Finished the brilliant Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell yesterday - will add to review thread later, but would urge anyone who's loved the likes of Lucinda Riley and JoJo Moyes not to miss this wonderful read.  Now reading - on my Kindle - Anna McPartlin's So What If I'm Broken (also published as The One I Love). It was a bit all over the place at the start, but now pulling together beautifully as the sort of well-written chick lit with a serious edge that I love...

Today i'm Alice by Alice Jamieson.

I finished Annabel - by Kathleen Winter this weekend and was left a touch disappointed - although I enjoyed reading it it didn't blow my socks off like it seems to have done with some readers and I didn't find the characters quite as well constructed as I prefer.

I'm now reading Love lies Bleeding by Jess McCronkey a fairly pacy psychological chiller, keeping me interested and turning the pages swiftly.

Hi Everyone

Hope everyone is well, I am just back from a two week holiday in spain today which was brilliant and I have done quite a bit of reading while away which has surprised and delighted me  so I wanted to update you all .

I finished The King's Concubine by Anne O'Brien on my kindle which I loved and will be reading more books by this author.

I then read Bon Voyage by Michelle Betham also on kindle which I loved, glad I already have a few more of her books on kindle

and finally then I moved onto  Dead Girls Dance by Rachel Caine the second book in the morganville vampire series in paperback which is my second book in my This Year I will read challenge which was great so not a bad end to june for me with regards to reading .

I am currently racing through Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine which is  the third book in the Morganville Vampire series and turning out just as good the first two books in the series, I am offically hooked on these books now .

Finished An Eye for a Tooth (Dornford Yates). These books are so lovely, from another age where British heroes and crooks can cause all the mayhem they like in a foreign country and none of the locals turn a hair.

Now reading Half-Sick of Shadows by David Logan for Vine. I got this because it shared the Terry Pratchett Fantasy award with the wonderful  Apocalypse Cow. Half way through Half way through and I can't see yet how it won a fantasy award. The story of an odd, precocious child in Ireland growing up the only element of fantasy so far is the brief appearance of a self-promoted 'time traveller' at the beginning and that could be explained by a five year old child's imagination. It develops into a fairly routine school story but there is now a character noone but Edward can apparently see, so maybe there's hope yet! Funny coincidence that both authors who won the prize share the surname Logan.

Finished LInda Gillard's The Glass Guardian, I'll give it 6/10. An easy read but nothing I'd rave about.

Now starting Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankel.

Decided to have a bit of fun reading Fifty Shades of Garbage - Allie Beck. See if this is any fun lol x

There she sat, the coffee cup half full and likely cold, gripping that damn book again. Joe had come home from work for three days in a row now this week to find Marcia sitting on the couch, legs curled under her, the dim light of the end table lamp casting a glow on her enthralled form, reading a book with a necktie on it.

Finished

The Lies We Told by Diane Chamberlain  (Started in June but goes on Julys read)

Started

Stalker by Fay Kellerman  (carried over from June)

I'm loving my current ML book, The Fine Colour of Rust - P A O'Reilly, great stuff

Finished Fifty Shades of Garbage - Allie Beck. In my opinion, was funny when you saw some parts like Fifty Shades of Grey but, near the end was boring.

Couldn't get into This Devil's Dice - Jackson Spence. So I decided to read my dad's friend's 2 books which are Three's Company & Mid Life Crisis - William Mwendwa.

Finished Dark Lady's Chosen by Gail Z Martin the last in this four part series which had me gripped from the start so will be looking out for more of her books

Now started King Arthurs Bones by the Medievil Murderers

Finished Half-Sick of Shadows (David Logan) which carried on as weirdly as it started and in its characters reminded me somewhat of Cold Comfort Farm. The ending was sheer black farce and very funny indeed, but it's hard to know what to make of it - there wasn't much fantasy!

I have then read The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and though I'm not often drawn to YA fiction I loved it and read it at a sitting.

 New Mercies by Sandra Dallas was an enjoyable read - does no-one else read her at all?

Next is The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison.

I really enjoyed The Last Pleasure Garden (Lee Jackson). It's such a shame he isn't writing more fiction .

This morning I've started The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen which has got off to an excellent start.

My name is Judith McPherson. I am ten years old. Three days ago a miracle happened. That is what I'm going to call it. And I did it all. It was because of what Neil Lewis said about putting my head down the toilet. It was because I was frightened. But it was also because I had faith.