What Am I Reading Wednesday
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scripsiI’m going to stop telling you what I’m currently reading and what I will be reading next. I always read several books at the same time and put them down and pick them up later and if I find it boring to write down the same books I’m reading every week, then I guess you think so too. And I don’t really plan ahead that much.
I don’t have much patience for hard reads right now, as you may have noticed.
So; What I have finished reading Deadlight Hall, another of Sarah Rayne’s supernatural books. An old man wants to know what he really saw when he, as a small boy during WWII was sick at Deadlight Hall. The same night his best friends disappeared, twin girl with a telepathic girl. But pretty quickly it evolves that children have disappeared from the house as far back as the 19th century. And who is the shadow who shuffles around the house, calling for the children? Rayne do write after a formula and this fulfill most of her true and tried tricks. It was still one of the better ones.
The Colony by F. G. Cottham. New writer to me and another supernatural thriller that goes back in history. Yes, I enjoy those. This one if about the mysterious disappearance of a small religious group from a Scottish island in the early 19th century. A media mogul get his hands on a movie reel from the 1930’s that depicts a little ghost girl on the island, taken by a man who later kills himself. As mystery goes this was a rather exciting story, but the cast is HUGE. We have the media mogul, an ex-cop, an ex-military man, a psychic, three scientists, two journalist, a daughter and a professor. Apart from assorted ghosts and people from the past and some less than important characters. All told from about ten POV’s. Added that this is just released on Kindle and the format is odd, paragraphs and new sections looks the same so at times you realise a bit too late that the “he” in the paragraph you are reading isn’t the same “he” as in the previous one…
What I have been watching We have finished Dig which was a bit of conspiracy theory meets Indiana Jones, but over all quite fun. And Jason Isaacs took of his shirt in almost all of the episodes. We’ve also reached “Hide” in DW.
Still meh about True Detectives and still eeep about Hannibal. Evidently the producer (director?) is going to do Neil Gaiman’s American Gods which makes me even more excited about it. American Gods being one of my favourite books.
Kid and I have just watched “Time and the Rani”, which is Seven’s first episode. Seven is the Doctor I have seen the least of, and this episode is one of those I haven’t seen before. It will be fun to see so many “new” episodes.
I don’t have much patience for hard reads right now, as you may have noticed.
So; What I have finished reading Deadlight Hall, another of Sarah Rayne’s supernatural books. An old man wants to know what he really saw when he, as a small boy during WWII was sick at Deadlight Hall. The same night his best friends disappeared, twin girl with a telepathic girl. But pretty quickly it evolves that children have disappeared from the house as far back as the 19th century. And who is the shadow who shuffles around the house, calling for the children? Rayne do write after a formula and this fulfill most of her true and tried tricks. It was still one of the better ones.
The Colony by F. G. Cottham. New writer to me and another supernatural thriller that goes back in history. Yes, I enjoy those. This one if about the mysterious disappearance of a small religious group from a Scottish island in the early 19th century. A media mogul get his hands on a movie reel from the 1930’s that depicts a little ghost girl on the island, taken by a man who later kills himself. As mystery goes this was a rather exciting story, but the cast is HUGE. We have the media mogul, an ex-cop, an ex-military man, a psychic, three scientists, two journalist, a daughter and a professor. Apart from assorted ghosts and people from the past and some less than important characters. All told from about ten POV’s. Added that this is just released on Kindle and the format is odd, paragraphs and new sections looks the same so at times you realise a bit too late that the “he” in the paragraph you are reading isn’t the same “he” as in the previous one…
What I have been watching We have finished Dig which was a bit of conspiracy theory meets Indiana Jones, but over all quite fun. And Jason Isaacs took of his shirt in almost all of the episodes. We’ve also reached “Hide” in DW.
Still meh about True Detectives and still eeep about Hannibal. Evidently the producer (director?) is going to do Neil Gaiman’s American Gods which makes me even more excited about it. American Gods being one of my favourite books.
Kid and I have just watched “Time and the Rani”, which is Seven’s first episode. Seven is the Doctor I have seen the least of, and this episode is one of those I haven’t seen before. It will be fun to see so many “new” episodes.
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Date: 2015-07-09 06:05 am (UTC)So do I! I usually have three to five books going on my Goodreads "currently reading" list at any given time. So yeah, I mostly post about what I've finished, unless I'm just really taken with the book and want to squee about it before it's done. :D
Seven! I've seen hardly any Seven. Really must. Have I think one episode with him in it, that I've been putting off to watch during the planned Brigadier-centric watch with my wife; but since the last one we saw of that set was a Two episode, I think it may be some time. :P
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Date: 2015-07-10 07:07 am (UTC)Seven! I've seen hardly any Seven.
Me neither. When I first watched DW I lent most of it from a friend who wasn't very keen on Seven, so I only saw a smatter of episodes. So it's fun. I haven 't seen Eight either.
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Date: 2015-07-10 08:33 pm (UTC)a) the TV movie
b) the Big Finish audios
c) Night of the Doctor.
The TV movie is...kind of terrible as a Doctor Who movie, but Eight is an adorable, bouncy, amnesiac kitten. The Big Finish stuff is apparently very good, and develops him into a proper Doctor in some fascinating ways, but this is all second hand as I haven't heard much of them myself. :P And Night of the Doctor of course is great but so short!
What I would give for an Eight TV show, man...
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Date: 2015-07-11 05:35 pm (UTC)I haven't heard any Big Finish, but I'm thinking they may be a good pastime when I sew. :)
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Date: 2015-07-11 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-07-09 02:50 am (UTC)Would love to see Dig..and I have never read American Gods (I KNOW). Need to get on that!! And The Colony sounds like another good read!
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Date: 2015-07-09 05:06 am (UTC)American Gods<7i> isn't for everyone. :) I happen to adore long, slow-moving books, but husband found it incredibly boring...
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Date: 2015-07-11 07:40 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2015-07-12 03:26 pm (UTC)Have you read The Documents In the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers? I think it is facinating because the murder story is told through letters, diaries, written statements, new articles and such. And as people like and dislike different things you'll get to see the same characters described very differently depending on whose documents you are reading. Very interesting!
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Date: 2015-08-01 11:46 am (UTC)No, I haven't heard of it! It sounds pretty good, quite different indeed :)
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Date: 2015-08-01 07:43 pm (UTC)