14/03/2007

I find with books like Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code that it is difficult to read them with a balanced view - because there is so much hype about them. Personally I like the Harry Potter books and thoroughly enjoyed them (though I haven't read the last one yet....)

03/03/2007

Well just finished the Peter Robinson - In a Dry Season - & it was excellent - certainly will read some more.Glad I've found Peter Robinson as have read more or less all of Ian Rankin’s and was a bit stuck. Not of course to be confused with Iain Banks I tried reading the Wasp Factory a couple of years ago & it was just too weird for me - gave up on it - but I feel I ought to give it another go sometime.

I have started another Peter Robinson.

28/02/2007

I'm a great fan of Alexander McCall Smith. I think I've read most of his; the Precious Ramotswe books and the Edinburgh ones. 44 Scotland Street was excellent and there is a sequel to it called Espresso Tales.

24/02/2007

Ah well I finished the Sara Paretsky ( I stopped in the middle to read Carbonel) and now am reading Mr Campion's Falcon - One of the books Margery Allingham's husband wrote from her notes after she died.He is not as good a writer as she was, but I am curious to see where she planned to take him........Might try Peter Robinson next - picked another one up today...........

16/02/2007

I have started an online game from Penguin books called Malice Box Quest - it is based around a book which is to be released shortly. It is great fun but taking up a huge amount of time.............

14/02/2007

Now I am a big Agatha Chrisie fan - I have different favourites according to my mood as I do reread them!! Death on the Nile I think is one - I had to buy another copy of it to read while I was cruising down the Nile in 4 star luxury when I was backpacking 12 years ago. ( Got it very cheap - no tourists about that year - it was a 'terrorist year') The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is another that is excellent - Dumb Witness - & the Middle Eastern Ones - Murder in Mesopotamia ( which is reputedly about a real person she couldn't stand) .....* It being the Nile cruise - actually the book probably cost more than the cruise! (not quite).

On the other hand The Clocks is not one of her best, and the worst by far is Destination Unknown – aptly named, it appears to go nowhere - it is most peculiar - seems to finish in the middle. Don't read it!Think I'm going to try Peter Robinson.

13/2/07

I'm reading Hard Times - Sara Paretsky.....Not many of hers left to read either now.