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Of course! Was it good?

I’ve decided on Scotland’s Untold Stories by Leonard Low. Leonard is now running The Scottish Witch Trials Museum in Fife, which I’m desperate to see, so thought I’d start with thst

I’ve read the book and it’s excellent and not very long

Congratulations!!

Out today I just had to start reading Herscht 00769 by László Krasznahorkai, one of my favourite authors. And when I read that the whole book is one long sentence I found myself just buying it. On page 5 and it’s amazing!

Starts here

I didn't mean to rush you, I just had a thought and posted it. History is fine with me (oddly)

This is on my 'someday' list too. That's a very useful review and has helped me enormously, thanks for that.

Just waiting for @Hayley then.

I do hereby open proposals for the final Bookclub this year. I propose history, which of course incorporates historical fiction.

Very nice indeed!

Hi Niko Actually they are just about the size of a human hand, it's the way the photo is taken that makes them look large.

It was great! So glad that I read it and I would never have found it on my own

The Bookseller of Inverness, S G McLean. Superb!

The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen

Lee Child, Tripwire, Jack Reacher 3. As expected.

Just about to post this. I bought it on kindle as Corrag

Currently reading The Bookseller of Inverness, S G McLean

The Bookseller of Inverness, S G McLean

The Case of Lady Sannox, Arthur Conan Doyle. I’m not sure this qualifies since Sherlock Holmes wasn’t involved and there wasn’t a mystery per se but I’ll leave it here in case it does qualify

The Passage, Justin Cronin This is a novel of epic proportions. At 963 pages long it requires a substantial time commitment, not just to get from beginning to end, it also requires a long session of reading every time it’s picked up and it requires to be picked up frequently, a bare minimum of every day. This is not a book that you can read one chapter of and put aside for a couple of days, pick up where you left off and remember where you were in the story. It does jump around a fair bit and it’s easy to get confused. However, if you stick with it it all becomes clear in the end and the book is worthy of the commitment. This is a dystopian novel. There is a smattering of horror in it but it deals with the end of civilisation as we know it and what happens after that. Civilisation ends as a result of a mistake made by the United States Army and the book is set in the United States. It also involves vampires but the word vampire isn’t mentioned until page 253 and, despite the fact that they are the ones causing the chaos, they don’t feature heavily. Nor do they exhibit the behaviour that we have all become familiar with and are not routinely referred to as vampires, although it's clear that that is what they are. The book is wordy in a Stephen King way and I’m not sure that we really need to know the colour of the sky quite so frequently but it doesn’t detract from the overall feel of the story, which is a good one. The characters are well drawn, the plot is crafted well and the prose is very good. There are a few surprises which I did not see coming and overall, it had a happy ending. This is the first part of a trilogy; the other books are longer than average but not as long as this one. Recommended.

Done. Good luck with your research!

Bought My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk which fits nicely into this category.

Currently reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. It's over 900 pages long and is about vampires (apparently). Only up to chapter 4 and no sign of vampires just yet. It's the first part of a trilogy and I got it for 99p on Kindle.

They are gorgeous!