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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

I'm never very good at knowing when my favourite authors are releasing books until they're practically already upon us. I'm hoping McCarthy's long-awaited new novel The Passanger is released in 2017, and I've had a few ARCs that I'm looking forward to discussing upon release. Other than that, I'm sure I'll be as late to the party as ever when it comes to new releases.

Currently on the first season of Gotham. Anyone seen this? Have fancied it for a while and first few episodes have been pretty good.

2017 IS the year I read War and Peace. DEFINITELY.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Interesting that a bunch of us have The Miniaturist on our TBR piles - me too! (Has also been on there a long time.) Read her new one The Muse this year and thought it was fantastic, so have no clue why I've left her debut waiting all this time. I'm currently reading Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler - another that I've meant to read for as long as I can remember. Very good so far. I'm reading it alongside my #2016ClassicsChallenge pick for December: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. I was looking for a wintry-themed book for December and although I've never read it and could be way off the mark, there's something about this (and more generally Dickens) that I associate with this time of the year.

Seem to be in the minority here, but never been a big fan of dark chocolate. Milk all the way for me. (Not really surprised considering that's the type that's bad for you.)

So guys, I never did quite get myself all the way through the original seven seasons of Gilmore Girls what with one thing and another, but now I'm not sure whether to go back before watching the new episodes? I mean I know roughly how things ended so having not seen them all probaby wouldn't ruin the new four, would it?

I have a subscription to the Times Literary Supplement which is weekly, but I too struggle to throw them away so currently have large stacks of them laying around. I also get a football magazine called Four Four Two. If I lived in 'merica I'd definitely get The New Yorker.

A Little Life is fabulous. So glad you "enjoyed" - absolutely not the right word - it. Have added The People in the Trees to my wishlist - didn't even realise she'd written another novel.

Finished Clinch by Martin Holmén earlier tonight. Really good, gritty noir, with an ending that makes me glad a sequel is apparently in the works. Due out from Pushkin Press May 5.

Just finished #29. Three ahead of my 100 target for 2016, but then I remember I read 112 last year...

"When I check my pocket watch, it's already gone twenty past seven. I'm standing in the rain outside Zetterberg's house, where the city's most fashionable street confronts the back lanes." - Clinch by Martin Holmén

Had And the Mountains Echoed on TBR for ages now. Just sitting there. For some reason never felt like picking it up. Looking forward to your review, it'll probably convince me to bump it up the list.

Got to be one of the most famous opening lines in the history of literature that... "At ten to nine on a June morning, a shining and brilliant morning that promised a day of great heat, a lady of sixty-three cycled through the streets of Oxford." - Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

"On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about halfway between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a proud, rose-colored hotel." - Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

So glad you enjoyed Station Eleven, Kylie. I too thought it was terrific. In fact, Emily Mandel is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors. Recently finished Last Night in Montreal and that was also excellent (although not as good as SE - but I won't begrudge her that). I believe she has two or three others - and it's safe to say I'm looking forward to getting around to them.

I've still, disappointingly, never read a Murakami novel. A friend is sending Norwegian Wood to me in the post next week. Is that a good place to start?

Good book activity news today: purchased Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant and The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge from WH Smiths today. Started the latter earlier and so far quietly impressed: so far it has been a suitably creepy, tension building, start.

Got really excited after learning this was possible, before playing around and realising my Kindle doesn't do this... assume it's only certain ones?

I've been looking for a new TV series to watch after finishing Mr Robot, and both of these have been on my radar...

Glad to hear you're all moved in okay Frankie!

Watching the third episode of Mr Robot. Anyone seen this before? I think it's ace but I'm pretty sure I've worked out a major plot point, which kinda ruins it.

I'm listening to episode two of the new #Thoro podcast on iTunes (called "Champion Sounds"). Very likely it wouldn't be many people's cup of tea, but it's mine so there you have it. *shrugs*

I was just tweeting the other day about how I should read more Sebastian Faulks. Perhaps I should have a look at getting to Human Traces next...