pickle

the milk from the cerea which makes the milk go chocolaty

I am one chapter from the end, had to put it down and save it for bed time tonight

300 pages in and I am loving it ........

Me too although I am now about 300 pages in and I blame Charm for me being tired this morning having stayed up til nearly 1am and then forcing me to have a littlre rest and read abit more this afternoon when I should have been doing something useful

ITS ARRIVED

I got most of the way through The Ninth Circle - Alex Bell last night and this morning I need to finish it to start the new book I am waiting for today

KLung Fu Hustle last night, very funny and well done

Tommorow hopefully....can't wait I need another vampire to join the club of all the other ones I fancy

I got into them because a german friend of mine had read them translated from the french into german and found some in English for me, I love them although seeking whom he may devour is not the best, my favourite so far has been The Chalk Circle Man, they don't have to be read in order I didn't but some of the characters obviously change and things happen to them which are refered to in later books.

59. Fred Vargas - An Uncertain Place This is the latest installment from Fred Vargas featuring Commisaire Adamsbeg synopsis courtesy of waterstones Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young sergeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is a welcome change of scenery, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the gates of the baroque Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes is found. Not so strange in itself, but the shoes contain severed feet. As Scotland Yard's investigation begins, Adamsberg and his colleagues return home and are confronted with a massacre in a suburban home. Adamsberg and Danglard are drawn in to a trail of vampires and vampire-hunters that leads them all the way to Serbia, a place where the old certainties no longer apply. In Fred Vargas' riveting new novel, Commissaire Adamsberg finds himself in the line of fire as never before I love this series, the characters are quirky, its intelligently written, the crimes are shocking but lighlty done no overdoing it on the graphic front. I think if you have not come across this author before or read any of these books I should give if possible a little background to the main characters as they are what make the book so enjoyable the main character is Commisaire Adamsberg he is a dreamer with a mind which doesn't latch onto anything, he spends half his time not paying attention to things around him, people are known to go to sleep in his company including violent criminals. But he solves crimes using methodology more akin to Zen than logic. Following him frustratedly is his second in command Danglard, a man with encycopeidic knowledge of everything, devoted to his family he is a single father of 5 children, he starts drinking white wine in the afternoon and frequeltly gets maudling and drunk he doesn't understand Adamsberg and gets agry with him but also protrects him. Others who make up this squad include Rentacourt a woman of immense proportions whose presence acts a catlyst inspiring devotion from those around her including the laziest of cats who in one mystery follows her scent through the streets of paris just because of its utter devotion, in another she hides Adamsberg by carrying him about her person. There is Fossily (not sure of spelling) who because of a period of abandonment at a young age has to have food around her at all times, she supplies all the squad with pate and bread and wine whenever they are out on a case. There is Melacart, who suffers from partial narcolepsy so have a place in the basement of the squad house where he spends most of his time asleep, Eastalere who is an innocent his devotion to Rentacourt borders on the reverential but his naive innocence sometimes sheds light on areas of crime others might miss. Side characters include Camille and on off love of Adamsberg and one of the principal characters of Seeking whom he may devour and Lucio Adamsberg's elderly neighbour who lost his arm in the Spanish civil war but has a persistent itch from a spiders bite which still bothers him.... anyway enough of my blathering if this hasn't put you of then these are the other books by Fred Vargas a french novelist The Chalk Circle Man Seeking whom he may devour Have Mercy on us all Wash this Blood clean from my Hand This Nights Foul work

well I still have tonight to get through and me without a book is like strawberries without cream so I might delve into the Alex Bell - The Ninth Circle which I have just picked up[ from the library you got Lover Unleashed yet?????

Its arriving tommorow......I am so excited

I finished Fred Vargas - An Uncertain Place this morning before work a brilliant book and series... No I am eagerly waiting for my Deborah Harkness book to arrive tommorow

La la la I just went and put this in my basket on Amazon....and I am about to press buy....what are you doing to me

Its on mine too, but I need to resist the temptation just for the moment....so many books so little money

Still reading my new Fred Vargas, but have just had notification from the library that Alex Bell's The Ninth Circle is waiting for me woo hoo!!!

Baked Potato, Salad, home made coleslaw asparagus followed by a piece of bananna and chocolate bread I have just made

I have this on my wish list as like you I am a massive fan of her work...do any of the characters from the previous 3 books appear in the story?

I started Pandemonium - Christopher Brookmyer this morning (its a re-read) but!!!! as I had a visit to the dentists this afternoon I had a little time before the appt so I went into the bookshop and bought the new Fred Vargas - An Uncertain Place ( it was cheap as I used all my points)

bog standard tea...lovely stuff

57. Burn - Linda Howard I am a big fan of Linda Howard having discovered her many many years ago, I like this sort of book as an easy read, romance, thrills and passion. 58. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson This was a wierd book I was drawn to it because of the blurb its the story of perhaps one of the most famous scientists in the world but its not the story of science in fact its a story of his later career when he became the warden of the Royal Mint. This was at a time when counterfeiting and coining as it was called was at its height and with a war being fought the country was bankrupt. This story tells of Newton who applied all his logic int catching and sending to the gallows a number of criminal in particular Thomas Chaloner. Whats probably one of the most intersting aspects of this book is that it gives snapshots of life at this time from the darker underside of London, it describes Newgate prison and how you got in and more importantly OUT of there and not via the hangmans noose. It also however portrays Newton as a man driven both by science but also by philospophy and alchemy mixed with his great spriritual belief. at some point I will get round to reviewing all the books I have read in the last week...sigh so many books so little time done finally...phew !!!

I finished two books whilts in the garden this weekend and started a 3rd. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson and Burn - Linda Howard and started All? about Alice - Robbie Watts I also got out a couple more books Pandemonium - Christopher Brookmyer (which I ahve read before but loved) and We are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka ( I have read a couple of her other books)