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Old 06-06-2013, 21:44
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Old 07-06-2013, 11:49
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Finished Rachel Joyce's "The Back Road" .. This is highly rated on the Amazon site and for a KIndle book it deserves that .. but to be published as a "proper" book it would need a professional editing team behind it .. the second half of the book is fine .. but the first half needs trimming to a quarter. Good story .. but read more like a script for Midsummer Murders or similar tv drama than a novel.
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Old 07-06-2013, 14:43
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Old 08-06-2013, 10:01
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Finished Dominic Sandbrook's "Seasons in the Sun" .. best overview of the 70s you are ever likely to read.
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Old 08-06-2013, 10:39
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Siege - Simon Kernick
Nailbiting thriller, about a small group of armed terrorists, holding a large grou;p of hostages
in a London hotel. The pace never lets up, and there are plenty of innocent individuals caught up in this very tense drama
This had me gripped from the start, and made me impatient to read more, when I could.
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Old 09-06-2013, 01:25
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Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts.
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Old 09-06-2013, 16:34
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Ellie Campbell- Looking for La La
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Old 09-06-2013, 18:04
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I've just started The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

Maybe it's because she's a playwright, but the dialogue really makes the novel stand-out, and rips the story along at a great pace. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.
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Old 09-06-2013, 19:46
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Just finished The Schemer by Kimberly Chambers now about to read Revenge Wears Prada (Devil Wears Prada sequel)
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Old 09-06-2013, 20:47
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Just starting Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. The premise of the story sounds interesting 'what if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right'.
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Old 09-06-2013, 21:34
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Am about to start Contingency by Peggy Martinez
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Old 09-06-2013, 21:51
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Just finished The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid - excellent thriller, with so many twists you'll never guess whodunit! - and have now started Girl 4, by Will Carver, which looks good.
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Old 09-06-2013, 22:52
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Just started 'Bertie Plays the Blues' which is the most recent book by Alexander McCall Smith in the 44 Scotland Street series. I've read all the previous books in the series and found them quietly enjoyable, although I seem to be in a minority there. They don't seem to get taken out of the library very often compared with the No1 Ladies' Detective Agency series which is much more popular.
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Old 10-06-2013, 09:14
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Summer with my sister - Lucy Diamond
Enjoyable chic lit about a high powered City achiever who is abruptly made redundant from her job, and is forced to sell her luxury house, and retreat to her estranged family's home, out of town, in a nice cosy village. While she licks her wounds and plans her future, she gradually reconnects with the her family and her past.
Funny and sad, written with warmth.
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Old 10-06-2013, 10:36
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Dead Mans Time by Peter James
This is the ninth book in the series
about Supt Roy Grace who runs the
Brighton Murder Squad and its every
bit as much a page turner as the previous
eight!
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Old 10-06-2013, 16:05
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Suzanne Bugler- The Safest Place
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Old 10-06-2013, 18:00
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I've got two new books on the go.

The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. An audiobook read by Hannah Gordon. I'm about 25 years later than everybody else with this one. It's very listenable but is sounding rather dated for a book written in the eighties. I guess that I'm supposed to like Penelope and Olivia and to dislike Nancy and Noel. I'm not taking to any of them yet but am enjoying the story telling and narration.

I'm reading Edward Adrift by Craig Lancaster on my KIndle. I'm only a couple of chapters in but things are shaping up nicely and I think that the book will live up to 600 Hours of Edward. I'm quite relieved to see that Edward has given up on Dragnet.
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Old 10-06-2013, 20:39
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I'm re-reading all of Raymond E Feist's 'Riftwar Saga' as a lead up to reading the latest and final book, Magician's End, which has just been released - in the last couple of weeks so far I have read:

The Magician
Silverthorne
Darkness at Sethanon

Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire

Prince of the Blood
The King's Buccaneer

Shadow of a Dark Queen
Rise of a Merchant Prince
Rage of a Demon King
Shards of a Broken Crown

Krondor the Betrayal
Krondor the Assassins

and am currently nearly finished
Krondor Tear of the Gods

and am about to move on to
Jimmy and the Crawler

After that there will be anther 14 to go including Magician's End
Still ploughing through my Feist Odyssey, since this post I have continued with:-

Honoured Enemy
Murder in LaMut
Jimmy the Hand

Talon of the Silver Hawk
King of Foxes
Exiles Return

Flight of the Nighthawks
Into a Dark Realm
Wrath of a Mad God

and am just about to start:
Rides a Dread Legion

5 more including this to go
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Old 12-06-2013, 10:23
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.
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Old 12-06-2013, 11:14
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I've got three on the go at present;

Go-go girls of the Apocalypse, a literary equivalent of the B-movie, all very 'Planet Terror' by Victor Gischler
Ian Rankin's Impossible Dead
and an audiobook - Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy.
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Old 12-06-2013, 21:03
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Finished Girl 4 by Will Carver, which was ok, nothing special, a bit formulaic. I could see the ending coming a mile off. Have got 2 on the go now: The Queen of New Beginnings by Erica James, and Siege by Simon Kernick.
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Old 13-06-2013, 17:15
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Dirty girls on top- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
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Old 14-06-2013, 02:00
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Paper Aeroplanes by Dawn O'Porter.

Finding it virtually impossible to put down. Fantastic blend of humour and pathos.
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Old 14-06-2013, 08:50
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Death of a Gossip - M.C.Beaton
A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery

Gentle, story of an unconventional village bobby, in the Highlands solving a murder.
Quite liked it. Different to what I expected.
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Old 15-06-2013, 11:14
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Just finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. It took a while before it became a real page-turner for me, but eventually I was hooked.
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