Ruth Rendell - A sight for sore eyes

Morrisey autobiography

Who's The Daddy?: The Life and Times of Shirley Crabtree - Ryan Danes

I've just finished 'A Fatal Cut' by Priscilla Masters, which was a decent killer thriller.

I've now started 'The White Princess' by Philippa Gregory. Good reviews but I'm not massively impressed so far. She really hammers her points, saying the same thing over and over in different ways (when once would do). I'll stick with it though - it's not bad enough to give up on.

Four Streets - Nadine Dorries

I'm absolutely struggling with The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

Anybody here enjoy it? I hate giving up on books and I'm over 300 pages in.

Also reading The Gravel Garden by Beth Chatto.

I did finish it but then I'm a bit "hospital corners" about finishing things. If I wasn't, I would have walked away. Very unsatisfying.

Just finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tar and it gave me a headache and skipped through lots of pages to get to the finish line....only for those with buckets of patience otherwise avoid.

About to start Look Behind You by Sibel Hodge, hope this one is good.

Ken McClure - The Lazarus Strain

If ever there's a book that you shouldn't bother finishing it, it's probably this one.

I, unlike you, enjoyed it in the reading but the ending was not good IMHO. Maybe I just didn't realise what the book was about, but as a mystery fan, it didn't satisfy.

Anyway, Just finished Alan Furst's Night Soldiers, very good about the Balkan situation through WWII.

Now switching to something a bit frothier with Snow Blind by PJ Tracy, the fourth in the unbelievable but fun (I have warped views of Fun) Monkeewrench series.

Clive Cussler 'Dirk Pitt' novels. Local library got a load of his books in last week, so I thought I'd give them a go.

I've given up on Moby Dick about half way through. I quite enjoyed the beginning, especially the dry humour that was injected every now and then, but once they got to sea I started to get very bored. There seemed to be countless chapters on the classification of whales. I imagine it would pick up as it progressed but I was at the point where I just couldn't take anything in I was so disinterested.

It's a tough one. I wouldn't say i'd given up on it completely, it's just been on hiatus since 1999. I got about two thirds of the way before I cracked.

Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain - need a book I can pretty much guarantee I'll enjoy after being disappointed with my last book (the Four Streets by Nadine Dorris) and you can always guarantee a good read from Diane Chamberlain.

I fell in love with Donna Tartt's A Secret History and was delighted to come across Little Friend - but had to stop halfway through. Such a disappointment. Goldfinch was much better with her trademark exquisite prose, but it lacked the pacing and brilliance of Secret History. A lot of it was very good though but overlong in places

I'm now reading The Railway Man which was made into a film starring Colin Firth, and am enjoying it so far

The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen

Ooh that's a good one!!

I am currently reading I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Has been on my watch list for ages but was waiting for the price to come down on Kindle.

It is good so far. I pick it up every chance I get, and it is very easy to get lost in the story ( nearly missed my stop yesterday )

Usually that only happens when I am reading Michael Connelly novels.

I quite enjoyed it from 'The Tower' onwards but then like you say, the ending was very poor.


Yes I'm the same Teddy, in a 'I've started so I'll finish' kind of way sadly it didn't make the book any more satisfying though.


I read the Goldfinch a few weeks ago and was looking in the library for A Secret History, but picked up The Little Friend as they didn't have it. I can see why there were several copies of The Little Friend languishing on the shelf now.

But hey, I've finished it now- hooray! -and am now reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which I've never read before

S.J Bolton- Dead Scared

Just finished Peter Falk's "Just one more thing".

Started Chris Ward's trilogy "The Tube Riders"

Empire: What Ruling The World Did To The British - Jeremy Paxman

The Rosie Project. Few minor annoyances (mostly the stupid assumptions about feminism) but overall I love it

Just about to start 'Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops II'.

Loved the first one, made me laugh out loud! It is almost worrying some of the comments...

The First Time I Saw Your Face - Hazel Osmond

I'm tempted to get this, it's only 99p today on Amazon for the Kindle