*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[BoatieBird]

I don't know what sort of stuff you're into but I reckon it's impossible not to like either of these books by Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost and The News Where You Are

http://www.catherineoflynn.com/books/what-was-lost/
http://www.catherineoflynn.com/books/the-news-where-you-are/

Mick Jackson's The Underground Man is quite delightful as well

http://www.mickjackson.com/books/the-underground-man/

I'd second that about the Catherine O'Flynn books killer b
I read them both last year after you mentioned them Frances and loved them both.

Will check out the Mick Jackson one.

 

[William of Walworth]

Trying to read more books this year.

Recently finished 'Le Freak' (Nile Rodgers's autobiography. Lots of bigheaded namedropping, but very well written and smart and entertaining.

Now three quarters through Mark Radcliffe's 'Reeling In the Years' -- a song/chapter for every year of his life. Lots of wildly offtopic rambling, but also lots of excellent musical insights and information, and very readable.

Soon, I plan to get away from the musical theme for a bit and finally get round to reading Wolf Hall ...

 

[MrSki]

My little Armalite by James Hawes.
A very easy but enjoyable read.
A bit of a 21st Century Tom Sharpe. Has male twins (not female quadruplets) & is a university lecturer rather than a college of HE
Readable in a day or two.

Like a lot of books (especially farces) it promised a lot & was a shite ending.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

King Solomon's Mines - Henry Rider Haggard.

 

[TruXta]

About to finish The Master and Margarita - think I'll start on The Wasp Factory after this.

 

[sojourner]

Another great book The Wasp Factory. Let me know what you think of M&M when you're done

 

[TruXta]

Another great book The Wasp Factory. Let me know what you think of M&M when you're done

I've only got the epilogue left. I think it's ace. Not sure if I can be bothered to read the commentary at the back tho. It's the Picador edition btw.

 

[sojourner]

I've only got the epilogue left. I think it's ace. Not sure if I can be bothered to read the commentary at the back tho. It's the Picador edition btw.

Can't remember what mine is. Commentary's not necessary anyway unless you really fancy it.

 

[TruXta]

Can't remember what mine is. Commentary's not necessary anyway unless you really fancy it.

There's a reason I never got on with Lit Crit

 

[sojourner]

There's a reason I never got on with Lit Crit

I like doing it - don't like reading other people's

 

[TruXta]

I like doing it - don't like reading other people's

Fair fucks.

 

[Greebo]

Still near the start of Confessio Amantis (it is extremely long). Interspersed with Catherine Cusset's Jouir for a bit of light relief.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times - Howard Zinn.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Black Company- Glen Cook

like a gutter gemmel

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau.

 

[stupid dogbot]

The Black Company- Glen Cook

like a gutter gemmel

I really like the first three, but I've never gone further.

 

[TruXta]

The Black Company- Glen Cook

like a gutter gemmel

You like it then?

Just started Dust by Hugh Howey, last in his post-apocalyptic trilogy.

 

[DotCommunist]

You like it then?

Just started Dust by Hugh Howey, last in his post-apocalyptic trilogy.

its a bit shallow but not bad.
I've sidelined it in favour of 'The Citys Son'

a YA novel very much in the Other London tradition. Modern, quite good. Railwraiths, Spirits in the lamposts, a gcse age girl graff artist and the Son of the Streets, prince in waiting to the Skyscraper Throne

Like.

 

[TruXta]

its a bit shallow but not bad.
I've sidelined it in favour of 'The Citys Son'

a YA novel very much in the Other London tradition. Modern, quite good. Railwraiths, Spirits in the lamposts, a gcse age girl graff artist and the Son of the Streets, prince in waiting to the Skyscraper Throne

Like.

I think where you see shallow I see fast-paced. He dwells a lot less on character details than many other authors in favour of building the grander story arcs. Stick with it - it gets better and better IMO.

 

[5t3IIa]

Rites of Passage by William Golding! Far too many exclamation marks! Very distracting! But I am only on page 5!

Loved this ^ Just taken delivery of part two

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times - Howard Zinn.

Fabulous stroll through the life of Howard Zinn from his early teaching career, WW2, the civil rights movement, vietnam and the dictatorial madness of Boston University. I took a lot from this book but one thing in particular. Even in the smallest acts of resistance and rebellion there can be found hope and that hope eats away at cynicism, indifference and despair.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy. - Mark Curtis.

 

[inva]

If It Is Your Life by James Kelman

 

[big eejit]

On The Beach by Neville Shute.

 

[little_legs]

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Loving Lahiri’s writing style, her stories are simple, to the point, and detailed, but the emotion expressed in each story can be felt so clearly.

 

[NotSoBrightCat]

The wife bought me 'The Electric Guitar Daydream Quest' by Matt Rothwell for Christmas. It's quite funny and certainly rings true from my days playing in a rock band.

 

[sojourner]

Just started Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy. A bit late in the day I suppose to read it, but then again, it has started with promise, referring to many points which are just as valid today.

 

[TruXta]

About to finish Dust by Hugh Howey. Time to pick up Wasp Factory after that I reckon.

 

[starfish]

Currently reading Morrisseys autobiography but i might put it on hold for a bit as ms starfish has just finished The Memoirs of Count Arthur Strong and spent the last week or so literally wetting herself reading it.

 

[TikkiB]

Just finished Tracey's Thorn's autobiography which I really enjoyed, and now onto Nile Rodger's autobiography. I do like a bit of juxtapositioning when reading musicians' books - read Keith Richards immediately after Rod Stewart's last week, and I think I preferred RS's the more. Any man who has a chapter just about his hair isn't all bad.