The what are you reading at the moment fred

[dougal]

[dougal]

[dougal]

[dougal]

[crunchy frog]

Got this for Christmas,  I'm fair enjoying it. 

[Shanks said no]

Excellent, last of the trilogy

[TuckerCarlsonsToupee]

A music book called “The Birth and Impact of Britpop”.  An interesting take on the period.  Lots of stuff about bands outside of the big names.

[EH11_2NL]

I've seen A Sense of Freedom a dozen times and read the book 3 or 4. 

[dougal]

[superjack]

My daughters boyfriend got me a cracking book for Christmas, the 51 shirts book. Considering he's a hibby I think it's an amazing present.

[periodictabledancer]

Just finished it. Fascinating stuff about where DNA research is at now and what it can/ can't tell us. Some revelations about human origins. 

 

[Malinga the Swinga]

Finally got 'The Instruments if Darkness' by John Connolly. It's the latest in Charlie Parker series and it's awesome. 

[Boof]

[periodictabledancer]

5 hours ago, Boof said:

I've heard of it. 

[Ulysses]

1 hour ago, periodictabledancer said:

I've heard of it. 

 

Have you?

[dougal]

[tedarmy]

O

[tedarmy]

[Boof]

On 01/01/2025 at 16:56, Boof said:

 

On 01/01/2025 at 22:17, periodictabledancer said:

I've heard of it. 

 

Up to chapter 34 - still no mention of fitba'.

 

Thinking it's a bit of a dud...

[periodictabledancer]

39 minutes ago, Boof said:

 

 

Up to chapter 34 - still no mention of fitba'.

 

Thinking it's a bit of a dud...

[Seymour M Hersh]

True Believer by Jack Carr. Finished his first, Terminal List, just before Christmas it was v good.

[Haken]

 

 

One of King's better efforts of late.  Its politics have apparently upset a few folk and I doubt it's a coincidence that the two perpetrators' surname is Harris (not a spoiler, you know from the prologue who the baddies are).

 

And now onto:

 

[dougal]

[Shanks said no]

Easy read

[BlueRiver]

 

And 

 

[ehcaley]

Just finished Jo Nesbos The Kingdom and Blood Ties which,IMO,are his best so far.

[BlueRiver]

[BlueRiver]

Also 

On 21/01/2025 at 23:52, BlueRiver said:

 

And 

 

 

Finished The Wager the other night. Anybody that likes a story about shipwrecks, mutiny and survival in the 1700s...couldn't recommend it enough. Lord Byron's grandad was a midshipman on it and spent about 6 years away from home. Influenced a lot of his grandson's writing.  

 

Will definitely be picking up more by Grann. 

[tedarmy]

[Heart of Darkness]

[Heart of Darkness]

[Tazio]

All the time I was reading this I was thinking he’s going to make a lot of money from film and TV adaptations and it turns out Netflix have bought the rights to this already. And a film is planned based on his Thursday Murder Club series of books. 
 

[Haken]

[dougal]

[Haken]

[tedarmy]

[dougal]

[Shanks said no]

grew on me

[Francis Albert]

Georcg Orwell 's Inside the Whale, selection of essays first published in  1941. still relevant and readable today. (Ironic that a thread about reading consists almost entirely of pictures. Google Amazon Books if you want a picture of one of the many covers of the book)

Edited February 12, 2025 by Francis Albert

[Shanks said no]

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[dougal]

[Ribble]

About 75% of the way through the below and now fully aboard the Tony Bloom/Jamestown analytics train

[Haken]

[dougal]

[dougal]

[HeartsandonlyHearts]

Watched Slow Horses so thought I’d try Mick Herron.

The dark humor comes through even in the books.

I like them. Finished Dolphin Junction and now reading The Secret Hours.

[dougal]

[SE16 3LN]

Endell Street by Wendy Moore

 

Was always marketed as a feminist Suffragette book, but the horror story is the class system that broke young men in the trenches, most of whom didn't have the vote. Alright, Women who graduated Cambridge didn't have the same rights as their upper class male colleagues, but the malnourished, lice and disease ridden men they tried to save had none of their privileges. 

 

 

[Haken]

[tedarmy]