What are you reading? 2019

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  1. shiney

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    I've just read a good book by Faye Kellerman (Degrees in maths and dental surgery :scratch:). She's a best selling author of mystery/detective books and extremely good. This book is called The Killing Season and is about a serial killer but also portrays, very well, the life and loves of a high school student who is trying to catch the killer. Approx. 700 pages.

    Faye's husband and son are also best selling authors and she and her husband are the only married couple to appear on the best seller's list at the same time. Her husband, Jonathan, also writes mystery/detective type books but his are more psychological suspense books but tend to be quite a bit on the dark side (he's a psychologist and also writes text books on childhood problems).

    Their son, Jesse, also writes mystery novels and is a playwright and used to be in a rock band!

    All three have won awards for their work.
     
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      Just been reading some Patrick Lee books. A bit far fetched but easy reading.

      I'm currently reading Burned by Thomas Enger which took some time to get going but is an enjoyable read
       
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        One of the books that I'm currently reading (usually reading half a dozen at the same time) is Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr (a Bernie Gunter thriller).

        I'd never heard of him but am enjoying it (was given to me by my sister-in-law). Bernie is a Berlin detective and it's set in wartime Germany. He's ex-Wehrmacht and an anti-Nazi. It's a good insight into the problems of surviving in Berlin in the early 1940's whilst being a good detective novel. Nicely written and well characterised. I'm half way through the 500+ pages and am enjoying it.
         
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          Good afternoon I am reading this full of nostalgia and a trip down memory lane:smile:

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            Does it mention you in it? :)
             
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              I bought Consider Phlebas today. It may be a while before I get to it as I have a backlog but I may as well start with his first Sci-fi novel

              That took all of four days to rattle off. A quality read.

              I'm about two thirds of the way through another Tom Holt which is called Barking. As a former solicitor he has mixed up lawyers, werewolves, vampires, zombies and unicorns to produce another riotously funny fantasy novel :dbgrtmb: I have a routine of going down to Cafe Nero first thing for a coffee and a read - they are getting concerned about me now because of the way I sit in 'my chair' laughing away!
               
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                I tried to read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy again but I ended up chucking it (again). I cannot get on with John Le Carre.

                I'm currently reading A Child in Time by Ian Mcewan. Much better!
                 
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                I've just read The People Next Door by Christopher Ransom. Definitely different. The first half of the book was better, held my attention more. Weird storyline (which I always like).

                Now I've just started reading Vikings Story Of A People by Njord Kane. Basically sums up the 1000 years of the Norsemen who went "a viking". I found out that it was in Scandinavia that humans first developed the ability to stomach cows milk. :huh:
                 
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                  Try The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks then, or maybe Never Let You Go by Kazou Ishiguro.
                   
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                  Would you let me know what you think of this please @RandyRos. :)

                  I'm currently reading (by way of a change) a novel by the late Nigel Tranter - Chain of Destiny about King James IV of Scotland. Having read some of his books in the past I find his historical research very good but he tends to be over enthusiastic about place names, ie every hill, mountain and glen named on a horse back journey. This in turn tends to slow the flow of the book.
                   
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                  I will try and remember to let you know what I think of it. My memory is terrible lol So far it's the history of the Norse people and how they started going "a viking". Sometimes the grammar annoys me, but I'm guessing Njord's first language isn't english, so it's whoever translated it that dropped the ball a few times. I must admit some bits I've skim read because they go on a bit, but I'm easily bored, so it might just be me
                   
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                    A Child In Time was a really good read. Next came Stephen Frys' The Stars' Tennis Balls which was the first novel by him that I've read and to be honest I was thinking of chucking it twenty pages in. I'm so glad that I read the other 530 pages! A cracking read which was rattled off over five late nights. Being Stephen Fry it is a good idea to keep a dictionary at hand though!
                     
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                      It's taken me over a week just to get past the first page of this, longk:dunno::wallbanging::doh:

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                        I've never found a dictionary to be much use for picture books I'm afraid :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                         
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