What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

Just finished reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

Brilliant book , unusual but very enjoyable and it's really great escapism and really transports you back to another time and place.It's a very sensual book and you really need to use your imagination and get a feel for it.

A Heart full of Headstones by Ian Rankin. Nearly finished reading this, vintage John Rebus. Rebus has retired and suffering with COPD, but his past shenanigans in Police Scotland is catching up with him and may bring him down this time. I’m really enjoying this book.

The Rhine: Ben Coates

Starting in the Netherlands, author follows the path of the Rhine , meeting locals and revealing the history of the river.

About third way through and its pretty good.

Closer to

John Grisham’s, The Exchange. This is a follow up to his book The Firm. It catches up with Mitch and Abby when they had to escape the mob when they became informants for the FBI. It was a typical John Grisham, fast paced and page turning. It certainly had a lot of travel involved in rescuing one of his colleagues from his law firm, and a daughter of an old friend and colleague. It involved trips to Libya, Rome, Marrakesh, and London. She had been kidnapped by terrorists when they visited Libya on a business trip. It is set in the years Gadaffi was still alive and in charge.

Read Stephen King's new short story collection You Like it Darker and John Connolly's The Instruments of Darkness over the past week or so. A lot of the King stories felt like nods to previous works. Well, and there's an actual "follow up" to Cujo in there. The Connolly was fine, it's typical Charlie Parker, you know exactly what you're going to get.

Currently reading Jamie Collinson's The Rejects, which is a very fascinating and entertaining look at people who've been kicked out of bands over the years. I'm not a *huge * non-fiction reader, but ripping through this.

There's also a TV show based on it that came out recently.

I’m not really reading anything until I get proper reading glasses , but to tide me through I’m after ordering one of The Far Side books . They crack me up 😆

Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor

A fictionalised retelling of the life of Cork born infamous pirate Anne Bonny. I was hoping for a more swashbuckling adventure but the first half of this book is just dedicated to lesbian sex. Disappointed.

Human Kind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman. I literally just opened the first page.

this is what worries me about TFS book . It will take ages to read a page , at least twice , then again when I get it

Past Lying by Val McDermid. I only recently started reading her books. This was a good read. Another book set during lockdown in Edinburgh. She was on safe ground with this as it was all about authors and crime writers. A crime writer dies and leaves his archive to the National Library, but among them is an unfinished novel which is very similar to a real life case of a missing student who wanted to become a crime writer and disappears without trace. He had boasted that he could commit the perfect crime, so was this it? It was a Karen Pirie mystery and I enjoyed it, parts of course were a bit far fetched, and I was able to guess the ending.

I am binge-reading Patricia Cornwell's Dr Kay Scarpetta series,currently on one I haven't read before

I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant by Miklós Nyiszli

I picked this up when I visited Auschwitz a couple of weeks ago and got to say it is interesting. This is the first book I have come across that gives the perspective of the Sonderkommando and the horrible things they had to do. Nyiszli's story is an interesting one, particularly considering how closely he had to work with Mengele and the evidence he was able to relate about experimentations on twins, dwarfs, etc. and mass extermination.

I'm on the 9th Orphan X book by Gregg Hurwitz. Absolutely loving them. Loving Evan Smoak and his vodka collection.

A bit like Jason Bourne, with a little background home life included, if that makes sense.

With nine books in the series (so far) and a film deal in the pipeline, this series is worth reading.