[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Beach Hut]

A Castle in Spain - Mathew Parris

 

[Don Quixote]

The first man in rome - Colleen McCullough

 

[Don Quixote]

That was my last book - I'm now 2/3 of the way through World Without End, which I'd recommend if you're enjoying Pillars of the Earth (BTW the TV mini series from c 10 yrs ago is worth a watch too a decent cast of Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell , Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and a young Eddie Redmayne)

I thought it was fantastic. I am going to read World Without End soon.

 

[MJsGhost]

I thought it was fantastic. I am going to read World Without End soon.

It's a lengthy tome, but worth the effort. I'm a quarter of the way through A Column of Fire now and am enjoying that too

 

[Surf's Up]

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre - the story of Kim Philby's so-called great betrayal. All true and reads like a John Le Carre novel.

 

[Barry Izbak]

North Wind , JD Kirk

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Long Live Great Bardfield - The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood.

(Wife of Eric Ravilious)

 

[Gwylan]

Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war by Max Hastings. Picked it up for free on Amazon Prime and was a bit sceptical about it as I nailed Hastings as the author of a load of "Why, oh why?" articles for the Mail, but it's rather good. It's a detailed look at the first year of the war, right from when the ostrich is killed by someone called Archie.

There's been a lot of painstaking research, with sources from all sides of the conflict, and is very well written. My initial thought was that it was going to be a lot about the brave and stout-hearted British rescuing the cowering French from the sneaky Hun, but it's nothing like that at all - the reverse, if anything. I've not finished it yet, but the French are depicted as fighting bravely while the British spend most of their time trying to avoid conflict. It's scathing about the commanders of all the armies though.

Politicians come off even worse though, particularly Churchill, ironically given his reputation as a war leader.

I'm going to dig out a few more of his books - I've had a complete about-turn.

 

[pornomagboy]

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[Beach Hut]

In Spite of the Gods - Edward Luce

 

[Easy 10]

Jimmy White - Second Wind

Its his 2nd autobiography, but this time its the proper "warts an' all" one, no glossing. My god, what an absolute degenerate. I mean I knew his life was chaos away from the green baize, but bloody hell. Its a fantastic read with some incredible anecdotes. The chapter with Higgins is something else, as you could imagine. Hugely entertaining, easily the best 99p I've spent this year.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Just back from a week in Jersey and enjoying An Island at War by Deborah Carr.

Terrific historic novel about an awful time in an amazing place

 

[Beach Hut]

Blue Highways (A Journey Into America) - William Least Heat-Moon

 

[Beach Hut]

In Harm’s Way - Martin Bell

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Just finished Fighter Boys
Now started The Great Boer War

 

[Don Quixote]

Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan

 

[zefarelly]

lots of pictures ;-)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure'. Horrible terrible beautiful biography of the deeply dysfunctional 'drug band with a rock problem'. It's engagingly co-written by FWF frontman Lias Saoudi and writer Adelle Stripe. The real miracle is that Lias, Nathan and Saul managed to outlive The Stupid Club

 

[Beach Hut]

The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

^ ever impressed with the amount of stuff you get through, Beachy, more power to you.

‘The Body Keeps The Score’ by Van Der Kolk for me, a bit of a heavy read.