[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[hughfromalice]

I'm reading a translation of Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He was from good old Kaliningrad by the sea! I recommend Chapter 4 ias it is a barrel of fun, just the thing to take your mind off a defeat by Aston Villa... an existential threat to mental health, if ever there was one.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

'Lone Wolf' by Gregg Hurwitz. The best yet in the Orphan X series imho. Writing in a different league.

 

[Peteinblack]

Reading my 7th or 8th Peter James' Roy Grace crime drama novel of 2024 (now on to Dead If You Don't, #14 in the series).

Find them utterly gripping and compelling, and some of the murders are so bizarre or gruesome you wonder/worry about James' himself - either a very imaginative writer, or possesses a sick mind! He also conveys a lot of 'insider' procedural and psychological details which he has learned from his close contacts and friendships with police officers, past and present.

As the series is set in and around Brighton, I'm loving 'seeing' the local places that are featured: Amex Stadium, Ditchling Beacon, Hangleton, Hove Lagoon, Kemp Town, King Alfred Leisure Centre, King's Road, Preston Street, River Adur, Shoreham Port, the skeletal remains of the West Pier, Trafalgar Street, Volk's Railway, etc,.

Makes me so nostalgic.

 

[Slum_Wolf]

 

[torchieboy]

A brilliant book on policing Brighton. Coming from a family police background, knowing some of the officers names brings it closer to home. I know Brighton has a very dark crime scene but some of this is nasty

 

[torchieboy]

Reading my 7th or 8th Peter James' Roy Grace crime drama novel of 2024 (now on to Dead If You Don't, #14 in the series).

Find them utterly gripping and compelling, and some of the murders are so bizarre or gruesome you wonder/worry about James' himself - either a very imaginative writer, or possesses a sick mind! He also conveys a lot of 'insider' procedural and psychological details which he has learned from his close contacts and friendships with police officers, past and present.

As the series is set in and around Brighton, I'm loving 'seeing' the local places that are featured: Amex Stadium, Ditchling Beacon, Hangleton, Hove Lagoon, Kemp Town, King Alfred Leisure Centre, King's Road, Preston Street, River Adur, Shoreham Port, the skeletal remains of the West Pier, Trafalgar Street, Volk's Railway, etc,.

Makes me so nostalgic

Have a read of Graham Bartletts book, which I've shown in a few posts on from this. True stories of Brightons dark side written alongside Peter James.

 

[Beach Hut]

Just for One Day - Louise Wener

 

[Slum_Wolf]

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

Just reading Whispers by Glen Matlock. Really good insight into the dynamics of the pistols. Actually got to see the Rich Kids and thought they were great especially their version of Pretty Vacant seeing Matlock wrote it.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Red Memory by Tania Branigan. The Chinese Cultural Revolution told by those who lived through it. Thought I knew quite a lot but it was more horrific than I ever imagined.

 

[Beach Hut]

Never Mind the Quantocks - Mark Maconie

 

[jcdenton08]

Just finished Les Misérables. Overall really enjoyed it and loved filling in details that the stage musical misses/changes/abridges. I must admit though, when Hugo goes off on these 50 page descriptions of the Parisian sewers, or life in a monastery, my eyes did frequently glaze over…

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

After watching TV documentary recently on occasion of centenary of his birth, bought and just finished Marlon Brando's 'Songs My Mother Taught Me':
Fantastic autobiography by the 'Hollywood Rebel'.
Full of love affairs, entertaining japes (including near death experiences in Tahiti), support for causes (e.g. Native Americans), disdain for actors and directors.
Nothing about his wives or children though.

 

[Beach Hut]

Tropic of Capricorn - Simon Reeve

 

[Professor Plum]

I’m reading Auberon Waugh's autobiography. Older readers may remember his columns in Private Eye, the Spectator, Daily Telegraph etc. Son of Evelyn.

 

[Gersgull]

Close to Home - Michael Magee
Dead on

 

[Beach Hut]

Two Wheels in the Dust - Anne Mustoe

 

[BrightonCottager]

Just about to finish 'I hear the sirens in the street' by Adrian McKinty about a Catholic RUC detective in the early 80s. Really well written, gripping and funny at times.

 

[BLOCK F]

Caledonian Road by Andrew Hagan.

 

[Beach Hut]

God's Middle Finger - Richard Grant