What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

I never read them when I was younger but have started dipping into them in recent months. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is my favourite so far. She was very ahead of her time and could write great arse holes. You're going through an entire family etc and all seem pretty capable of murder.

I'm reading Magic Study by Maria Snyder. Really enjoyed Poison Study before it.

Has anyone read anything by Robert Crowmell? Would you recommend?

I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards

The Kon-Tiki Museum Guide

Picked this up when I visited said museum in Oslo. This guide gives a brief but nonetheless interesting overview of Thor Heyerdahl's ground breaking exploits across a long career.

Highlights include the infamous Kon-Tiki, Ra, Ra II and Tigris adventures to prove that ancient people's did have the seaworthy craft to travel further than first believed. He also excavated on Easter Island and was the first outsider to be granted access to secret family owned caves on the island.

Pictured below are the Kon-Tiki and Ra II rafts that are held in the Kon-Tiki Museum.

Just ordered this on the advice of Mike McGlone, Bloomberg on a recent David Lin interview. https://youtu.be/5hleEr9oKA4?si=T7cOef5yOucQ9MAN

Apparently written in such a style as to make it 'reasonably' accessible. As we're at the end of 40+years of cheap money, I will take what insights I can from this.

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

https://amzn.eu/d/3b7PBNB

Reading Babylon's Ashes, sixth book of the Expanse. This one does a lot of character jumping, largely works but can be jarring at times.

The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial by Margaret Maitland

Gives a brief overview of the evolution of how the Ancient Egyptians buried their dead with accompanying images of artifacts found in tombs.

Decided to read some of the books I picked up on my travels over to The National Museum of the Royal Navy and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard during the summer

The Mary Rose: Immersed Details the birth of Henry VIII's Mary Rose, how she was lost, the rediscovery of her and the raising and conservation of the starboard side. Really worth a visit if you like shipwrecks and very interesting to see the interior of the ship (they also have excellent projections showcasing who worked where on the ship) that you don't get with the Vasa in Stockholm.

HMS Victory Takes you through the era surrounding the life of the historic HMS Victory, the officers who captained her, to her role in the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. Also details the damage done to her during WWII, the constant conservation required to maintain her and includes plenty of photographs.

HMS Warrior Looks at the pride of Queen Victoria's navy. Warrior was the first ironclad ship of the Royal Navy and she came into being as a result of the French designing the La Goire, which was the first seagoing ironclad ship, and thus made the Queen believe her navy was falling behind the French. The book looks at Warriors commissions, details her decks and gives an insight as to what life onboard was like for both officers and crew. Unfortunately for the Warrior, her innovative success was also her downfall as the British kept up the pace of developing new and more powerful battleships, she quickly became redundant and fell out of favour. The book then details her restoration to her original specs so that she can go on display as a floating museum.

HMS M.33 This book looks at the history the only surviving British ship from the Battle Gallipoli in WWI. The M.33 is a small ship in comparison to other Royal Navy vessels at the time and that was her advantage, she was faster and could get closer to banks to fire on targets or to monitor enemy movements. She had a small crew including a dog and was deemed a "lucky ship" as she suffered no casualties during the war. Like the books mentioned above, this one details the conservation efforts to get her to her current state as a museum.

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Souvenir Guidebook This book gives a brief overview of all of the above vessels plus the only surviving WWII era British submarine, HMS Alliance, the first ever Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1, and the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower.