what book are you reading ?

An old Army mate of mine is now an established author, specialising in police/crime fiction. I bought his entire catalogue on Kindle and read them all over the space of a couple of weeks. Highly recommended. One won Crime Novel of the year, amazon bestseller and has been picked up by the BBC.

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Just finished Do No Harm by Henry Marsh. Documents his long career as an eminent neurosurgeon. Not for the faint hearted.
Also reading the Bruno Giordiano books by SJ Parris about an Italian monk/philosopher at the time of Elizabeth the 1st. Really cracking and atmospheric books and she certainly evokes the sense of period. If you like the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom you will like these.
 
grumpyoldgit said:
Update: finished Animal Farm and about to start Burmese Days. I often have a bedside book and a daytime book - anyone else have what used to be "light reading" before sleep? And that's not a euphemism.
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Yeah I tend to have a ‘real book’ and a Kindle book on the go, real book is A Short History of Europe from Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins and I’m on with the Bela Guttmann story on Kindle. Enjoying both.
 
jam69 said:
re-reading mccathys bar by pete mccarthy, even better than i remembered it
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@jam69 I enjoyed that book. You may like Round Ireland With A Fridge and Playing the Moldovans at Tennis(he tries to play the entire 11 Moldovan team who lost to England 4-0) by Tony Hawks. One of them was after a drunken bet with Arthur Smith. Good,light stuff,oh,he meets a Boro fan as well in the Ireland book.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Reading a book about a lady with autism and its an explanation of how she reacts to different things. My daughter as Aspergers, so its a learning curve for me to try and understand her better. Pretty eye opening stuff.
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Whats the book called barronsmoggie that would be something i would be interested in
 
'Spoken Here' by Mark Abley. An account of the thousands of dying languages around the world. He speaks to one elderly native Australian who is somewhat lonely, as he is the very last person on earth who speaks the language of the people he grew up surrounded by. The old fella learned two other languages but can't even talk to his own wife and family in his native tongue.
 
Erimus11 said:
Just started "Detroit 67 The Year That Changed Soul" by Stuart Cosgrove

" A gritty portrait of the year Motown unravelled......a wonderful book and a welcome contribution to both the history of soul music and the history of Detroit" - Spiked
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Part of a trilogy although I find Cosgrove hard going these days, maybe's it's just me but he seems to have gone into "why use ten words when I can use a 100" style of writing. Mind he was often like that in NME days.

I'm working way way through all the Rebus books from start to finish. Up to "Set In Darkness".
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
I normally have a couple on the go at the same time:-

The Nanny State Made Us - Stuart Maconie which is especially pertinent at the moment.
The Five - Hallie Rubenhold about the victims of Jack the Ripper

Finished The Beast, The Emperor and The Milkman by Great Ayton's own Harry Pearson which is probably the best book I've read this year so far.
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Fancy all those you listed Lizards👍
 
My mate usually gets me a book for Xmas, birthday, the book I'm reading at present is called Cilkas Journey a 16 year old Jewish girl who is taken to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 but her story gets worse after the liberation
 
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