What are we reading atm?

Currently reading Sapiens - a brief history of human kind. Well I keep dipping in and out of it, this being a dip in period.

Also got Catch 22 on the go, again. I don't even know if I like it, it was just staring at me from the shelf.
 
Onto book 6 of 9 in the Fitz and the fool books by Robin Hobb. Still trying to decide what to read after them. I think Bernard Cornwell is releasing a new Sharpe book at the end of the month so will be reading that when it comes out. I normally rotate between historical fiction series and then a fantasy series. Also would like to read simon scarrow eagle series again and Joe aborcrombie has a new fantasy book out, so that will probably all I will be able to fit in to read in the remainder 2021.
 
Osboro said:
The Habsburgs
The Rise and fall of a World Power, Martyn Rady
The more I read of european and modern european history the more the meaning of nationality, citizens, subjects, patriotism, fraternity, royalty and country expand.
Did you know we ( england) were technically part of the Habsburg empire, if just for a short time
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I think I did. Was this in the period after Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, when Edward had died and Mary took the throne. Philip of Spain had a claim and a connection to Mary.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
Onto book 6 of 9 in the Fitz and the fool books by Robin Hobb. Still trying to decide what to read after them. I think Bernard Cornwell is releasing a new Sharpe book at the end of the month so will be reading that when it comes out. I normally rotate between historical fiction series and then a fantasy series. Also would like to read simon scarrow eagle series again and Joe aborcrombie has a new fantasy book out, so that will probably all I will be able to fit in to read in the remainder 2021.
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I must find the time to continue that Robin Hobb series.

I’m on holiday right now but I won’t get round to the Gemmell book I have. I will get round to the Scarrow one.

I’m in the middle of the Richar Osman Thursday Murder Club, which is wonderful and charming and funny.

My son has just finished the Wheel Of Time series and he says it was magnificent right to the end. I introduced him to the series but I stopped at book 8 or 9 because I found out the author died without completing the series, but the story was mapped out and apparently Brandon Sanderson has done a wonderful job completing it. I enjoyed them as far as I got, though they had just dipped a bit. Apparently 11 to 14 are belters.
 
Just finished the third and final book in Jonathan Coe's "Rotters' Club" trilogy - I've read the first one a couple of times over the years, but only recently managed to move on to the other two books, which I smashed through in a few days each. Brilliant, amusing and incisive writing.
 
Portrait of a legend-Spitfire. The fascinating story about this magnificent fighter plane, from it's creation and passage into history. Without it, a lot of what you guys are reading would undoubtedly be 'vorbotten'!
 
Lefty said:
I think I did. Was this in the period after Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, when Edward had died and Mary took the throne. Philip of Spain had a claim and a connection to Mary.
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Well done, that was the point, i have little formal history education having been thrown out ( literally) from a 2nd year senior history class for suggesting that the Royal family were the offspring of murderers and land grabbers and should be done away with (a catholic school in the early 1970's)
I retired 5 years ago and have spent 90% of my reading on history, a subject I love.
 
Just finished the Phillip Pulman ‘His DarkMaterials’ trilogy.

Didnt know anything about it at all when I started, other than it was in the all time top ten adult book list. Turns out it’s really for teenagers, and it’s a bit science fantasy/ fiction, all not my thing at all. Thoroughly enjoyed it, so a nice change.

Anyone who hasn’t read Birdsong I’ll give you that tip for free and you can thank me later.
 
Tryasize10 said:
Currently reading Sapiens - a brief history of human kind. Well I keep dipping in and out of it, this being a dip in period
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I bought this after it was highly recommended and I find it ponderous and boring. I have dipped several times but now abandoned less than half way and it has now found a place on the bookcase.
 
Some cracking recommendations on here, bookmarked.

Just finished The Force by Don Wilmslow - hands down the best corrupt cops and drug gangs in NYC literary thriller I’ve ever read, like The Wire crossed with the Godfather. Stressful af from about 10 pages in.

Chilling out from that with the Keith Richards autobiography, which is brilliant, and Directorate S by Steve Coll, which is a war on terror non-fiction journalistic book about Afghanistan, the CIA and the Pakistani ISI, and not as good as The Looming Tower or anything by Jason Burke, whose books about the subject are staggering.
 
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman

And Away - Bob Mortimer (came the other day and I couldn't resist diving right in).
 
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