Migsie

Migsie
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Sunday, 21 January 2007

21/01/2007

Oh just been talking about the glorious Falco!!! Sadly, sadly even with severe rationing I have now read them all and am up to date - I think there is a new one out in hardback - but I'm a paperback gal - hardbacks take up too much space - so I'll wait for it in paperback. Falco has got to be one of my all-time favourite detectives, certainly on a par with Kinsey Millhone…..not sure he would overtake Albert Campion though, who I still think comes top of my list.

I have lent a couple of the early Lindsey Davis Falco books to a non-detective novel reading friend recently, who has decided she quite likes them…




I'm thinking of breaking my own embargo on buying for me and getting the last Sue Grafton that came out in paperback recently S is for Silence - as I am in the same situation with Kinsey Millhone - but I might wait a bit longer for that one....

21/1/07

Well I've just finished Sara Paretsky's V I for Short - which was excellent.


I am currently reading about 10 books a week - and I haven't decided what to read next. Still got loads to go at from my buying frenzy on ebay last year.

Wednesday, 3 January 2007

03/01/07 -

Well I think I should say I think the Da Vinci Code was a reasonably good thriller, though I'm afraid it was all a tiny bit too obvious for me - but then I've read a lot of thrillers - and many which manage to disguise flying the homicidal monk to Britain a lot better.
I mean it was far more transparent (ie I had the villain tagged quite early) than a lot which don't get all the hype. I think that it was the subject matter that grabbed the headlines. I solved most of the clues quite easily.


What I mean by “disguising flying the homicidal monk to Britain” is that if you manage to pick out that it is totally pointless to do this - then I'm afraid it takes but a few short steps to work out what the point is - then it all breaks open ...........

It did have tremendous pace and excitement though.