What Are You Reading? 3

[Ghost]

I think he got de-nubbined

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've read Monstrous Regiment several times and never grown a third nipple

check for pimples then.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I have a third nipple, I keep it in the bedside drawer. I bring it out for parties and special days.

Reading The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides. Quite good.

 

[weenjcur]

Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten

 

[Prolekult]

I've been working through Jeffery Deaver's bibliography, he's now become my favourite thriller writer. I am now on about book number 15 (I do read other stuff in between them to mix things up), and every one has been completely different and unique.
My favourite so far I think has to be "The Empty Chair".

I love Harlan Coben for being basically the only thriller writer I've found who actually uses humour, but his books tend to be much more similar to each other.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Just started Mark Steel's In Town, a series of essays about various towns and cities in Britain based on his Radio 4 programme. It's very funny

 

[Tonyblack]

Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten

I like that one! It brought together all the "odd" bits of the previous books.

Welcome to the site.

 

[Quatermass]

Read volumes 5 and 6 of Fullmetal Alchemist. Not a bad series, considering.

I've also read The Doctor: His Lives and Times. Pretty good.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Ye Gods! - Tom Holt.

 

[Quatermass]

I'm about a quarter of the way through Doctor Sleep, after getting it earlier today. It's not bad so far. But is it me, or does King take a very long time to get to the horror in all his books? Okay, he has a few tidbits here and there, like the prologue for this book, but he takes a while to get to the actual main horror. For example, he's already introduced the main villains of Doctor Sleep, the True Knot (a sort of vampire commune that feeds off the Shining rather than blood), but he's yet to show them doing anything really villainous yet.

 

[Tonyblack]

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Excellent!

 

[Quatermass]

Is that the one with Richard III?

Anyway, I've just finished Doctor Sleep. Not on the same level as The Shining, but still a pretty good book regardless. I'm pretty sure that I spotted a Doctor Who reference, though, in what happens to the True Knot when they 'cycle out' (that is, die). It's like what was happening to the Master in The End of Time.

 

[Tonyblack]

Is that the one with Richard III?

Yes, that's the one. They have been serialising it on Radio 4 Extra, and Sharlene has always suggested that I should read it, so I have taken the plunge.

 

[Catch-up]

Read two good ghost stories while I was sick.

The Ghost Bride:

Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price?

Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family.

And This House is Haunted:

Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong.

 

[pip]

Have a copy of This House is Haunted but haven't got round to it yet. feel bad because I was at the launch and told John Boyne i'd let him know what I thought of it

 

[Catch-up]

I enjoyed it. The writing style was a little hard to adjust to, but once I got past that it was a good story.

 

[pip]

Should get around to it by next Halloween anyway

 

[Catch-up]

Have a big pile of books waiting to be read? I wouldn't worry about it, it's good, but if there's something you want to read more, it can definitely wait.

 

[pip]

That's the nature of the book pile.

 

[Catch-up]

So true!