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Post by marispiper on Jul 7, 2017 9:04:42 GMT
Can she take the place of Ruth Rendell and/or Patricia Highsmith though? I am about half way through and thoroughly enjoying it. One, get thee to a library, two, borrow it. |
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Post by althea on Jul 9, 2017 11:49:45 GMT
I am reading the second book,The Blinding Knife,in The Lightbringer trilogy by Brent Weeks.I bought the first one and shared it with my sister,then she bought the other two and shared them with me.
Brent Weeks is an excellent writer,so creative and knows how to grip you and not let you go.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 9, 2017 14:06:48 GMT
I am reading the second book,The Blinding Knife,in The Lightbringer trilogy by Brent Weeks.I bought the first one and shared it with my sister,then she bought the other two and shared them with me. Brent Weeks is an excellent writer,so creative and knows how to grip you and not let you go. Oh no..Gavin Guile is dying 😨 Ha ha. I read a synopsis. Books for cool people. I'm not cool. |
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Post by althea on Jul 10, 2017 13:55:20 GMT
Yes,he can't draft blue any more.This trilogy is even better than the Night Angel trilogy,which I have just finished recently.
Brent Weeks invents whole new worlds and his works are epics.I like the little twists he always puts into his stories,they are so clever.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 10, 2017 14:18:05 GMT
Yes,he can't draft blue any more.This trilogy is even better than the Night Angel trilogy,which I have just finished recently. Brent Weeks invents whole new worlds and his works are epics.I like the little twists he always puts into his stories,they are so clever. I have no idea what you're talking about 😄😄😄😄 x |
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Post by marispiper on Jul 14, 2017 9:00:08 GMT
The Night Visitor (Lucy Atkins) was very good - best new psychological thriller I have read in quite a while!
Aubrey mentioned Highsmith and Vine...well, we are talking about the masters there so a comparison would not be fair but for its portrayal of two great female characters and a suspense filled plot - excellent.
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Post by rondetto on Jul 17, 2017 17:03:28 GMT
I love autobiographies. I am half way through Roger Moore's "My word is my Bond" He is very honest in it too.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 18, 2017 8:19:16 GMT
I love autobiographies. I am half way through Roger Moore's "My word is my Bond" He is very honest in it too. He is funny as well. I saw it in a local charity shop the other day too. I'll look again... |
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Post by ARENA on Jul 23, 2017 13:01:00 GMT
Oldie but goodies....
Have you read any of Lillian Beckwith's amusing 'biographies'?
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Post by marispiper on Sept 9, 2017 20:58:47 GMT
I read Smith, Aubrey, between books. V good...
"A splendid and gallant company" 😁 Good ending.
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Post by althea on Mar 7, 2018 11:35:44 GMT
I'm writing an unofficial autobiography. (I posted this in another place and no one got it.)
I recently read According to Queenie, by Beryl Bainbridge. I wish I hadn't really.
The writing is as good as ever,but it gives a view of Doctor Johnson I was not prepared for.
Sad, how our idols always have feet of clay.(Johnson,not Bainbridge.)
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Post by ARENA on Mar 7, 2018 11:49:25 GMT
I'm writing an unofficial autobiography. (I posted this in another place and no one got it.) I recently read According to Queenie, by Beryl Bainbridge. I wish I hadn't really. The writing is as good as ever,but it gives a view of Doctor Johnson I was not prepared for. Sad, how our idols always have feet of clay.(Johnson,not Bainbridge.) I have been a huge fan of Dr Johnson, ever since my fledgling days on Fleet Street. He was purported to be a regular at my pub (The Cheshire Cheese) Fake news for the tourist trade!He seldom mentioned it, despite a portrait of him in the snug, also fake. There was a small room at the top of the house which they claimed to be his private salon. It was a small fully paneled room sparsely furnished with a small table, a couple of dusty books ,and a chair.Thousands of tourists visited in hushed awe. One evening,due to an electrical fault, the room was consumed with fire. Behind the paneling they discovered it was tiled .The tiles showed couples in every imaginable act of sex.Of course, like most pubs in that era,upstairs was a brothel. www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/28979 |
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Post by althea on Mar 7, 2018 12:01:57 GMT
He doesn't come out of BB's book very well. Nothing about his morals,but he seemed to be mentally ill and uncouth.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 7, 2018 18:49:23 GMT
He doesn't come out of BB's book very well. Nothing about his morals,but he seemed to be mentally ill and uncouth. All that made me like him more, really (though I did already know a lot of it). |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 7, 2018 18:50:33 GMT
He doesn't come out of BB's book very well. Nothing about his morals,but he seemed to be mentally ill and uncouth. That made me like him more, really (though I did already know a lot of it). Great Men (Great Women as well) are only human. |
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