What are you reading

[Profpointy]

Just coming to the end of this

It's a non-technical, though by no means simple account of the structure of our universe on the very largest of scales, the author, Richard Gott was jointly credited in the Guinness Book of records from having identified the then largest structure consisting of millions of galaxies. Book starts with preamble of the evidence for the big bang, then "inflation" in which the universe expanding ridiculously fast for a very short time (which explains the "flatness problem" - ie why, amongst other things, the cosmic background radiation is so uniform), then gets into the meat of the story about how galaxies are arranged at the very largest scales into groups, filaments and huge voids - the area of research of the author. A good new-scientist level read about something I didn't know a lot about

 

[raleighnut]

I read one Rebus book. It was alright, but I think Rebus had a lot on his plate. Nazi war spies, Serbian sex traffickers, and the Japanese Yakuza.

I've got every book.

 

[mistyoptic]

I am reading Blue Moon by Lee Child. Every time I finish reading a Jack Reacher book I wonder how many of Reacher's bastards are running around America. I can imagine one saying, "Tell me about my father, mommy." She would look wistfully into the distance and say something like, "He was a Prince. He was a free spirit. He was too much man for one woman. Blah-di-blah-di-blah."

I’m getting a bit irritated by Reacher. The plots are OK in their way but the typeface and margins are getting bigger so your thick book actually has significantly less content than expected

 

[All uphill]

As the weather's not good enough for enjoyable hard work on the bike, then this is a good alternative. Definitely hard work and enjoyable.

 

[Marchrider]

Just finished 'The White Queen' by Philippa Gregory, not enjoyed it as much as some of her other more fictional books (Tidelands & The Wise Women, were just brilliant page-turners), but nevertheless an interesting look at the war of the roses from the perspective Edward IV wife Elizebeth. What brutal times, betrayal, backstabbing, murder, what terrible people - the lot of them

Now started something very different - set in a very posh Edinburgh, Isabel Dalhousie and 'the Right Attitude to Rain'.

just finished it, not the best, but OK, what an unexpected ending, I will have to get the next

but in the mean time, my xmas read is going to be another Phillipa Gregory, Wideacre, 'a story of love and unsettling passions' hope its good, over 600 pages and the print is small.

not very impressed with the cover, but there is a saying about that!