Louiseog

Sounds like you are on a roll, ace reads, what did you think of Principessa?

I do like Wendy Holden, she has a very wry take on society and this did not disappoint! Real caricatures of people and goodies generally come out OK. Fun Marshall Karp - The Rabbit Factory great fun, book of the month for a book club and really enjoying it.

Am on a roll and yes it was What was Lost, the woman who wrote it worked at Merry Hill shopping centre for 20 odd years, there was a lot of it in the book! Kathryn Fox Malicious Intent, thriller but not very (thrilling) Wendy Holden Filty Rich good fun

Right its coming off the shelf now!

And a promising middle and end, especially as the only place it could be set is 3mins from home! Cecelia Ahern Thanks for the Memories, OK

YOu are right, I do try and read bestsellers although Richard and Judy passed me by this year apart from the Outcast and Thousand Splendid Suns. Have decided to read what I think I'll like! Tess Gerritsen Keeping the Dead, absolutely ace. Wendy Holden - Femme Fatale, great, funny and light Catherine O'Flynn What was Lost - promising start!

Twylight Tower, Karen Harper

And me, have really loved both of his books in spite of myself (does that make sense, everyone said they were fab,l and normally that's bad for me but they were!)

Deadline - Simon Kernick 4/5 great thriller although characters did my head in The Good fairies of New York - Martin Millar 3/5, good fantasy about fairies liked the story, light and easy A Thousand Splendid Sun - Khaled Hussain 4.5/5 Ace how can a man write so sensitively about women in Afghanistan, wonderful without being sentimental. Murder With Peacocks - Donna Andrew 3/5 Agatha Raisin in the US easy and light. In Cold Daylight Pauline Rowson 3/5 not a great thriller Vows of Silence - Susan Hill 4/5 third (or fourth!)in Seraillier thriller series, I cried, love the way that the characters develop. Play Dead - Richard Monanari 4/5 another great thriller Exit Music - Ian Rankin 3.5/5 Rebus bows out in style The Woman on the Bus - Pauline McLynn 3.5/5 a lovely imaginative story about a community and the effects of a newcomer on it.

Ta Although have you seen the forecast for the Irish sea?

Michael Hoeye - Sands of Time great! Off on hols now see you in a week!

Which was fabulous, really felt it was set in time and loved the story. Ending a bit naff! Jenny Colgan West End Girls just easy

Enjoy!

Was well worth it. Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders

The Queen's Sorrow, Susannah Dunn, great telling of Mary I's story with a chilling end!

Thank you Michelle! Meant to say that I have really enjoyed reading nearly all of them! New authors found, new genres experienced.

I'm trying to read all of the 2008 ones here Have done 58

I tell a lie, it was unmitigated twaddle, lost the plot, hated the characters and don't know why I finished it! Susanna Dunne been sent to do a survey and can't remember the title, has started well

Ditto

Have just read the second by the author of Heartsick - Sweetheart, in this she continues the story of Gretchen Lowe and Archie Quinn. She is serial killer who captured and tortured the leader of the task force searching for her - Quinn. I enjoyed the first book a great deal, although bits of it were a bit gory. It dealt with the effects of her treatment of him and subsequent capture, thrilling. The second one is even better, the characters develop so the horror of the various relationships makes much more sense and my attachment to some of them increased. Absolutely fabulous in fact am returning it fast to the library so that someone else can have the benefit!

And hers are just the right books for this sort of reading.

Happiness TM - Will Ferguson: What happens when a self help book works, really black humour but ultimately humanity wins. 7/10 The Spellman Files - Linda Lutz: Funny and light. Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain: very gruesome second in a series, really thrilling thriller. 8/10 Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell: still OK but not great in comparison to the Cain one.

Ha de ha. May possibly have snuck on here when supposedly registering my group!

Happiness TM Will Ferguson