I loved that book. I thought it was fresh and quirky.

I've just finished 'Behind Closed Doors' by Susan Lewis and would give it about 7/10. It's a good balance of crime drama and family/relationship stuff. Nothing outstanding, but decent characterisation and pacing. I'll definitely seek out the rest of her books.

I've just started 'The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes' by Gerard Kelly - audio version read by Simon Shepherd. I'm not impressed so far.

The stories are very mediocre and full of cheesy 'what ho' and 'old chap' type dialogue which is not true to the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Also, Simon Shepherd is a disappointing narrator. The voices he uses for Holmes and Watson make them both sound like idiots. 5/10 so far.

I've just finished Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, excellent, really enjoyed it. Now starting The Observations by Jane Harris

I'm reading Us too, I have to say I am not enjoying it at all I don't like any of the main characters , it reminds me of Being Good by Nick Hornby

I'm about halfway in now and it's starting to get on my nerves. I quite like Douglas but not his wife or son. I'll persevere as I don't often give up on books and it is for a book group so if I give up I won't have anything to talk about!

I find Douglas too pompous and controlling and I find his wife and son mean spirited they all deserve each other to prevent other people being unhappy

The Silent Sister - Diane Chamberlain
Story of a woman, trying to solve her older sister's suicide, after their father died.. Good storytelling, but this was rather a plodder.

'The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes' and 'His Last Bow'. The last two Holmes short story collections that I've got left to read.

'Barbra' ... A Biography of Barbra Streisand -- Donald Zuc & Anthony Fowles

I really enjoyed this, didn't particularly like the characters ( though at the start Douglas does have some funny lines) but still found the book itself entertaining. Nichols best book is Starter for Ten IMO

Rebecca is a classic, and I absolutely loved The Observations!

I'm reading Hilary Bonnar - Friends to die for

Second Life - SJ Watson.

Just starting David Nicholls - One Day

She Stood There Laughing - A Man, His Son and Their Football Club

A fans account of Stoke City's 2001/2 season

I am reading a recent (2014) John Grisham novel: Gray Mountain.
I am a bit taken aback at the gentle writing style and the romantic elements of the story.
I have just seen a review of the book on Goodreads wondering if Grisham now has a female co-writer that he is keeping secret......

I've recently discovered Tim Weaver, who writes the David Raker novels. Raker is an ex-journalist turned searcher of missing persons. Very well written, lots of twists and turns, can be quite a bit of violence. Loving the stories.

Also reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, (Swedish author so set in Sweden). All about a grumpy old man, tired of life after the death of his wife. Very funny but very moving and poignant too.

I've just started Indemnity Only, the first V.I. Warshawski book, by Sara Peretsky. The film, with Kathleen Turner, is one of my guilty pleasures

I downloaded the Memoirs of Casanova for free onto my Kindle. I think it is about 3000 pages so it would be hard to read the actual physical books.

Anyway, I love it - what a witty, intelligent, roguish adventurer he was! There was a lot more to him than a man who loved women to a frenzy, and for someone who died in 1798 he is remarkably modern, and provides a bridge back to those glamorous and corrupt times.

I also never realised just how free and easy 18th century people were with sex! I thought it was just modern teenagers

A Colder War by Charles Cumming

I'm listening to The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel, narrated by Patrick Moy.
It's a novel about two historical characters. Charles O'Brien came over to England from Ireland in 1782. He was over 8 feet tall and hoped to earn a living by exhibiting himself as a freak of nature. John Hunter was an eminent surgeon and anatomist who became fascinated by O'Brien, primarily because he wished to add the giant's skeleton to his collection of specimens. Unsurprisingly, O'Brien wasn't too keen on that idea.

I'm reading The Beach Hut by Cassandra Parkin. I loved her previous book, The Summer We All Ran Away and have been looking forward to this latest one.
It's set in a North Cornish beach resort very similar to Perranporth and is the story of a brother and sister who build an illegal beach hut on the sands, intending to spend some months living there. This is much to the annoyance of the local pub landlord and to the delight of his daughter. The book starts with an episode from the siblings' childhood and I guess that the reasons for building the beach hut will be revealed as the book progresses..

Jane Harris's Gillespie and I is worth a read if you enjoy The Observations. It's set in Glasgow in the 1880s when a single lady of independent means becomes involved with the family of an aspiring artist. All is not as it seems.

Yes, I read that last year, I mistakenly thought that was her debut.

I immensely enjoyed both, Bessy/Daisy was such a likeable, almost innocent (ironic given her early life) character in The Observations. Gillespie and I had me thinking for a couple of days after reading

I finished The Observations on Friday, read The 6th Target by James Patterson, sat-sun, now started A Question of Identity by Susan Hill.

I keep seeing this book and have never been sure whether or not to give it a go, might see what I think now if it's not too bad!

I am currently reading 'The Little Beach Street Bakery'. I absolutely love Jenny Colgan's books, they're so 'feel good'.

Sabine Durrant - Under your skin

Secrets she Left Behind by Diane Chamberlain - this is the sequel to Before the Storm which I read a couple of years ago. I wish I'd read it sooner as I've read so many books inbetween that I have forgotten the story so I'm struggling a bit at the moment.

Listening to One Lucky Vampire by Lynsay Sands, Narrated by Jack Dupont