What are you reading

[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!

 

[stephec]

Just finished the one on the left, now starting the one on the right.

 

[Marchrider]

Just finished the one on the left, now starting the one on the right.

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how did you get on with the Guy martin one ?

 

[Alex H]

 

[Marchrider]

I seen a video called that once

 

[stephec]

how did you get on with the Guy martin one ?

It's written how you'd imagine him telling it, so he either wrote it all himself or he's got a really good ghost writer.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

It's written how you'd imagine him telling it, so he either wrote it all himself or he's got a really good ghost writer.

Essentially dictated, I believe

 

[stephec]

I don't normally read story books but I like James Holland's history books so thought I'd give it a go.

It's a good read and the chapters are short enough that you can knock a couple off each night before going to sleep.

How Dermot O'Leary knows what life was like back then is a bit of a surprise though.

 

[newts]

I've just read The Long Call by Ann Cleeves, murder mystery set in North Devon. The first of the Two Rivers series of books, 3 more to read.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 4th


Just collected this, as a request, from the local Library
It’s a 1997 edition
Rather oddly, in the Leeds Library system, it’s a reference book, so can’t be taken out on loan!
(I might have expected that in Barnsley Libraries)
I thought l might read it, after enjoying his ‘Britain’ travel book

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yesterday, just at random, I was listening to Radio 4. & (so it seems) 'Start The Week'
They were interviewing the writer of what seems a very intriguing book, by Kaliane Bradley
Going from what was said, & the wikipedia description, it could almost be a Michael Crichton novel
I might have to buy a copy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Time_(novel)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/kaliane-bradley/the-ministry-of-time/9781399743600/
https://www.hodder.co.uk/contributor/kaliane-bradley/