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Finished "Gillespie and I" by Jane Harris. 600 pages long, but ultimately I loved it - there were points where it irritated me, but then I began to enjoy it again. I'd highly recommend it.
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Anyway, moving on, I'm currently reading The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas. It's like a modern day version of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca - very dark and mysterious and haunting - the pages are turning themselves.
![]() I am currently reading Fay Weldon - Habits of the House |
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Listened to that on the radio recently and thinking about buying it. It does not sound easy tho. Your opinion would be appreciated.
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As I said in the 212 in 2012 thread -
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch. Amazingly good and also a nice easy read. Hilarious in places, quite dark in others, I have ordered the next two in the series - in fact I did so when I was about 10 pages in. If you love the Felix Castor novels you will love this - I've struggled to find anything in the same genre that meets the standard of Mike Carey but here it is. Equally if you have read Rivers of London and loved it and have NOT read Felix Castor you should! Basically, Peter Grant, a PC in the Met, discovers magic and mystery surrounding the rivers of london. A quote from the novel, and the point at which I knew it was a winner...In spoilers just in case people hate reading tiny bits of books!
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I have just finished 'A Rush of Blood' by Mark Billingham (audio version) and I absolutely loved it.
It's so fresh and different to the Thorne novels (which frankly I was starting to find a bit dull and dreary). I love crime fiction which is heavy on characterisation and interaction between characters, so this was perfect for me. The narrator does a fantastic job and I found it utterly gripping. Definitely my favourite crime novel of this year so far, and possibly favourite book of this year. I'm now starting 'Me Before You' by Jojo Moyes. |
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Just started 'The Casual Vacancy' by JK Rowling
So far enjoying it, adult book so nothing like Harry Potter
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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Can't say I'm enjoying it all that much so far, but its a shortish book, so I'll have it done in a couple of days. Neither the story or the writing style is particularly engaging. |
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Just started 'The Casual Vacancy' by JK Rowling
So far enjoying it, adult book so nothing like Harry Potter ![]() |
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Laura Marney- Nobody loves a ginger baby
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Finished The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. Very enriching novel, and a different perspective on wartime and post-war Germany.
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I have added this to my to read list now
![]() ![]() I'm about to start Afterlight by Alex Scarrow. |
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Marian Keyes 'The Mystery of Mercy Close'. A few chapters in but she's back on form after a couple of disappointing books.
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Bared to you - A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day. The characters are marginally better than 50 Shades, but all in all, I'm finding it very boring and can't wait to finish
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Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma.
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Biting Cold by Chloe Neill. It is the sixth book in her Chicagoland Vampires books and after a slow start I'm really enjoying it.
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A Madness of Angels - Kate Griffin. 1st in the Matthew Swift series which I have now ordered all available of because I'm loving it
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The People of the Pit, by Gene Christie. A good collection of horror stories from
the better-quality used pulp magazines, Featuring a grim tale of prison brutality by Damon Runyon, "Fear", the title lost-world fantasy by Abraham Merritt, and a chilling "Dorian Grey" homage by Tod Robbins of "Freaks" and "The Unholy Three" fame. |
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Really enjoyed Andrew Maynes 'Angel Killer' and now nearly finished 'Public Enemy Zero'
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Have just read "The Finkler Question " by Howard Jacobson, enjoyed it immensely even though I had a few tears.
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Finished Lord Jim. Very good but for me the subject matter and setting were to close to An Outcast Of the Islands, an earlier Conrad work. Jim almost felt like a revised repeat they were so similar, particularly the love interest who was described almost identically in both books. Not his best work for me.
Just started Thomas Hardy - A Pair Of Blue Eyes. I've heard Hardy's language can be quite hard work but so far I've found it ok. Still early days.. |
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Stan Barstow- A kind of loving
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The Accident by Linwood Barclay, and Gallows Curse by Karen Maitland. Very different stories, but equally gripping in their own way.
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the life by martina cole
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Am thoroughly enjoying it. |
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I'm reading 'Thirty Four Minutes DEAD' a techno Thriller by Steve Hammond Kaye
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...tag=mysp085-21 It's about experiments on corpses to see what the corpse saw just before they died (heightened visuals) so their able to find the murderer etc- it nicely goes a bit mental and their able to read people's minds, even developing the ability to stop new born babies from feeling aggressive feelings - so you could end up in a world where the whole population of the world is just happy go lucky folk who roll over and die (ahem... X FACTOR - it's already here lol) The cherry scene is quite interesting too - may not look at a black cherry in the same light ever again!! |
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Gabriel's rapture, it's the sequel to Gabriel's inferno. I have totally fallen in love with Professor Emerson
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