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Post by eightlegs on Nov 17, 2023 22:20:54 GMT
Not all his books are horror and he is an excellent story teller. Try the Mr Mercedes series. Oh I hadn't realised that he wrote anything other than horror. I'll have a look out for the Mr Mercedes books. Cheers for this I'm totally with you Sal, I don't do horror either but as Wendy says, some of his books are not horror and this one is definitely not. And Wendy's right again with "he's an excellent storyteller", I'm thoroughly enjoying it
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Post by froglady on Nov 18, 2023 14:42:25 GMT
I'm now reading Murder at the Highland Castle by Helena Dixon.
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Post by adelynechan on Nov 18, 2023 21:19:39 GMT
Also went back to and finished Christmas at the Little Cornish Isles by Phillippa Ashley,
My mum has recently discovered this author and devouring all her library have available If her library haven't got this series, happy to wing it your way!
I've also finished The Christmas Book Club by Sarah Morgan, which I loved! She's one of my favourite chick-lit authors and this one had such good characters. Only dropped half a star (and rounded down) because given the title I was hoping for a bit more book clubbing than it just being the thing that brought the characters together, they did do a bit of book mooching but that was it. I was hoping they'd sit and talk bookish for far more than they did!
Then I started Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins-Reid, another of my favourite authors. Work is a bit high pressure at the moment as we chase a big mid-December deadline, so it helps with unwinding in the evening to be able to just disappear into a book's universe and forget about the real world for a bit. And they're quick too, which helps my (admittedly rather futile) attempt to bring down the TBR.
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Post by sarita on Nov 19, 2023 5:28:09 GMT
Finally finished Le Feu du milieu by Touhfat Mouhtare. Took me ages but I did like it and gave it 4*
Starting Exiles by Jane Harper. Aaron Falk #3.
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Post by adelynechan on Nov 19, 2023 10:33:23 GMT
Finished Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins-Reid, I hadn't realised that this 2023 edition is actually a re-publishing of her debut novel written in 2013. It's the TJR that I love in terms of the storyline (how many love-tragedy books actually has the death scene in the first chapter?!) but she's really improved leaps and bounds in terms of writing, this one was far less snappy than her more recent books. Still it made me cry buckets and I liked it enough overall to give 4*.
Up next, continuing with my recent trend of reading favourite authors, will be The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan.
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Post by froglady on Nov 19, 2023 21:56:27 GMT
Reading The Christmas Book Club by Sarah Morgan now.
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Post by rosemary3 on Nov 20, 2023 20:32:52 GMT
I've started Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin, Devon village murder mystery.
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Post by froglady on Nov 21, 2023 18:28:09 GMT
Now reading An Eye For An Eye by M J Arlidge.
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Post by froglady on Nov 25, 2023 7:36:19 GMT
Now reading The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer.
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Post by rosemary3 on Nov 25, 2023 20:35:02 GMT
I was not impressed with Glimpses of the Moon but I have a better mystery going now on Kindle, The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo. The one Harry Hole book I read was too gruesome for me, but this is a standalone, more of a psychological thriller, and I'm enjoying it a lot more.
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Post by sarita on Nov 25, 2023 22:06:28 GMT
I had to postpone The Satanic Verses as I'm not ready for intellectual efforts at the moment. Instead, reading TBR shortest books🙃
Finished Novecento by Alessandro Barrico, short and excellent story, apparently not translated into English. 5*
Also finished The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcot. Poetry, beautiful writing but not easy to read. 4*.
Currently reading Why Do You Dance When You Walk by Abdourahman Waberi. So far so good.
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Post by adelynechan on Nov 26, 2023 23:02:24 GMT
Finished The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan, it was okay though i thought there were far too many plot lines going on at the same time. It actually didn't really feel like a Jenny Colgan book, she's usually good at creating such an absorbing universe that I feel I am drawn into the story and am among the characters, wasn't the case here.
Then I read The Night Before Christmas by Alex Pine, book #4 in the DI Walker series set in Cumbria. This is becoming the series that I read every year around this time, the publishers very cleverly time the release accordingly to match the theme of a crime that takes place around Christmastime, and although I'm not eagerly awaiting the release of the next book the way I do Robert Hunter or Washington Poe, somehow I find myself gravitating towards them when the time comes. Always very nice reads too, cleverly constructed mysteries and it's always fun to see how James Walker is getting on.
Up next will be Hush Hush by James Patterson & Candice Fox, though I've also started The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict for the Zoom buddy read.
On audio, earlier today I finished listening to Small Change by Dan Ariely & Jeff Kreisler. I'm a huge fan of Ariely's research, and this book was a good reminder of some of the concepts, but it's nowhere close to his flagship book Predictably Irrational. Up next will be The Fixer by Claudia Carroll.
My attention span isn't amazing lately for a whole bunch of reasons, so I think it'll be awhile before I make any progress on my tree NF...
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