Janet

The person who chose it loved Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, which I guess is why she chose it. I've just had a message from another member who is about to give up (I thought she might). Ah well, the joys of book club... I didn't love it, but I enjoyed The Well of Loneliness, @chesilbeach, but I'm very much in the minority!

The trouble is there are now only five of us, and I'm fairly certain two others won't have finished it (it's not for another week or so) so I feel as though I should make the effort. It just seems such a waste of reading! I will plod on...! Peter and I are going away for a long weekend next week, so will start an audio book in the car, so that's something to look forward to! Maybe Christie, an Allingham or a Marsh.

I'm struggling with Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. It's my first experience of Mantel's writing and I'm about a third of the way through it, but it's so dull... If it wasn't a book club book I'd probably have given up by now. Sigh.

I think @willoyd is doing something very similar.

It's a very useful feature.

Thanks - I hadn't seen it, @chesilbeach. I've only got 3 books left now, so I probably won't download it. I wish it had come out before I started on them!

I presume they're from the forum. I use Firefox and I had never had anything like them until Nfans upgraded, and I've only just started getting them here too.

If you click on the 'share' symbol you can copy and paste a link to the particular posts to which you're referring.

Goodo. I've been using this version of the forum for a few weeks on another forum and the majority of members there seem to like the changes, so hopefully we'll get used to it here too.

@willoyd regarding your notifications - have you clicked on settings when the message pops up? I *think* you can stop them there...?

Sorry - my mobile decided I wanted to pluralise it and I didn't notice. I meant I like there being just one font so it looks uniform. I do like to be able to change colour though, which is still possible. It's just a matter of taste.

I like the standard fonts too, Michelle. I hated that spidery one - I struggled to read it.

If you know what the 'wording' for smilies you use all the time is (e.g : rolol : but without the spaces) it automatically adds the smiley when you hit enter.

You can also quote someone by highlighting the text you wish to quote and clicking on 'quote this'. It only works on one individual post though, so as Gaia said above, use the + and edit to quote more than one person.

You can tag people in posts like on Facebook. @Athena, @Michelle, @Kell, @Lilywhite, @chesilbeach, @Kylie, @Nollaig

I finished that last week (I forgot it was a Counties Challenge Book as I read the alternative). Hope you enjoy it.

I haven't read any, but I have The Post-office Girl on my Wish List. I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles on Friday - it was good. I'm about to start Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel for my Book Club. I'm not sure I fancy it, but that's the beauty of being in a Book Club - one gets to read things they otherwise wouldn't have picked up.

Danse Macabre by Laura M Hughes The ‘blurb’ The dead beckon and the little girl obeys. Night after night she answers the graveyard’s call, though she dreads her encounters with the creature that dwells there. But she’ll soon come to learn that memories are much more dangerous than monsters… Young Blue visits the cemetery every evening to visit the graves of her dead relatives. There she encounters a strange figure who hands her an ultimatum which will test Blue to the very limit. Along with the characters snail and crow… With more than a passing nod to Edgar Allen Poe and Neil Gaiman, this is a very well-written novella which packs such a lot into just 56 pages. The protagonist Blue is remarkable and endearing and manages to be eloquent despite actually having no dialogue. This book is definitely not my usual type of read. Not that I stick to the same genre, but horror is definitely something I avoid. I downloaded this because I got to know the Laura on here and was a bit concerned that it might be too scary for me, but actually it felt more like a fantasy than horror. I loved the quirky nature of it – both in the characters and the fact that the chapters ran backwards from ten to one. I'm not sure that it has made me want to explore other authors in this genre, but I liked the writing and story enough in this to read more work by Laura. The paperback edition is 118 pages long and was privately published in 2016. The ISBN is 9781519047298. 4/5 (I liked it!) (Finished 19 February 2017)

Yet you miss out the 'and' when saying numbers like "three hundred and six"!

I had a look to see what else she'd narrated after finishing South Riding, but when I clicked on Classics they were nearly all abridged, and she also does a lot of Josephine Cox, which are really not my type of book!

Hehe - hope you enjoy the if/when you read them. Thanks. Hope you enjoy that one. Thanks. Haha!

I finished The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry today. My favourite book of 2017 so far!

I've copied the above from the thread where I was searching for a book in case you didn't see my reply. I found the book, but I don't think it's something I will read, however after I posted my reply about wanting to read a Josephine Tey, I looked on Audible and Brat Farrar is narrated by Carole Boyd - who did such a great job with South Riding, so I might give it a try. Thanks.

I'VE FOUND IT!!!! It's a Young Adult book (I didn't realise) called The Lost and The Found by Cat Clarke! Phew - I'm not going mad! Thanks again to everyone for their input

They're not quite right either. Thanks so much for the suggestions though. There are an awful lot of books out there where the premise is similar, but not quite how I remember it. I'm seriously wondering if I've made it up. I have Josephine Tey on my list of authors to try (specifically I've been looking at The Daughter of Time after studying Richard III in English Lit A Level as a mature student), but Brat Farrar sounds good too.