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I read this a while ago and loved it. I thought it better than Vanishing Acts, although i enjoyed that one too!

I know i said i wouldn't but when i take the latest lot back one or two might just jump into my arms on the way out...lol (I need help too, I can't help myself, no will power ) Finished Bare Bones tonight, another good read. I enjoyed this one slightly more than Death Du Jour. 8/10. Next on the list.... Out by Natsuo Kirino In the Tokyo suberbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closet of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies - a yakuza-connected loan shark who discovers their secret, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge....

I made a decision today not to get any library books out for the month of March (which will be very difficult to stick to, but i'll try). The reason for this is to try and get my 'to be read' mountain down in size a bit and also because there are quite a few books on there that i really want to read soon.

Only 4 chapters in at the moment but enjoying it. I've got Cross Bones on my 'To Read' pile. I love things to do with forensics so these books are very interesting.

Finished Death Du Jour yesterday. This was my first venture into a Kathy Reichs book and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Not as engrossing as Karin Slaughter or Martina Cole but still worthy of 8/10. Next book... Bare Bones - Kathy Reichs It's a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte and Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. First there's the little skeleton of a newborn found in a wood stove. Who put her there? The mother, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared....

I've read one of her books a couple of years ago. 'Chic lit' springs to mind. Can't remember too much about the book apart from that it was easy to read, not heavy if you get what i mean.

Finished A Gathering Light last night. What a lovely book, I really enjoyed it, it made me think I am glad to be around now and not then (all the hardships they endured (I love my creature comforts!)). A very easy read and one i would recommend. Next on the list.... Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs. March in Montreal: it is a bitterly cold night and in the eerie silence of an old church forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, a nun who died in 1888 and is now proposed for possible sainthood. But the body has been moved to an unmarked grave in a far corner of the cemetery. Why have the nun's remains been disturbed? And what will Tempe discover when the frozen ground finally yields to her tools and she lifts the rotting coffin lid?...

Sounds interesting.

I keep seeing it in the supermarket, one of these days it will jump into my trolley

Hmm interesting niki, might have to take a look at some of her work.

Currently reading this now and enjoying it very much.

we certainly do

Finished Faithless this morning (before I went to work!). Another great read. I feel like I am getting to know the main characters in Grant County and look forward to the next installment. Next on my list... A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly Based on a real murder at the turn of the century, this outstanding debut novel is a powerful and moving coming-of-age book. Mattie is torn between her familial resposibilities, her desire to be a writer, and the excitment of a first romance. Her dilemmas and choices are quietly reflected in the life of a young woamn found drowned in a lake, a woman that Mattie only gets to know through reading her letters...

How true.

Nah...thats what having kids at home is for...lol. I decided to have a couple of days off and I have been very busy doing...nothing! except reading. Back to work tomorrow

I've recently 'discovered' Karin Slaughter. I got Kisscut in audio from the library and loved it so on my next trip i picked up A Faint Cold Fear and Faithless. So far i've not been diappointed and i like the continuation (hope that is spelt right!) of the characters, I feel like i am getting to know them.

Just finished A Faint Cold Fear, loved it. It kept me hooked to the end, so much so I am going to read another one of hers now. Faithless - A Walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl. Incarcerated in the ground, all the initial evidence indicates that she has, quite literally, been scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Something which shocks even her. Detective Lena Adams, talented but increasingly troubled, is called in from vacation to help with the investigation - and the trail soon leads to the neighbouring county, an isolated community, and a terrible secret.....

Thanks Angel, i'll look forward to reading it, just got to find time to get over to Kats' to pick it up.

Can I borrow the Borgia Bride now you've read it?????

I'm half way through this already, can't put it down. Also can't believe i'm on my seventh book since New Years Day! Since joining this forum my reading has increased dramatically!

Finished Geisha of Gion this afternoon, although I did enjoy it I wasn't as captivated by it as I was Memoirs of a Geisha. Next to read is A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter. Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutlilated body provides little in the way of clues - and the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home. And as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer, he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams, now a security guard on campus, may be in possession of crucial information. But, bruised and angered by her expulsion from the force, Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself, let alone saving the next victim...

I've just finished reading this and loved it, looking forward to reading more of her books.

I'll be lending Kat's copy of this when she has finished it. Sounds like a good read and I'm looking forward to it.

I was soo tempted to get this whilst shopping in Morrison's.

Finished The Virgin's Lover tonight. Loved it. This was my first Philippa Gregory book and it won't be my last. I really enjoyed her style of writing and i could picture myself there whilst reading it. 8/10. Next on the list to read is Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki. I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.