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Finished Night Train by Martin Amis and The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.

/groan/ I have it on the shelf...must get back to Irving!

I finished Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom, second in his series. I thoroughly enjoyed it, more so than the first, can't wait to read the third. Soon. Am reading Night Train by Martin Amis. I can't say I think too much of it, and if it was much longer, I'd pitch it. We visited the Library Sale today. /sigh/ One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman Leonardo's Flight by Philippe BlaisThe Sisters by Robert Littell Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Libra by Don Delillo Manifold Origin by Stephen Baxter Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane See No Evil by Robert Baer The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon Uniform Justice by Donna Leon Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Chris Greenhalgh

What a lovely metaphor! And thanks Mac.

We just bought that one the other day. Great!

Glad to hear it! I'm still waiting for mine in the mail. Phooey.

Thanks, I'll keep TTW in the TBR stack.

I have this one and one more [can't remember the title, and too lazy to walk in the other room to check ] and have heard good things about them. I haven't had much time to read, company in for the weekend, but did manage a few pages of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree night before last.

As reported elsewhere, I've finished and thoroughly enjoyed The Fourth Man by K.O. Dahl. Today whilst in Barnes & Noble I, just for the heck of it, without any real hope of success, looked for and found another by Dahl. The Man in The Window. So, Yays! My OH is now reading The Fourth Man, and thinks he has it all figured out....heh.

No, I had not realized that, although, given her accuracy of description, and the real heart she put into it I halfway thought it must be from some sort of personal experience. Granted an author can [of course] write about something accurately without experiencing it, this had that extra flavor to my eyes. Thanks for the interesting tidbit.

Thanks to you I've ordered the above...sounds great! Thanks. Also, we've bought today: World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming [recommendation from OH's daughter] The Man in the Window by K.O. Dahl

Hah, let us know how it goes please. I saw the movie many years ago, and it scared me silly! I wonder if that was Hollywood doing it's "thang".

No, actually that ending didn't surprise me...I kind of expected it to tell the truth, given that person's personality. The part that really and truly irritated me beyond belief was As you say, given a different mood, I might have been able to suspend disbelief, but not at that time and place. I have The Time Travelers Wife here in the stack, I suppose I'll eventually read it, once I've recovered. lol

Yes, I've watched a few of them...good stuff. Thanks.

Thanks Janet, I hope it comes out here soon! I'm particularly interested in this particular novel as my grandmother was a Matron during that war, only in France.

Good article, thanks for posting. Cannell was certainly talented. In the article they mentioned the humor of, for example, The Rockford Files...and it's so true, it was fantastic. My favorite line of Garner's usually came near the end of the show...he'd tell the bad guy, "I lie a lot.". Priceless.

We watched Ransom with Mel Gibson the other night, and even though I'd seen it before, it was just as gut wrenching as the first time. That kid was amazing.

Yays! I'm so pleased to hear that you are enjoying it as much as I did. poppy, you've made my day!

Finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, not enthralled with it. Back to The English Patient for me. Maybe dip into Blood Meridian again too. Visited the second hand book store today, the results are: Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein Close to Home by Peter Robinson A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny Also, I wonder if anyone here has heard of a book out called Onward Christian Nurses the story of Edith Cavell by Diana Souhami. I saw a review of it, now I can't remember where, but I can't find it listed anywhere. Maybe it hasn't come out yet, but it looks to be fascinating. She was executed by the Nazis in 1915 in Belgium for helping hundreds of wounded British soldiers escape. She was a matron. Wait, I found the link in my deleted emails.... http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/ridley_10_10.html I just can't seem to find any publication date.

I just finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, and can rate it no more than 3/5. Now, don't get me wrong, I can suspend belief with the most credulous of humans, and have an enormous amount of fun whilst doing so, but the Final Solution, the Coup de Grace [sorry I don't know how do do the mark over the "a"] of the story was just sooooo unbelievable, amateurish even that it put me off. Niffenegger's characterizations were so well done, her portrayal of OCD was to my eyes completely on target that it's just a shame that in the final analysis the story simply didn't hold water. If a sequel is in the works, and the ending begs it, I don't know that I'd bother to read it.

I'm still reading The English Patient, but have also picked up Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. I'm just about half way through, and enjoying it. This of course means that I'll finally have to get to The Time Travelers Wife. I haven't had a lot of time to read the last few days, company coming from out of town this weekend. But I hope to get in a bit more this week.

I haven't bothered with the last 3 or 4 of Kathy Reich's books. They have gone off the mark for me. I have seen the series, and while it was actually pretty good, I didn't care for it for exactly the same reason as you went off the books. Nothing like the books! LOL Opposite effect. I really enjoyed her first 5 or 6 books I guess, but after that, ennh.

I'm kind of letting Blood Meridian go to the wayside again...have started The English Patient. Only a few pages, but I like it. I haven't had much chance to read, have been moving more furniture about and sorting stuff to either throw away or give to Goodwill.

Yays!! Happy to hear of another convert. I don't think there is any way you'd be disappointed. It's a great series. I hope you saw link to Jo Nesbo's interview that Karsa Orlong put up in the Jo Nesbo thread in Crime/Mystery/Thriller section, it's great.