What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

A gangster's guide to sobriety by Richie Stevens - it's brilliant and more than a little scary how far you can slip.

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound

I am absolutely obsessed with Shackleton and was so elated when it was announced in early 2022 that his ill-fated Endurance was found in exemplar condition at the bottom of the Antarctic, I was so excited to see the pictures taken by the expedition crew. So when I heard that the man responsible for this amazing feat was writing a tell-all book I had to immediately preorder it.

Part 1 of the book deals with the failed 2019 expedition which featured as an episode on the season 1 Lawrence Fishbourne narrated "Histories Greatest Mysteries" (which I highly recommend watching). Part 2 is dedicated to the successful Endurance22 expedition launched in February 2022. Along with his fascinating narrative on day-to-day events, which is delivered in a daily diary form, Bound also links his unfolding story to that of Shackleton, the Endurance and her crew.

The book features some stunning shots of the Endurance from her final resting place by the cutting edge submersible employed for this groundbreaking discovery.

Murder Most Local: Historic Murders of North Cork by Peter O'Shea

I have now gotten through 4 out of the 5 books in the series.

Real annoyed by this, foudn them handy becuase it can be hard for irish bookstores to preorder a book unless its already on their wholesalers system. Heard blackwell's in the UK mentioned as an alternative? I also use Kennys.ie which ahs free delivery has a good enough selection as irish book selleers go.

To tell the truth , I haven’t read a book in a long while , though I seem to be collecting a little library to keep me busy when I get decent reading glasses .

latest one comprises my two main interests , books on Republican figures and history .

The Dream of the Celt is about Roger Casement and his time and experiences as a British diplomat in Southern Africa and South America , and his change from being a loyal unionist to being a leader of The Easter Rising . I imagine it’s something like a literary ‘The Motorcycle Dairies’

I must get a new library card . There's books I want to reread. 2 are ‘bringing ou the dead’ by John Connelly ( a great book but crap film ) and ‘ The Big Nowhere’ by James Ellroy . I still remember when reading that and one of the main protagonists dies and I was shocked.

I enjoyed both the book and the film. You see the book incorrectly filed under ‘Irish Fiction’ from time to time.

I didn’t like the film at all . It’s kind of the same with every book I’ve read that’s dramatised. I have my own notions of what it’s like . And Nicolas Cage being in it didn’t help . The only one I liked was Lord of the Rings .

I’ve never read those books. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Steven King book.

iv read it and the black daliha . But I thought the big nowhere was the best . Ellroy has some outlook into LA , probably because of what happened to his mother .