Marie H

Destruction

Deeper

Listening to First Class Murder by Robin Stevenson (#3 Wells and Wong Mystery / Murder Most Unladylike Mystery). Love it.

Hole

Started the Audible version of Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's #8 And the Rest is History... And within the first chapter it is full of and all ready!! Still the same as far as chapter 6 now. I'm a emotional wreck , but Jodi Taylor is a wonderful author!!

Bunny

Blue Monday - New Order

Jodi Taylor's books have been a wonderful escapism recently, though the staff at St Mary's have a much dangerous time, even within St Marys!! All of the series are so good, so far, and the plot changes are great (something shocking , but sooo good). I'm glad that I started Moon Over Soho, as it's very intriguing and the gore isn't too bad, so far.

I can see it too!

Finished #7 Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of Sy Mary’s- and it was another cracking one. So next to 8#!

I don’t think I saw any of Dahl’s children’s books when I was in primary school (1970s), but I do remember seeing the TV series Tales of the Unexpected in the late 70s/early 80s. It’s just a different era .

Listened to the end of Jodi Taylor - Lies, Damn Lies and History (Chronicles of St Mary’s #7). Seemed the book was a slow(ish) burner, compared to her usual type, but towards the end, it was WHOA 😮. Spectacular! Listened 1/3 of Ben Aaronovitch’s Moon over Soho (Rivers of London #2) and I’m now getting into it. More slow burner than the 1st series, though the first one was a quite chaotic. Today I hope to read some of the manga from my current list.

Audiobook finished with is Going Solo by Ronald Dahl, narrated by Dan Stevens (an excellent narrator). Book blurb The second part of Roald Dahl's extraordinary life story. Here he is grown up: first in Africa, then learning to be a wartime fighter pilot. It is a story that is funny, frightening and full of fantasy - as you would expect. Wonderfull autobiography, as 23 years old Dahl travels to East Africa, to be employed by Shell Oil. The descriptions of other British Colonialism on the ship travelling to Africa, and other European colonists (German, Belgian & Dutch etc.) within East Africa are very sharp, but subtle. Not long before WW2 begins (which is serious for Dahl, as there are a large number of Germans in the colonies) and he hopes to be an airforce pilot. And boy, he certainly has a incredible experience in the dogfighting against the Germans. Though everyone knows that Dahl survived the WW2, from his tales that it had been a horrible experience, and we find out that it was so lucky that he had survived it. Highly recommended!

Definitely! Need to do a copy and paste for that one . Happy reading everyone this weekend

Maryland

I really enjoyed Cleeves Shetland series, as the plots were so good that you never expected who the murder. EDIT (Sorry, that was supposed to be murderer)

Watching ITV4 Tour de France, live coverage in the afternoons. Armchair travelling/Thrills (and sadly spills).

Paperback of manga Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction #8 - Inio Asano arrived!

Pancake

I’m starting watching Channel 4’s Hill Street Blues. Only watched the pilot episode, so far, so only 145 episodes to go! . It’s great to remember seeing this series in the 80s!

It didn’t get any more gory, thankfully. I’ll certainly avoid Shadow Police series! Plus I gave up on modern day crime thrillers, it they were too depressing/gory/sadistic for me..... Finished listening to Rivers of London last night . Rivers of London was well worth it, as the plot was incredible, with the urban magic weaved with present day police procedure. And I’ve found the Moon Over Soho audiobook (mp3 player found behind the bedside table), so I’ll try that one next.

This weekend is okay for me, as I’ve have a few books and audiobooks to concentrate on.

Childhood

New book out is Lissa Evans’ V for Victory, a sequel to Crooked Heart (which I would recommend). The Kindle version is £9.99, so I went for the Audible version, and the narration sound good.

Current listening log is Lies, Damned Lies and History (Chronicles of St Mary's #7) by Jodi Taylor - 25% Rivers of London #1 by Ben Aaronovitch - 43% Loving both!! Reading The World Without Us by Alan Weisman - 10% This is great too.