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Originally Posted by DrNefario
And finally, only just making it into August, I finished Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler on the first of the month. This is the first Bryant & May/Peculiar Crimes book. It won a British Fantasy Society award, and is covered in quotes saying how hilarious it is. I have to say I didn't find it very fantastical - it hints at the supernatural - or very funny - there is some mild absurdity - but I did enjoy it as a crime novel. It's a murder mystery set in a theatre in London during the Blitz in WW2. I already have the second in the series, and I'm looking forward to it.
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I'm trying to read this right now and I've put it aside for the second time. I'm don't know if I'm not in the right mood for it or if the formatting is the problem (for some reason it has huge margins I can't override on my eReader and I'm too lazy to reformat the file), but it's not grabbing me. I agree that it isn't funny or fantastical. I gave up again last night at 14% and started
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie.
For the past couple of weeks I've been reading mostly Kindle Unlimited books, first the 5th in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths,
A Dying Fall. I've enjoyed this series very much.
Then I read a couple of short stories,
The Book Case by Nelson DeMille and
The Apex Predator by Micheal Koryta. Both were great.
I gave Lord Peter Wimsey one more try with
Unnatural Death, but he really annoys me. Dorothy Sayers isn't my cup of tea even though many others love her writing and that's my favourite genre.
I liked the first cozy mystery by Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins featuring the golfer Lee Ofsted,
A Wicked Slice, enough to read all 5 of the series.
I gave up quickly on
McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders, the chauvinistic attitude in the first few pages turned me off.
I started
The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall and it's good so far.
I also bought some Whispersync for Voice audiobooks cheaply after borrowing the ebook for that purpose (Hugh Howey's
Molly Fyde and
Sand, Marcus Sakey's second in the Brilliance Saga).
There are only a few more on my wishlist so I'm not sure I'll keep the subscription much longer unless they bring one or more of the Big 5 publishers on board.