[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[mune ni kamome]

Blue Afternoon-William Boyd.
Just finished unfortunately. Very enjoyable tale as usual from WB.

Next up Prisoners of Geography as recommended on NSC

 

[Beach Hut]

Alibi - Joseph Kanon

 

[Don Quixote]

Rubicon - Tom Holland

 

[Barry Izbak]

Box 88 by Charles Cumming, and thoroughly enjoying it

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathon Dimbleby. Excellent.

 

[Beach Hut]

Germania - Simon Winder

 

[amexer]

Michael Hesletine autobiography

 

[Bakero]

Ghosts of Spain - Giles Tremlett

Good book that.

 

[jakarta]

The Moons a Balloon - David Niven's Autobiography.

 

[Beach Hut]

Good book that.

Very interesting, quite shocking how Franco still influences the country and also the most incredible faux pas blaming ETA for the Madrid bombings

 

[Bakero]

Very interesting, quite shocking how Franco still influences the country and also the most incredible faux pas blaming ETA for the Madrid bombings

I've got his book on the international brigade in the civil war too but haven't got around to reading it yet. His newspaper articles on Spain are usually worth a read too.

 

[Don Quixote]

Dynasty - Tom Holland

 

[wunt be druv]

Old Hunting Grounds and Other Stories by Yuri Kazakov - volume one. All about life and micro dramas in Northern Russia in the late 20th Century.If you like Russian literature I can thoroughly recommend it, up there with the best of them.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh

 

[Easy 10]

Papillon

Absolutely brutal.

 

[HantsSeagull]

Protector - Conn Iggulden

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I am currently reading,

The Penguin Reference of the Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.

Given that you have posted only 32 times in the last 14 years, I am guessing you're still reading it.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Biography of Jimmy Page.

 

[Gwylan]

Germania - Simon Winder

A book I've been meaning to read: I've read his book on central Europe, Danubia, and Germania looks right up my straße

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Papillon

Absolutely brutal.

Also highly embellished, as Charriere admitted himself; a ripping yarn combining fact and fiction.


Just about to start A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. 720 pages, small font Anyone else done it? Booker shortlisted in 2015?