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#16 No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
#17 Gone For Good - Harlan Coben
#18 Tell No One - Harlan Coben
#19 Hold Tight - Harlan Coben

Thoroughly enjoyed my re-reads of these. It's been long enough since I last read them that I could only remember the barest details of the plot, so it was just like reading something new. I have three left to go and then I might just go on to re-read his Myron Bolitar series, too.

#20 The Bombmaker - Stephen Leather

I really shouldn't enjoy Leather's novels, being firmly in the territory of Fredick Forsyth and Tom Clancy as they are. Not my genre at all, normally. But every time I've picked one up at a charity store I've really enjoyed it. This tale of a retired IRA bombmaker forced back into service when her young daughter is kidnapped was no exception.

#21 The Woods - Harlan Coben


LabRat

11. Sphere - Michael Crichton

I was expecting a bit more of a scifi novel than a character thriller, but it still moved quickly.

#6 "Tropic of Creation" by Kay Kenyon. Not a bad book, it just never really grabbed me. The author does a nice job creating a new race.

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

This is a beautiful book about a house mistress that everyone overlooks -- yet her mind and her heart are full of wonderful things. Very eloquent story!

13. "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan
14. "Sleeping with Fear" by Kay Hooper
15. "World Without End" by Ken Follett
16. "Out of the Dark" by David Weber

#7 MiniShopaholic by Sophis Kinsella

I wanted something light since most of my reading these days is a few minutes in the car while waiting for kids. The reviews claimed it was funny. It wasn't. The lead character was shallow and selfish. I kept waiting for her to fall on her face and she never did.

17. "The Secret Supper" by Javier Sierra
(The DaVinci Code, but set in the time of DaVinci.)

I've read a few books this year, but don't have my Kindle (which I got last November) with me, so I can't list them at the moment. I know I'm behind though; I've been doing more knitting than reading. Unless you count the Washington Post, that is.

Aha! Here we go.

1. Checkmate - A Beginner's Guide to Chess by Adam Stryvnski
2. Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
3. The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch and Lee Chadeayne

I'm on a bit of a re-read kick right now. I have a shelf full of brand new books from some of my favourite authors, but I'm trying to save them for my Super Special Vacation at the end of May. So I've been trawling my book shelves instead.

#22 The Innocent - Harlan Coben
#23 Just One Look - Harlan Coben
#24 4th of July - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
#25 The Beach House - James Patterson & Peter De Jonge]
(I reiterate my suspicion that these two are written in great part by the secondary authors because I enjoyed them and JP isn't an author I normally rate that highly )

#26 Labryinth - Kate Mosse
#27 Stealing Shadows - Kay Hooper
#28 Blood Dreams - Kay Hooper
#29 The Last Innocent Man - Philip Margolin
#30 Gone, But Not Forgotten - Philip Margolin

and, last but definitely not least (not a re-read):

#31 Troll Fell
#32 Troll Mill
#33 Troll Blood

All by Katherine Langrish.

I loved this children's fantasy trilogy. I did have serious reservations about some of the themes in book two - the villains and heroes of the piece seemed to be completely reversed imo and the crimes in question seemed to be completely glossed over. But I can overlook that because that tends to be the nature of fairy tales anyway.

These were full of wonderful characters, particularly the non-human ones. The marvellously malicious Granny Greenteeth, the sly but dumb as two short planks lubbers and, my favourite the wonderful Nis. Laugh out loud funny at times and full of adventure and spooky goings on.

LabRat

#8 The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Wow - what a fabulous book. Set in the South in the 1960s, a white woman secretly interviews black maids.

Oh yes - I loved that book! Such wonderful characters.

c.

#9 "The Mountain Between Us" by Charles Martin

A small plane crashes in the wilderness in the middle of winter. How do the two survivors make it back to civilization?

Joan

18. "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith
19. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

I read "The Help" too and LOVED it!!

It was so good I find I'm having trouble getting into a new book

#10 The Little Stranger by Sara Waters

Story about the decline of an English family. I kept thinking it was going to get better, but it never did.

Still enjoying revisiting old favourites:

All by Harlan Coben:

#34 Deal Breaker
#35 Drop Shot
#36 Fade Away
#37 One False Move
#38 Long Lost
#39 Promise Me
#40 Darkest Fear
#41 The Final Detail
#42 Back Spin

#43 Chasing the Dime - Michael Connolly
#44 The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connolly
#45 The Poet - Michael Connolly
#46 Blood Work - Michael Connolly

LabRat

#11 A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrad

Not quite what I was expecting. Interesting characters. The ending was a bit rushed.

#20 "The Dead Girls' Dance" - book 2 of Morganville Vampires - by Rachel Caine

#21 "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyers...AGAIN!!!

Hello guys,

It seems Labrat that you're going to finish your 50 book challenge easily, we are not even at the half of the year !
I was not reading much except for the L&C fics, always a fan, but last week a friend lent me "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer and it makes me want to read again, so this is my list for now :

#1 The Host - Stephenie Meyer
I like it. We're following a woman Melanie Stryder who has been captured by some parasites who had taken the complete control of Earth by inserting themselves in humans. One of them, Wanderer, was inserted in Melanie ans so she fought not to disappear and to have her life back.
There is love too, but the story is far more mature than Twilight ! You have a good time if you want to unwind.

#2 Hush Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Boring and uninteresting.

#3 La fille de papier (Girl on paper) - Guillaume Musso
He is a French author, he writes most of the time romantic novel, the encounter of a man and a woman who may find love along the way or not.

"« She appeared on my terrace on a stormy night, soaking wet and stark naked:
-Where did you come from?
-I fell...
-Fell out of what?
-Fell out of your book. You know, out of your story!»"
In this story, Tom Boyd, a famous writer who’s suffering from writer’s block, meets the heroine of his novels. Billie, the girl on paper is in danger, if Tom stops writing she may die. An incredible story, impossible ... but what if ?

#4 Guilty Pleasures, the fist adventure of Anita BLake) - Laurell K. Hamilton
Nice, but I'm not enough interested in to continue the series.

#5 The laughing corpse (T2) - Laurell K. Hamilton
I read this one, because the book I bought, was composed of the two stories.

#6 Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
Amazing, love it ! The main character is a swordsman, Richard St-Vier, who earns his life with murder contracts. Always wise ans cautious with his business, he is nevertheless going to be intertwined in the nobility's political, social ans sexual intrigue.
Kushner is an amazing writer, this world she introduced us in, depicts perfectly the versatility of men and women.