Looks very good, though I may have spoilt it for myself a bit by reading some of the reviews. Will get round to reading it properly when I've finished my current book.
I've also bought The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. It's on the Man Booker Prize Longlist and is about resistance to William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion. It's written in a made-up version of Old English which may take some getting used to.
I tried not to read too much of the reviews! Am quite enjoying it- funny in some places
Marked - David Jackson - the 3rd in the series about Detective Callum Doyle but the 4th I've read as I read no. 4 first followed by book 1 and then book 2!
At present I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, who is also the author of The Kite Runner. A good read which has you crying at times but is also quite educational.
Hi Perilla, of course you can join! I have got a Thousand Splendid Suns but I haven't read it yet. My OH read it on holiday last year and loved it (he only reads 1 or 2 books a year!)
The Kite Runner is one of my 2 favourite books ever so I don;t know why I haven't got round to reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.
The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
J K Rowling's crime debut, and what a corker!
Never felt inclined to read Harry Potter, but this was a wonderful start to this
crime series, with private detective Strike.
Very readable and will definetly read the next one.
I've read it before when it first came out and have only recently seen the film.
Love the book, thought the film was ok
Snap. I didn't mind the film (I think Judi Dench is a fantastic actress so I can't imagine hating anything of hers) but I think it worked better as a book.
I'm just starting 'A Willing Victim' by Laura Wilson (audio version). I picked it off the shelf in the library in a hurry this morning. I've just had a look at reviews and they aren't great, but I'll give it a try anyway. Apparently it's one of a series and the other books in the series are better. I've never heard of this author before though.
Has anyone else read any of the DI Ted Stratton series by Laura Wilson?
Just finished The Martian by Andy Weir - great read. Heavy on technical details but some really funny one liners in between. A real page turner.
Currently reading The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Its got some good parts but is really too long winded in others. It seems to linger and labour on details in some scenes and then inexplicably jump a few months without much of an explanation.
I've just finished The Twelve by Justin Cronin. It was spectacular. I found The Passage good but very convoluted; this was pared down and well paced imo. I'm very much looking forward to The City of Mirrors.
I'm now moving onto Crash Into You by Kate McGarry - I can't read too much adult fiction in a row!
I have just read Dead Write by Keri Beevis. This is the second book in a series featuring Rebecca Angel. I found it to be brilliantly written with a twist that I could not see coming. The pace of her books is really fast and once started I could not put it down. It is in turn funny and scary. Now I cannot wait for the next one.
I went onto her facebook account and found that she is running a competition to win a signed copy of the book.
FInished A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul. Beuatifullt written novel about the fragility ofife and social breakdown in Africa. Written almost 40yrs ago but history still repeating iitself today.
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I've just bought it after reading the free sample chapters. Looks very good, though I may have spoilt it for myself a bit by reading some of the reviews. Will get round to reading it properly when I've finished my current book.
I've also bought The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. It's on the Man Booker Prize Longlist and is about resistance to William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion. It's written in a made-up version of Old English which may take some getting used to.
I tried not to read too much of the reviews! Am quite enjoying it- funny in some places
At present I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, who is also the author of The Kite Runner. A good read which has you crying at times but is also quite educational.
The Kite Runner is one of my 2 favourite books ever so I don;t know why I haven't got round to reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.
and
A biography about Robert Smith
I really enjoyed Notes on a Scandal but hated the film.
I've read it before when it first came out and have only recently seen the film.
Love the book, thought the film was ok
travel books, but a good entertaining read all the
same. And packed with arcane facts!
J K Rowling's crime debut, and what a corker!
Never felt inclined to read Harry Potter, but this was a wonderful start to this
crime series, with private detective Strike.
Very readable and will definetly read the next one.
Snap. I didn't mind the film (I think Judi Dench is a fantastic actress so I can't imagine hating anything of hers) but I think it worked better as a book.
I'm just starting 'A Willing Victim' by Laura Wilson (audio version). I picked it off the shelf in the library in a hurry this morning. I've just had a look at reviews and they aren't great, but I'll give it a try anyway. Apparently it's one of a series and the other books in the series are better. I've never heard of this author before though.
Has anyone else read any of the DI Ted Stratton series by Laura Wilson?
Currently reading The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Its got some good parts but is really too long winded in others. It seems to linger and labour on details in some scenes and then inexplicably jump a few months without much of an explanation.
I'm now moving onto Crash Into You by Kate McGarry - I can't read too much adult fiction in a row!
I went onto her facebook account and found that she is running a competition to win a signed copy of the book.