Monthly Reading Records

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

pennyt — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:47:07 GMT

I've finished The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and have to admit to having rather mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I thought it was quite a touching little story about how we all have deep undercurrents of emotion not readily apparent on the surface; on the other hand, however, I found it increasingly difficult to suspend my disbelief as the story progressed, particularly with regard to Joseph's story, and wondered at several points whether I'd somehow picked up a version of The Incredibles by mistake!

Time to squeeze in just one more (very) short book before the end of the month - Waiting for Mr Right, a little volume of short stories by Andrew Taylor which I picked up the other day in Kindle version for 98p, along with one or two others of his early novels that have recently been kindlized and put out at a similarly low price.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

littlereader — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:41:52 GMT

Enjoying The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne. Also reading a few others on and off.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

sam1978 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:35:22 GMT

Finished Minerva by M.C.Beaton and started The Taming of Annabelle which is the second in the series.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

kahlan — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:48:45 GMT

Before I wouldn't give up on books - I would continue with them no matter what, but now I have become much more ruthless. Reading should be pleasurable and if I am not enjoying it, I won't continue with it.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

annecater — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:41:57 GMT

It must be the season for giving up on books. I abandoned Tideline by Penny Hancock after reading the same page over and over again and still not being engaged by it. I'm now a few chapters into The Nightingale Girls by Donna Douglas and enjoying it much more

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

kahlan — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:31:09 GMT

I gave up on 'The Story of a Beautiful Girl' - I know a lot of people have enjoyed it but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it.

Now started 'Grey Walker'.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

shanzi — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:58:49 GMT

Gave up on Crisis Four by Andy McNab. I really enjoyed Remote Control - the first one that I was excited to read another but there was just too much war in this one and I couldn't get my head round it.

So now started Hello Darkness by Sarah Brown. Very sinister story - just getting into it so can't tell any more. This is a large print book and I took it on the bus with me yesterday, and the person across the isle and next to me, seemed as though they were reading it too. So I had to put it away as the text was rather graphic, and I was rather embarrassed,....so my bus ride there and back was bookless.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

tolly18 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:37:03 GMT

Finished The Village (Nikita Lalwani) which was really a very mixed bag for a short book. The naivety of the 'heroine' in the face of the horrors of reality TV was breathtaking but it did keep me reading.

Now into another Vine book: Hidden by Kendra Elliot. Set in Oregon this concerns a beautiful, petite, forensic orthodontist (have we had one of those before?) who happens to be on hand when the skeleton of her best friend, kidnapped 10 years before, is discovered. Not quite sure where this one is going - romantic, forensic crime? It reads pretty well so far.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

steveyp — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:25:54 GMT

I abandoned the CD of Love Always by Harriett Evans because of the awful voices. I'll read the pb later when I have time. I'm now listening to Chocolate Wishes by Trisha Ashley, the voices are not much better but listenable. I'm also halfway through A Summer Fling by Milly Johnson.

Tracey

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

lainy_79 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:16:36 GMT

Finished The Jazz Cage and now reading The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

kimborams — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:14:44 GMT

Finished 'Lamb Chops and Chainsaws' by Glen Johnson - a book of nine dark, and somewhat gruesome at times, short stories. Enjoyed them overall;

Now reading 'The Prisoner of Heaven' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - the third instalment following on from 'The Shadow of the Wind' and 'The Angel's Game', pretty good so far.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

Denise4891 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:57:34 GMT

Earlier in the week I finished The Conductor - Sarah Quigley which I was sadly underwhelmed by. Then quickly read The Accident - Linwood Barclay (quickly because it was a page turning thriller which thankfully didn't require much concentration).

I'm now 100 pages into The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher - I didn't think she could top Witch Light (Corrag) for beautiful prose but it's looking increasingly likely.

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

kat2011 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:34:38 GMT

kat2011:

Finished "Louise Millar - The playdate" 4/5

Now on to "Louise Candlish - The day you saved my life" 14 pages in seems okay.

Couldn't get into "Louise candlish - the day you saved my life"

Now 128 pages into "Alison Mecer - Stop the clock" and really enjoying it!

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

Eloise — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:28:19 GMT

Halfway through Wounds of Honour by Anthony Riches another Romans in Britian series and a good one it is turning out to be too

Re: Titles, Tasters & Temptations - August Reading

annecater — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:14:35 GMT

An Island Between Two Shores by Graham Wilson was an excellent read, I've now started Tideline by Penny Hancock