BrainFreeze

My contribution would be; The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Damage Done - Warren Fellows 19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult Watership Down - Richard Adams

Another huge fan here too - as far as I'm aware, the only showing of it now in the UK is on a channel called Virgin 1 on a Wednesday at 9pm and I think we're about a season behind they are in the US (I could be wrong though!) They're also showing older episodes on the same channel at 9pm on a Monday evening.

I've not read any Nicci French, but I have picked up a few of their books and thought I want to give them a try. Not sure my want to get list can take the strain though! There are a few other Tess Gerritsens you've not listed; Call After Midnight, Under The Knife, Whistleblower, Never Say Die, Presumed Guilty, In Their Footsteps...and I think there might be a few more, although they're actually classed as 'romantic suspense', not a genre I'd normally go for to be honest, but I've read a couple of them, and they're really good, so might be worth a look.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!:lol:

I shall definitely keep you updated then! I've read 19 Minutes, Mercy, Vanishing Acts, Salem Falls and Perfect Match of Jodi Picoults and loved them all. I don't doubt there'll be at least one of hers I won't be so keen on, in fact I think I may have found it already in The Tenth Circle. I started it at the beginning of the year, and couldn't get into it properly. I shall try again soon and see how I go.

Ah now if I was writing reviews, then yes I would do and I think it would definitely help.

No I don't - and I don't think I would unless I was studying . Worth a shot for you though if you think it'll add to your reading experience, and it's no loss if it doesn't work out for you.

Don't worry - the episode after was an old one, so you haven't missed any of the new series.

Aha! Thank you! I have now found it!

Alex Cross - by James Patterson Alexandra Cooper - by Linda Fairstein Tom Thorne - by Mark Billingham Lindsey Boxer - by James Patterson Pete Marino - by Patricia Cornwell Jane Rizzoli - by Tess Gerritsen Jeffrey Tolliver - by Karin Slaughter

I'd seen this book about and hadn't actually read the synopsis till the weekend in WHSmiths and when I realised it's based on a true story, it immediately went on my to get list. For some reason it's reminding me of a book I read at school (fiction) about a detective who went to a house where a murder had been committed and interviewed and interrogated everyone in the house. The name of the book is totally escaping me though!

That's great! I saw that set at the weekend in WHSmiths but I've already got the books in the set. Think I might revisit them too actually - it's been a while since I read the early ones.

I agree with you - I too like Kathy Reichs and have read a few of hers and have even more in my got and waiting to be read pile and she is very similar to Patricia Cornwell. I do think she's a lot more and technical than Patricia Cornwell (that really isn't the right way to describe it but I'm having a word block at the moment ) I can't connect the books with the programme at all - in my head, the actors don't fit the characters as I've got them in my head when reading the books. I do enjoy the series but I prefer the books - the series seems a lot 'lighter' than the books too.

Read Severed - Simon Kernick Reading A Good Day To Die - Simon Kernick Want To Read (Got) The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky Trace - Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell The Final Days - Alex Chance The Trophy Taker - Lee Weeks The Trafficked - Lee Weeks Need To Get The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini Atonement - Ian McEwan The Reader - Bernhard Schlink Defiance - Nechama Tec Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult The Pact - Jodi Picoult Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult Second Glance - Jodi Picoult My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult The Case of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny Cries Unheard:The Story of Mary Bell - Gitta Sereny The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman Belonging - Sameem Ali The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell

That's the thing - I don't think I could stop myself thinking of what's in it and I don't eat any other offal either so it's an all round no for me! I don't know about making your pee smell funny, but I know asparagus can make it turn green for a while.

If you was going to have your last meal ever - starter, main and dessert - what would it be? Feel free to include beverages. I'm still working on mine...

I've never tried haggis or asparagus - never would try the former and will get round to the later at some point.

It starts on Tuesday - ahhh poor Warrick!

Jodi Picoult - I honestly didn't think this woman was for me. I thought she'd be schmaltzy, over-the-top, condescending...and to be honest, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the (UK) covers, but something just didn't sit right with me with her books. Then a few friends persuaded me to give her a shot and I'm very happy they did. I read 19 Minutes to begin with and I love how she gets into someone psyche, how she shows a situation from so many angles, how she takes a situation and/or a scenario and makes it move from the contrast of black and white to so many varying shades of grey. I love how she makes me think about the situations, what I'd do, what I'd expect from my friends, my family, from society.

Ok bear with me on this one (and sorry if this is in the wrong place - I think it should be here?). When you read a book - especially when they're in a series - do you ever try to visualise them how they'd be on the television or in a film? Or imagine which actors would play them? Have there been any books made into films or programmes and you've thought the actors fitted the role perfectly or was just totally wrong for the part? For me, while I liked Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross in Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider I didn't picture him as Alex Cross when I read the books. My other one is Jeffrey Tolliver in Karin Slaughters Grant County series - through nearly all the books so far I pictured Matthew McConaughey as an ideal Jeffrey. Then I found out he was a swarthy, dark haired character... I'm still trying to figure out who I see playing Sara Linton if the series was ever made into films/a series but I definitely see Michelle Rodriguez as Lena Adams! So anyone else do this?

I haven't read any of her books yet but she is on my ever-growing authors I want to get into list... so I'm pleased to read all the recommendations!

Two of my all time favourite autobiographies are The Damage Done by Warren Fellows and For The Sins Of My Father by Albert DeMeo. Both were un-put-downable but in totally different ways.

I watched it too - I absolutely love CSI (pssst btw, it was CSI not NCIS ), the original and NY being my favourites. I'm naughty and read up in advance what's going to happen, so I knew that Mac was going to be ok I wasn't sure how long his amnesia would last. I thought the end was funny too! Didn't you think Ethan looked like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear? Ah how I love Saturday and Tuesday for CSI!

Only once as far as I can remember and it was Sleepers - I did think the book was good but I think the great cast added to the film and there was just something...different, whereas the book wasn't as punchy (not the right word at all, but for want of a better one!)