[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[vegster]

Was it written by Bernie Taupin?

Oh behave ! , no, Bernie has his own book out.

 

[Beach Hut]

Patrick Melrose -- Edward St Aubyn

Very good so far

 

[Barry Izbak]

The Smiling Man
By Joseph Knox

Grim gritty crime from the grim end of Manchester

 

[Beach Hut]

Perfidious Albion - Sam Byers

 

[jakarta]

If This Is A Man - Primo Levi. An Italian Jew's experience of Auschwitz. Bleak but utterly compelling.

 

[Beach Hut]

William Boyd - Armadillo

 

[Beach Hut]

Chris Stewart - Driving Over Lemons

 

[BBassic]

Just started 'Stalin and the Scientist' by Simon Ings. Round off the year with some non-fiction.

 

[Easy 10]

Everybody Died So I Bought a Dog - Emily Dean

Entertaining and moving.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Fiction - Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

Non - Mrs Escobar: My Life With Pablo by Victoria Henao.

 

[Happy Exile]

The Work Cure by David Frayne. Partly personal curiosity and partly because some of the arguments are loosely adjacent to my job. Only a few pages in but enjoying it so far.

 

[Brok]

A few months (years?) ago, there were good reviews on here for 'The Machine Gunners', by Robert Westall.

I decided to read it, but I had to find it first. Of course I could have gone to Ebay, or Amazon, but I decided to track it down somewhere, anywhere.
… Dozens and dozens of charity shops and car boot sales later, I have found it.
I'm going to enjoy it.

 

[Barry Izbak]

A man without breath. Philip Kerr.

Bernie Gunther is a German detective investigating in Berlin during WWII
This is the second one of this series I've read. Pretty good.

 

[Palacefinder General]

^ like the sound of that. Do you have to read them in order or are they 'stand alone' stories?

 

[MJsGhost]

Plunder of the Commons by Guy Standing.

Quite niche, but an eye opener regarding what has happened to the concept of public use of & benefit from our nation’s assets.

Not pleasant reading for Thatcherites...

 

[catfish]

A man without breath. Philip Kerr.

Bernie Gunther is a German detective investigating in Berlin during WWII
This is the second one of this series I've read. Pretty good.

It's a superb series - I've read the lot. Unfortunately he died of cancer last year and the last one has just been published.

 

[jakarta]

A few months (years?) ago, there were good reviews on here for 'The Machine Gunners', by Robert Westall.

I decided to read it, but I had to find it first. Of course I could have gone to Ebay, or Amazon, but I decided to track it down somewhere, anywhere.
… Dozens and dozens of charity shops and car boot sales later, I have found it.
I'm going to enjoy it.

He was my Art Teacher at Sir John Deane's Grammar School back in the 1970's. Had a proper Amish Beard but when in the 6th Form let me and some fellow reprobates write the School Magazine which was basically full of music reviews saying how wonderful Gong and Hawkwind were...

 

[Palacefinder General]

The Enemy by Tom Wood, my first foray into the Victor series, not sure if important to read them in order or not.

 

[Beach Hut]

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

 

[RossyG]

Build a Bonfire by Stephen North and Paul Hodson, which is a great snapshot of the times written at the time.

But I’d love a modern book looking back at the Bellotti/Archer era from a historical perspective. It’d be a nice follow up to Spencer Vignes Bloody Southerners, about the Cloughie era, hint hint!