'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

wishus

Another one done - this time it was David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl. This is an action-packed steampunk adventure in an alternate late Victorian era, where Bram Stoker himself gets to join forces with the eponymous hero along with adventurers, dirigible pilots, a journalist hack, a vampires and an automaton with the brain of a Jack the Ripper victim, Annie Crook. Together they pursue the mummified Children of Heket to Egypt in search of revenge and to save the Empire. Not always terribly polite, but jolly good fun.


Returned to the library today and collected Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and I did intend to bring that back and nothing else... except I didn't did I?

Gem-gem

Picked up a gardening book on a cs for £3.00. Hubby also found one on football grounds...snore...zzz.

Gem-gem

Just finished The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. Really enjoyed it.
Only problem with reading historical fiction is that you can sometimes know how it is going to end. Which can take a little away from the suspense. Can't wait to start the Kingsmaker's daughter - need to actively hunt a few more charity shops in my local area.

wishus

Gem-gem wrote: »

Just finished The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. Really enjoyed it.
Only problem with reading historical fiction is that you can sometimes know how it is going to end. Which can take a little away from the suspense. Can't wait to start the Kingsmaker's daughter - need to actively hunt a few more charity shops in my local area.

Love that series!

Happygreen

Gem-gem wrote: »

Just finished The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. Really enjoyed it.
Only problem with reading historical fiction is that you can sometimes know how it is going to end. Which can take a little away from the suspense. Can't wait to start the Kingsmaker's daughter - need to actively hunt a few more charity shops in my local area.

I just got The White Queen on audio from the library to keep me entertained while washing up, lol. I'm looking forward to it after all your raving reviews but have to finish Neil Gaiman's American Gods first, which is very big but I love it!

kezbabybabe

Gem-gem wrote: »

kezbabybabe wrote: »

I read his book 'Turning thirty', when I was turning 30. Look forward to hearing what 'Turning 40' is like.

It was okay, not as good as Turning 30, but I still enjoyed it.

Now reading another Kindle book by my colleague's husband called The Runeovex Secret, by J. Glenn Bauer, his second book. Not read his first one, so this is a new adventure for me.

Actual book is What Katy Did, another classic adventure book (I'm nearly at the end of those!) - Seems similar to Pollyanna/Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm - So it's reading quite quickly.

Bubblesmum

Just finished another Jenny Oitman - the Dilemma

Continuing on from the last one, a good racing yarn, when you don't need a heavy read... And another to go in the CS pile

Gem-gem

Reading Jeffrey Archer's - Mightier than the sword. Loving it as much as the first four. Less than 100 pages to go... Should be gardening but I have a funny feeling that the book will come first today!

mrs-moneypenny

Finished wish upon a star by trisha Ashley, really enjoyed it.
Gone on to a Kate Morton now that's been on the the shelf a while.

wishus

Finished Mitch Benn's Terra's World - the sequel to Terra.

This is a fun and amusing science fiction tale, aimed at adult readers but with a very YA feel to it.


Billy Dolphin is a weird, chubby kid, who hangs round with a girl called Lydia who has purple hair, and who doesn't really say much, even when he goes on about how jealous he is of a girl called Terra who was raised on an alien planet, Fnrr. One day, a gorgeous new girl starts at their school, and hey, she loves sci-fi! Billy is bowled over when she asks him on a date, but just his luck, she's really a mercenary male alien in disguise who is trying to melt his brain so he can disguise himself as him insteadand win the trust of Lydia - who is of course Terra with a secret identity. Having escaped the alien, Terra and Billy steal his spaceship and travel to Fnrr to find out why communications have stopped - a crazed megalomaniac is running the place. And worse, a mysterious black planet is on its way to destroy all evidence of life on the planet. Can Terra save her world yet again, this time from a dual danger? Light and silly, but very enjoyable.
Now reading Pelquin's Comet by Ian Whates.