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Crime and mystery fiction
Maxine
Australian publisher launches e-book list - http://www.smh.com.au/enterta...
Probaby you know this already Bernadette and Kerrie, but if not, looks OK price-wise. New & backlist titles. (pan macmilan) - Maxine from Bookmarklet
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A Classics Challenge – February Prompt: Character - http://www.booksplease.org/2012...
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Review: THE COLD COLD GROUND, Adrian McKinty - http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2012...
I. want. This. book. :-) - Margot Kinberg
By giving up wine and book buying I will have saved enough for a Kitchin/McKinty/Burke inspired trip to Dublin in May which I will celebrate by buying Cold, Cold Ground, The Rule Book and Code/Space. I was quite proud when I held my nerve and even resisted buying Cold when it was 99p or whatever on Kindle! - mediations
You are an inspiration to us, Phililp. - Margot Kinberg
Given the state of my bookshelves and "wine backlog" (one high the other nonexistent) I would have found the wine much harder to give up than the book buying. An inspiration indeed! Looking forward to reading about the Ireland trip.(You might consider adding in Bloodland by Alan Glynn if you haven't already got it pre-ban.) - Maxine
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NIGHT ROUNDS – Helene Tursten - http://murderbytype.wordpress.com/2012...
Still waiting for this one in the UK. - Maxine
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Book review: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino - http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2012...
I preferred it to BIGTS, agree about the translation. - Karen Meek
I've just read a US edition of an English book - all the very English stuff is left in but about 3 words have had their spelling changed (eg centre to center). I wonder why publishers bother at this level? Suspect X, like all the other Japansese crime fiction I've read, is transferred into an "Americanised Japan". One gets a very different experience from reading trns Euro and S Amer fiction, where efforts have been made to preserve local nuances. - Maxine
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Age is a state of mind
If that's true I am 105 today - Bernadette
Funny, I felt about 16 when I was fencing, and about 90 two days later when the body ache set in! - Vanda Symon
I'm sure it was worth the aches and pains though Vanda...I competed in swimming for the masters games a few years ago and loved it....one of these years I will get back into the pool and do it again. - Bernadette
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A Walk in the Dark, by Gianrico Carofiglio - http://www.crimesegments.com/2012...
A Walk in the Dark, by Gianrico Carofiglio
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Puerto Vallarta noir: Lisa Brackmann's Getaway - http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2012...
Puerto Vallarta noir: Lisa Brackmann's Getaway
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Government Plans to Change the Regulations on Copying of Copyright Materials for Educational Purposes - http://itsacrimeuk.wordpress.com/2012...
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Getting Access to Audiobooks - http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2012...
Aplogies if this is reads like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs! - Karen Meek
Not at all. Interesting post. Libraries are a wonderful resource. - Sarah Ward
Indeed.& with e - the Penguin/Overdrive thing. Penguin now make borrowers download the book to their computer and then to the reader. The post http://www.pcworld.com/article... (via bookbrunch) is about how silly that was (& will encourage piracy) but made the point that actually the hardest thing is to borrow the ebook in the first place as usually all "checked out". - Maxine
Our library has just started offering books via overdrive but I gave up - most titles I am mildly interested in (very mainstream thrillers) are checked out (seemingly forever) and the only available ones are self help crap and several biographises of C-grade sporting "stars", the eBook offerings were of similar quality. I don't know what it's cost them to offer the service but I suspect they'd have been better off putting that money into the traditional book buying budget. - Bernadette
Maxine
More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada by Jenny Williams – review | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
Brief review but fascinating to read it. - Maxine from Bookmarklet
I have just read the first hundred pages of Alone in Berlin, and it is very good. - mediations
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Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me When I’m 64?* - http://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/2012...
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The place to be in NZ this Sunday: Hamilton - http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2012...
The place to be in NZ this Sunday: Hamilton
Oh, I've thoroughly enjoyed my trips to Hamilton! I hope the event goes really well! - Margot Kinberg
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mediations
I have just set up a bookish Twitter account, @2BeRead. Unless you enjoy the rather odd mixture of crime fiction and academic PR at @mediations, this might be the less irritating one to follow... Maybe people could add their Twitter names here - I follow quite a few C&MFers but will have missed some.
I'm @sarahrward1 - am about to follow @2BeRead - Sarah Ward
I'm @mkinberg - am following @2BeRead now :-). - Margot Kinberg
@eurocrime, now following @2BeRead too :). - Karen Meek
@Petrona_ I already follow mediations as you are very good and don't tweet more than my bearable minimum a day ;-) I'll follow 2beread but not sure from what you write as if there will be overlap between the two or if they are different (eg my account @Natureauthors is different content unless I make a mistake which I sometimes do!). - Maxine
Maxine, I am going to use @mediations more for work things and @2BeRead for real life (books!) though there will be an overlap for a little while - mediations
@jiescribano now following you @2BeRead - Jose Ignacio
OK, thanks Philip, am now following both accounts. - Maxine
Both my personalities are now following you @BSquaredInOz (for a bit of everything, mostly book related) and @FairDinkumCrime (for things relating to Aust Crime fiction) - there is occasional cross over between the two accounts but not often. And at the moment both accounts are very quiet as whenever I am extra busy twitter is the first thing that goes - Bernadette
I'm @robkitchin I've only been doing this twitter thing for two weeks. Like you I probably have a weird mix of academic and crime stuff. I'm not going to split though. I can cope with two blogs, but draw the line at two twitter, two facebook etc. - Rob
I´m @DorteHJ, but I think most of you follow me already. - Dorte Jakobsen
I think I should be now following both of Philip's accounts from @crimescraps. - Norman
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case: Happy Valentine's Day - http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2012...
The Poisoned Chocolates Case: Happy Valentine's Day
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Rounding Up the Reviews, from Yuck to Yay! - http://scandinaviancrimefictio...
I just love that Inde standfirst (or dek as it seems to be called in the US, thanks Barbara!) - "When you can't sink any lower, there's always the basement". Great put-down. I also respect Susan Balee's insight into Jo Nesbo - it is nice to see the "noes" so well articulated & thought-through. Her point about colonialism for example (as well as the detailed VaW - violence against women- point). - Maxine
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Before I Go To Sleep - http://doyouwriteunderyourownn...
Actually it was more Bernadette than me who pointed out the plot flaws (and that Amazon review I linked to in my review, which skewered the book well, but provided necessary spoilers in so doing). I've made a comment at Martin's blog which probably won't appear until later on - essentially I think it is a readable book while you are reading it, as you want to find out what happens, but after you have finished (and/or when you get to the "twist") you realise there are lots of things wrong with it, big and small. These errors are all ignorable, if you want to ignore them, hence the success of the book I suppose. - Maxine
I think the problem with some books is that we are given such high expectations from reading the blurbs that the actual book is bound to be a disappointment. - Norman
Good point, Norman. That's why I am always more cautious about books that have gotten a lot of "hype." - Margot Kinberg
I liken my experience of reading this book to seeing the film THE SIXTH SENSE - as with that movie I guessed/worked out the big twist very early on and spent the rest of the time seeing all the glaring plot holes and wondering why no one else did. As I'm not that smart when it comes to working out such puzzles this only happens to me rarely so I guess it annoys me more when it does - it pays to be clueless :) - Bernadette
Me too re Sixth Sense. - Karen Meek
At least one expects films to be relatively mindless ;-) Books,now, one hopes for a bit more than the non-"twist" that was the "twist" ending of this book. That's the main reason why I don't get people liking it so much, as it wasn't even a twist. - Maxine
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Teaser Tuesday – Testament of Youth - http://www.booksplease.org/2012...
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Review of When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson (1975) - http://theviewfromthebluehouse...
Review of When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson (1975)
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Review: THE COLD COLD GROUND, Adrian McKinty - http://fairdinkumcrime.com/2012...
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Didn’t We Almost Have it All?* - http://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/2012...
have had a very busy few days - no reading and hardly any blog-visiting done so am just catching up - your posts are always excellent Margot but this one doubly so - very thoughful and a nice tribute too - Bernadette
That's so very kind of you, Bernadette *blush*. Thanks. And thanks for your thoughtful comment at the blog. - Margot Kinberg
Nice to see you back, Bernadette! - Maxine
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Thoughts on Questions and Answers with Jill Edmondson (The Lies Have It) - http://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2012...
Thoughts on Questions and Answers with Jill Edmondson (The Lies Have It)
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In The Spotlight: Margery Allingham’s The Crime at Black Dudley - http://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/2012...
Maxine
Just to let you know I've been recommended a book: Desert Wives: Lena Jones Mystery Series, Book 2 (Lena Jones Series) by Betty Webb [Kindle Edition]
(cont) by Ken Mahieu, who comments sometimes at my blog. I looked on Amazon and it is 77p on Kindle. It may also be cheap on US amazon too, can't see the price from the UK. He writes: "What attracted me to this novel was its emphasis on a region I particularly enjoy visiting for sightseeing, hiking, etc. as well as because of a comment in the NYT review of this book: "If Betty Webb.....had written Desert Wives as a piece of investigative journalism she'd probably be up for a Pulitzer." As a crime novel, the story is only fair to good at best, nothing outstanding. But, DW is a lot more than that. Overall, I rated it 4 stars. " About the Mormon religion etc. - Maxine
Thanks, Maxine! US$0.99 on Amazon U.S. :-). Sorry, TBR....... ;-) - Margot Kinberg
That was one of the books that was offered v cheap in ebook format by Poisoned Pen Press recently - it was the only one that looked interesting to me from the blurb so I bought it - have not (as yet) read it - Bernadette
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