Kindle summer sale has started

[Cherrypi]

Just thought I'd share the news. Bought four already.

[scottishmummy]

I've got we were liars and completely beside ourselves...what else?

[mignonette]

I bought Karen Joy Fowlers too Scottish- am saving it for a quiet day(looks for pigs out in the sky).

I recommend Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver- not one of her best but still streets ahead of many other writers and the Land of Later On by Anthony Weller.

If anybody hasn't read it then The Help by Kathryn Stockett is such a lovely lovely book and i liked 'Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe too. The name dropping is fabulous.

I have bought King of Cuba by Cristina Gar and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews. If you like crime then the series by Jack Kerley starting with The Hundredth Man (Carson Ryder, Book 1) is worth trying, set in the USA, they are pretty typical of that genre where the detectives seem to be stalked by every serial killer they themselves are hunting down!

I also have Things We Set on Fire by Deborah Reed, Blind Sunflowers by Alberto Méndez and Ramshackle by Elizabeth Reeder to read

I bought Last Bus to Coffeeville by J. Paul Henderson and it is okay BUT it really does make you wade through an in depth biography and history lesson on each character and event. It is set in the States and concerns a mans promise to a female friend that he will take her back to her Mississippi place of birth to help her end her life when the hereditary Alzheimers hits. It is packed with American history and a cast of characters but it is in need of an edit.

I am intrigued by Punctured (Las Vegas Mystery) by Rex Kusle - has anybody tried it?

If anybody wants to spend £3,95 then Swamplandia is brilliant!

[ABlandAndDeadlyCourtesy]

Must do this! Marking place!

[mignonette]

Mums

I loved that book so much. She also wrote 'The Mermaids Chair' about a forbidden love between a monk (?) and woman living on the Sea Islands off Georgia. Like 'The Secret Life of Bees' it is saturated with that wonderful sense of place you find in all her books. Thanks for the reminder.

[mignonette]

Yes I agree that the Invention of Wings is most definitely on a par with (or even better) than 'Bees'. I liked the fact that the quilts are real and the folk tales and ancestry behind them is there to see and learn about. I''d so love to go to the Smithsonian and see them hanging there.

[stilllearnin]

ooh thanks for the recommendations. I will look at the invention of wings. I have read A single breath:Lucy Clarke in about 2 days. I liked most of it - annoyingly predictable ending though.

[Itscurtainsforyou]

For those with other (non-kindle) e-readers, the program Calibre can convert ebooks from one format to another (although might not work for all books depending on any proprietary restrictions).

[Itscurtainsforyou]

Also I saw that the latest Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) book, silkworm, is on offer for £1.99.

[spex11]

This link takes you to all the books in the sale, rated by customer reviews

amzn.to/1orNsyg

[Taffeta]

Silkworm is excellent

[CoteDAzur]

I'll have to disagree about The Silkworm. Sorry.

[spex11]

Haven't read Silkworm. I just think that with so many authors on offer at 99p for the next few weeks it's time to take a chance on some lesser known ones.

[Taffeta]

Well, I really enjoyed it. :-) And I enjoyed The Cuckoos Calling, and The Casual Vacancy.

[CoteDAzur]

I enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling, too, but The Silkworm was just ludicrous. And don't get me started on the detective figuring out the killer at 80% as if by magic, telling other characters about it, but leaving the reader in the dark until the very end. Struggling not to give spoilers here, but some of the stuff he "figured out" is just nonsense. And I can now go a lifetime without reading about his hurting leg, his prosthesis, the creams, the aches, and the hobbling.

[Southeastdweller]

I'll also highly recommend The Help (£2.99 on Kindle). Why has the author only written one book?

The Silkworm went back up to £6.99 a few days ago.

Starting We Are All Completely this weekend.

[Eviemcnab27]

I love The Help! I hope the author writes more. I picked up Coco Pinchard, the Consequences of Love and Sex by Robert Bryndza for 99p and its really funny