Madeleine
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I watched the first episode last night, and really enjoyed it - one sex scene but it was done quite tastefully! I thought it was good overall, and quite well cast, although I found Clare's voiceover a bit annoying, I think there was too much of it. But apart from that, I loved it.
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Great review Will, I have this book so will try top read it fairly soon. I enjoyed The Snow Child but felt it flagged a bit towards the end, so I'll be interested to see how this one compares.
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I love those regional terms of endearment, I used to speak to a Scottish lady quite often who always called me "hen", and ,my friend's mum, who was also Scottish, used to call everyone "pet". Hard to believe some people find these terms offensive or sexist!
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Did he use a real egg - well done by the way - we used to use a potato at my school sports day.
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Keeping up with the food theme, I've never eaten oysters (and wouldn't want to either).
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That's hot Athena, we had that a couple of weeks ago and it was horrible, especially at night. It's cooled down a bit here now, and we had a storm yesterday evening, bit breezier today.
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We finally had a storm last night, luckily it was quite considerate and waited til I got home from work! It rumbled around for a while from about 6.45, then the deluge started around 7.15, and then it stopped and brightened up, just in time for me to go out and play boules with my walking group, so it was very well-timed. Afterwards the ground was barely even wet, you wouldn't think it had rained at all, but saved me watering the garden anyway. Bit cooler today, but lots of rainclouds so I'm not sure what it's going to do.
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It's Friday again!
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Pleased to see that the new Charlaine Harris adaptation "Midnight Texas" will be shown on the Syfy Channel from the end of July (27th I think).
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This is one of my favourite crime series, and they're all worth reading, I love Ruth, she's very believable and has a lovely, dry sense of humour. And the setting is great too.
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There's a Moon over Water in Central London, or there used to be; it might have been demolished to make way for Crossrail, I think I've seen a couple of others as well.
A pub mentioned in (I think) Barnaby Rudge is quite near where I live, I've been there a couple of times but not for a while now. Dickens did stay there, as did (so it's rumoured anyway) Dick Turpin (notorious highwayman)!
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The Seeker by S G MacLean - first in a new crime series set during the "reign" of Oliver Cromwell. Damian Seeker is one of Cromwell's main "agents", keeping a very close eye on anyone suspected of trying to bring down the self-styled Lord Protector. When a high ranking official is found murdered, a local lawyer, Elias Ellingworth, who is known for his rebellious views and writings, is the chief suspect, especially as he is found standing over the body, with a blood-stained knife in his hands. It looks like a simple case of convicting him, but Seeker, who is feared by pretty much everyone, doesn't think Elias is the culprit, despite the man's refusal to do much to help his own case. Meanwhile various plots against Cromwell are uncovered and thwarted, whilst Seeker desperately tries to find the real killer, and rescue Elias from execution, in an increasingly secretive London. I enjoyed this, it's a promising start and Seeker is be turns terrifying and likeable, (and there is a hint of romance too) and I'm sure he'll have plenty more adventures, with a rich, mysterious background of his own to be revealed as well. There's definitely a touch of James Bond about him, and there are modern resonances with the current security/surveillance issues of today. And the author's previous hero, Alexander Seaton (I have those books too but haven't read them yet!) also makes an appearance. 8/10
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Meant to get very hot here as well, then thunder!
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Lucky Star - Madonna
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Hi Karen - I thought the Amber Spyglass was the weakest book in the trilogy, and I did finish it, but struggled a bit, but good luck if you decide to keep going!
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Couldn't tell you about the stories, but you definitely need to read the books in order.
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The Long and the short of it by Jodi Taylor -novellas and short stories, now in one paperback, hooray.
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And at halfway through the year, yesterday I brought number 25 in under the wire!
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Half the year gone, how is that possible!
Quite dull and cloudy here too, and it rained last night, which means the garden is growing like mad!
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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - this is the second in the crime series written by J K Rowling, and better than the first (which wasn't bad). When a famous author is found murdered in the same style as the main character of his latest book, private detective Cormoran Strike is faced with a long list of suspects, for the author had written a thinly veiled attack on pretty much everyone he knew - fellow authors, agents, friends, who were all very upset by their treatment in the novel. So Strike, helped by his assistant Robin, who is about to get married, sets out to find out who the culprit is. We get more of Strike and Robin's relationship in this book, as it develops nicely, and we also find out more of Strike's background (chequered to say the least, with several half siblings thanks to his feckless parents) and meet Robin's fiance, Matthew, who isn't happy with her choice of career. I enjoyed this, although I wasn't totally convinced by the reveal of the murderer's identity. 7.5/10
And I've just received a set of the 4 McLevy books (Victorian crime set in Edinburgh) which I ordered from an Amazon seller, brand new and very reasonably priced!
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