I've just finished Dan Brown - Digital fortress, i dunno about it really, after reading Peter F Hamiltons Void Trilogy and and his Commonwealth Saga, i found it too fast paced and the writing was a bit, well naff and very predictable.
What are you reading at the moment? (Part 4)
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I'm about to start on a new audiobook, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, read by Lorelei King.
It's my first audiobook download from the library. I don't think that Audible will have to worry too much about losing my custom as there's only a very small number of audiobooks to choose from. I rarely listen to audiobooks twice so library downloads would be good for me if there was more of a selection.This one is in wma format with drm and is only compatible with a few devices, fortunately my mp3 player is one such device.
It's my first audiobook download from the library. I don't think that Audible will have to worry too much about losing my custom as there's only a very small number of audiobooks to choose from. I rarely listen to audiobooks twice so library downloads would be good for me if there was more of a selection.This one is in wma format with drm and is only compatible with a few devices, fortunately my mp3 player is one such device.
I'm reading The Return by Victoria Hislop - it's starts off in modern Granada in Spain and goes back in time to the Spanish Civil War through the recollections of an elderly bar owner. It's a real page turner - it can be a bit like a story from a womens' magazine at first but gets better and better. It weaves fact and fiction - and it has made me cry. Well worth reading.
(ps landdrifter24 I can never finish anything by Dan Brown although I like the films.)
(ps landdrifter24 I can never finish anything by Dan Brown although I like the films.)
Finished Jeremy Vine's Its all News to Me. A revealing warts-and-all insight into the BBC. Great anecdotes.
Originally Posted by Sue_C:
“I'm about to start on a new audiobook, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, read by Lorelei King.”
“I'm about to start on a new audiobook, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, read by Lorelei King.”
That's meant to be a fab book. The only one of Atwood's I've read is The Handmaid's Tale and found it disturbing but addictive - I read it quite quickly.
Currenty reading.. Bette and Joan - The divine feud.
I didn't realise how many men Joan went through - and I'm not half way through
I didn't realise how many men Joan went through - and I'm not half way through
Currently reading 'Tigers in Red Heat'.....really enjoying it. Much morevthan it first seems It is very dark
My new print book is All The Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson.
The Mills & Boon style title is awful but, if the other two books in the series are anything to go by, it should be good. This is the middle book. I've read the first and last in the series and have been saving this one up because I don't want to get to the point where I've finished them all!
The Mills & Boon style title is awful but, if the other two books in the series are anything to go by, it should be good. This is the middle book. I've read the first and last in the series and have been saving this one up because I don't want to get to the point where I've finished them all!
The Bat by Jo Nesbo. First in the Harry Hole series.
I wasn't going to get this after it appeared he had killed off Harry in his last book. As apparently he has been resurrected for a new book I relented.
I wasn't going to get this after it appeared he had killed off Harry in his last book. As apparently he has been resurrected for a new book I relented.
I've just finished The Lewis Man by Peter May, which was very good, and am now into Think of A Number by John Verdon, the 1st Dave Gurney novel - looks promising.
Just bought:
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation. Margalit Fox
Love books like this (deciphering languages, codes, historical detective puzzles etc).
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation. Margalit Fox
Quote:
“The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.
But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery.
Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.”
“The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.
But, captivating as it is, this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery.
Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.”
Love books like this (deciphering languages, codes, historical detective puzzles etc).
I just finished Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller. I really enjoyed this especially the parts about the holocaust. I'm going to read Emily Barr's The Sleeper next
MacRieve by Kresley Cole. I'm struggling with it a bit which is a shame as I love her Immortals After Dark series, but after 13 books I suppose the formula does get a little stale.
Originally Posted by NinaRibena:
“I just finished Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller. I really enjoyed this especially the parts about the holocaust. I'm going to read Emily Barr's The Sleeper next”
“I just finished Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller. I really enjoyed this especially the parts about the holocaust. I'm going to read Emily Barr's The Sleeper next”
Let me know what you think as its on my wish list.
J.A.Kerley- Her last scream
In the last week I have read Blood Games by Faye Kellerman and whilst the storyline was good, I feel she totally overdid the teenage sex scenes, which spoilt the book for me, and Unseen by Karen Slaughter, which took me a little bit to get into, as the timeline jumped all over the place, but once I did, I was hooked.
Now reading something completely different - The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell and so far, so very good
Now reading something completely different - The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell and so far, so very good
Finished Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont .. really good study of the loneliness of ageing
I'm just about to start Tampa by Alissa Nutting. Some very mixed reviews, I imagine its down to the subject matter (about a female teacher sleeping with her 14 year old students), but I'm going to give it a try regardless.
Just finished A Storm of Swords. Wow, what an amazing book, really brings the series to a new level. Then I see the negative reviews for Feast and Dragons. Not sure whether to take a break (I've read them all in order) or continue reading...
I think I love You, Allison Person
Good so far though I was always more of a Donny fan myself
Had mixed reviews when it came out so waited til I saw it for £1 in a charity shop
Good so far though I was always more of a Donny fan myself
Had mixed reviews when it came out so waited til I saw it for £1 in a charity shop
I recently discovered the fantasy writer, Tom Holt, when I read a review of 'The Blonde Bombshell'. I got it out of the library and, after a bit of a slow start, really enjoyed it. I've read other fantasy books but never found anyone to match Terry Pratchett until now, although Holt is completely different.
I've just finished 'May contain traces of Magic' by Holt, and have another four to read, all on request from the library. He seems to have written two or three dozen books.
Has anyone else read any of Holt's books?
I've just finished 'May contain traces of Magic' by Holt, and have another four to read, all on request from the library. He seems to have written two or three dozen books.
Has anyone else read any of Holt's books?
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