What are we all reading right now?

A Light That Never Goes Out: The Smiths an Enduring Saga by Tony Fletcher

Love The Smiths so this is cat nip for me.
 
Couple of new books I'm getting in to:

"Fast after 50" - about maintainig and optimising athletic performance after 50 - Scientific but very intersting. Hoping to apply some ideas to my cycling.
"Spoon Fed" by Tim Spector - Debunking the myths about food and diet and how the food industry commission research to suit their own narrative.

Both really interesting.
 
Not reading as such, but just used my last two Audible credits to get Barack Obamas Autobiography and also Joe Marlers. A little different to the usual books I "read" which are usually business/economics/history subject matter heavy, but thought they'd be good to listen to over Christmas with a tub of Quality Street.
 
How to Survive The Internet by Paul Vlissidis from Channel 4's Hunters

Unbelievable how much data there is about us online.


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Just a mention for a magazine called Bylines, all about lesser known railways, usually in the rest of the UK except December’s issue has Cargo Fleet in it. All interesting photos of the industrial locomotives in and around that area but the best bit is a map of Doggy from the crossing and with the works in the area about 1925 well before the Riverside and stuff. Worth a shuffle in WHSMITH ( like it was Mayfair or one of them mags)......do they still exist?
 
I am reading 2 boos at the minute a legal thriller by John Ellsworth called Defending Turquios and The Expert at the Card Table a 1909 treatise on card manipulation.
 
Das Reich by Max Hastings. About the nazi occupation of France.
I bought it because the other half took me to Oradour sur Glane recently. A town where a terrible massacre took place and after the war De Gaule ordered it be preserved as is as a reminder of the atrocities . Really interesting, if horrible, place. Especially the church
 
Das Reich by Max Hastings. About the nazi occupation of France.
I bought it because the other half took me to Oradour sur Glane recently. A town where a terrible massacre took place and after the war De Gaule ordered it be preserved as is as a reminder of the atrocities . Really interesting, if horrible, place. Especially the church
Cheers ST, a real education reading up on what happened there. Utterly horrific!
 
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard - think she's trying to be too clever in her writing style and I'm not finding it that readable which is a shame.
Wasn’t keen either. Would recommend Rubicon by Tom Holland if you haven’t read it already. Very readable
 
Just finishing The Little Fella. Enjoyed it. Next up either Adolf Hitler (by Toland not Milligan) or Obama’s latest. Depends what mood I’m in
 
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