Little Pixie

Grrr, can't quote a long post with kindle, too awkward. Still loving my alarm clock ! The last Cat Who book which I read was #24, The cat who went up a creek ; I have one of the later ones, but I think they went downhill too much to keep buying all of them. Kate, did you at all like the last few ? I wondered if it would change my memories of the loveliness of the characters she created to keep reading them ? Xiao-Xiao' s fully recovered, thanks for asking. I asked a neighbour who has a relative in the Police here, and she hadn't heard of any other cat incidents nearby. Just no idea what happened.

They're family members ! I think pets do deserve decent food. Xiao-Xiao had raw beef again this week and ran about afterwards, shouting and pouncing. I think that means she enjoyed it.

Oh ! Sorry that your hubby and computer have been poorly. :hugs:

Hi Kate.

Twitter - Robert Thorogood

I'm looking forward to Whispers of the Walker - E E Holmes, which has a 'Fall 2016' release date ( hopefully...) . I loved her first 3 books in the series.

I was in Sainsbury's this afternoon and - in the pet section - they're selling Advent calendar s for Cats. :giggles:

I do like Han Suyin's books ; try A Many Splendoured Thing ?

Thanks ! Polly Carter review with spoilers :

I'm on a Book Roll. I did a Ngaio Marsh reread and loved the books all over again. I highly recommend them ; the main characters are ones I fell in love with. Do give them a go if you're into Golden Age mysteries.

New books ; Quiller Balalaika - Adam Hall ( £5.85), Time is the Fire - Connie Willis (£6.71 ), The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters (£2.95 ), Tall Tail - Rita Mae Brown ( £5.99), Die like an Eagle - Donna Andrews (£5.99 ), Through the Grinder - Cleo Coyle ( £2.50 ), Lincoln`s Dreams - Connie Willis ( £2.80 ), Bellwether - Connie Willis ( £2.81 ), Manhattan Memoir - Mary Cantwell ( £2.81 ). Quest of the Bogeyman - Richard lockridge ( £8.86 ).

Books read : 108 TBR 834 New Books Bought : 115 Total Cost : £388.25 Time to get up to date ... 109 Lord of the Silent - Elizabeth Peters 110 The Golden One - Elizabeth Peters 111 Children of the Storm - Elizabeth Peters 112 Guardian of the Horizon - Elizabeth Peters 113 About face - Donna Leon 114 Drawing Conclusions - Donna Leon 115 Doomsday Book - Connie Willis 116 Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton 117 The Joy of doing things badly - Veronica Chambers 118 A Spell of Trouble - Leighann Dobbs 119 A Client is Cancelled - Frances and Richard Lockridge 120 Death and the Gentle Bull - Frances and Richard Lockridge 121 Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell 122 Burnt Offering - Frances and Richard Lockridge 123 Write Murder Down - Frances and Richard Lockridge 124 Let Dead Enough Alone - Frances and Richard Lockridge 125 Practise to Deceive - Frances and Richard Lockridge 126 Accent on Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge 127 Show Red for Danger - Frances and Richard Lockridge 128 Cats and People - Frances and Richard Lockridge 129 With One Stone - Frances and Richard Lockridge 130 The Distant Clue - Frances and Richard Lockridge 131 Death by Association - Frances and Richard Lockridge 132 Murder Can`t Wait - Frances and Richard Lockridge 133 Or was he Pushed ? - Richard Lockridge 134 Murder Roundabout - Richard Lockridge 135 With Option to Die - Richard Lockridge 136 The Killing of Polly Carter - Robert Thorogood

Great pics ! Fantastic one of the stairwell.

How strange - and awful. Hope you`re all better soon.

I think the original Montalbano is my favourite, followed by The Killing and Borgen.

I`ve found the recent Beck eps to be better than the older ones.

Doing an X Files rewatch, almost up to S7 now. Watching Murdoch Mysteries for the first time, on S5 now. So funny. On the final ep of Grey`s Anatomy, S11 - excellent. 4 eps into Angelby, a Swedish mystery which reminds me a lot of Jordsknott.

Thanks ! I hope you`re all better soon too. I`m 41% into the book and really enjoying it. I hope they make radio plays out of those books.

Oh, you've been reading it too ! Snap ! How nice.

Thank you ! Well, the computer now has a new version of my web browser which seems to work with Windows 10' and I'm getting over some bug myself too, so almost back to normal. I'm currently reading book 135 - the death in paradise book called the death of Polly Carter, oslt. Really enjoying it so far. Hope you've been well ?

Get, pc stopped working altogether. Hopefully, back soon !

That`s what`s putting me off giving them a go - childrens` books seem more expensive for fewer pages.

Those new books look lovely; I especially like the look of the Agatha Christie ones.

Exactly - it`s that we all love reading that`s important, not how much or what type of book. I think the mystery books I`ve read lately are around 200-230 pages ; I can`t recall ones which are much longer. I like Urban fantasy too, but even those don`t tend to be of the same length as Epic Fantasy. BTY, Have you read A Wrinkle in Time or Cat in the Mirror ? They`re in my ` maybe buy and try in the future` list.

Welcome Madeleine. I love the Donna Leon books ! I`m about 5 books behind in the4 series atm, so it`ll be a while till I get to the Falling in Love one.