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I can't believe I've just written "september" for the monthly book nominations. Where is this year going?!

It's time to start the nomination process for September, and we had two nominations for August that were too late for the polls, so I'll start with them;
Melanie nominated An Angel At Christmas
and Mark nominated Kill Your Friends.

Carry on nominating until the end of July, we can have polls up for a week or so, then we'll have 3 weeks to order/borrow copies. I hope that is ok for everyone

Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Slapton Sands by Francis Cottam.

The long, hot summer of 1976 and American student Alice Bourne is heading for the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier: a catastrophe which claimed the lives of 1,500 American marines. No one seems to know exactly what happened that fateful day in April, 1944. But as Alice learns more about the farm boys from Iowa and Nebraska who came to an alien land prepared to battle against Nazism, she determines that the true story of their sacrifice should finally be told. Herself a stranger in a strange land, Alice is only just becoming used to the English and their peculiar ways. But someone is making her increasingly unwelcome. Minor disturbing incidents escalate until Alice believes she's being haunted; targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened at Slapton Sands. A poignant love story and a chilling tale of suspense, this beautifully-crafted novel gradually peels back the layers of past and present to reveal the harrowing truth about a tragic wartime event and its devastating repercussions.

The September monthly book is The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, , by Lilian Jackson Braun.

My library has The Cat who could read Backwward on CD, so I think it will be a "listen on the way to work" book. I will also be reading Angela's nomination, Slapton Sands. I enjoy FGCottam's ghost stories so I'm sure this will be good too.

Has anyone other than Eric read The Cat Who Could Read Backwards yet? I have to confess I've picked my copy up from the library but not started yet (although I'll be listening to the "talking book" version on this occasion.
It is definitely not my usual read, but that is why I use GR I guess, to expand my reading experience

I just finished it yesterday. I really liked it. It was certainly different, and I thought Lillian Jackson Braun had created some interesting, believable and unforgettable characters. I thought the mystery was good too. I'm going to be reading more of these.

I finally got to The Cat who could read Backwards. It was a very gentle, nice murder mystery. No gratuitous swearing or violence, reasonable mystery factor with a few red herrings, and a clever cat. Not outstanding, but a quite pleasant easy read.

This is the first book in 'the Cat Who' series and we are introduced to Jim Qwilleran and Koko the cat. Jim has taken a job on the local newspaper as the art writer, even though he doesn't know anything about art. Not long after taking the job, the owner of the local art gallery is murdered, followed by a young artist and the newspaper's art critic. As the mystery deepens Jim and Koko find suspects galore and it is not long before the culprit is unmasked.

A brilliant way to introduce a series. There is humour and mysteries written into these stories and it is recommended that everyone should read this series.

We're just about at the end of September now, so what did you think of the Cat who Could read Backwards?

I thought it was good book. And I like that this book got me outside of my normal reading.