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I started Richelle Mead's Storm Born this morning its ok a bit samey one of many of this genre.

I was watching Inside the Human Body but someone is about to have a double hand transplant so I have switched over

82- 89 Janet Evanovich Seven Up Ten Big Ones Eleven on Top Twelve Sharp Fearless Fourteen finger Lickin Fifteen Visions of sugar Plums yes I am an obsessive, I get on a roll discover an author I like and go a little insane. So I have read 7 of Janet Evanovich's books since the weekend, and I really enjoyed them, They are laugh out loud funny in places, I like the characters they are funny and real making mistakes and living a normal life, (albeit it one more exciing than mine, I have realised reading all of these I actually have no life and I need to get to bed earlier as I have been wiped at work all week ) these are all individual stories but I have grouped them to save me going through every book and as I intend to read as many of them as I can expect more. Just put it this way I was reading ine in the garden and had to stifle my laughter at the thought of one of the characters got stuck in the window of the car having to fart to get out of it, that makes it sound crude but it was very well done. 90 Suzanne Brockman - Dark of Night I am pretty sure its a bad sign when you have to keep looking up the title of the book because you can't remember it. Anyhoo what did I think, I think if I had read this about 10 years ago I would have loved it but now I found it a bit banal and confusing, she was trying t write the romantic stories of 4 different people in one book. I picked it up thinking this was a thriller but in fact it was more of a romance, a bit like those books where the hero is more man than possible and the heroine lets him dictate the turns. There were flashes of inspiration but I think Linda Howard makes a better storyteller of this genre.

I read Dark of Night - Suzanne Brockmann it wasn't terrible but it was really wromg to put it in the crime section of the library rather than the romance section, still it was entertaining.

So I finished the last of the Stephanie Plum - Janet Evanovich books I had from the library, that makes 6 I have read since Saturday and I loved them, definitely going to try and get these to own as I can see I will re-read them, I was reading one of them for a bit in the garden yesterday evening and had to stop myself from laughing out loud when Lula got stuck in the car window.

I have just discovered Yrsa Sigurdottir and so far read a couple of her books, I have a passion for crime of different countries although I find her descriptions of Iceland fantastic as it is a place she obviously loves and can't imagine leaving. I would to visit someday though, it sounds like my kind of place. I keep meaning to read more of the saga's and have watched some of Iceland series on BBC4 but not watched Jar City yet have you?

hi knox, although they are stand alone stories they are part of a continuing series so I would start with The Redbreast which is the first.

I have been bad this weekend and read 3 books which has meant staying in bed late, going to bed in the afternoon and reading to the early hours of the morning, basically I have halved my library books in one fell swoop, they were all Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum books, I found myself laughing out loud at one point and was then paranoid that my neighbours could hear me through the open window. Luckily I have a few to catch up on, although I do need to start thinking about saving something for my holiday next month.

Wallender- Krister Henrickson is perfect in this role.

Made a haul of Janet Evanovitches books in the library today woo hoo I have something new to read.

Yeah I quite liked the fact that it was sort of a love story rather than an all out action film ( I knew that before I watched it) I quite liked the aliens they were really beautiful.

I have just watched Monsters, have been meaning to watch it for ages as have had it on rental for at least 2 weeks. I really liked it, it wasn't mind blowing or anything but really gentle any one else seen it/

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Yes I read this online at lunchtime and I hope its positive as Waterstines is the only decent bookshop in town since they too over Ottakers. I also buy a lot of books online but I still browse and buy in Waterstones when I want an instant fix

Joy Division - Transmission

its been a week since I last updated this and somehow I have managed to read 5 books, what can I say I have no life and there has been nothing on the tv I feel like watching and the weather hasn't been good enough to sit outside 77. The Prophet Murders - Mehmet Murat Somer This was a wierd book, I picked it up because I like trying crime books set outside of the UK and the US (hence my liking Scandinavian crime) on top of this the main character is a Transvestite living and owning a transvestite club in Istanbul. Synopsis In cosmopolitan Istanbul a thriving transvestite community is on edge after the death of one of its ‘girls’. Dismissed by the Police as an unfortunate accident the case is soon taken on by the vibrant and charismatic club owner Burcak. With Hasan, his Maitre de club, and information from the ‘girls’ he puts the real story together piece by piece. He calls on an old school friend, Commissioner Selcuk Tanyer, for help. Tracking down an extreme fundamentalist, with the ‘chat room’ handle of Jihad2000, he is soon immersed in a world so dark and sordid that even he may not survive. The reason I liked it despite it being a culture I know nothing about was the complete acceptance that this was the norm and no attempt was made to make the idea that transvestites are in any way on the fringes of society, now this may have been because the book pretty much focussed on the lives of the main character and his friends (I will call him him because thats how he refers to himself in the books) It was also funny, yes in some ways stereotypical in that a lot of the other characters were obsessed with how they looked and bitched about each other the way you see in films but they did it in a very self aware way, particularly the main character Burcak, now the synopsis above is not one I wrote and it makes it out to be far more dramatic than the book actually was, there was a lot of background which needs to be explained, I am not sure whether this was the first in a series of books or if I have missed out on others, will have a look for more I think. 78. Minds Eye - Hakan Nesser This was my first attempt to read a Hakan Nesser book I am listening to one on BBC4xtra at the moment but its serialised and only on at the weekends so only on part 2 at the moment. This book suffers only from being translated in a style which is a little stilted, its doesn't flow anywhere near as well as the Stieg Larsson or even Jo Nesbo books does. I am also not sure if this is the first in the series of books by Hakan Nesser as again there is a back story about the characters, if it is the forst, then they definitely need more explaining. saying that the plot is well written and interesting I can imagine it being a film, I did guess the ending but it didn't detract from my enjoyment. synopsis THE MIND'S EYE begins with a teacher, Janek Mitter, waking up in his apartment with an almighty hangover and memory loss and discovering his wife and fellow teacher, Eva Ringmar, drowned in the bath. The police arrest him and he is subsequently tried for her murder. He doesn't think he's guilty but does little to help himself in court and so it's no surprise when he's sent to a psychiatric hospital. However, once there, a mix-up in medication allows some memory to return. He naturally contacts the police but his message goes astray and less fortunately for him his message to another person arrives safe and sound and sets off a chain of events which takes VV on a journey to the coast, and back in time to discover what lies behind the death of Eva Ringmar. just read the rest of this review apparently its the first boo but the third to be translated (don't get why they do that). will read some more of this author I think, they will grow on me 79. One for the Money - Janet Evanovich 80. Plum Spooky - Janet Evanovich 79 and 80 together....why had |I not discovered these before, I laughed out loud, at a lot of it, even though it was a crime book, I found Stephanie Plum to be a little bit of all of us girls, she doesn't suffer fools gladly, has an interfering family and a love life thats on and off, on toip of that she is broke and becomes a bounty hunter (albeit a not very good one) on the way she meets such a funny but very human cast of characters. I am looking for more of these as soon as I get to the libraray. 81 Wicked Widow - Amanda Quick Guilty pleasure a historical romance, I have read all of her books and all of the ones I have managed to find under Amanda Quick's various pseudonyms, easy but enjoyable reads.

Tea as usual but right now even though its 10am I am wishing it was something stronger

Chapel Club - Surfacing found myself singing it (badly) in the corridor a few moments ago so decided to find it and play it

Nothing I have no energy to make any effort at all. Might have a packed of crisps bad I know but I only got in about 10 minutes ago.