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#70 Turn Coat - Jim Butcher More Wizardy fun. #71 Call it Coincidence - Frances and Richard Lockridge Widow is asked to witness little old lady`s Will, only for her to die mere hours later. Whodunnit isn`t in any doubt, but howdunnit was pretty clever. #72,#73,#74 Sprit Legacy, Spirit Prophecy, Spirit Ascendancy - EE Holmes The Gateway Trilogy - excellent ! Jess and her Mother moved across America, never staying long in one place and not having any Family contact. When Jess` Mother dies in odd circumstances, Jess goes to live with her Aunt - who she`s never met before. There`s a strange book and mysterious phone calls, but Jess hopes to put it all behind her as she goes off to College nearby... Only to find that the Strangeness has followed her... Jess is helped by her lovely, nerdy roommate Tia and by a Professor of the Paranormal. The characters leap off the page - they`re endearing, scary - the action keeps coming, but there`s also a lot of humour. I read one book after another and loved them. If you like this sort of Urban fantasy, they`re a delight. BTW, the books are currently at the top of the Kindle Horror Fantasy list - Click. They`re not Stephen King scary. #75 The Pleasure Cruise Mystery - Robin Forsythe Mystery from 1933. Artist/Amateur Detective goes on cruise and a woman is murdered. Clever who/howdunnit, set on a cruise to Lisbon. Nice Golden Age read. #76, #77 The Source, The Void - JD Horn 2nd and 3rd of the Witching Savannah trilogy, following directly on from The Line. Enjoyable Urban Fantasy, though I didn`t enjoy the 3rd book as much as the first two. #78 The Basle Express - Manning Coles 1956. British spy Tommy Hambledon wakes up on the Anglo-Swiss Express to hear his roommate being murdered over some secret documents and gets pulled into the investigation. Wisecracking and some very funny scenes.

Yay, Grimm ! We`ve almost finished S5 here. Glad it`s been renewed ( along with one of my favourite shows, Sleepy Hollow ).

I read Lawrence Block`s first Bernie the Burglar book ( Burglars can`t be Choosers ) a while back. Shall have a looksie at this other series.

I was undecided about that Shannara book, so I`m glad for your review - I`ll put it in my ` maybe buy it in the future` list. I did like the TV series more and more as it went on, so i`m pleased that there`ll be a second season.

Grr, commiserations. I`m on Windows 10 and it`s fine for me - except that it won`t 100% work with my AOL browser ( it shuts down if I try to cut-and-paste into an email ).

Hmm, possibly right there... I really liked the Vienna one. Gomorrah - excellent.

Can`t your Library request it from another Library for you ?

It`s a lovely reading nook, isn`t it.

European Song Contest - I liked the Israeli and the Cypriot songs. Rick Stein`s Long Weekends - foodie travelogue. Mary Beard`s Ultimate Rome

Other People`s Bookshelves - yum !

How brilliant ! That copy looks in good condition, too.

Lovely pics ! Thanks so much for posting those ; I haven`t read any Hardy in years, but loved them all in my teens and twenties.

I enjoyed The 39 steps too - and the other books with Richard Hannay, like Greenmantle.

Welcome back.

I had to look up zumbaron. It looks like a macaroon ?

I`ve been lucky - I`ve read a lot of good books this year and that means I want to keep reading...and reading.

Lovely animal news. Xiao-Xiao lies under the sun lounger when she gets too warm ; it`s a favourite spot. And - in exciting news - the Openreach ( telephone) engineer has just left and the broadband is fixed - huzzah ! The phone line wasn`t working at all - no incoming/outgoing calls - but luckily there was one connection still working, and so the broadband worked.

It`s not perfect, but I`m enjoying it.

She`s lovely. It`s 20C and sunny - unlike yesterday when it was cold and thunderstormy - so she`s out in the garden, exploring things ( like my new raspberry bush ). How are all your animals doing ?

Hurray for more books ! I`m halfway through the Shannara Chronicles, Season 1 on TV.

Thanks ! There are quite a few books in my latest haul which were in my ` buy at some point ` pile ( I was actually looking on Amazon at that Jane Austen Book Club book just this week ), so I`m really pleased.

Books read : 69 TBR 840 New Books Bought : 94 Total Cost : £286.95 I got 9 books in the Save The Kitties charity shop for £4.20. The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson The Holy Thief - Ellis Peters Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth Von Arnim The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory Little Face - Sophie Hannah Stiff News - Catherine Aird Pagan Spring - GM Malliet A Noble Killing - Barbara Nadel Grr, internet is stupidly slow today.

That cover looks like the bugs are actually moving ! Eeek !

#68,#69 White Night, Small Favour - Jim Butcher So good ! I love how cinematic his descriptions are.

Thanks so much for posting that ! I would`ve asked about Dark Reading Matter, so I`m happy that someone else did just that.