Thanks for that link, Lex. Not sure I should have read it though when just starting the book?

Not sure either, but you may well be right: I think that perhaps he expanded the tale after the success of the film.

Currently immersed in the Joona Linna series by Lars Kepler (aka Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril) - excellent Scandi noir, apparently prompted by Stieg Larsson's books

Just finished Sarah Goodwin's book called Stranded. It's about a reality TV show that sends 8 people to an island off the coast of Scotland for one year. They can bring as much with them as they want like tools & freeze dried food, after that they must forage for food. They must build shelter & look for clean water & set up camp for the year. At the end of the year a boat will come to collect them, what could go wrong, well survivor meets lord of the flies. Eight arrive, how many will make it off. For me, this was a page turner, I loved it. It is 398 pages & Amazon.ca has it for .99c. for Kindle. I am now starting Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, so far it looks good.

It sounds like a good one, Judith.

I finished Kathy Reich's suspenseful 21st Temperance Brennan mystery, Cold, Cold Bones, in which someone is copying Tempe's past cases, and I've just started Reich's latest, The Bone Hacker.

I also read two very good but very different fantasy duologies. One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, written by Rachel Gillig, tell the story of the mist-locked kingdom of Blunder. The main character is a young woman with a secret that she must hide at all costs because she has a spirit, which she calls the Nightmare, trapped in her head. He has protected her and kept her secrets, but unregulated magic is not allowed in the kingdom. When two highwaymen attack her, the Nightmare helps her but at a price.

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, is a fun story about Viv the orc who decides to retire and open a coffee shop. Viv is tough but likeable, and she attracks a bunch of friends who can help her dream come true, despite some major setbacks. The prequel, Bookshops & Bonedust, which should be read second, tells of a pause in Viv's earlier life because of an injury. Murk, the small town in which she recovers, seems very far from her previous job of hunting an evil necromancer, but adventure may be closer than she thinks.

I'm reading the first volume of the You series. It's very twisted. Definitely R-rated. A modern-day American Psycho. I can see that the series was true to the spirit of the novel.

I'll be starting The Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman tomorrow. I think it's #23 in the series.

I haven't kept up with Faye Kellerman's books since the first seven, Oldbroad, and didn't realize how far behind I've gotten.

I am starting my third read of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The first two reads were decades ago and I recently saw the 1995 movie, which made me want to read the novel again.

Just finished reading Watchers by Dean Koontz. I bought this in hard cover when it first came out & read it once & filed it in my book shelves. I decided to buy it for my kindle a while back & just started reading it a couple of day ago. Having only read it once when it first came out, it was like a new book for me. In my opinion this is Dean Koontz's best book. That dog had me laughing out loud when he spelled out " Home is where the weenies are". Has anyone here read this book?

I've read it but way too long ago to remember it. I once went to a flea market and picked up about 20 of his books. I have them all up until the last 5 years or so.

I read this one a very long time ago. I remember it being so good I stayed up all night reading it!

Good haul there, oldbroad!

I have read Watchers and about a dozen others of Dean Koontz. I enjoyed it very much.

He has a new book coming out next week that sounds interesting and fun.

Watcher is a good one, and Koontz's canines appear in some of his other books as well. I'm also very fond of his Odd Thomas series.

Koontz's tales have something for everyone, including some great humour in amongst the macabre!

I recently read a locked room murder mystery called Guess Who by Chris McGeorge. Although I found the main character, a celebrity who solves cases on tv, a bit whiny and difficult to like at first, the story is suspenseful and plotted well. I did start to figure some things out, but the ending was a surprise.

I also finished the first two of the very well-written Green Creek books by T. J. Klune. The first one, Wolfsong, is narrated by Oxnard "Ox" Mattheson, a boy whose drunken and angry father always told him he was dumb and worthless before he left. When the Bennetts, a family of shape shifters, return to the house next door, the youngest boy, Joe, becomes Ox's friend. When violence splits the pack, Ox stays behind to defend those who remain behind.

The second book, Ravensong, is told by the Bennett's witch, Gordo, who owns a car repair business in town. The reader gets a different and more complete perspective of previous events that led to Gordo leaving the Bennetts, but Ox and the pack need him to defend against enemies that want to wipe them from the earth.

I'm looking forward to the next two books, Heartsong and Brothersong, very much.

Last night I started Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini, and I'm already chomping at the bit to continue. Like his To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, a survey ship discovers an anomaly on an uninhabited planet. It's a pit 50 kilometers wide and so perfect that it can only be created by design. When I closed the book last night, the crew was arguing about whether or not to investigate or to just report what they found, but I know there wouldn't be much of a story if they didn't check it out.

LadyK I also much enjoyed those two books by T J Klune, but that was enough of the storyline for me at that time: I will be interested to hear in due course what you think of the later books in the series.

Christopher Paolini sounds like an author for me to try.

I've just started reading the Shetland series, by Ann Cleeves. The TV adaptation was excellent, for those who have not watched it.

I finished Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini, and I have to admit I was a bit disappointed with it because it deals more with the psychology of the team investigating the planet's anomalies than revealing its secrets. The interior life of the narrator, a xenobiologist dealing with his grief over the death of a loved one, is the main thrust of the story, and the increasingly punishing conditions on the planet affect each of the four team members differently. At the end, there is a resolution of sorts, so it's not a cliff hanger. I just was left feeling that this is a precursor to a larger story where some of my questions will be answered.

I just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and am now reading The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz.

Thanks for that, LadyK. I was toying with Fractal Noise because I like Christopher Paolini. Sounds like I would feel the same about it.

I'm not sorry I read it, Drac, because there were some good bits, too, but I just wanted more.

Just started Frankenstein, which has been on my reading list for ages but is something I have never gotten around to reading. Am looking forward to it.

The original Frankenstein? Excellent stuff!

Yes, I enjoyed Frankenstein too!

The original indeed
Given that Mary Shelley is credited in some quarters with starting the science fiction genre, which is at least 50% of my reading material, I feel almost embarrassed to admit I have never read it.