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Post by froglady on Dec 18, 2023 23:19:31 GMT
Reading Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer and Other Stories
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Post by windysisters on Dec 20, 2023 9:57:30 GMT
Alongside the Reginald Hill short stories, I'm also now reading The 12 Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen a cosy crime set in the 1930s.
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Post by sarita on Dec 20, 2023 16:39:44 GMT
Finished 2 excellent books today. Both 5*.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Certainly in my top 5 this year.
The Gameshouse by Claire North on audio. Extremely imaginative and clever even if it loses traction at times. The narrator, Peter Kenny, is outstanding.
Next up are: On était des loups by Sandrine Collette, library ebook The Coward by Jared McGinnis on Audible
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Post by adelynechan on Dec 23, 2023 15:32:40 GMT
I second what sarita said above about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a brilliant book that will certainly make my top 5, if not my top 1 of the year (need to remind myself what I've read this year ). I wasn't sure what to expect as neither the title nor the blurb really give anything away, and I loved seeing the story unfold. It's themed on video game design, which while you don't have to like to enjoy the book, I do also enjoy so I liked seeing the production side of things unfold as well.
Then I read Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, and she's done it again! I loved The Love Hypothesis by the same author despite having reservations about the premise (it's a testy subject that academics avoid talking about), but I thought it was brilliantly done and this one was just the same.
I decided to call time on The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper, nothing negative to say, just not for me as I have zero desire to go back to it! It's not the first time I have tried and not gotten along with it, so with a growing TBR time to move it on I think.
Up next will be Dying for Christmas by Tammy Cohen.
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Post by sarita on Dec 23, 2023 17:00:11 GMT
I DNF'D On était des loups by Sandrine Collette. Read much better about a father and his son/daughter fighting for survival in a hostile environment. 2*
Started the last travelling book for 2023, Insurrecto by Gina Apostol. Set in the Philippines.
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Post by froglady on Dec 24, 2023 13:17:01 GMT
I'm reading a lot of Agatha Christie's very short stories featuring her various detectives.
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Post by eightlegs on Dec 26, 2023 14:52:27 GMT
I started The Christmas Book Club - Sarah Morgan, a bit of light Christmas fluff
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Post by adelynechan on Dec 26, 2023 16:32:42 GMT
I started The Christmas Book Club - Sarah Morgan, a bit of light Christmas fluff I enjoyed this one!
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Post by adelynechan on Dec 26, 2023 16:39:54 GMT
Finished Dying for Christmas by Tammy Cohen, it was OK but didn't really work for me. It was a bit different in that it wasn't your classic whodunnit / crime-mystery but instead had different twists and turns with the characters, which should have been brilliant but somehow I thought the plot didn't gel with the writing style. Also it was clearly written such that all the characters are hateable, and I always find these sorts of books much harder to enjoy than the ones with relatable or at least likeable people in them.
Then I started The Killer's Christmas List by Chris Frost, one that I bought on a whim off Amazon. It's a new release that's been promoted heavily this Christmas season, which piqued my curiosity, and I do sort of see what the fuss about it is all about. The writing style is straightforward and it is easy to get into the story, it has scored well for the start but of course for crime novels, the ending is far more important.
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Post by froglady on Dec 27, 2023 8:26:07 GMT
Finished 2 excellent books today. Both 5*. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Certainly in my top 5 this year. The Gameshouse by Claire North on audio. Extremely imaginative and clever even if it loses traction at times. The narrator, Peter Kenny, is outstanding. Next up are: On était des loups by Sandrine Collette, library ebook The Coward by Jared McGinnis on Audible just bought Tomorrow on Kindle for 99p - nearly bought it yesterday after reading the comments about it but so pleased I left it until today. Looking forward to reading this.
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Post by peppercricket on Dec 28, 2023 13:31:57 GMT
200 pages into the new Strike - yippee!
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Post by eightlegs on Dec 28, 2023 20:29:08 GMT
Lots of reading time over Christmas (ferry journey's to and from the Isle of Wight helped!) so I've had a couple of finishes and yesterday I started Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell which I'm already enjoying very much
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Post by adelynechan on Dec 29, 2023 14:07:04 GMT
Long update today, though probably the last of the year!
Finished The Killer's Christmas List by Chris Frost, it didn't pull me in as quickly as I had hoped but I was impressed at how clever the ending was. There were two parallel voices throughout (not a spoiler, it's obvious from the first chapter) that came together so brilliantly in the end.
Then I whizzed through a book that my colleague gave me - she'd received a duplicate for Christmas and thought I might like it - The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett. This follows on from The Appeal by the same author that we did as a Zoom buddy read earlier in the year, it's set in the same universe that was fun to revisit, though the author isn't very sympathetic and expects the reader to remember many of the details from the first book. It's over 100 books ago for me, so that was a bit of a struggle. And while I still like the format that she's chosen and has sort of made her own, I didn't think a novella length was really sufficient for this.
Also finished listening to A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, and I really don't think I can tire of seeing Hawthorne and Horowitz interact. It just adds an extra angle to a murder investigation that I find interesting to watch, and I'm already looking forward to getting stuck into Book 4 which I have on tbr.
I'm dipping in and out of the short story collection Murder Under the Christmas Tree, reading one story a day. Have read two so far - liked one but found the other a bit meh - but there are the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Val McDermid coming up so am looking forward to that.
Am also planning to start Eye For An Eye by M.J. Arlidge, Christmas present from me to me (well, it was a trolley hopper from when I went to Sainsburys), and It Started With a Tweet by Anna Bell on audio.
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Post by froglady on Dec 29, 2023 16:19:01 GMT
Reading The 12 Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani.
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Post by rosemary3 on Dec 30, 2023 20:38:56 GMT
I'm reading a very long mystery, first in series, The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman. It's set in rural Herefordshire where I'm planning to go for a break in March, which is why I bought it, and I'm enjoying that aspect, but otherwise I might have given up. There's not enough plot for nearly 600 pages.
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