*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[kittyP]

Rachel Hewitt's Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

I would love to read this.

OS maps make me feel all tingly inside

 

[Biddlybee]

I have just ordered this The Teleportation Accident
Found a National Book Tokens gift card that the FIL gave me for my birthday about 2 years ago and it worked on line yay!

I can't remember where I heard about it now, maybe the radio...

sounds interesting

I'm reading The Sisters Brothers... really enjoying it, third book in as many weeks

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Just finished "Whispers Underground" - Ben Arranovitch's latest. Okay but not as good as his others, less scary.

Not sure what next, will have to look at what is laying round at home.

 

[kittyP]

sounds interesting

I'm reading The Sisters Brothers... really enjoying it, third book in as many weeks

Even though I think it is nothing like it really, the blurb and cover reminded me of The End of Mr Y.
Did you get around to reading that at all?

 

[Biddlybee]

I don't have it, so nope

I've got a huge pile of books but keep seeing new ones I want to read.

 

[andy2002]

I really enjoyed Kim Newman's 'Anno Dracula' a few months ago, so have just started the sequel, 'The Bloody Red Baron'.

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm reading Ian McEwan's Solar, interspersed with bits of David Crystal's The Stories of English.

 

[tommers]

I'm reading "Riding Through the Dark", which is David Millar's autobiography. And I've got the complete works of Lovecraft on the go too.

 

[xenon]

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scot Linch. It's fucking brilliant.

 

[redsquirrel]

Am onto the second part of kershaw's hitler bio, the one that covers the war. i hadn't read anything in depth about the nazi regime for a long time, but what a fucking bastard. my hatred is renewed

Superb book

 

[DotCommunist]

Dozois 2011 collection of the years best sci fi shorts. A mixed bag. Dozois year review at the start is thorough and interesting as ever. This year there seems to be quite aa few american entries who don't get how a short story works, its not write to word limit then leave a few ellipses. That will not do in place of an ending

and Alisdair Reynolds entry was proper lazy, but I think he spent most of the year on Blue Remembered Earth

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The City of London - Volume IV (1945-1980) David Kynaston. Interesting to read about the history of the City in the 1940s and 50s.

I've got a few of his books. Never dull.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I would love to read this.

OS maps make me feel all tingly inside

I like A - Z's, me.Fuck google maps, A to Z's are far more detailed, someone must have to walk about town mapping all these tiny little paths and such.

 

[TruXta]

Ian C. Esslemont - Return of the Crimson Guard. His second in the Malazan universe. About 40 pages in, so far so good.

 

[kittyP]

I don't have it, so nope

I've got a huge pile of books but keep seeing new ones I want to read.

I am pretty sure I leant it to you one night after being at ours at BWL.
Me and Kam were arguing about who's copy you should borrow

Don't worry if not, I have probably leant it to someone else.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ian C. Esslemont - Return of the Crimson Guard. His second in the Malazan universe. About 40 pages in, so far so good.

did you do Night of Knives?

was lightweight I thought,didn't quite show Ians skill. RoTCG is an improvement

 

[TruXta]

did you do Night of Knives?

was lightweight I thought,didn't quite show Ians skill. RoTCG is an improvement

Nope, just picked this up. Got the new Erikson book too, first in the Kharkanas series. Rake, Draconus, Mother Dark mmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[DotCommunist]

Nope, just picked this up. Got the new Erikson book too, first in the Kharkanas series. Rake, Draconus, Mother Dark mmmmmmmmmmmm.

OMG i didn't not know of these.ta.

 

[Biddlybee]

I am pretty sure I leant it to you one night after being at ours at BWL.
Me and Kam were arguing about who's copy you should borrow

Don't worry if not, I have probably leant it to someone else.

Nope not me, maybe the Cptn? I do have your Philip Pullman books though

 

[frogwoman]

Superb book

aye, i also read Michael Burleigh's "Death and Deliverance" as well about the aktion-t4 programme

both really good, if burleigh's one was slightly spoilt by slagging off marxism every now and again

 

[kittyP]

Nope not me, maybe the Cptn? I do have your Philip Pullman books though

Ah it's all swings and roundabouts innit I have some books of yours too.
Maybe I leant it to Cass...

 

[Frances Lengel]

Am onto the second part of kershaw's hitler bio, the one that covers the war. i hadn't read anything in depth about the nazi regime for a long time, but what a fucking bastard. my hatred is renewed

Hitler? A bastard? Surely not.

You ever heard of this book - Swastika Night by Katherine Burdekin?

https://solarbridge.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/swastika-night-katherine-burdekin/

 

[frogwoman]

Hitler? A bastard? Surely not.

You ever heard of this book - Swastika Night by Katherine Burdekin?

https://solarbridge.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/swastika-night-katherine-burdekin/

i've heard of it aye, didn't realise it was written in 1937. worth a look?

 

[Frances Lengel]

I don't know - I've got it, but not got round to it yet. Just thought it might be the kinda thing you might be into. And Dot as well - It's not exactly science fiction, but it's in the future init?

 

[starfish]

March Violets by Phillip Kerr. The first Bernie Gunther novel.

 

[frogwoman]

didn't know our bernie was into science fiction

 

[magneze]

I'm still trying to read Kraken. About halfway through but it's tougher going than any of his other books so far.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

John Connolly "The Burning Soul". It's started well.

 

[izz]

Just finished 'Laughter in the Dark' by Nabokov. I desperately want either a new Proulx, McCarthy or Mantel but it'll be ages yet. Dang.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm reading Bringing Up The Bodies, izz. It is utterly brilliant! Of course.