*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Nikkormat]

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton. About 30 pages in and I am enjoying it very much.

This was excellent.

Now reading The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane. I've not read any of his stuff before, and am enjoying it so far.

 

[Nikkormat]

This was excellent.

Now reading The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane. I've not read any of his stuff before, and am enjoying it so far.

Well that was a disappointment. Good when the author is writing about old paths, but that comprises maybe a quarter of the total. I stopped caring what the next page would bring after less than half way.

Now on Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa by Jane Rogoyska. I'm reading it over breakfast, as it's a fairly large book. Tomorrow I will start Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig as my commute book.

 

[rubbershoes]

The North Water by Ian McGuire

Turns out it's been made into a TV show

Nasty goings on on a whaling ship in cold waters.

 

[Mattym]

I have just finished The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

I've just started this!

 

[Nikkormat]

Tomorrow I will start Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig as my commute book.

That was brilliant. One of the very best novels I have ever read.

Next up is Born to Climb - From Rock Climbing Pioneers to Olympic Athletes by Zofia Reych.

 

[BristolEcho]

I'm reading Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala. It's great so far. Another one for sojourner

Just started this on audio book and like it so far.

 

[Nikkormat]

Next up is Born to Climb - From Rock Climbing Pioneers to Olympic Athletes by Zofia Reych.

Good. Nice overview, and motivating.

Now on The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton.

 

[seeformiles]

“The Silkworm” - Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)

 

[Nikkormat]

About to start The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

 

[Virtual Blue]

The End of the Affair - not sure why I didn't read this much sooner. The book spoke to me and I read it in 2 days. I loved how it was set in Central and South London.

Other good recent reads - The Sum of Us and Empireland.

 

[rubbershoes]

The End of the Affair - not sure why I didn't read this much sooner. The book spoke to me and I read it in 2 days. I loved how it was set in Central and South London.

Other good recent reads - The Sum of Us and Empireland.

Graham Greene is class.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Graham Greene is class.

He is!
I feel like I've missed out on some great writing. Can you recommend any of his other works?

 

[Virtual Blue]

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. It's the first one of his that I have read.
Enjoyable and strangely erotic.

 

[rubbershoes]

He is!
I feel like I've missed out on some great writing. Can you recommend any of his other works?

Our man in Havana
Brighton Rock
Th heart of the matter

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm on The dream of the Celt, Mario Vargas Llosa and I'm disappointed....it just seems to me badly edited with stylistic annoyances and a bad translation, I checked the name of the translator, she is an (American) English native speaker but she seems to have misplaced her dictionary. I've loved all Vargas Llosa's other books.

Anyway, interesting in a way: the life or Roger Casement, probably like most English people, I have no idea about Irish history and the Easter Rising

Started this the other day, it's fascinating but yes, something about the translation jars.

 

[BristolEcho]

Listening to Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant. I'm loving it and I can see from previous posts campanula feels the same. I wonder if narration really helps.

Also been reading the 4th Sharpe book and it's as solid as other. Though Cornwell does seem to love writing about various romances within his books.

Also listening to Mike Duncan's Book on Marquis de Lafayette following him from childhood, to the American and then French Revolution. It's been quite interesting and makes me want to go back and listen to Duncan's French Revolution series. Usually listen to this when walking the dog.

 

[pbsmooth]

I read Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. thought it wouldn't be my sort of thing but really enjoyed it. complex story woven together well with some nice twists.

 

[izz]

Currently on page 430 of 831, of Middlemarch and am absolutely loving it. I can see it's not really for everyone but am loving all the chewy wordiness of it along with the odd snarky bits.

 

[pbsmooth]

Just finished The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Took a while to get into but really enjoyed it by the end and can see myself reading it again.

 

[frogwoman]

I just finished Art School Orgy by Stewart Home. I couldn't put it down

 

[izz]

Currently on page 430 of 831, of Middlemarch and am absolutely loving it. I can see it's not really for everyone but am loving all the chewy wordiness of it along with the odd snarky bits.

Well !!! I fucking loved this one, the pace really picks up towards the end and I was thoroughly invested in all of the characters. It's never going to be a swift read but I do feel a tad bereft now I've finished it.

 

[stockwelljonny]

Just finished The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Took a while to get into but really enjoyed it by the end and can see myself reading it again.

Read this again recently having first read in the 90sand really enjoyed it, then went on to read Other Peoples trades.

 

[pbsmooth]

Other Peoples trades

Ah yeah I thought I might do that one too.

 

[flypanam]

Christopher Clark - Revolutionary Spring: fighting for a new world, 1848-1849.
Only a chapter in well written, and very good at looking at how hunger sapped insurrectionary activity and making comparisons with our contemporary era.

Jean Patrick Manchette- No room at the morgue. Hammett like fiction from the don of French noir writing imo.

 

[nottsgirl]

I’m reading None of this is true by Lisa Jewell. I’ve been struggling to read recently so reading some junk to get back into it. It’s working.

 

[seeformiles]

“Slaughterhouse Five” - Kurt Vonnegut. It’s been on my re-read list for years and I still love it’s dark humour.

 

[krtek a houby]

Drood - Dan Simmons. Enjoyable mystery yarn about Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Due to small print am slowly getting through the 700+ pages and occasionally jarring Americanisms. Otherwise, a good read.

 

[pbsmooth]

Richard Ford - Independence Day.

have really got into it

 

[technical]

The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant. About several generations of the same Jewish family through the 20th century. Really good so far.

 

[imposs1904]

“Slaughterhouse Five” - Kurt Vonnegut. It’s been on my re-read list for years and I still love it’s dark humour.

That's on my son's High School summer reading list. (There's 5 or 6 books listed and he has to read 2 of them.)

I'm trying to sell it to him by telling him that it's practically a novella.