18/04/2007

And here it is! The list for your delectation & assassination! bearing in mind I had to chose stuff that was in print and get it to add up to £50 ...

1 Bernard Cornwell – Crackdown 9780140177251 £7.99
2 Chris Kuzneski – Sign of the Cross 9780141030845 £6.99
3 Mark Twain – Can Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash 9780141025568 £4.99
4 Nick Stone – Mr Clarinet 9780141021089 £6.99
5 Charles Cumming - The Hidden Man 9780140294774 £7.99
6 P G Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves 9780140284096 £6.99
7 Janet Evanovich – One for the money 9780140252927 £7.99

Second Choices:
1 Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey 9780140621082 £1.99
2 Janet Evanovich – Two for the Dough 9780140255553 £7.99
3 P G Wodehouse - Money For Nothing9780140124552 £6.99
4 Charles Cumming - The Spanish Game 9780141017839 £7.99
5 P G Wodehouse - Cocktail time 9780140085051 £.699

15/04/2007

And rather suprisingly I have today received an email telling me I have won £50 worth of penguin books in the Malice Box Quest game!!! I guess another prize winner must have dropped out or not responded or something! Have to email with a choice of books by the 20th......ooo err - this is exciting!!!

I have to choose from anything on the Penguin website - so I presume stuff that is in print! To the value of £50!!!Haven't looked yet - saving it for later!!!

03/04/2007

Well now - in the last week I have read: S is for Silence - Sue Grafton - probably her best yet. Jean Potts - Death of a Stray Cat - Pamela Branch - Lion in the Cellar (old green penguins - luvverly) - Nicholas Blake - The Whisper in the Gloom - and am currently rereading a Dick Francis - Wild Horses.Strangely no one seems to buy or read Dick Francis now - I sometimes have a Dick Francis fest and hide in a corner for 10 days and read nearly all of them back to back. I do this with Margery Allingham too.

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...........