One thing about having a virus and not being well is that I got a lot of reading done!  I normally read a lot during the holidays anyway but I did get through quite a few books.

This was my June Book Club pick and being busy I did not get it finished until I was away.  It was as good as all the other Oregon Files books are.

Another favourite author of mine is Jeffery Deaver and I have actually been to one of his Author Readings in Nottingham.  I first came across him when I saw the film “The Bone Collector” and then read the book.  I like all of his books but especially the Lincoln Rhyme ones and so this was on my TBR shelf.   It was really good and carried on the story of Lincoln and his now wife, Amelia. 

I have read a few of Karin Slaughter’s books now and enjoyed them.  This is the Will Trent series which has now been made into a series on Disney+ which I watched the first series and I was okay with.  I started to watch the second series and it really annoyed me!!!  The book didn’t though.  It was a Mother’s Day gift from Youngest.

James Rollins is another Author I have read all of the books and they are a mix of style of Indiana Jones and The Oregon Crew from Clive Cussler.  The books sort of follow on from each other and this was the latest one I had not read. 

Edward Marston is an Author I discovered a couple of years ago and his most popular books are The Railway Detective Series set at the height of the arrival of Trains as a means of transport but also death on the railways.  This book is based in the 1930’s when a young Welsh architect is in Chicago to oversee the building of a mansion but a body is found hanging from the rafters which the autorities put down to a suicide but how can that be?  He has to find the answers before he can finish the mansion and save his own life!  I have only just started this but I am sure it will be as good as his other books. 

This has been on my TBR shelf for a while and it is one of those books that I keep thinking I will read and then put it back.  I may read it next not sure.  I have seen it on quite a few Bookstagram posts and some like it and some don’t so we will have to see.

Another book that has been on the TBR shelf for a while and in fact is Book 3 in the series.  It was a Christmas present last year.  Now do I go back and read Books 1 and 2 first and then this or read this and then go back and read the first two?  Who would not like a book that is about a Bookshop and set in the war and about a much slower time of life?  I think I will go and buy Books 1 and 2 and then I have a choice!!!! 

What happens when you get a book which you think is going to be good and you like the write up about it, but when you start reading it you really don’t like it?  Do you carry on anyway or do you give up and move on to something else?  I am afraid I give up and move on, as life is too short to read bad books.

The above books is the one I am talking about.  I started reading this and by the time I got to page 50 I could not stand it any longer and gave up.  I did not like the main character, Ben Hope, he was just very annoying and the writing, in my opinion, was appalling.  Far to much description and not enough movement.  This has gone on my donation pile!

This is my current read and I have only just read the first page.  Again a present from Eldest for my Birthday.  This is an historical book based in 1588.  Giordano Bruno is sent by Queen Elizabeth I to Prague to spy on the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II but when he arrives one of the Alchemists has been murdered and Rudolf orders Giordano to find out who did it and why.  I love these historical mysteries, very much in the style of the late C J Sansom and his hero Shardlake, who has also been made into a series on Amazon.

I hope you like the books I did get to read and those that I am going to read next.  Tomorrow I will show you July’s and August’s Book Club picks before I need to show you September’s.  Happy Thursday everyone. 

Hugs & Love, Susie xx