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Post by Miranda on Jul 24, 2018 9:43:17 GMT
It's only really half-written. If he'd lived longer he would have finished it I think. Have to admit, there's the bones of a great story and I cried most of the way through just cos it was the last time I would ever read a new Pratchett.
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Post by bethb63 on Dec 16, 2018 21:00:41 GMT
I’ve just finished Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. It’s a mystery, in which the murder of a shepherd in rural Ireland is investigated by his sheep.
It’s certainly one of the quirkiest books I’ve read. Very funny, strangely touching, a little bit mystical, and quite lyrical in its descriptions of the sheepy philosophy. If I had to compare it to something, it would be The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. They both have that quality of events being observed by someone who interprets them through quite a different lens from the “norm”.
I really enjoyed it.
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Post by bethb63 on Dec 16, 2018 21:11:58 GMT
BTW, I never realised until recently that a whole new sub-category has been sectioned off: Cosy Mysteries. It comprises all the Christie-esque murder/detective stories that presumably don’t get too gruesome. Quite a useful designation, I thought.
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Post by Miranda on Dec 16, 2018 21:29:10 GMT
Where's that?
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Post by bethb63 on Dec 16, 2018 21:38:45 GMT
You can put it into search engines, Amazon, etc.
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Post by Miranda on Dec 16, 2018 21:52:15 GMT
Oh right! Got ya. It's been a publishing theme for years so I thought you meant on here or something.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 7, 2019 12:17:19 GMT
Just finished reading The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es. The story of Lien a Jewish child who is hidden and fostered during the war in Holland. She survives and that is not a plot spoiler because she is the person being interveiwed for the book. It is a small but amazing book and has changed the way I felt about the Dutch during the war quite considerably and for that, for explaining Dutch history in such a pragmatic way, it deserves some kudos. I am enlightened and surprised and any new book about this period of history should do this, tell us something new and Van Es does it well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 15:39:03 GMT
This thread passed me by but have enjoyed reading other peoples' reads.
The past few months have been ....
Wallis in Love by Andrew Morton
The Last Tudor .. Philippa Gregory
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ....Gail Honeyman
Rooms of Their Own ... Nino Strachey
A Kind Man .... Susan Hill
The Wife ... Meg Wolitzer
with
My Cousin Rachel .... Daphne du Maurier
The Essex Serpent .... Sarah Perry
Heroes ... Stephen Fry
The Space Trilogy ... C.S. Lewis
waiting on the shelves.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 12:11:42 GMT
I’ve started using our local library so I get eight or nine books which I then have three weeks to read. I enjoyed Elinor Oliphant very much.
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Post by beverley61 on Jun 17, 2019 11:35:23 GMT
I just finished Rotherweird. It was in the Sci-fi/Dystopian section but I am not sure it is either. Interesting concept part murder mystery, part 'other-world' mystery. I wasn't actually convinced that in reality they would have worked out all the clues or at least I felt they would have found them out in different ways but it was good enough to make me want to read the sequel Wintertide.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 17, 2019 11:54:11 GMT
Who is it by?
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Post by beverley61 on Jun 18, 2019 12:28:55 GMT
It's by Andrew Caldecott. and alongside all the other stuff I said there are some funny parts in it too. I can see it being televised - but properly.
The Guardian describes it as the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts, they also say that it can be overly clever and it is. Which is why I felt that the protagonists would not actually have solved the riddle entirely on their own and in that I felt it lacked something, but definitely readable and definitely clever, gruesome, gory, mysterious, and heartwarming.
I would avoid some reviews as many give the plot away and I won't do that to you.
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Post by diziet sma on Jun 18, 2019 17:13:56 GMT
I like the look of that, Bev, I might give it a go.
Recently I have been enjoying Cara Hunter's Oxford based crime thrillers.
There's a new Jackson Brodie novel out today. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson. I haven't heard of any plans to film it. I suppose Jason Isaacs is a busy boy these days.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 18, 2019 18:22:57 GMT
Oh I like the Brodie novels. Really enjoyed the one with the dog in the title.
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Post by Miranda on Jun 18, 2019 18:27:16 GMT
Started Early, Took My Dog! That was it!
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Anymore to come?
