Nollaig Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I was in Tesco today and saw Linwood Barclay's new book 'Too Close To Home' and couldn't resist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katrina1968 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I couldnt wait. I cracked open English Country Manor House Murders! Thats what I'm trying to pace myself with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Two books just arrived in the post. Midwives ~ Chris Bohjalian (it sounds familiar, hoping I haven't already read it) Bookring on Bookcrossing Things I want my Daughters to Know ~ Elizabeth Noble (bookring on here run by Kate) Must get on with my reading. My mojo whatsit thingy is on a go slow at the moment:irked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 So much for not buying books - I just got A Share In Death by Deborah Crombie, Knife by R J Anderson, Wings by Aprilynne Pike and Mythangelus by Storm Constantine I also picked up Baking Cakes In Kigali by Gaile Parkin while I was in Waitrose yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysterioso Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just been on a charity shop raid and got some corking books. I skipped home with: Yrsa Sigurdardottir- My Soul To Take Richard Stark- Ask The Parrot Joseph Wambaugh- The Blue Knight Robert Wilson- The Silent and the Damned Bruce Kennedy Jones- The Last Straight Face All nearly new and under a tenner- result:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueB Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Well Im a bit miffed was expecting the books I ordered from Play to arrive today......grrr good job I got loads of other stuff to read!! Says the one still reading her current book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I picked up three books from the library today - Roadside Crosses ~ Jeffery Deaver Dying Light ~ Stuart Macbride and Cold Granite ~ Stuart Macbride I`m looking forward to reading all 3 of them. Good choice! Start with Cold Granite before Dying Light. I've read them both and they're really good I bought Patricia Cormwell's Predator for 25p Bargain! That's one of her better ones if I remember correctly My wonderful OH offered .... I repeat offered.... of his own free will I might add, to take me to the city to the large Waterstone's and wait, with no complaints, while I browsed! He then bought me The Sookie Stackhouse Series (except the last one, its hardback and doesn't match , but will get it in paperback when it's out), Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride and Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I'm one happy bunny today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ooooh, lucky you Charm! That's a good haul I just had to order the new Dan Brown for my mum - she got most upset I hadn't mentioned that he had written another book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickwick Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just been on a charity shop raid and got some corking books. I skipped home with: Yrsa Sigurdardottir- My Soul To Take Richard Stark- Ask The Parrot Joseph Wambaugh- The Blue Knight Robert Wilson- The Silent and the Damned Bruce Kennedy Jones- The Last Straight Face All nearly new and under a tenner- result:lol: Yep I've been to raid the charity shops again,and I skipped home with: Lisa Gardner-The Perfect Husband Peter Robinson-A Necessary End Beverly Barton-Cold Hearted Adam Thorpe-The Standing Pool I also have won a copy of Nick Hornby-High Fidelity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Eventually managed to start a new book today, and decided on Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore which I need to read before the meeting next week. Also popped into Waterstone's to get a book for OH and came out with that and one for me too Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Fran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blithe Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Still reading Playing with Fire by Peter Robinson and Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. Got a few books in the mail yesterday: Rereadings edited by Anne Fadiman. The Creative License by Danny Gregory An Illustrated Life by Danny Gregory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Good choice! Start with Cold Granite before Dying Light. I've read them both and they're really good My wonderful OH offered .... I repeat offered.... of his own free will I might add, to take me to the city to the large Waterstone's and wait, with no complaints, while I browsed! He then bought me The Sookie Stackhouse Series (except the last one, its hardback and doesn't match , but will get it in paperback when it's out), Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride and Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I'm one happy bunny today You are a lucky lady! I reserved the Stuart Macbride books after reading your reviews! Looking forward to reading them myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedge Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 This afternoon I staged a birthday invasion of Waterstones. I would have walked away with everything I wanted, but they insisted that I pay, so I stuck with: The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins The Diary Of A Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith The Collected Short Stories Of Saki - Saki I got home to find an Amazon gift certificate from my aunt, so my shelves will be packed even tighter soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 My wonderful OH offered .... I repeat offered.... of his own free will I might add, to take me to the city to the large Waterstone's and wait, with no complaints, while I browsed! He then bought me The Sookie Stackhouse Series (except the last one, its hardback and doesn't match , but will get it in paperback when it's out), Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride and Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I'm one happy bunny today Wow you lucky lady! Yep I've been to raid the charity shops again,and I skipped home with:Lisa Gardner-The Perfect Husband Peter Robinson-A Necessary End Beverly Barton-Cold Hearted Adam Thorpe-The Standing Pool I also have won a copy of Nick Hornby-High Fidelity. How did you win it?? Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 My OH ran into me with a trolley at Tesco earlier, so to say sorry he bought me Stephenie Meyer's The Host and Erica James' It's The Little Things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueB Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 This afternoon I staged a birthday invasion of Waterstones. I would have walked away with everything I wanted, but they insisted that I pay, so I stuck with: The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins The Diary Of A Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith The Collected Short Stories Of Saki - Saki I got home to find an Amazon gift certificate from my aunt, so my shelves will be packed even tighter soon! I read The Woman in White for GCE Literature at school its on my to read again list when I get around to getting myself another copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I am enjoying 'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 My OH ran into me with a trolley at Tesco earlier, so to say sorry he bought me Stephenie Meyer's The Host and Erica James' It's The Little Things Now that's what I call an apology - how lovely of him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ooooh, lucky you Charm! That's a good haul You are a lucky lady! Wow you lucky lady!. I know He knows exactly how to keep me happy! This afternoon I staged a birthday invasion of Waterstones. I would have walked away with everything I wanted, but they insisted that I pay Nice try Sedge! I'm nearly finished Living With The Dead by Kelley Armstrong then I think I'll read her Men Of The Otherworld book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I'm so glad I bought the newer Linwood Barclay book, Too Close To Home, as it's BRILLIANT! The tagline is the best thing I've ever read, I actually laughed in the shop when I read it - 'What's more frightening than your next-door neighbours being murdered? Finding out the killers went to the wrong house....' I don't think it's meant to be funny, but various lines by Jim Cutter (the story's narrator) really made me crack up. It's very well written, so much so that I'm still up at nearly 5am, nearly 200 pages into the book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I'm so glad I bought the newer Linwood Barclay book, Too Close To Home, as it's BRILLIANT! The tagline is the best thing I've ever read, I actually laughed in the shop when I read it - 'What's more frightening than your next-door neighbours being murdered? Finding out the killers went to the wrong house....' I don't think it's meant to be funny, but various lines by Jim Cutter (the story's narrator) really made me crack up. It's very well written, so much so that I'm still up at nearly 5am, nearly 200 pages into the book! HaHa! Thats Hillarious! I have not read any of his books even though Linwood Barclay rings a bell. I will have to write it in a little book. Don't you just love it when you get a book that makes you want to stay up till the early hours of the morning just to finish it. Can't wait to hear your review at the end. CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page turner Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I finished Scarlet today and will make a start on Tuck the last book in the King Raven series. Then it's a toss up of a reread of the outlander series ready for the upcoming book or some YA fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 HaHa! Thats Hillarious! I have not read any of his books even though Linwood Barclay rings a bell. I will have to write it in a little book. Don't you just love it when you get a book that makes you want to stay up till the early hours of the morning just to finish it. Can't wait to hear your review at the end. CW He also wrote No Time For Goodbye, which got pretty good reviews on here, barring the ending if I recall. I own it but haven't read it, I struggled to get into it so I was taking a real gamble on his second book, (it was between Too Close To Home and that new Stephen King collection of short stories) and I definately made the right choice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Have been sitting in the sunny garden with my coffee and book Second Glance....yes I know I have taken ages reading it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookworm44 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I've only managed to read about 60 pages of Love the One You're With this week. However, my three year old students seem to be adjusting amazingly well to school, so hopefully once I'm used to be being back to work, the reading will pick up and I won't slip away from it like I do every other fall season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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