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Post by marispiper on Mar 17, 2017 17:39:34 GMT
I have just finished Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant - thoroughly enjoyable. Every single character is despicable 😁. The novel begins as the stony-broke' Ripley' protagonist wheedles his way on to a holiday with wealthy friends, but it turns into a cracking page turning thriller. The Greek island is brlliantly depicted, but you wouldn't want to be there with those ghastly people!
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Post by aubrey on Mar 17, 2017 18:33:56 GMT
I have just finished Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant - thoroughly enjoyable. Every single character is despicable 😁. The novel begins as the stony-broke' Ripley' protagonist wheedles his way on to a holiday with wealthy friends, but it turns into a cracking page turning thriller. The Greek island is brlliantly depicted, but you wouldn't want to be there with those ghastly people! That really sounds like a good Gialli* plot. I am pretty well hooked on Gialli* at the moment - two last weekend, one (I hope) tonight... *Gialli - I'm going to start a thread. |
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Post by marispiper on Mar 17, 2017 19:34:51 GMT
I have just finished Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant - thoroughly enjoyable. Every single character is despicable 😁. The novel begins as the stony-broke' Ripley' protagonist wheedles his way on to a holiday with wealthy friends, but it turns into a cracking page turning thriller. The Greek island is brlliantly depicted, but you wouldn't want to be there with those ghastly people! That really sounds like a good Gialli* plot. I am pretty well hooked on Gialli* at the moment - two last weekend, one (I hope) tonight... *Gialli - I'm going to start a thread. Well A, it has received great reviews, some comparing it favourably to Highsmith and Rendell!! Sacrosanct..still v good 😄 Order from library but was 3 quid odd at Tesco... |
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Post by marispiper on Apr 11, 2017 15:05:37 GMT
I just finished The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain - one of my favourite authors- a melancholy little tale. It made me think about marriages in our parents era, where couples stayed together, unhappily. Also,about the child who has a cold, unresponsive mother - does that child try ever harder to please her, and in life, others too?
Her writing is really good. As it is set in German speaking Switzerland, I read it (in my mind) with a Henning Wehn accent, for authenticity 😁
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Post by marispiper on May 3, 2017 14:16:46 GMT
Have been lent The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien. Very Irish...I am really enjoying it..
On roads (Ch 3)...
The road was narrow, white old and scarred with shadow. It ran away westwards in the mist of the early morning, running cunningly through the little hills and going to some trouble to visit tiny towns which were not, strictly speaking, on its way. It was possibly the oldest road in the world. I found it hard to think of a time when there was no road there because the trees and the tall hills and the fine views of bogland had been arranged by wise hands for the pleasing picture they made when looked at from the road. Without a road to have them looked at from they would have a somewhat aimless if not futile aspect.
Roads..the most ancient of human monuments, surpassing by many tens of centuries the oldest thing of stone that man has reared to mark his passing.
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Post by althea on May 4, 2017 8:51:15 GMT
I haven't come across Flann O'Brien,but will look him up now.
I have read a great many books by Irish authors and enjoyed them all.
I particularly enjoyed the books of Deirdre Purcell and Maeve Binchy.
When I like an author,I read everything they have written.
I'm reading The May Bride by Susannah Nunn at the moment.
A well written little book about Jane Seymour's life.
Before that I read A Wanted Man (John Reacher) by Lee Child.
I always intersperse thrillers with something light.
Very soon now The third,and last,book in the Fitz and The Fool series will come out.
Robin Hobb is my favourite writer and I will be sorry that this is the last book about Fitz.
My all time favourite hero.
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Post by norty on May 4, 2017 15:24:47 GMT
Her writing is really good. As it is set in German speaking Switzerland, I read it (in my mind) with a Henning Wehn accent, for authenticity 😁 Oh my this made me laugh out loud.  |
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Post by marispiper on May 4, 2017 15:42:50 GMT
Yes, Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman...it's a very odd book. Written in the 40s but published after his death in the 60s. It's hard to categorise, a murder cum ghost story with lots of moral dilemma...check it out x.
I usually try the library first these days - mostly to keep them going but also to save the cost. This is true especially of our Book Group choices...the ladies rarely pick anything I would choose - and inevitably, they usually hate my choice 😁
A few book group picks ago, I got the book reserved for me from the library in the next town... I read up to page 21 on the bus back...it was so dire, I got off the bus and returned it straight back to my own branch, thinking "Thank goodness, I didn't fork out 8.99 on THAT!"
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Post by honeybear on May 5, 2017 9:04:30 GMT
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Post by marispiper on May 5, 2017 11:25:25 GMT
'A sexy romp through the world of orchid growers' !!!!!! The mind boggles! How did you come across it? |
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Post by aubrey on May 5, 2017 13:50:13 GMT
'A sexy romp through the world of orchid growers' !!!!!! The mind boggles! How did you come across it?  |
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Post by althea on May 8, 2017 11:08:14 GMT
I have just finished Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard. An American classic which I thoroughly enjoyed.
When I have back pain and am limited in my movements,I take advantage of the time,to read as much as possible.
It helps to pass the time and also distracts me from the pain.
Last week I got through two Jack Reacher books as well as Tishomingo Blues.
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Post by marispiper on May 8, 2017 15:49:18 GMT
Elmore Leonard is brilliant. I heard a radio interview with him where he talked about his storytelling and said "It's all in the dialogue - you don't need any other technique"
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Post by aubrey on May 8, 2017 18:49:44 GMT
I've just got Cosey Fanni Tutti (from out of Throbbing Gristle)'s autobiography out of the library:  Filth!  |
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Post by marispiper on May 9, 2017 12:31:25 GMT
^^^
Good - for the book.
Good - you borrowed it from the library.
Good - you went to the library.
😊😊😊
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