[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Peteinblack]

Did the Ben Myers lot last year. Found Cuddy hard work and haven’t finished it. Beastings is excellent, pretty full on though!

Yeah, Cuddy book was annoying at first, mainly due to the 'quirky' style of writing - sometimes just a couple of words on a page, or font getting smaller towards the bottom of the page. It got better as it got more up-to-date, but certainly not one of his better (or more accessible) books.

 

[Beach Hut]

Travels in a Thin Country - Sara Wheeler

 

[Beach Hut]

Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart

Around mid point of this book, simply one of my best reads ever.

 

[Trust Me I’m A Stomach]

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov

 

[Beach Hut]

Not Forgotten - Neil Oliver

 

[Beach Hut]

From the Land of Green Ghosts - Pascal Khoo Thwe

 

[Beach Hut]

Helena - Evelyn Waugh

 

[Cordwainer]

Am absolutely loving this. Has anyone read any of her other books and would recommend?

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Just finished 'Lust'. Brilliant collection of clever short stories with a twist by Road Dahl. Definitely not for kids!

 

[Beach Hut]

My Week with Marilyn - Colin Clark

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain by Joe Boyd. Fascinating mix of music and how it influenced history and politics and vice versa

 

[Beach Hut]

Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith

 

[pearl]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Been meaning to read it for years. Picked it up in a charity shop recently.

 

[cleckseagull]

Martin Chuzzlewit- Charles Dickens. Loving it!

 

[SouthSaxon]

I’ve been given copies of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny and Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien.

Positively depressing to read.

 

[Peteinblack]

Finished Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers last night. Bleak, harrowing, but beautifully-written. A brilliant/sickening twist near the end.

Main character - who possesses much more intelligence, decency and sensitivity than those around him (not difficult) - trying to escape his miserable childhood terrorised by an alcoholic and violent father, and life on a drug-fuelled, gang-ridden, sink estate - but keeps being dragged back.

Reminded me of Douglas Stuart's superb Shuggie Bain.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Not Dead Yet - Phil Collins

Excellent read. He doesn't come across very well in it, unless you appreciate that his music was simply more important to him than his wives, children and family.

 

[pearl]

Not Dead Yet - Phil Collins

Excellent read. He doesn't come across very well in it, unless you appreciate that his music was simply more important to him than his wives, children and family.

And he wrote it?

 

[jakarta]

Emptying out a bookcase at home came across Alistair Cooke's America,.

From the days when the BBC made programmes for adults...