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Old 25-01-2015, 20:45
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The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas Home - for once I am starting a series in the right order!
I've finished this and started the next on the series, The Woman who walked into the Sea.
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Old 26-01-2015, 07:24
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Bobby Moore: The Man In Full • Matt Dickinson
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Old 26-01-2015, 10:17
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Re-reading the first four (and then going to read
the NEXT four) of the Shan Mysteries by Eliot Pattison.
A chinese gulag prisoner, released in Tibet and helping
the old Tibetan Lamas with various mysteries.
Gripping stuff,if you know anything about Tibet and the
chinese occupation of an ancient and gentle civilisation.
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Old 26-01-2015, 19:06
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Colette McBeth - Precious Thing
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Old 27-01-2015, 13:21
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I Let you Go - Clare Mackintosh

Only a bit in but it's looking good.
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Old 27-01-2015, 19:34
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Would just like to say that I've now finished 1984. Am glad to have finally read it but wow is it unremittingly depressing, especially the section in The Ministry of Love! Obviously I knew its reputation before reading it but I definitely need to read something lighter/more upbeat now - think I might try The Return of Sherlock Holmes as haven't read that collection of little stories yet.
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Old 28-01-2015, 14:37
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The Murder Bag - Tony Parsons.
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Old 28-01-2015, 18:02
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Just started The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride, the latest crime story involving the long suffering Logan McRae and his hilariously un-pc boss DCI Steel. In this one, our hero is banished to the rural wilderness of Aberdeenshire and is coping with rural crime - shoplifting, a juvenile graffiti artist who is making political statements (painting willies on electoral posters) and wandering cattle. Then a body is found and McRae is up to his neck in it.
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Old 28-01-2015, 19:10
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Sarah Rayne - House of the lost
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Old 28-01-2015, 19:46
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Just finished The Martian by Andy Weir..it's his first novel and I'll certainly look out for further books by him
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Old 29-01-2015, 08:22
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The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

If you liked Into the Darkest Corner and Before I Go to Sleep then this is right up your street. I'm about 40% into it right now and it is a real page-turner. Got great reviews on Amazon and I can understand why.
I've just started this one.....around 20% into it and finding it good so far
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Old 29-01-2015, 10:30
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I am reading different types articles and the books.I got different information from the different sources.Some websites are providing useful information for the students and the readers.You can visit sites for more information.
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Old 29-01-2015, 19:41
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A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
Enjoyable but I didn't understand the mistaken identity part. Seemed a bit far fetched to me.
Terrific court room scenes.
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Old 30-01-2015, 03:04
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The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie, it's okay tho I prefer Marple over Poirot (sp?)
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Old 31-01-2015, 14:19
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline's autobiographical novel Journey to the End of the Night; not one for happy hour.
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Old 31-01-2015, 20:50
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Recently finished The Miniaturist. Can't remember author but I loved it.

Just started The Night Circus. Brilliant so far! Oddly enough, can't remember the author's name. :-P
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Old 01-02-2015, 11:45
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I've started reading Dead Man's Footsteps by Peter James (Roy Grace 4). I'm hoping that Peter James will have toned down his fascination with Brighton Mortuary in this one!

I'm going to start listening to the Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, narrated by Dan O'Grady. A bit of light relief after Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.
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Old 01-02-2015, 13:22
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Defender of Rome by Douglas Jackson

2nd in a series. Read the first one a couple of weeks ago and loved it, this ones even better so far.
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Old 02-02-2015, 18:56
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Peter Robinson - Abbatoir Blues
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Old 03-02-2015, 17:22
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Now 6 chapters into Russell Brand's 'Revolution'
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Old 05-02-2015, 14:47
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London Fields • Martin Amis
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Old 06-02-2015, 23:12
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Just started H is for hawk. Not at all what I would normally read but truly beautiful.
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Old 06-02-2015, 23:45
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Loved The Left Hand Of Darkness. Not my normal thing but really interesting. Great feeling of the cold and a fascinating look at a world without a constant sexual imperative. A lost gem.

Now on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin which is reasonably engaging if a little moribund in terms of prose.maybe it loses something in translation.
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Old 07-02-2015, 08:28
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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.

Shades of Alice in Wonderland, perhaps, but so warm and inventive.
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Old 07-02-2015, 16:00
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The Testament - John Grisham
Haven't read Grisham in ages, and this was very good.
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