What Book are you Reading.................RIGHT NOW!!!

[mackenzie]

Reading 3 at the moment:

Anthony Trollope - The Warden (first book of the Barchester Chronicles)
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II (Going to see it at the Globe Theatre in a couple of weeks so want to understand a bit about it).

When I fancy something less demanding I pick up Simon Cooper's - Football for Life.

Have you read Wolf Hall, PB?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Reading 3 at the moment:

Anthony Trollope - The Warden (first book of the Barchester Chronicles)
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II (Going to see it at the Globe Theatre in a couple of weeks so want to understand a bit about it).

When I fancy something less demanding I pick up Simon Cooper's - Football for Life.

Have you read Wolf Hall, PB?

How weird. Just flicking through this thread again and saw this.

No I haven't. I got a Kindle recently and got through the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on that. Great book but takes a couple of chapters to warm up as you said. Just started on Operation Mincemeat, about the deception operation in WW2, involving dropping a dead body off the coast of Spain. I love well-written Military History and this is fascinating.

Someone mentioned "The Boys" a few pages back, about a group of young Jews who somehow survived the concentration camps. I know a few of the people mentioned in it and went on a trip to Auschwitz that one of them was one. It's a wonderfully written and very moving book. How you could live a normal life after going through that is beyond me.

 

[mackenzie]

No I haven't. I got a Kindle recently and got through the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on that. Great book but takes a couple of chapters to warm up as you said. Just started on Operation Mincemeat, about the deception operation in WW2, involving dropping a dead body off the coast of Spain. I love well-written Military History and this is fascinating.

Someone mentioned "The Boys" a few pages back, about a group of young Jews who somehow survived the concentration camps. I know a few of the people mentioned in it and went on a trip to Auschwitz that one of them was one. It's a wonderfully written and very moving book. How you could live a normal life after going through that is beyond me.

I am pretty sure I have read about the event that you refer to, but not in great detail. Is that the one where the body had false documents planted on it?

Wolf Hall is a great read if you are interested in Tudor history; it is almost as if you are there. Thomas Cromwell was a fascinating man, from very lowly beginnings, and it also made a change to see another side of that great "saint" Thomas More.

 

[JamesTenOne]

Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin

Started reading it yesterday. Complete bizarre. Finding it hard to put down though.

 

[Totnes Blue]

Foundation-Isaac Asimov

 

[Bozo]

The Empty Canvas. Moravia.

 

[foxy]

Has anybody read 'Hacienda, how not to run a club' by Peter Hook?

If so, would you recommend it? Ta

 

[andy h]

In One Person by John Irving. Only three chapters in but it seems like a typical Irving novel.

 

[bluegirl74]

I know I'm late to this but finally got round to reading Lakey's "I'm not really here" this week.
Cried all the way through it and coudn't put it down 'til I knew he was all right.

 

[pominoz]

"The bread bible" by Christine Ingram and Jennie Shapter.

I have a "poppy seeded bloomer" in the oven as we speak :)