What book are you reading atm??

the purple tin

The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

GLaDOS

I finished Rendezvous with Rama last night, loved it from start to finish.

rushfan

Still reading "Shackleton ", it's a bit of a grind. Also reading "Cockpit Confidential ", & just started "Educated" by Tara Westover, after seeing that Obama had it at the top of his summer reading list. This morning I pre ordered "Fear " by Bob Woodward.

Star Bingo

The open book that is Ireland’s defence. We’re so easy to read

3-0 Wales. HT.

optogirl

REading has taken a backseat to podcasts recently to my shame but going to the library today so hoping to pick up something to refuel the fire

KH25

Finished Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski (book 2 in the Witcher series).

After that I read Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. Some of the short stories in it were brilliant (I particularly liked ‘the Jaunt’).

Currently reading ‘Under the Dome’ also by Stephen King.

Dial Hard

KH25 wrote:

After that I read Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. Some of the short stories in it were brilliant (I particularly liked ‘the Jaunt’).

"Survivor Type" is my personal favourite from that collection.

Thargor

Jaunt is probably my favourite short story ever. All Kings short stories are great and they stick in your memory like no other author.

Edgware

Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan.

SPOILER ALERT!!

He gets killed in the end

mariaalice

Fermet last Theorem its one of the best popular science book. It is peppered with a few maths puzzles which are enough to get your head going but not to difficult a bit of basic algebra.

bonzodog2

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Adam Hochschild

skepticalme

Rise and Kill First. The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations.
Ronen Bergman

Mehaffey1

Just finished "Thirteen" by Steve Cavanagh, right up my alley of courtroom/serial killer bestseller types. Would recommend and will be on the look out for more of the Eddie Flynn novels.
Just started into "Children of the Revolution" by Peter Robinson, seems to be your standard detective investigation novel so far.

Ipso

About 3/4 of the way through Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty. I'm really liking it, but the first 150 pages or so could do with a trimming.

Folkstonian

Spook Street by Mick Herron

It is part of the ‘Jackson Lamb’ series of espionage thrillers, which are all absolutely excellent.

Fast paced, gripping, clever and also very funny. Couldn’t recommend them enough.

Dial Hard

Started Vox by Christina Dalcher yesterday. It's giving me serious rage, I'm actually wondering if I'll be able to finish it. It's speculative fiction very much in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale, set in a very near future where an ultra-conservative government have reinstated the ideology of separate spheres and women are confined to domestic roles and have had their speech constrained to 100 words a day and aren't allowed to read or write. It sounds a bit gimmicky but it's actually very well-written and like all good speculative fiction, scarily plausible. I can feel my frown lines getting deeper with every page.

Buford T. Justice XIX

The simple truth behind reading 200 books a year.
https://medium.com/s/story/the-simple-truth-behind-reading-200-books-a-year-1767cb03af20
Not a book, I know, but a motivation to read more.

batgoat

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

The simple truth behind reading 200 books a year.
https://medium.com/s/story/the-simple-truth-behind-reading-200-books-a-year-1767cb03af20
Not a book, I know, but a motivation to read more.

Think I'll manage about 50-52 this year which I'm happy with.

branie2

To the Devil - A Daughter, an occult thriller by Dennis Wheatley

eisenberg1

Edgware wrote: »

Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan.

SPOILER ALERT!!

He gets killed in the end

Reminds me of The Bible, good story but yer man gets killed in the end as well.

branie2

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Reminds me of The Bible, good story but yer man gets killed in the end as well.

But he comes back to life

py2006

branie2 wrote: »

But he comes back to life

Hence categorised as fiction...

Roger Hassenforder

KH25 wrote: »

Finished Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski (book 2 in the Witcher series).

Any good?
Seeing as they're making a series, I dont want to be caught like I was with Game of Thrones.
I want to be in the smug "thread for people who have read the books"

branie2

py2006 wrote: »

Hence categorised as fiction...

Not really, if you look at it from a certain point of view

Dial Hard

I finished Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys over the weekend. It was only alright (and I'm a huge Gaiman fan). The protagonist is a bit of a gormless idiot and I find it very hard to be anything other than frustrated with such characters.

Started Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey on Saturday. It's about a woman who escapes from a survivalist commune and is narrated in three parts, by her daughter, her dog (yes, really) and a teenage boy from the commune.

I'm only a few chapters in and haven't a rashers what's actually happening, but enjoying it so far. Dey's narrative style is quite different - think Joyce Carol Oates on acid.

Sephiroth_dude

The Bothhell Hell House by Keith Linder, gonna start it this evening maybe.

bonzodog2

The Friendly Orange Glow, The PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture - Brian Dear

kimokanto

Dial Hard wrote:

I finished Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys over the weekend. It was only alright (and I'm a huge Gaiman fan). The protagonist is a bit of a gormless idiot and I find it very hard to be anything other than frustrated with such characters.

I have never read any of Gaiman but would appreciate a recommendation for a first read??

eviltwin

How To Stop Time by Matt Haig.

optogirl

kimokanto wrote: »

I have never read any of Gaiman but would appreciate a recommendation for a first read??

Me too