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Old 04-03-2013, 19:48
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Smokeheads by Doug Johnstone.

Not sure what to expect at the moment, about chapters in, it's either going to be a horror or a murder mystery, crossed with Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.
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Old 04-03-2013, 20:43
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Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - wow what a headf**k! I couldn't put it down at all - I felt as manipulated as Nick whilst reading that story and I'm now exhausted having finished it! Great read and I'll definitely be reading some of her other stuff in the near future!
I started reading Gone Girl just last night - looks like I made a good choice in buying it!
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Old 05-03-2013, 09:28
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David Mitchell's autobiography.

Not bad but not the best I've read.
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Old 05-03-2013, 11:22
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I started reading Gone Girl just last night - looks like I made a good choice in buying it!
Yes you did! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! My aunts just started reading it too and is finding it pretty addictive!

I started Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green last night- it's written from the POV of Budo, little Max's imaginary friend. About 40% through and it's very endearing and captivating so far!
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Old 05-03-2013, 13:49
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Red Bones by Ann Cleeves.
Third of the Shetland series and an ok read, if rather plodding - even more so than the first two.
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Old 05-03-2013, 13:52
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The Pyramid by Henning Mankell. Chronologically the first in the Kurt Wallander series.
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Old 05-03-2013, 13:56
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The Good Thiefs Guide to Amsterdam - Chris Ewan. Really enjoying it. Got it for my kindle after reading The Safe House and liking his writing style. I'm a sucker for a good thief/forger/swindler story - hence my love of the tv shows White Collar and Leverage!
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Old 05-03-2013, 14:42
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1) The Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison

The third book in a series about a female Brehon or judge in 16th century Ireland

2) The Piccadilly Plot by Susanna Gregory

7th book in a series about a spy in Restoration London

3) Nemesis by Lindsey Davis

20th book in a series about a detective in ancient Rome

4) Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr

Sci-fi book set a post apocolyptic America
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Old 05-03-2013, 15:17
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Now onto Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda - about a chinese boy at an all-white New york school and a series of disappearing schoolchildren. Good stuff so far!
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Old 05-03-2013, 20:26
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Finished Hangover Square tonight. Now onto Everything Flows, by Vasily Grossman.
About a prisoner freed from the Gulag after 30yrs of imprisonment, and his struggles with the outside world.
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Old 05-03-2013, 21:12
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'Relish' autobiography of Prue Leith.
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Old 06-03-2013, 00:09
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Im currently reading Domain by James Herbert, about half way through its quite good
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Old 06-03-2013, 11:02
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Currently working my way through Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series, I'm on book 6 The Mephisto Club
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Old 06-03-2013, 11:24
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We need to talk about Kevin.....I have found this book very hard going and at times it is an effort to continue reading. I am hopeful that the story will pick up soon and hold my attention for longer. It is probably the longest time it has ever taken me to read a book.....

That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it's your own son who's just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph--with its unseemly grin--is blown up on the national news. The question of who's to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadourian. Two years ago, her son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? We Need to Talk About Kevin offers no pat explanations for why so many white, well-to-do adolescents--whether in Pearl, Paducah, Springfield, or Littleton--have gone nihilistically off the rails while growing up in suburban comfort. Instead, Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy--the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.
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Old 06-03-2013, 13:09
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Started Rupture by Simon Lelic - about a school shooting. What lead up to it and the aftermath. Very impressive so far.
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:03
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Finished "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce .. and an unlikely good read it turned out to be .. humorous and poignant as the story of Harold Maureen and Queenie is revealed along the 600+ mile trek from Dorset to Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:03
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Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher.

Amazing book by a great author who I had the delight of meeting at sci-fi weekender last weekend. Really fun sci-fi superhero like novel. Yes, I'm a nerd.
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:06
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Finished "Rich - the Biography of Richard Burton" by Melvyn Bragg. Well written rounded account of the great actor's turbulent life. look forward now to the Diaries. Didn't realise he was a prolific writer too.
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:20
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Finished Johan Theorin's "The Darkest Room" second in the Oland trilogy. Again a well written story of murder and mystery on the Swedish island. The island itself is the star of these books. Better written than Larsson's trilogy.
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:22
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Finished Nick Robinson's "Live from No 10". I've got a lot of time for the Beeb's pol editor but his book doesn't rate highly in comparison to his predecessors - Marr, Oakley, Sergeant (itv), Cole
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Old 06-03-2013, 17:26
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Finihed Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" .. Not a fan of this kind of sci-fi futuristic writing. Found it more interesing than Orwell's 1984 though. Written in the early 1930s .. his vision not that far off.
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Old 07-03-2013, 11:46
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Finished Red Bones by Ann Cleeves and found the ending a bit of a let down if I'm honest.
Started Heresy by S J Parris.
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Old 07-03-2013, 14:32
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Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
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Old 07-03-2013, 20:52
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Tim Weaver- The Dead Tracks
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Old 07-03-2013, 22:31
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I've just started Cannery Row - John Steinbeck. I read it a long time ago and it was definitely my favourite, definitely deserving of a re read.
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