What are you reading just now?

[numberplease]

GG, I loved The Snowman! Am now reading Nine Dragons, by Michael Connelly, hoping to enjoy it more than Bill did, but too soon to say yet, only started it this morning.

[bill]

I'm afraid it wasn't just me numberplease ,as you can see by the comment from WC

Don't touch 'Nine Dragons' with a barge pole. A rare dud from this author.

Just finished my first Gus Dury novel "Gutted",from Scottish author Tony Black.Gus Dury is a washed up heavy drinking investigative journalist who inhabits the sink estates of Edinburgh.While still carrying a torch for his ex-wife,he gets involved in a murder which the local corrupt CID have him down as the guilty party.

[numberplease]

There must be something wrong with me, cos I LIKED Nine Dragons! I`ve just started Lee Childs 61 Hours, promising beginning, although I seem to remember someone not liking it.

[Ags]

Numberplease I liked Nine Dragons too but it was the first Michael Connolly I had ever read. I also had fancied reading The Snowman but not liking GWTDT had put me off buying it! Will look out for it again though.
Due to a bit of a nightmare of a holiday, I didn't get through even half of the books I carted with me and intended to read. Worth Dying For was great, and as Bill said, "Jack Reacher back at what he does best, killing the bad guys" I also read The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner. I didn't enjoy it just as much as some of her others but it was still a good plot with a few twists. I then got half way through The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coello, but can't seem to find it since coming home
My next read is going to be "Have a little faith" by Mitch Albom. Not too sure about the synopsis but I loved The 5 people you meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie so will have a go!

[bill]

Don't Blink is one of the latest from the conveyer belt that is James Patterson.Co-written with Howard Roughan it is a roller coaster of a story line,as investigative journalist Nick Daniels is targeted by mob hitmen for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Or was he?

[numberplease]

Another for me to look out for Bill. I`m really enjoying 61 Hours, but the front cover is making me feel very cold!

[Govangirl]

Numberplease I liked Nine Dragons too but it was the first Michael Connolly I had ever read. I also had fancied reading The Snowman but not liking GWTDT had put me off buying it! Will look out for it again though . . .
My next read is going to be "Have a little faith" by Mitch Albom. Not too sure about the synopsis but I loved The 5 people you meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie so will have a go!

Ags, I'll send you The Snowman this week if you haven't got it. I just started Have a Little Faith myself yesterday and it will be a quick read.

For our Book Group I've just finished Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes (this was because most of us are SO enjoying his TV series: Downton Abbey which is fabulous) and it has been the best read for me in a long time. It was a great insight into the upper class and the human condition. I was sorry to finish it and unlike many of the books I've read lately, it was a very nourishing read with a great plot and very memorable characters.

After I've finished the Albom book, I'm giving the Caro Ramsay book, Absolution, a go despite it not being my genre but hey, she's frae Govan!

[numberplease]

Loved my latest dose of Jack Reacher in 61 Hours. Have just finished Swimsuit, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, liked it, but not overmuch. Haven`t started my next read yet, but it`ll be Dead Like You, by Peter James.

[bill]

When She was Bad by Jonathan Nasaw is a "skin crawling pysco-thriller that combines heinous murders with a hefty dose of sexual deviance",so said the reviewer from The Daily Record.I enjoyed it.

I am now half way through John Grisham's latest,The Confession.Looks like he is back on form.

[numberplease]

[quote="bill"]Don't Blink is one of the latest from the conveyer belt that is James Patterson.Co-written with Howard Roughan it is a roller coaster of a story line,as investigative journalist Nick Daniels is targeted by mob hitmen for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Or was he?[/quote]


Bill, I`ve just read the first few pages of Don`t Blink at the end of Swimsuit, and my appetite has been whetted!

[Ags]

GG many thanks but I ordered The Snowman yesterday, probably about the same time as you offered to send it. This is our next bookclub title. I started "Have a little faith" yesterday and am about a third of the way through it. I like Mitch Albom's style and it is very easy reading. I think my poor Mother was slightly "worried" about me when she saw the title though
I have also just finished "Don't Blink" and enjoyed it much more than some of the recent James Patterson titles. I ordered "Postcard killers" yesterday too after reading the first chapter at the end of Don't Blink.
Mrs A lent me the Julian Fellowes title a few weeks ago but I haven't got round to picking it up it yet. I wasn't sure if it was my kind of read though I know Mrs A loved it.

[numberplease]

I`m liking Dead Like You, but still not very far into it.

[bill]

Glad to say that John Grisham is back on form with his latest release,The Confession.

[numberplease]

Loved Dead Like You, by Peter James, Det. Superintendant Roy Grace in his usual form. Have just started Alex Cross`s Trial, by James Patterson and Richard Dillallo. Apart from keep having to remind myself that it`s taking place in 1906, I`m really enjoying it, it hnarks back to the days of suppression of the American negroes and the Klu Klux Klan.

[Isa]

I picked up Tess Gerritsen's Keeper of the Bride. After a few pages I thought it must get better than this but gave up half way through. Rubbish. Waste of £4.49