The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society

by Christine Coleman.

What an absolute joy this was!

Mrs. S. buys lots of books - she is an avaricious reader - but she seems to chose what books she buys at random: it could be by title; by the blurb; by the cover. I don't know. But they are usually by authors unknown to me (or anyone else for that matter).

For example, a few months ago she bought The Last Templar, a book that promised to be everything The DVC wasn't. It wasn't. It was a pile of poo. The guy who wrote it claims to be a screenwriter and that shows in his writing. It was all then he did this, then he did that stuff. I only finished it because, like DVC I had to find out what happened.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Templar-Raymond-Khoury/dp/0525949410

Far better was Mrs. S' purchase of Labyrinth. This was a brilliant thriller all about the Holy Grail and the Cathars and was extemely well written.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Labyrinth-Kate-Mosse/dp/0752877321

and, it is by a woman. I reckon the best books I have read this year have all been by women. Which gets me back to:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Sports-Euthanasia-Society/dp/1905175183

it isn't hard hitting, it isn't a thriller, it's simply an unusual tale about relationships told through the eyes of its protagonists and its main character (the soon to be 75 yr old Agnes) and, it IS very good. It is an absolute delight.

Anyone else read it?

One annoyance: there is a bad editing mistake on one page - it's not even a typo - it is simply laziness. I've noticed this quite a lot lately. Don't people care anymore? Sheesh!