Blimey, good going, Arti - I'm still in the first half... Very glad you liked it, I remember evangelising about to it to everyone first time I read it, and coulnd't get it out of my head for months.

See you on 29th...

Just finished Fall on Your Knees!!
What an amazing book-really looking forward to discussing in a few wks. Glad I joined this book club-not sure if I ever would have read it otherwise!

It's my first time reading it and I've gone through about 350 pages today (two train journeys is my main excuse.... let's draw a veil over everything that has not been done this evening....)

Looking forward to my first MN book cub discussion already.

Good - don't want to find myself staring at the door till dawn, wondering if I can hear creaking on the staircase.

Had forgotten quite how massive a book Fall on Your Knees is, lucky we've got a fair bit of time until our discussion night to get through it all... Am hugely enjoying re-reading it, I'd forgotten so many details.

Tilly, know what you mean about crime novels in darkness - but Dorothy Sayers at 3am is fine imho!

I was just remembering how harrowing it can be too - especially when the parts about the father. Not going to give anything away but can't imagine how I'll feel now that I have children of my own. But I can't wait to read it again.

On the blackwell/amazon switch that squonk brought up, it was really a better company to deal with I think. In fact, I noticed that they can deliver my copy of Fall on Your Knees in 2 days whereas amazon were quoting 6-10 days. But its just a suggestion really, and everyone free to borrow/swap/steal a copy from wherever.

I rather fancied all of April's books, they're fast becoming my summer holiday reading list. And I might save Dorothy Sayers for middle-of-night breastfeeding sessions - do we think murder mystery is a good idea at 3am?

As we all know that should have been Harriet Vane..

Thirded re Gaudy Night.. Didnt vote for it cos I've read it about 10 times, but Dorothy L Sayers is soo worth reading, particularly the books with Harriet Vine. The background is that DLS wrote a series of novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and sort of fell for him in the process, so wrote in a strongminded crime novelist character for him to fall in love with.. They are wonderful books..

Read "fall on your knees" a few years ago and it still sticks in my memory - quite harrowing in parts....

The Nine Tailors ais a great read too and so atmospheric