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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, I've never read anything by him before and he is very like his father, Stephen King, but somehow not like him, if that makes sense. Just a couple of chapters in and I'm intrigued. (Reminded me a bit of Rose Madder though)
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Tuffers Alternative Guide to the Ashes by Phil Tufnell
All in the title really, a book full of humorous anecdotes about the Ashes |
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I am about to start Wonder - the Julian chapter - a short story which is a follow up to Wonder by RJ Palacio, a book which I really enjoyed a couple of years ago.
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Tim Weaver - Vanished
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I am about to start Wonder - the Julian chapter - a short story which is a follow up to Wonder by RJ Palacio, a book which I really enjoyed a couple of years ago.
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Just about to start Margaret Drabble - The Millstone.
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Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
The definitive account of Nazi Germany by Hitlers Armaments Minister |
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One Plus One by Jojo Moyes - quite enjoying it although not as much as I enjoyed Me Before You by the same author.
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The Final Minute by Simon Kernick. Probably one of my favourite writers
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How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson
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I have just started Only Time will tell by Jeffery Archer, the first book of the epic Clifton Chronicles - looking forward to getting stuck into it over half-term week
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Why not change the format guys?
I've put my ideas forward. http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2051824 Be good to know your views
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I'm in the middle of the audio version of 'I Partridge, We Need to Talk about Alan' and it's absolutely brilliant!
![]() It's read/performed by the author, Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan in character) and it's flipping hilarious. I've literally cried with laughter several times. If you're a fan of Alan Partridge, you'll love this. Even if you normally prefer paper books, think about trying the audio version of this because having it read by Alan Partridge himself just makes it so funny. |
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I'm in the middle of the audio version of 'I Partridge, We Need to Talk about Alan' and it's absolutely brilliant!
![]() It's read/performed by the author, Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan in character) and it's flipping hilarious. I've literally cried with laughter several times. If you're a fan of Alan Partridge, you'll love this. Even if you normally prefer paper books, think about trying the audio version of this because having it read by Alan Partridge himself just makes it so funny. Now reading Mob Daughter by Karen Gravano |
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I've just started reading 'Good Girls Don't Die'. It's been ages since I've read a crime book and the victims in it are students, so I'm enjoying it so far!
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Have recently read:
The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas-Home Scottish Environmentalist and detective come together to counteract a human trafficking gang. 6/10 Natchez Burning - Greg Isles Set in the heart of Mississippi, this is a masterful piece of the age old civil rights versus the KKK clan grievances in Natchez. Fact based but tends to get carried away too much with the fiction. 8/10 The Ghost Runner - Parker Bilial A detective story in India. The level of research the author took to write this 'fictional tale' was brilliant. You really feel that you are living the experience. 9/10 The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins A disillusioned woman with her lot in life who fantasizes about a family she sees every day on passing on the train. She feels she's nothing like the woman she sees, nor the man she'd likely hope to get. 9/10 I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh Wow....this is the ultimate of psychological thrillers. All angles are tested via the reader. Powerful stuff. 10/10 |
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Nearly finished 'I Partridge' now and I've also just started 'The Perfect Mother' by Margaret Leroy.
It's a well-written novel about a woman who's daughter is persistently ill, so she takes her to the doctor, and then eventually pushes for a referral to a specialist, but the tests and investigations which are carried out show nothing obvious, and the specialist is now suspecting that it might be a case of Munchausen's by Proxy - that the mother is fabricating or inducing the daughter's illness. (I'm not spoiling, by the way - this is mentioned on the cover blurb). Not sure what's going to happen next, but I'm enjoying it so far. |
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Susan Wilkins - The Informant
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Stranded - Emily Barr
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concretopia-...ds=concretopia Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain Quote:
Was Britain's postwar rebuilding the height of midcentury chic or the concrete embodiment of Crap Towns? John Grindrod decided to find out how blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass.
On his journey he visits the sleepy Norfolk birthplace of Brutalism, the once-Blitzed city centre of Plymouth, the futuristic New Town of Cumbernauld, Sheffield's innovative streets in the sky, the foundations of the BT tower, and the brave 1950s experiments in the Gorbals. Along the way he meets New Town pioneers, tower block builders, Barbican architects, old retainers of Coventry Cathedral, proud prefab dwellers and sixties town planners: people who lived through a time of phenomenal change and excitement. What he finds is a story of dazzling space-age optimism, ingenuity and helipads -- so many helipads -- tempered by protests, deadly collapses and scandals that shook the government. Concretopia is an accessible, warm and revealing social history of an aspect of Britain often ignored, insulted and misunderstood. It will change the way you look at Arndale Centres, tower blocks and concrete forever. |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes - brilliant stuff!
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A new audiobook, The Glamour by Christopher Priest, read by Barnaby Edwards.
Richard Grey is in a nursing home recovering from injuries caused by a car bomb. He has no memory of the months leading up to the bomb, nor of the days/weeks afterwards. He is hoping that visits from a former girlfriend (who he does not remember) will help him piece together his missing months. This was first published in 1984 and feels quaint with references to video recording replacing film in his job as a news cameraman, pay phones instead of mobiles and no computers. I'm not entirely keen on the narration on this one. I'm part way through reading The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. Our heoine, Irene, works for a Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. She's sent to an alternative London to retrieve a dangerous book. It turns out that it's already been stolen. Magic and chaos abound. I liked the opening chapter but am finding it irritating and rather juvenile now, possibly YA fiction? |
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Broken Dolls- James Carol
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Have recently read:
The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas-Home Scottish Environmentalist and detective come together to counteract a human trafficking gang. 6/10 Natchez Burning - Greg Isles Set in the heart of Mississippi, this is a masterful piece of the age old civil rights versus the KKK clan grievances in Natchez. Fact based but tends to get carried away too much with the fiction. 8/10 The Ghost Runner - Parker Bilial A detective story in India. The level of research the author took to write this 'fictional tale' was brilliant. You really feel that you are living the experience. 9/10 The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins A disillusioned woman with her lot in life who fantasizes about a family she sees every day on passing on the train. She feels she's nothing like the woman she sees, nor the man she'd likely hope to get. 9/10 I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh Wow....this is the ultimate of psychological thrillers. All angles are tested via the reader. Powerful stuff. 10/10 |
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I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh Wow....this is the ultimate of psychological thrillers. All angles are tested via the reader. Powerful stuff. 10/10 |
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