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A book club - with a difference.

Lotus

Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.

I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.

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  • I've been enjoying the DCI Jack Logan series by JD Kirk. They're set in Scotland and have a cast of misfits some of whom I'm fairly sure are autistic, but all the characters are likeable, apart from the gangsters and murderers. Some may find them repetitive because they're a series of over 20 books, but I like to follow the lives of these fictional people in a setting I can understand, they're often very funny too.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Thanks for this post - I hadn't heard of this series but I was looking for my next book so I downloaded the first one "A litter of Bones". I've only read 20% of it so far, but it's drawn me in. I like the dry humour, such as when DCI Logan says to a young officer "How did you get into the polis, son? Was there a raffle?”

    I didn't know that you liked this type of book. Similar ones that I can recommend are the Mr Mercedes trilogy by Stephen King (includes an autistic character) and Murder Crime On Gallymay by RR Haywood.

  • in reply to Lotus

    I love the humour too, the characters just get better and better too. i'm not sure about Stephen King, I'm not a horror fan at all and I've not got on with other stuff of his I've tried to read. But thanks

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm afraid I've had to give up on the Jack Logan series. I started reading the second one, but when the pathologist described the torture the murder victim had experienced I couldn't read any more. I'm not usually put off by killing in books, but that was horrific.

    I've now started reading Special Delivery by Rex Burke. It starts off a bit like Starship Troopers or New Model Army, then the main character disobeys an order and gets sent to a military prison, where he's offered a place on a secret mission to deliver a weapon to a far flung planet to help free it's people from the Axis - the rival Empire of the Federation. I think it's going to be a bit like some of Iain M Banks' Culture series - I'll post a proper review when I finish it.