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What are you reading at the moment? (Part 4)

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    Smithy1204Smithy1204 Posts: 4,352
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    About to start Tears and Laughter: One's Man's Journey - David Griffin. A book about his journey from being a new recruit to an experienced senior police officer.
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    withnailukwithnailuk Posts: 1,017
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    Just read, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. I loved this book. Absolute beast of a man but some how very intresting at the same time.
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    Beautiful_HarvBeautiful_Harv Posts: 9,144
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    Stuart MacBride - Birthdays for the dead
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    JELLIES0JELLIES0 Posts: 6,709
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    Shattered by Dick Francis and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

    I am not an avid reader but I am getting through this one pretty swiftly. I can't put it down ;)
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    ReddybookReddybook Posts: 281
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    Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
    I've had this book on my shelf for ages, and it's been bugging me to read it. The sheer size of it did put me off, for a while, but when after the first chapter, I was hooked.
    Rollicking good story telling from KF, even though I did skip the technical bits about the building of the cathedral. The goodies were goodies and the baddies were really bad, if barbarism was rife in the 12th century. All types of emotion was in the story, love, hate, and redemption.
    Great read.
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    Cellar_DoorCellar_Door Posts: 2,275
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    I'm on a bit of a short story kick at the moment so have picked up Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver.
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    moonlilymoonlily Posts: 7,894
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    Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes. Not so sure about it- it's the first of her books I haven't carried about with me all day to snatch a read in a spare moment.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 424
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    The Twelfth Department - William Ryan. Really enjoy his Korolev books.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 22
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    Just finished The Sick Rose by Erin Kelly, which was very good. Her 1st novel, The Poison Tree, is highly recommended if you like a good thriller. Don't know what to start next; may go on to Play to The End, by Robert Goddard.
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    loracanloracan Posts: 914
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    The Rising Dead by Devan Sagliani. There are zombies.
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    jojo2008jojo2008 Posts: 4,910
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    3rd Degree-James Patterson.
    I'm struggling to get into this
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    Purple.Purple. Posts: 4,593
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    Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson.
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    sam_geesam_gee Posts: 48,955
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    I started Arctic chill by Arnaldur Indridason but I've misplaced it. So cross. I've now started Calling out for you by Karin Fossum - I'll finish this and read the other afterwards, assuming it turns up
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    Jimmy ConnorsJimmy Connors Posts: 117,887
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    Betty - The Autobiography ---- Betty Driver with Daran Little
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    shakeyershammyshakeyershammy Posts: 18,913
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    The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne de Courcy
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    Cellar_DoorCellar_Door Posts: 2,275
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    Black Swan Green - David Mitchell. It's a reread but a few years since I first read it and I'm enjoying it second time around.
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    the_lostprophetthe_lostprophet Posts: 4,173
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    Boris Johnson's Johnson's Life of London. A run through of various characters and progress from the Romans to date. The chapters on Robert Hooke (scientist who isn't as famous as he should be), Samuel Johnson and John Wilkes are particularly intriguing - am now reading about J. M. W. Turner. This book is often quite funny and reads like one eccentric writing about other eccentrics. :D
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    CLL DodgeCLL Dodge Posts: 115,870
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    Jailbird. A 1979 novel by the wonderful Kurt Vonnegut.
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    Sue_CSue_C Posts: 1,470
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    My current audiobook is Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood. It's one of her early novels and tells the story of Joan Foster, a Canadian writer who has recently faked her own death and who is hoping to leave her problems behind her and start a new life in Italy.

    We hear about Joan's trials and tribulations growing up and in her life so far. The story is interspersed with extracts from Joan's current "Mills and Boon" type novel. It has the potential to be a bleak and depressing read, but there's are seam of dry wit running through the book which lifts the mood and has had me laughing into my headphones.

    Very good so far.
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    Will_BennettsWill_Bennetts Posts: 3,054
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    Gone Girl. Really enjoying it don't want it to end . Can anybody recommend any similar books?.
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    ReddybookReddybook Posts: 281
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    Submerged - Cheryl Kaye Tardif
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 22
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    Just started The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid, which looks very good. An author whose books I always enjoy.
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    jojo2008jojo2008 Posts: 4,910
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    Ash- James Herbert
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    dymafidymafi Posts: 775
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    Finished Rachel Joyce's "The Back Road" .. This is highly rated on the Amazon site and for a KIndle book it deserves that .. but to be published as a "proper" book it would need a professional editing team behind it .. the second half of the book is fine .. but the first half needs trimming to a quarter. Good story .. but read more like a script for Midsummer Murders or similar tv drama than a novel.
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    Terrence ChantTerrence Chant Posts: 1,334,550
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    Charlotte St - Danny Wallace
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