Reading

I've tried. Snuck an hour in here and a half hour in there. Werewolves appeared to me -

Run and run and run and hide. Burrow and dig and twist and hide. Under the roots, under the bed. Hide and hide and hide. Lest you’re found and dragged out into the light. Blinded and made smaller in the day. You flourish beneath the moonlight, wither in the sunlight.

And then the verb becomes the noun. They’ve trapped you and moved in with clubs. You’re skinned and your hide stretched and hung for all to see. Destroyed, vanquished, no more.

But in the woods, there is a domicile, and, in that den, there is your mate and beneath her body squirms her pup, eyes and ears closed. This dyad foul, in the ways that you are foul. To the hunted and the hunter.

Don’t go into the village, you’ve been taught, they will do you harm. But only after you’ve rent them limb from limb from limb.

But. Even if I could figure out one story, I certainly don't have two in me this week. I feel it's only right to save one of you amazing writers who are writing LONG and writing so very well! Here's to you! Slainthe!

Thanks to Gary who has been carving time out of his own hide to provide this amazing space for all of us to play play play in. Always and forever grateful to him. And to all of you.

Blessed be!

Christopher Brookmyre "One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night" (Abacus)

What happens when you hold a high school reunion party aboard an oil-rig that's being converted into a hotel and leisure complex and there are unwelcome visitors in the shape of a band of mercenaries with their own rather different party in mind?

This high-octane thriller starts off at a sedate pace. We meet the mercenaries; we meet the former pupils - both officially invited and not, and find out how their lives have moved on after 15 years. Then the action starts happening and everything accelerates to the final showdown at breakneck speed. In between the action with its gruesomely realised scenes of ultraviolence, we get loads of laughs in Brookmyre's unique style. Most of the characters are truly awful, but we are drawn to burnt-out comic Matt and wronged-wife Simone who in blockbuster movie traditional become heroes. Another unputdownable novel from one of Scotland's best talents.

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Book 59 - Christopher Brookmyre "One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night"