[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Beach Hut]

Country Driving (A Chinese Road Trip) - Peter Hessler

 

[Biscuit]

Bear Island, Alistair MacLean

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

All American Murder by James Patterson. (You’ve seen the Netflix series, now read the book).

 

[Beach Hut]

Journey Into Cyprus - Colin Thubron

 

[Poojah]

Currently reading Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry (of Chandler from Friends fame). I’m not one for reading ‘celebrity’ memoirs, save for the odd football autobiography, but having experienced some of the challenges Perry has faced (albeit on a lesser scale, and without $30m or so to keep me company), I was intrigued by this.

It’s a hard-hitting account for sure, of an absolute car crash of a life and a man very lucky to still be of this mortal coil. There’s no fúckibg about either; as he goes straight in with the story of the time his colon exploded due to years of drink and drug abuse.

Worth a read.

 

[wuntbedruv]

Exit West by Mohsin Hamed. A different take on mass migration and the breakdown in society.

 

[Gwylan]

The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant. It's a look at the MPs, many of them openly gay, who were opposed to appeasing Hitler from an early stage.

It may get more interesting later but at the moment it just appears to be about a bunch of posh boys living off trust funds shagging a lot of working class lads.

 

[wuntbedruv]

It may get more interesting later but at the moment it just appears to be about a bunch of posh boys living off trust funds shagging a lot of working class lads.

Somethings never change.

 

[Beach Hut]

Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World - Alec Le Sueur

 

[Surf's Up]

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

A Waiter in Paris ….Edward Chisholm

 

[Gwylan]

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Good book. It took a few pages to twig what was happening. I like Harris's stuff, they're very well written. Looking forward to reading his latest, Act of Oblivion, about tracking down the regicides during the Restoration.

 

[Beach Hut]

The Telling Room - Michael Paterniti

 

[theboybilly]

Norman Hunter's autobiography 'Biting Talk'. No wonder it was reduced from the publisher's price of 18.99 to three quid in The Works. Insanely f***ing DULL.

Don't make me post extracts...

I have to be honest in that I never believed the hype about Hunter, Bremner & Co. Only Giles was really hard but even he was a cheat. Anti - football and that came from Revie at the top. I'm so glad that for all their time at the very top they actually won very little. And nothing compared to Clough's Forest. Karma

 

[Beach Hut]

I'm Off Then - Hape Kerkeling

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Thought I might try this one next

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

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[Cheeky Monkey]

Currently reading Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry (of Chandler from Friends fame). I’m not one for reading ‘celebrity’ memoirs, save for the odd football autobiography, but having experienced some of the challenges Perry has faced (albeit on a lesser scale, and without $30m or so to keep me company), I was intrigued by this.

It’s a hard-hitting account for sure, of an absolute car crash of a life and a man very lucky to still be of this mortal coil. There’s no fúckibg about either; as he goes straight in with the story of the time his colon exploded due to years of drink and drug abuse.

Worth a read.

Got it reserved at the library (reservation number 9 of 10 so will be a few weeks). Looking forward to it, if that’s the right terminology.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Normandy ‘44. D-Day and the Battle for France - James Holland.

 

[Poojah]

Got it reserved at the library (reservation number 9 of 10 so will be a few weeks). Looking forward to it, if that’s the right terminology.

I enjoyed it. It’s funny in places, tragic in others and occasionally cringe inducing too. An emotional story well told.