[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[withdeanwombat]

Cabin.....Jorn Lier Horst.

 

[BNthree]

Have just started The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalyrymple. .

.

This was serialised on Radio 4 recently (at least I think it was there). I caught an episode by chance and it made me want to read it a lot. Fascinating and incredibly insightful as to how that part of the English empire came about.

 

[jonnyrovers]

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Halfway through now and just about coping with the brutality, hope, bigotry, resilience. One helluva read.

 

[darkwolf666]

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 ****ing DULL.

Don't make me post extracts...

Does he bite anyone’s legs?

 

[Beach Hut]

An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd

 

[Palacefinder General]

An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd

Beachy! Since the late 1990s on here, when we were both (relatively) spring chickens, you have never let me down!!

Don't Look Back by Gregg Hurwitz, good writing, cracking read.

 

[mune ni kamome]

An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd

Finished Waiting for Sunrise. Beautifully written little spy story and next up, my third William Boyd book - Ordinary Thunderstorms.

 

[Beach Hut]

Finished Waiting for Sunrise. Beautifully written little spy story and next up, my third William Boyd book - Ordinary Thunderstorms.

You will like them, sadly after this I only have one left to read by Boyd - Stars and Bars

 

[bobby baxter]

Finished Waiting for Sunrise. Beautifully written little spy story and next up, my third William Boyd book - Ordinary Thunderstorms.

Halfway through Ordinary Thunderstorms at the moment, great read.

 

[RossyG]

You will like them, sadly after this I only have one left to read by Boyd - Stars and Bars

Boyd did a terrific James Bond novel called Solo a few years back. Highly recommended. It’s my favourite of the non-Fleming Bonds.

And if you can find them, his TV films Dutch Girls and Good and Bad at Games are well worth watching. Both have a school theme and the two were published in one slim paperback as School Ties.

 

[Beach Hut]

Boyd did a terrific James Bond novel called Solo a few years back. Highly recommended. It’s my favourite of the non-Fleming Bonds.

And if you can find them, his TV films Dutch Girls and Good and Bad at Games are well worth watching. Both have a school theme and the two were published in one slim paperback as School Ties.

Thanks, will look out for them

 

[Beach Hut]

Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

The Salt Path.

My missus bought it and while it was lying around (the book, not the missus) I picked it up and started reading. We usually have different tastes so I wasn't optimistic. However, it's a remarkable read. It's an account (non fiction) of a walk around the SW Coastal Path by a middle aged, middle class couple. So far, so unpromising. The reason they are walking is that they just been made homeless and literally have nowhere else to go. Plus the man has an incurable disease.
It's beautifully written (by the wife - his not mine) and is more than just a walking adventure. A remarkable and uplifting book..

 

[mune ni kamome]

Just finished William Boyd-Ordinary Thunderstorms. Superb storytelling as usual. Now onto something a little lighter in the form of David Baldacci’s Stone Cold (another author I’m working my way through) before returning to William Boyd for The New Confessions which is waiting on the bookshelf.

 

[Surf's Up]

Just about to start Kate Atkinson's "Big Sky" to be followed by Clive James' "Unreliable Memoirs".

 

[spanish flair]

Past Tense-Lee Child
Finding it a bit slow to other Jack Reacher books

 

[madinthehead]

Just finished Dan Brown- Origin
Was OK. Story was good, typical page turner, "conspiracy" was a bit weak, I found. Also slightly more predictable than his other stuff..

 

[FamilyGuy]

Fire and Fury: inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

I found it in a Lewes Charity Shop for £2

If it's only 25% true, then it's frightening as deck!

 

[RossyG]

Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie (1967)

Two university sociologists infiltrate a hippy-dippy religious cult in small town New York State that believes they’re receiving messages from ethereal aliens.

Amusing enough after 40 pages.

(And I’ve just finished Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin, which was terrific throughout but a tad too much by the very end. The film’s ending was simpler and better.)

 

[seaford]

The Price of Football by [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION] of this parish.