SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Monday, 31 August 2026
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Saturday, 29 August 2026
Friday, 28 August 2026
New Book - The Hallmarked Man - Cormoran Strike 8 - by Robert Galbraith (Pages 1 - 66)
First Published: September 2, 2025
Cormoran drives to Kent to inerview a woman who wants to hire the agency.
He is not having his best time as just recently his uncle Ted died of a
The Running Grave - Facts
Chapman Farm, where the church is located, is in Aylmerton. Norfolk. Aylmerton is a village in the county of Norfolk and lies 3.5 km south of the North Sea.
Thursday, 27 August 2026
Monday, 17 August 2026
New Book - The Running Grave - Cormoran Strike 7 - by Robert Galbraith (Pages 1 - 105)
First Published: September 26, 2023
The novel starts with a series of letters written by Sir Colin Edensor and his wife Sally to their son William.
The Pale Horse - Facts
Mark is witness to a fight between two women in a bar in Chelsea. Chelsea is an area in West London,. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames. Chelsea's modern reputation as a centre of innovation and influence originated in a period during the 19th century, when the area became a Victorian artists' colony. It became prominent once again as one of the centres of the "Swinging London" of the 1960s.
Sunday, 16 August 2026
Saturday, 15 August 2026
New Book - The Pale Horse - Ariadne Oliver 5 - by Agatha Christie (Pages 1 - 71)
First Published: January 1, 1961
SPOILERS!!!
This novel is told from two perspectives. One is in the first person with Mark Easterbrook's narration. Mark is a journalist who writes articles. And the other perspective is in the third person.
The Ink Black Heart - Facts
The book starts in the Rivoli Bar at the Ritz where Robin and Cormoran are celebrating her thirtieth birthday.
Friday, 14 August 2026
Thursday, 13 August 2026
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Sunday, 9 August 2026
New Book - The Ink Black Heart - Cormoran Strike 6 - by Robert Galbraith (Pages 1 - 196)
First Published: August 30, 2022
This sixth instalment of the Cormoran Strike series starts in a bar at the Ritz where Cormoran and Robin are celebrating her thirtieth birthday.
Saturday, 8 August 2026
New Book - Joan Crawford: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History (Pages 1 - 27)
First Published: September 11, 2021
This is a book about the life of Joan Crawford, who was born in 1904. Her real name was Lucille Fay LeSueur. Her parents were Thomas and Anna Bell Lesueur.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Facts
The novel is set in Glasgow. Glasgow is a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland's western Lowlands. It's famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture, a rich legacy of the city's 18th–20th-century prosperity due to trade and shipbuilding.
Friday, 7 August 2026
New Book - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Pages 1 - 107)
First Published: May 9, 2017
This novel is told in the first person from the perspective from Eleanor Oliphant.
The Red-Headed League - Facts
The office where Wilson had to copy the dictionary entries was located near Fleet Street. a famous historic road in central London. It runs east from Temple Bar to Ludgate Circus. It got its name from the underground River Fleet. For centuries, it was the center of the British newspaper industry.
Thursday, 6 August 2026
Highgate Rise - Facts
The book is set in 1888 when the crimes of Whitechapel took place. At least five of these homicides are attributed to the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who targeted impoverished women and sex workers, leaving the cases permanently unsolved.
Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Tuesday, 4 August 2026
Monday, 3 August 2026
New Book - Highgate Rise - Thomas and Charlotte Pitt 11 - by Anne Perry (Pages 1 - 32)
First Published: January 1, 1991
It is September 1888. Thomas Pitt is called to investigate a case of arson. As the police at the station are busy with finding out the murderer of Whitechapel, he has to see to this case.
Lola Is Missing - Facts
Lola goes missing from her hosue in Eastwell, Surrey. Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west.
Sunday, 2 August 2026
Saturday, 1 August 2026
The Memory Tree - Facts
One element in the book which is present in the narration is a beech tree. Beech is a deciduous tree native to subtropical and temperate Eurasia and North America.












