What we all reading?

White Gold - Gile Milton: The story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's European slaves; The Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Other Tales: Charles Dickens.
 
Southshoresteve said:
I’m quite into Autobiographies and have just finished Harry Hills autobiography which was great (a must read for anyone thinking of becoming a stand up comedian) and have just started the Miriam Margolyes one which I’m enjoying.

I don’t read many Novels but recently finished Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart which won the 2020 Booker Prize. It was quite dark and sad but I couldn’t put it down. Recommended.
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Agree with you about Shuggie Bain, a good book.
 
Jews Don't Count. Paperwork came out today and my copy is arriving this afternoon so will read that over the weekend.
 
I'm reading Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, 1940's Noir crime thriller. First book of his I've read and have really enjoyed it. Certainly makes you feel you are in that time and it's pretty dark. I have been whizzing through it and look forward to picking it up to read some more, which is always a good sign.
 
Chunkylad said:
I like going to the classics every now and again. How does it read? Good?

I read Gone with the wind and Doctor Zhivago last year. Both books were hard and gritty and not the Hollywood puff pieces of the films. Amazing books in my opinion
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Nice one chunky- I read Doctor Zhivago myself last winter... sitting by the fire in Moscow it definitely added to the atmosphere! Quite a sad story, though! Most Russian classics I’ve read are hard and gritty.
 
I've just started 'Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations' - Simon Jenkins. Looks promising, not least because he calls them, 'Railway stations' not 'Train stations'.
 
The Passenger by Ulrich Boschwitz.
The struggles of a Jewish business man to stay out of the reach of the Gestapo in the months before the second world War when assets were being seized and families sent to concentration camps.
His only advantage is that he doesn't look Jewish.
Not exactly a laugh a minute but important that younger generations know what happened.
 
Fake Law.Starting very promisingly with a pull apart of both parties tendencies this century to provide knee jerk populist responses to the issue of a persons rights to defend themselves in their own property.
 
hampshire_exile said:
Fake Law.Starting very promisingly with a pull apart of both parties tendencies this century to provide knee jerk populist responses to the issue of a persons rights to defend themselves in their own property.
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Currently on John Cooper Clarke’s autobiog ‘I Wanna Be Yours’, very funny and nearly 500 pages. Also read ‘The Passenger’, harrowing chase in 1938 Nazi Germany. Google the author’s tragic story, worse than the novel.
 
Graves said:
Anyone read ‘Dune’? Just ordered it and hoping I’ll get my head round it. Not seen the film.
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Dune and all its siblings, didn't help my exam results all those years ago.

Pilgrim Soul. Gordon Ferris Series of books just post WW2, Glasgow and London, very gritty
 
Windswept and Interesting - Billy Connolly (very good)
also
And Away - Bob Mortimer (very good as well)

I’m like a pig in muck with these two at the moment. Unfortunately they are both nearly finished 😢.
 
Listening to an audiobook cos I'm really busy and I've lost my glasses...

It's about the collapse of the Soviet Union - it's really good. It's basically talking about Gorbachev's mistakes (in terms of keeping Soviet Union together) and how his naivety opened the door to nationalism and discontent.

It's fascinating. It counters a lot of the commonly held assumptions whilst being really objective.

I'm fun at parties.

🤣
 
... Gibraltar... The greatest siege in British history... Does anyone read 2 books at the same time?.... Read one 4 a while.... Put it down and start on the second book...
 
Another favourite author is Michael Connelly, especially the Harry Bosch series.
Just picked one up at the Library I haven't read before.
Also the Mickey Haller series. He is a Lawyer and is actually Hieronymus Boschs' cousin,
which they didn't find out until they met by chance on a case.
Another excellent series.
 
i only read novels on holiday, half way through “Marching Powder” good read but the writing is so small, not good at my age!

luckily have another jolly booked for March so will get to finish it.
 
Recently finished Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.

It's all about fungi; remarkable stuff, as well making alcohol, bread, cheese and medicines, they can digest pollutants, live purely on old cigarette ends and find the shortest way out of Ikea.
 
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