[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Grizz]

The latest Grace novel. Best one I’ve read for ages - half way through and can barely put it down. Not high literature I grant you but a brilliant read.

Sometimes you just need books like that. If I've read anything particularly heavy or a trilogy, then I'll always read a Lee Child or John Grisham afterwards just to refresh the palette for the next one

 

[wunt be druv]

"The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann, it is the account of a Free French WW2 fighter pilot and his 420 operational sorties, really gripping stuff, if you like your WW2 history this is for you.

 

[Beach Hut]

The London Embassy - Paul Theroux

 

[Don Quixote]

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

The October Man - Ben Aaronovitch

 

[Beach Hut]

Uses and Abuses - Aldo Busi

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker.

Wasn't convinced about this book when it was first leant to me, but with just a couple of chapters remaining I'm really sorry to be finishing it. A fictionalised account of when British army captain Parker stepped on an IED in Afghanistan, the lead up and aftermath, each chapter narrated by the various involved objects (e.g. the bag of fertiliser used to make IEDs, a tourniquet, a prosthetic leg).

Anyone else read it? His dad is General Sir Nick Parker.

 

[Beach Hut]

Behind The Wall - Colin Thubron

(Looking back through this thread I thought this book was familiar, I read it last August)

 

[Beach Hut]

Riding In The Zone Rouge - Tom Isitt

 

[Gwylan]

In Parenthesis - David Jones.

Been looking for this for some time and got it for a fiver at the weekend. A Welsh poet's account of the First World War. Just started it and it looks a fascinating read

 

[pearl]

Just finished a book I found outside someone's house .... Bone China by Laura Purcell .... utter escapist readable rubbish ... now on the charity shop pile.
Now re-reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

[slartibartfast]

Just finished a book I found outside someone's house .... Bone China by Laura Purcell .... utter escapist readable rubbish ... now on the charity shop pile.
Now re-reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy

RE The Road - probably the grimmest, bleakest book Ive ever read. Very very good...but so traumatising, I refused to go and see the film when it came out. Kudos for going back and rereading!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer

I'm reading this at the moment. While it's not a great work of literature. I think it's very readable and entertaining - almost a page turner at the moment.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Riding In The Zone Rouge - Tom Isitt

Great book!

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Just started Alexandria, the Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson - a biography of a certain Charles Masson, a 19th century explorar, archaeologist & spy, quite brilliant oddball read set in India & Afghanistan

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

The Echoing Green - John Arlott

 

[METALMICKY]

And Away - Bob Mortimer's autobiography

Naturally funny guy so looking forward to kicking back with a CAPPACHOOCHOO"

 

[Beach Hut]

And Away - Bob Mortimer's autobiography

Naturally funny guy so looking forward to kicking back with a CAPPACHOOCHOO"

Read that a few months back as snuffled out a paperback copy for £2 in a charity shop, trust me you will not be disappointed with this book

 

[pearl]

RE The Road - probably the grimmest, bleakest book Ive ever read. Very very good...but so traumatising, I refused to go and see the film when it came out. Kudos for going back and rereading!

Yeah, I thought the same. It was going on the charity pile, but I decided to give it another go. Strangely enjoying it, mainly 'cos of the good natured boy.
Mind you, can't beat Dickens for bleak

 

[Beach Hut]

Chicago Loop - Paul Theroux