What book are you reading atm??

UsedToWait

Birneybau wrote: »

Also reading '2023-A Trilogy' by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the KLF), not bad at all, bit mad.

If it's anything like Bill Drummond's Bad Wisdom, it's completely nuts but very enjoyable..

His 45 is one of the great music books for me..

Carry

I'm reading at the moment Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress - nine wicked tales.

It's a short story collection about ageing and the people we'd like to kill, but don't, but happens anyway in some sort or other. Including death by living or loving.

I'm not into short stories usually, but this collection shows Margaret Atwood at her most sarcastic, humourous and compassionate, including all the muddled feelings one accumulates during a lifetime.

She ist one of the top three candidates for the Nobel Price for literature this year. I truly wish she gets it. I'm amazed she didn't get it earlier. That woman is just talented and literate storyteller incarnate.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Maria by Jorge Isaacs. It's considered to the first great work of literature from Colombia and one of the first from Latin America. I visited the author's childhood home a few years ago. It's located in a valley near Cali, amidst an absolutely stunning landscape. I only knew who he was because I had seen his face on the 50'000 peso note but I'm finally reading his book.

I've been making a big effort to read in Spanish lately, it helps me improve my level in the language.

optogirl

Carry wrote: »

I'm reading at the moment Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress - nine wicked tales.

It's a short story collection about ageing and the people we'd like to kill, but don't, but happens anyway in some sort or other. Including death by living or loving.

I'm not into short stories usually, but this collection shows Margaret Atwood at her most sarcastic, humourous and compassionate, including all the muddled feelings one accumulates during a lifetime.

She ist one of the top three candidates for the Nobel Price for literature this year. I truly wish she gets it. I'm amazed she didn't get it earlier. That woman is just talented and literate storyteller incarnate.

Am very conflicted about her after the Steven Galloway stuff in Canada...

https://jezebel.com/margaret-atwood-others-draw-criticism-for-signing-a-l-1789094038


also Twitter #UBCaccountable

I have a good writer friend living there who knows the prof in question and some of the people who spoke out about the alleged abuse & is fairly insistent that he is a creep....she's really disillusioned with Atwood's response & now it's often popping into my head too when reading her or watching her stuff. Probably unfair as who knows what the real truth is but I trust my friend's judgment. Having said all that I absolutely love Margaret Atwood's writing so it wont stop me enjoying her output.

branie2

I just started reading Origin, the latest Robert Langdon adventure by Dan Brown. It's quite good so far.

Maestra by L.S Hilton

garyskeepers

re reading this at the moment... excellent book

branie2

I just finished Origin. It was very good.

padd b1975

branie2 wrote: »

I just finished Origin. It was very good.

I'm ten chapters in (about six pages lol)

Definitely an improvement on the last two.

Witchie

Just finished the first of the Miss Seeton books by Heron Carvic....not amazing but a bit of a chuckle.

I finished 'Scuse me while I kill this guy by Leslie Langtry the other day and I really enjoyed it.

gifted

Just finished Camino Island by John Grisham, had the base of a good story but the ending fizzled out way to easy and fast...

Mars Bar

I'm working a lot of hours so I don't have the brain capacity for a hard read. I've just finished the new Q.I fact book "1,423 Facts To Bowl You Over". I've moved on to "1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop".

shoegal1

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. Not my usual genre. It's one weird as hell book.

shoegal1

gifted wrote: »

Just finished Camino Island by John Grisham, had the base of a good story but the ending fizzled out way to easy and fast...

This was next on my list, I'm wondering now will I bother.

gifted

shoegal1 wrote: »

This was next on my list, I'm wondering now will I bother.

Still a good read.

optogirl

Reading EXIT GHOST by Philip Roth - some of the passages describing the sentiment in US around the GW BUSH/KERRY election seem so naive now when you consider who's in the White House now.

gormdubhgorm

Reading 'A Doctor's Sword' by Bob Jackson

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Doctor-apos-s-Sword-by-Bob-Jackson-/332400873066

A true story, well written and well researched.

Mick Costello

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer,for about the 100th time

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Ipso

11/22/63 by Stephen King.

Thargor

Mick Costello wrote: »

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer,for about the 100th time

Never heard of it, Wiki says its one of the top 100 bestselling books of all time, selling as much or more than the likes of To Kill a Mocking Bird and Gone With the Wind, sounds intriguing, thanks, I have a copy on the way.

Mrs cockett

Mick Costello wrote: »

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer,for about the 100th time

Its been a long time since I read it. Must read it again, thanks for reminding me.

Witchie

I loved Jeffrey Archer books as a teen. Kane and Abel was my first. Its a gateway book. Don't read it.

Ipso

Ipso wrote: »

11/22/63 by Stephen King.

I read that a few months ago, loved it. Hope you are enjoying it.

I'm currently in the midst of my first reading of The Dark Tower series. I'm about 20% into book 4, Wizard and Glass.

I'm really enjoying the story of Roland and his journey to the Tower. Book 3, The Waste Lands, was definitely my favourite so far.

It's been a very Stephen King year for me, having barely read a book of his in 30+ years of my life beforehand.

shoegal1

Mick Costello wrote: »

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer,for about the 100th time

Loooove that book. Re-reading it a few yrs ago and I realised, OMG Jeffrey Archer wrote this! Have read all his books now. Great author.

Ipso

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I read that a few months ago, loved it. Hope you are enjoying it.

I'm currently in the midst of my first reading of The Dark Tower series. I'm about 20% into book 4, Wizard and Glass.

I'm really enjoying the story of Roland and his journey to the Tower. Book 3, The Waste Lands, was definitely my favourite so far.

It's been a very Stephen King year for me, having barely read a book of his in 30+ years of my life beforehand.

Really liking it, on the last 100 pages now. I couldn't get into book 3 of the Dark Tower series, but I must give it a shot again.
After this I might continue with Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, also thinking of trying some Clive Barker.

Rubberlegs

Ipso wrote: »

Really liking it, on the last 100 pages now. I couldn't get into book 3 of the Dark Tower series, but I must give it a shot again.
After this I might continue with Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, also thinking of trying some Clive Barker.

I can highly recommend Clive Barker's Weaveworld, it was the first of his that I read. Any of his books I have read are brilliant

At the moment I am reading One Bad Turn by Sineád Crowley and enjoying it very much.

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The Invention of Nature (The adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt the lost hero of science) by Andrea Wulf. A fascinating story of a brilliant traveller and scientist mostly now forgotten but a worldwide celebrity in his day.

GLaDOS

Has anyone read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman?

I read the first one recently was wasn't really blown away by it. Are they worth sticking with or if I'm not bothered with the first one am I wasting my time?

I know they're young adult books that doens't bother me in itself.

Malari

GLaDOS wrote: »

Has anyone read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman?

I read the first one recently was wasn't really blown away by it. Are they worth sticking with or if I'm not bothered with the first one am I wasting my time?

I know they're young adult books that doens't bother me in itself.

I love them! I think the character development of Lyra is excellent.

He's written another series recently, as a companion trilogy, so I'm really looking forward to getting into that.