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Post by geminii on Feb 4, 2024 13:05:48 GMT
I've returned to reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; I am finding it a hard read, which is why I had a break from it and read books that I didn't need to think about. I don't play computer games so most of the stuff thst's related to it leaves me untouched. I'm currently reading this one - not a gamer either, but I've played PacMan & know who Mario is !! 🤣🤣🤣 Where are you up to ? PM me if you want to chat with me as we read through to the end .. 👍
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Post by geminii on Feb 4, 2024 13:07:49 GMT
Up next will be The Secret Smile by Nicci French. Think I have this one, but got too many reads on the go to join in now .. 🤦♀️
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 4, 2024 21:03:03 GMT
Finished In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan - IT WAS BRILLIANT. I eyed the book for ages before I eventually caved and bought it, the idea of an AI detective was too good to resist and I thought this was amazingly done. Both the main characters were so well-crafted, their interactions were spot-on for bringing out the differences between man and machine, as well as pointing out the ways in which they could complement one another. I love crime/mysteries so this was the perfect setting to read this discussion, and the case was built up really well as well. This will definitely make my top 10 of the year, so pleased to have found a new "must-read" series and I already can't wait to read the next book.
Up next will be You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao.
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Post by geminii on Feb 4, 2024 22:17:42 GMT
Hi All .. Going to start by catching you up on my February reads so far .. Carried Over : Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin" This is not a romance, but it is about love ..
Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over.
When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.
This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy .. "This has been ready by some of us here & discussed at the Zoom meets, so peer pressure has me reading it too .. For my IRL Book Club : What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky" On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. But who ? As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that they are not superstitious), Selma's granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings long carried secrets to the surface.
And when death comes, it comes in a way none of them could have predicted ... A story about the absurdity of life and death, a bittersweet portrait of village life and the wider world that beckons beyond, What You Can See from Here is a story about the way loss and love shape not just a person, but a community .. "Need to get it finished in time for our meeting on Weds eve .. Borrowbox Audio : The Healers by Ann Cleeves (Book 5)" News of the murder first came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning. He was in a meeting, one of the endless meetings the Chief Superintendent regularly called, and the summons from Sergeant Gordon Hunter came as a relief.
They found middle-aged farmer Ernie Bowles lying on his kitchen floor. He had been strangled, and was not a pretty sight. The gruesome discovery of his body had first been made by the beautiful Lily Jackman, a new-age traveller who was living with her boyfriend in a caravan on Bowles's land. Neither of them, however, had been close to the dead farmer, who had lived alone since the death of his mother and was, by all accounts, a rather unpleasant character.
Inspector Ramsay fears that this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself, and Ramsay feels that to solve the mystery of his death he will need all the help he can get. Then another person is strangled, a woman who, on the surface, had absolutely no connection with the dead farmer. Surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence ?
When Ramsay hears of a third suspicious death, a very tenuous link between the victims takes on a new importance, for all were connected in some way to the Alternative Therapy Centre in Mittingford. Could one of the healers be a killer ? .. "
I've finished : A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy by Ann CleevesThis is Book 3 in the Inspector Ramsay Series, also set in Northumberland - a brilliant listen on Audio The Naughtiest Girl in School by Enid Blyton Continuing down the rabbit hole of reliving my Childhood reads on Audio ..
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Post by sarita on Feb 5, 2024 16:56:55 GMT
Finished La Petite Fille dans le cercle de la Lune by Sia Figiel (Samoa) and La Malédiction du bandit moustachu by Irina Teodorescu (Romania). 3* both. Starting yet another travelling book as I'm on a mission 😉, By the Rivers of Babylon by Kei Miller (Jamaica).
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Post by froglady on Feb 5, 2024 19:59:09 GMT
Finished In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan - IT WAS BRILLIANT. I eyed the book for ages before I eventually caved and bought it, the idea of an AI detective was too good to resist and I thought this was amazingly done. Both the main characters were so well-crafted, their interactions were spot-on for bringing out the differences between man and machine, as well as pointing out the ways in which they could complement one another. I love crime/mysteries so this was the perfect setting to read this discussion, and the case was built up really well as well. This will definitely make my top 10 of the year, so pleased to have found a new "must-read" series and I already can't wait to read the next book.
Up next will be You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao.
just bought In the Blink of An Eye on Kindle at £3.99
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Post by froglady on Feb 5, 2024 20:07:43 GMT
Gone back to reading Death Comes Knocking - Policing Roy Grace's Brighton by Graham Bartlett with Peter James.
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 5, 2024 22:37:01 GMT
Finished You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao, lovely idea but a really irritating main character meant I only gave 3*. A quick read though, and I did like the author's writing style, so will be on the lookout for his next book.
Up next will be Virgin River by Robyn Carr, which I received from my work Secret Santa and need to read soon before my colleagues who are watching the Netflix series spoil it for me!
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 5, 2024 22:39:11 GMT
Up next will be The Secret Smile by Nicci French. Think I have this one, but got too many reads on the go to join in now .. 🤦♀️ Oohh yeah, should have checked your GR before starting. It's an older one so I would have thought you'd read it by now! It's creepy, and unless the author is hiding something (entirely possible - I'm only just over a third in), there is a character that's properly messed up. You'd enjoy it when you get round to reading it
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Post by geminii on Feb 5, 2024 22:44:26 GMT
Think I have this one, but got too many reads on the go to join in now .. 🤦♀️ Oohh yeah, should have checked your GR before starting. It's an older one so I would have thought you'd read it by now! It's creepy, and unless the author is hiding something (entirely possible - I'm only just over a third in), there is a character that's properly messed up. You'd enjoy it when you get round to reading it Not yet .. lol
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Post by froglady on Feb 6, 2024 22:44:06 GMT
Reading The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick.
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Post by windysisters on Feb 7, 2024 8:58:35 GMT
I finished The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley last night. It's taken me a while because it's over 700 pages but also because I didn't warm to the central character in the historical parts so they dragged for me.
Because it was right before sleep last night when I finished, I haven't chosen another book but will carry on with the short story collection I started at Christmas for the time being.
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Post by sarita on Feb 7, 2024 14:23:50 GMT
Finished and loved Augustown - By the Rivers of Babylon by Kei Miller. A series of strands coalescing to prepare for a fatal ending. The background is the violent history of Jamaica and the reaction of the Rastafari community, with a link to religion and local beliefs. Very well structured and written. 5*.
Starting Ce que j’appelle oubli by Laurent Mauvignier, short story based on a real event leading to the death of an innocent man. Written as a remembrance testimony
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Post by sony08 on Feb 7, 2024 15:07:53 GMT
I have finished with the Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy by reading The Choice by Nora Roberts - the whole series is 5* for me - loved it and it was a great escapism for me.
I have also finished my first ever audiobook - Matthew Perry's memoir - I gave it 5* - I can't really give someone's live story anything less and I did enjoy the honesty with which he wrote this and how lovely he was about his friends and girlfriends. Another brilliantly funny person who led such a sad life!
And now I am reading The Day The Earth Turned: Winter by Chantelle Atkins - this is a third book in the series and reading this for the TBConFB Reviewers Books Club - I have enjoyed the series so far - it's more of a YA series but well written, about a world where a virus has swept through the world wiping out only adults (bar a very few). And it's up to the children to learn to survive, fighting nature who seems to be getting her own back and getting sort of a human greediness.
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Post by geminii on Feb 7, 2024 15:51:42 GMT
Reading The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick. I've read this one, plus 2 others by this Author - enjoyed them all ..
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