Memory of Death - J D Robb

I am reading a biography of guitarist Johnny Winters. An unusual an interesting guy (along with his brother Edgar who also has albinism). I have seen this guy play live and taken interest in his career. How stupid of me not to have realised before now that the absolutely dominant aspect of his life is not the music, or the adulation, or the money, or the rock star lifestyle. It is the fact that people gape at him in wonder/horror when he steps outside his door and have done that every single moment of his life.

I am now getting near the bottom of my biography pile and may have to return to fiction shortly. I have no idea what. I feel a bit like those people in New York who said - just after 9/11: "Fiction? Fiction? How could I possibly sit down and read an invented story when the World is like the world is?"

I got seriously confused recently trying to figure out if I was reading a new book in a series. I read the first chapter thinking I'd already read every word before. Then it dawned on me I'd read the preview of the first chapter in the previous book many moons before. Thank goodness I stuck with it otherwise I would have missed out and jumped straight to book 3.

Ann Christy: Silo 49 Deep dark (book 2 of 4)

Finished The Princess Bride.

Now reading The Shock of the Fall.

The Great British Tuck Shop.

Fascinating book if your interested in sweets!

Recently read, (very quickly as I couldn't put it down!), Shaun Considine 'Bette and Joan, The Divine Feud'. Wow, what a great read!! Totally absorbing and fascinating book about two former Hollywood screen legends and their rivalry with each other.


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...Bette_and_Joan

Jessie Keane - Jailbird

Dead Weight by T R Ragan - the second in the Lizzy Gardner series; I really enjoyed the first so I am hoping this will be equally as good.

Finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - well worth the 10year+ wait. Brilliant, epic, profound .. read it!

I am currently reading The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

The Monster Of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi.

Can't put it down.

Just finished the roller coaster ride that was all of the Jack Reacher
novels (plus two short stories) and wondered what to read next to
fill the void left by such a huge character (In every sense of the word!)
So I have started the complete series of Jesse Stone books by Robert
B Parker. Laid back,cynical,easy paced;the perfect follow up to the hectic
doings of Jack Reacher!
I was only familiar with Parkers work from the TV films of Jesse Stone
with Tom Selleck as the title character. While the films work on many levels,
the books give Jesse Stone a greater warmth and depth.Lovely stuff!
I have all nine of the Robert B Parker originals (He died then,so any more
was rather a moot point!) and then I have the three 'continuances' written
by Michael Brandman. I don't expect them to be up to the same standard
I must admit,but will give them a go when I get there!

I'm currently reading

Queen Mab by Kate Danley As described by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Mab is faerie Queen of nightime dreams. She has been deceived and robbed by Faunus, god of daydreams, with the help of his accomplice, Montague. Queen Mab is out for revenge and is determined to destroy Montague through his friend Capulet. The story is set in fair Verona where generations later Romeo and Juliet are born. Quite good so far, I enjoyed her previous book, The Woodcutter.

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris Audiobook read by Anna Bentinck. An elderly woman tells the story of her friendship with struggling artist Ned Gillespie and his family more than forty years previously in 1888. It starts off innocently enough but it is soon obvious that our narrator has something of a crush on the happily married Ned. There are signs that the story will get darker as it progresses........

Finished The Shock of the Fall. Which I sort of enjoyed but it lacked the poesy of When God was a Rabbit which I felt it had a similar feel to.

I'm now reading The Rosie Project.

Before You Die - Samantha Hayes

Echo Burning - Lee Child

I've just finished 'Poppet' by Mo Hayder - definitely my favourite of hers that I've read so far.

I've now started 'A Cottage by the Sea' by Carole Matthews, about a group of friends who spend a week together in a remote holiday home in Wales. I'm really enjoying it so far - a nice easy read about relationships.

Finished Men withou Women - a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemmingway. First time I've read Hemmingway - deserves the accolades he's been getting for 60 odd years

Sian Busby - A commonplace killing

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley

Rod - The Autobiography --- Rod Stewart

Reading Dominion

All class so far, much more intricate and nuanced than Fatherland, which always felt like a bit of a rip-off of Gorky Park. All good books though.

Game of Thrones: A Dance with Dragons part 1.

Reading them all, only started them in December hard for me to put them down.

Finished The Never List by Koethe Zan .. Not a promising start when the cover blurb compares it to the turgid Gone Girl last year's mystifying best-seller. But Zan's novel is a quick read .. fast-paced .. unlikely twists .. good enough for the beach .. Enjoy.

The biography of Roy Jenkins by John Campbell. Good, so far.