Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs

I read this August 2012
Why: because I saw it at a charity event and thought it would be a good bedtime read.  Also I really like the television series Bones...great slick American junk TV...
The plot: Quite a complicated who's body is this plot. A body turns up drowned  and fingerprints reveal it is a man who was declared dead in the Vietnam war.
The scenes move across America and land up in Hawaii, the plot invoves Brennan and her family as well as colleagues, gang members etc...
I thought it would be a good bedtime read and it was...light and entertaining as well as a dead body or two or three...

5/10
Are you a Bones/Reichs fan?
Tell me what you like about it.
Helen

Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

I read this: August 2012
Why: It had been proposed a few times at my book club and nearly made it to being chosen, but not quite.  I found my copy in a charity shop and thought I would buy it.
Plot: Turned out to be a detective story(ex policeman)  - which I wasn't really expecting, but did really enjoy.
The plot has lots of interconnecting characters and leads off in all sorts of directions, which makes it every interesting & enjoyable to read.
A good book for bedtime reading...
7/10
Have you read this or any of her others?
Helen

White Fang by Jack London

I read this August 2012
Why: because I had read and enjoyed Call of the Wild and it was a free download on my smartphone...
This again is written from the point of view of the wolf/part dog.  I enjoyed the realism and the way the author takes us into the mind of a feral animal.
Thoroughly enjoyable
9/10
Have you read it?
Let me know what you think of it
Helen

Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

I read this : July 2012
Why: I had previously read Rivers of London
The next in the DC Peter Grant series.  I really enjoyed ROL and this was a really good follow-up. ROL had an underlying story which unfolded gradually throughout the book.  This is more straightforward? is that the word, probably not when you are talking of a book like this.
It involves crime solving, magic and mythical beings... if you don't like that sort of thing you won't like this... I do and I did...
I give this 9/10 just the sort of book I like.
Have you read this book?
What did you think of it?
Helen

The Photograph by Penelope Lively

I read this July 2012
I had read another PL book (borrowed from Rosie from Creative Writing Group) and surprised myself, as I really enjoyed it but would never had picked it up.  So thanks Rosie for recommending it.

Anyway back to The Photograph - well I enjoyed this as well, more I think in fact.  The chapters are quite short and self contained, being from different people's perspectives - so an ideal bedtime read.
The polt centres round the discovery of a photograph and the consequent fall out. 

Well written, entertaining and a complusive 'must find out what happens' read.

8/10
Have you read this book?
Or any others by PL?
Let me know what you think

Helen

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba

I read this July 2012
It is the August bopok for waterstones Book Club Bury St Edmunds.
What I thought of it..
Well there are many fors and againsts re actually wanting to start this book in the first place
Fors: I'm interested in the subject matter, I wanted to find out why Edward (David) felt he had to abdicate the throne, what the relationship was with the Nazi party, what Wallis was really like; seen through the eyes of subsequent history.
Againsts: I really don't like biographies, too linear, too full of dates, too much name dropping, too much background, and a slanted view..

Well I gave it a go, I didn't enjoy it, I found it tedious and boring and full of things I didn't really want to know about and not enough of things I did want to know about.
I look forward to hearing what the others at book club felt about it...
2/10
Hav you read it ?
let me know what you think of it.
Helen

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

I read this July 2012
World Book Night 2012 book.
I grabbed this on WBN as the teenagers were all going for it and I managed to chat to a few of them about it.
I really enjoyed this book.  About a Vampire and followers/blood gatherers.
The title is based on the legend that vamoires cannot cross a threshold without being invited in.
Gripping from the start - what more can you ask for in this genre?
An excellent 'cast' of characters
9/10
Helen