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Just adding to the books I want to read next: Elizabeth Is Missing - Emma Healey A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

I actually found the beginning of No One Gets Out Alive very creepy, and I don't usually get that scared by books. Unfortunately, it just became repetitive and silly.

I enjoyed both of those Gillian Flynn books.

Thanks for posting this - I can never work out how to do the You Tube linky thing. This game is going to be soooooo good!

I have about 200 on my Kindle that are unread. I nearly went for The Princess Bride, but I have it on paperback, so I refrained.

I have Guns, Germs and Steel on my TBR pile. It's a bit of a monster, and I can't imagine it's light reading. In fact, I'm sure I started it a year or so ago but had to put it down because I wasn't in the mood to 'get it'. I don't think I've read The Interpretation of Murder, but I know the title and can see the cover. I think it's one of those books that I always picked up but put back on the shelf in the library. It's a bit slow going with We Need To Talk About Kelvin and Random Acts of Senseless Violence, but that's just due to time-constraints. I'm in full study mode at the moment (booooorrring ), so reading is kind of taking a back seat.

Interesting! A lot of reviews said that No One Gets Out Alive was poor compared to his others, so I assumed his other books could only be an improvement. Guess I was wrong. I know you can't always rely on Amazon reviews but Apartment 16 has lower averages than No One Gets Out Alive. Don't think I'll bother with any of this others then. There are far too many books out there that I know I'll enjoy.

The official trailer for Fallout 4 has been released. I am sooooo excited about this. No word on release date, but we should find out in a couple of weeks.

Which other Zadie Smith books have you read? I gave up on NW, but I really liked White Teeth. Mind you, I can't actually remember anything about White Teeth (I've just read the synopsis on Amazon, and it doesn't ring any bells), but on my review of NW, I said I loved White Teeth.

So glad you enjoyed The Mangle Street Murders. I loved both the main characters, and the constant banter between them.

The Color Purple is one of those books that I keep meaning to read, but somehow never get around to it. I've heard so much about it, but never actually knew what it is about. I must read it at some point.

Oh no, this doesn't bode well. How far are you into it? Definitely not sounding like a winner. Knowing my luck, the Book Jar will select it as my next read.

The Dead Lands sounds like my kind of book, as I am always looking for something similar to The Stand. Paranormal Intruder sounds creepy. They've both gone on my wishlist.

Thanks - I still have a fair few to go, two of which I have given up on (the books that is, not the review). But I seem to be enjoying my more recent reads, so it's all picking up again.

I put the heating on for a bit this morning. I draped my clothes over the radiator, so they were toasty warm.

Can't believe it's June already. I'm stuck in an incredibly dull routine....work, take dog out, study, sleep.....work, take dog out, study, sleep... <yawn> I'm due to finish my exams in August (if all goes as planned), then I will finally have my life back.

A 1960's Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania - Paul Feeney As the title says, this is all about growing up in the 1960s in Britain, and what life was like. I wasn't born until the 1970s (and not in Britain), but have always been vaguely interested in 1960s culture, as I think a lot of people are. So, perhaps I wasn't the right person to read it, and I think someone who was alive at the time would have had that nostalgic feeling reading it. While parts of it were interesting, there were many sections that I skipped over as the book was full of lists. There were lists of so many things - TV shows and radio broadcasts, and personalities of the time. I hadn't heard of about 90% of them so they weren't of any interest to me. There were also a lot of generic stereotypical descriptions, and plenty of things were covered with just one sentence to describe them so there wasn't much depth to it. It was written very simplistically, almost as though it is for children. I've read the 1970's book as well and had the same criticisms. 1.5/6

Yeah, I pretty much switched off in the last quarter of the book.

I'm quite keen to read this. It's on my TBR pile so I will make sure I get to it soon. I've only heard positive things about it.

I've added this to my wishlist. It has all 5-star reviews on Amazon.

Oh, I didn't realise it was disturbing. I don't actually know anything about it, but The Cuckoo's Calling is on my TBR pile.

I like a good spy thriller, so I've added it to my wishlist.

I've put We Need To Talk About Kelvin to one side - too much heavy talk about protons, neutrons, and electrons and whatnot, and most of it is going straight over my head. Also, whenever the author mentions Heisenberg, all I think of is Breaking Bad. I need something a bit easier for a Sunday night. I've started Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack.

It's cold and overcast today.

Is that the sequel to The Cuckoo's Calling? Or is there another book called Silkworm?