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What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

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    #1802
    Jack Daw
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    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.



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    #1803
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,648 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I bought Stephen King's new short story collection the other day, it'll be my reward when I finish They Both Die at the End. Also, I was ridiculously excited to discover yesterday that he's currently editing an anthology of short stories by other writers, all set in the universe of The Stand, called The End of the World As We Know It. No release date yet that I can find, but I can't wait!!!



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    #1804
    AMTE_21
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭AMTE_21


    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.



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    #1805
    Tauriel
    Registered Users Posts: 30,425 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Shipwreck: Gibsons of Scilly by Carl Douglas and Björn Hagberg

    This book is centered on photographs, taken by five generations of the Gibson family, of shipwrecks along the shores of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Shipwrecks include impressive sailing ships, passenger liners, fishing vessels and naval vessels.



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    #1806
    bullpost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭bullpost


    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.



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    #1807
    Tigerbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Tigerbaby


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122262571#Comment_122262571

    So you're somewhere around Bonn then !😎



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    #1808
    bullpost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭bullpost


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122278236#Comment_122278236

    Closer to

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAC47w80lSI



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    #1809
    AMTE_21
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭AMTE_21


    Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare. A murder mystery set in the 1930s. Lena is a singer in a Soho nightclub who thinks her life and her career has passed her by. When she’s offered a job in a Broadway musical, sailing on the Queen Mary first class , she thinks it might be too good to be true. But she gets caught up in murder in Soho so jumps at the chance. But her troubles follow her on board. It’s a good read, the plot a bit far fetched and confusing but it captures the atmosphere of those times well.



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    #1810
    AMTE_21
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭AMTE_21


    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.



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    #1811
    Tauriel
    Registered Users Posts: 30,425 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris

    Fascinating account of a true story murder which took place in Victorian-era Dublin, the constraints of not having modern forensic technology to aid police investigations and backwards laws which could ultimately allow justice to be evaded.



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    #1812
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,648 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    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.



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    #1813
    Charlo30
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    Manhunt. About the 12 day hunt for John Wilkes Booth. It's a history book but so we'll written it reads like a thriller. Very enjoyable so far



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    #1814
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122322082#Comment_122322082

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



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    #1815
    Tauriel
    Registered Users Posts: 30,425 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122322329#Comment_122322329

    Yep on Apple TV. It's very good.



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    #1816
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,901 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    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 😆



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    silliussoddius
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