The Bookworm's Thread 2016

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Hobsons_Choice wrote: »

carboot crazy; I've now finished the book and have to say I wasn't at all impressed with the ending!:cool:
Be interesting to see what you think.

I hate a disappointing/unsatisfactory ending:(. I can't pick my copy up until Friday and it may be a week after that before I can even have any time to read it. Will report back anyway:)


I have read a few really good books lately where there have been a lot of twists and turns in the complicated storylines but where all the loose ends have been tidied up in a very perfunctory manner in the final couple of pages. I always feel cheated somehow after the writer has kept me totally hooked for several days:(.

Treasurequeen

Hello everyone, I have just joined the goodreads 2016 reading challenge and I have set myself a target of 40 books to read this year.:j

I have just finished, The silence of the sea by Yrsa Sigurðard!ttir that I picked up in a chazzer a few months ago. Wow it was a chilling and spooky read, I don't usually read books along horror storylines. But this book was cleverly written and kept me in suspense right to the end. There were a lot of twists and I guessed wrong on who the murderer was. The next book to be read is The cake shop in the garden by Carole Matthews.

pollypenny

Bookworms, I'd like to invite you to post on the Desert Island Books thread I started in The Arms - under orders from Sphinx!

I've already messed it up, by leaving two of my favourites off my list.:cool:

Upsidedown_Bear

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

I'm currently reading 2 books. One - a Bernie Gunther book - If the dead rise not by Philip Kerr.
Secondly I'm re-reading Moobli by Mike Tomkies.
I love and have read most of Mike's books. Moobli is the story of his dog. I intend re-reading his other books too. I'd almost forgotten how much I enjoyed reading them.

Really enjoyed the Bernie Gunther book. Some authors are consistently good and Philip Kerr is one of them. I've only got 2 more Bernie Gunther books to read. Field Grey (which is on my books to read shelf ) and The Other Side of Silence which has just come out in hardback. I'll keep an eye out in the library for that.

Also enjoyed my reread of Moobli. This is Moobli





I've just finished The Ghosts of Altona by Craig Russell.



Jan Fabel is a haunted man. Head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, Fabel has dealt with the dead for nearly two decades, but when a routine enquiry becomes a life-threatening - and life-changing - experience, he finds himself on much closer terms with death than ever before.

Two years later Fabel's first case at the Murder Commission comes back to haunt him: Monika Krone's body is found at last, 15 years after she went missing. Monika - ethereally beautiful, intelligent, cruel - was the centre of a group of students obsessed with the gothic.

Fabel reopens the case. What happened that night when Monika left a party and disappeared into thin air? When men involved with Monika start turning up dead, Fabel realizes he is looking for a killer with both a hunger for revenge and a taste for the gothic.

What he doesn't know is that someone has been aiding and grooming a deranged escapee as his own personal tool for revenge. A truly gothic monster to be let loose on the world.

This is the first book I've read by Craig Russell and it won't be the last. I really enjoyed it. It was very well written and all the characters including the minor ones seemed very real.
10/10 from me

Next I'm reading The Murder Road by Stephen Booth.
It has only just been published in paperback and I was a very happy Bear when I found a copy in the charity shop
I've read all the previous Ben Cooper books - they're fab :T

Enjoy whatever you're reading bookworms.

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Thanks for all the great recommendations :T. I can see I'm going to need a bigger notebook for all the 'to look out for' titles/authors whenever I'm at the library or in a charity shop;)


My latest reading is a bit lightweight by comparison. I've just finished Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence which was a very enjoyable read. We have the builders in at the moment:eek: so between clearing up, moving furniture and making endless tea I seem to have very little time or inclination to immerse myself in anything too taxing:o


Not sure what to read next, might try a Carola Dunn (a friend passed on 4 to me recently) which looks like an undemanding and escapist read.

FrugalinShropshire

I have just picked up what I thought was the first book in The Forsyte Saga only to find it was the second. Luckily the first one is free today on Kindle Daily Deals so I haven't waisted my 60p reservation charge at the library.
I have finished Swallows and Amazons (working my way through DS's bookcase also:T) and Confusion the third Cazalet Chronicle by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Upsidedown_Bear

I didn't quite finish The Murder Road by Stephen Booth in one sitting - it was actually one sitting and a long lay in the bath

Can't recommend his books highly enough. If you like crime fiction with real people rather than superheroes then do give them a try. All the books are complete in themselves but reading them in order will help you get to know Ben Cooper (and Diane Fry) better

Just started to read The Revenant by Michael Punke.
So far so good. It's been made into a film which I might watch after I've finished the book.

Syman

Just for a bit of easy reading, i decided that i would re-read Roald Dahl's "Danny Champion Of The World"

Hobsons_Choice

Thanks for recommending Stephen Booth Upsidedown Bear, I was looking for new-to-me authors, the ones I like at the moment don't write quickly enough!

Goldiegirl

Here's what I've been reading this month




26 - The Mayan Codex – Mario Reading
27 - The Third Antichrist – Mario Reading
28 - The End of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas
29 - Timeriders: Day of the Predator – Alex Scarrow
30 - Hide – Lisa Gardner


26 and 27 were books 2 and 3 in a trilogy. I'd read book 1 a few months ago. The first two aren't brilliant, but interesting enough for me to want to know how everything ended. But I can't recommend book 3 - people started acting out of character, and event near the end of the book stretched my credulity too far, and the final scenes were ludicrous !


I liked The End of Mr Y, a modern day Edgar Allen Poe type of story. A bit wordy maybe, be it needed to be,


Timeriders is a young adult book, which meant that the story rolls along at a fast pace, which I like.


Hide was mentioned on this forum recently, I'd also recommend it - and I didn't see who did it, until it was revealed!