Madeleine

Very windy overnight, kept waking me up, better today so we tried to go to a country fair but it was cancelled, but managed to find somewhere nice for tea. got home just in time before the next downpour - the whole weekend, apart from Friday, was pretty much a washout.

The main one involving food that springs to mind is Joanne Harris's Chocolat.

happy Easter everyone, hope you're enjoying the long weekend.

Same here Nollaig, but without the hail, although I did hear thunder earlier. Very cold wind too. Typical holiday weather, although Friday was lovely.

Good point Pixie! I found them hard enough to read on a largeish TV screen sometimes!

I thought Trapped was good if a little drawn out. I'd find it dfficult to watch anything on my phone, the tiny screen would do my eyes in! Especially when a lot of it is the dark.

The 13th Tale was on a couple of Xmases ago, it was Ok but they skimmed a lot of the themes in the book. Yes read the other day that Top of the Lake has got a 2nd series, again with Elisabeth Moss and also now with Gwendoline Christie from Game of Thrones. The first series was good if a little weird. I've also heard there'll be a second series of Wayward Pines although not sure where they'll take it after the way the first one ended.

Hi Ares and welcome.

Hi Miss Night-life and welcome.

Hi Scott and welcome, what type of books/authors do you like?

Yes it's gorgeous, the reflection is perfect.

Well typically for a Bank Holiday weekend it's already raining!

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale - DNF Music and Silence by Rose Tremain - DNF Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant - DNF The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes - got halfway through, skim-read the rest Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd - skim-read

Chuckles sounds adorable, Peacefield, glad you had fun during his holiday. Also looking forward to the long weekend, typically they've just said that the weather will get worse - windy and rainy - just in time for Easter. So not much planned until I see what the weather's like. Managed to get up to date with Sleepy Hollow over the weekend, daft but fun.

Were they wisdom teeth Virginia? Hope you're feeling better now. Still a bit cold here for the pollen allergies to start, thankfully!

Oh Dr Quinn I used to love that show! Brings back memories....

Hi Lanka and welcome.

Hi David and welcome from a fellow book addict and reader of crime. Do you have any favourite authors?

HI Simon and welcome.

Hi Lauren and welcome, I think your reading list will get very long!

Thought last night's finale was disappointing and actually I was quite bored, viruses have never really done it for me - seen one film/show about a viral outbreak, seen 'em all, and I wasn't particularly impressed with this episode. Still, overall it was nice to have it back.

Been really sunny here for 3 days, but very cold and windy.

A few years ago I read Michelle Paver's "Dark Matter" and loved it, but recently I read "A Place in the Hills", an earlier novel, which I really disliked. Now if I'd read "Hills" first, I probably wouldn't have touched DM with a barge-pole, and would have missed out on a great book. I also wouldn't read any more of Carol Goodman's fantasy novels, such as the Fairwick Trilogy, as I thought the first one was OK, and the second one was absolute tosh, likewise her Black Swan Rising trilogy, written under the name Lee Carroll - again the first one wasn't bad, but I don't think I even finished the second one, and left the 3rd one unread. I do like her "non-fantasy" novels though. Same thing with Deborah Harkness - loved "A Discovery of Witches", just about finished the second one after being utterly bored (kept hoping it would improve) and didn't bother with the 3rd. I also once read a Josephine Cox novel, a group of us on another forum were sent a copy to review, and nearly all of us loathed it. She's hugely popular here so maybe it wasn't one of her better efforts, but I haven't tried any of her others. And don't get me started on Gone Girl!

Very cold again, thick fog in some places this morning although it's nice and sunny now.

Yep I got soaked yesterday, very damp and drizzly.