What Are You Reading 2

[Catch-up]

Still haven't picked The Woman Who Died A Lot back up. Instead I've started The Devil in Silver by Victor Lavalle. Really good so far!

[Tonyblack]

Ahh.

Doesn't it get a tad heavy, carrying all these books over to the US?

Yes, but these days I have so much stuff already over there that I don't need to take much in the way of clothes. And even if I have to pay for an excess bag, it's still cheaper than posting it all.

[Selkie]

Finished Rivers of London and now back to Game of Thrones.

[spideyGirl]

What's Rivers of London Selkie?

[chris.ph]

its a book

[chris.ph]

its in a series by an author called ben aabromovitch.magical detective sort of thing and the three of them are v good spidey

[spideyGirl]

I'm reading The House of Silk at moment (a Sherlock Holmes story by Anthony Horowitz), not normally into detective novels (although watched all the films when I was a kid) but really enjoying it

EDIT: the weird thing is I keep visualising Watson as Jude Law and Holmes as Benedict Cumberbatch

[Quatermass]

its in a series by an author called ben aabromovitch.magical detective sort of thing and the three of them are v good spidey

And just to clarify, Ben Aaronovitch is also a noted writer for Doctor Who. He wrote the acclaimed Remembrance of the Daleks, as well as the less-acclaimed but still interesting Battlefield. He also wrote several books for the New Adventures: Transit, The Also People, and So Vile a Sin (the latter with Kate Orman).

Yo, Chris.Ph, I've asked you before, but you've never answered, would I like the Rivers of London series? I mean, having read two of his Doctor Who books, I find his output a little variable, so would I like it?

[Selkie]

*I* really enjoyed it. It's certainly better, in my opinion, than the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher which I just couldn't get in to. It's contemporary, yet has echos of tradition and the past. Would you enjoy it? I have no idea

[Quatermass]

*I* really enjoyed it. It's certainly better, in my opinion, than the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher which I just couldn't get in to. It's contemporary, yet has echos of tradition and the past. Would you enjoy it? I have no idea

Well, I've never really gotten into occult detective stuff. Oh well...

[pip]

its in a series by an author called ben aabromovitch.magical detective sort of thing and the three of them are v good spidey

And just to clarify, Ben Aaronovitch is also a noted writer for Doctor Who. He wrote the acclaimed Remembrance of the Daleks, as well as the less-acclaimed but still interesting Battlefield. He also wrote several books for the New Adventures: Transit, The Also People, and So Vile a Sin (the latter with Kate Orman).

Yo, Chris.Ph, I've asked you before, but you've never answered, would I like the Rivers of London series? I mean, having read two of his Doctor Who books, I find his output a little variable, so would I like it?

I think the Author prefers it anyway . The Doctor Who stuff paid peanuts and he worked in Waterstones to get by . The Peter Grant books are a lot better than his Doctor Who stuff by all acounts

[Who's Wee Dug]

I am a big fan of the Dresden series, maybe I should download one for my Kindle to try him out, he went down well at Fantasycon this year.

[Sjoerd3000]

Started with Johnny and the Bomb

[Who's Wee Dug]

Not a bad little book that one.

[Bouncy Castle]

I like the Dresden books, and I like the Aaronovitch books too. They're very clever, and it helps if you know the layout of London.