What Are You Reading...?

[The Old Man]

I've just read or should I say listened to on audible The best of our spies by Alex Gerlis, it was a freebie. and the he's got some more French resistance ww2, I highly recommend him.

I did enjoy that and have two more of his in my Audible Library.

 

[robnchris]

Act of Oblivion by Richard Harris. About the regicides of 1649.

 

[AndyPK]

Now just starting the 4th Robert Hoon thriller, ‘Eastgate’ by JD Kirk - excellent series so far!

 

[Jenben]

Finished The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet. It’s a dark story about what someone will do to fit in society, the ending caught me out ( in a good way).

Act of Oblivion by Richard Harris. About the regicides of 1649.

That is a really good read.

 

[Jewellbags]

Druss the legend (read it at least 5 times ) by the late David Gemmel - but I do have all of his books .

Erubus by Michael palin - superb

Also like classic sci fi books

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[Mikeco]

The only time that I read a book is when we are in Spain over Winter and I must be weird because although I have read Lee Child’s and similar I keep going back to reading Dickens which I have been doing on and off for the last 10 years, on Bleak House at the moment.

 

[pampam]

Now I’m reading ‘Northwind: A Robert Hoon thriller’ by J D Kirk….

Love the hoon books ,have read back to front,i first read the hoon series and have started on the jack logans where hoon is his superior,and am loving them;
But loved the characters and humour in Hoon

 

[plug]

Billy connolly’s autobiography windswept&interesting

 

[AndyPK]

Love the hoon books ,have read back to front,i first read the hoon series and have started on the jack logans where hoon is his superior,and am loving them;
But loved the characters and humour in Hoon

Now on the second Jack Logan book - the first (‘A litter of bones’) was pretty dark…..!!

 

[Fidge]

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[PsychoticBadger]

"Witchfinder"...Malcolm Gaskill
"What An Owl Knows"...Jennifer Ackerman
"Goodbye To All That"...Robert Graves

BackUp Audibooks

"100 Years Of Annoying The French"...Stepehn Clarke
"The Colapse Of The Third Republic"..William L Shirer

 

[BillyBear]

Currently working my way through SPQR a history of Ancient Rome written by Mary Beard and waiting in the wings Mythos by Stephen Fry. For light reading I am currently on book 15 of the DI Kim Stone series written by Angela Marsons. Now that detective manages to get in some sticky situations but always manages to come out on top.

 

[PsychoticBadger]

Mary Beard is brill...try Laughter In Ancient Rome...Stephen Fry is a delight.

 

[Chipster]

Failure Is Not An Option. Gene Kranz.

 

[Smudger55]

The First 48 Hours by Simon Kernick, enjoyable crime read.

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[whisky walker]

The unknown warrior by John Nichol (The RAF Observer captured during Gulf war) is the story of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abby tomb. What a fantastic read and anyone who is interested in the past conflicts and wars a must read.

Cheers

 

[Puddleduck]

Wheel of Fortune by C F Dunn

War of the Roses puff novel but enjoyable. The next installment due out in April.

 

[RobbyMClark]

Trying to get into a trilogy of Aurthurian books by Bernard Cornwell.
Need a few book makers as lists of who the characters arr and ancient place names. Also it is written as if its a narrator telling the story.
"The Winter King"

 

[Jenben]

Just finished Rory Stewart ‘politics on the edge’ , it’s for the WI book club. I will be interested to hear the comments.

 

[AndyPK]

Now on book 10 of the DCI Logan crime books…….

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[MaidinDevon]

I have just read the Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer. I didn't have high expectations, but it was an excellent read.
I always go back to the Horseman Riding By trilogy, and Monica Dickens, Talking of horses (my "bible" as a teenager mad on horses.
I read a lot, mostly charit6 shop paperbacks, but I do have a kindle. I also have Audible, but somehow it seems too expensive for a novel, so I buy self help books or biographies.

 

[Bognor Saint]

Having read the Robert Hoon books I'm now on book 8 of DCI jack Logan series. Compulsive reading and a great set characters.

 

[Smudger55]

Just finished David Baldacci's Calamity of Souls, good read. Read many of his books.

Now started The Wrong Hands, Mark Billingham second book with a new character Dectective Declan Miller.

 

[L' Hobo]

Finally, some might say it's a bit late, got fed up of only half understanding the plot of most opera's, so I have decided to read thoroughly a book I've had for decades.

It called, Standard Stories From The Operas by Gladys Davidson.

Many years ago, I enjoyed a similar book telling the stories behind the Ballets, so we will see.
(Over the years, I have dipped into it already a few times before attending an opera, so look forwards to reading the rest )

Nice gentle holiday reading?

 

[Emmit]

Just finished, Jean de Florette.
Before I start Manon de Source I've started Don Quixote.

I like to challenge myself to read foreign language books of an age that have been translated.(Les Mis.)
I find the 'old fashioned' language makes my brain work.

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[KiwiKampers]

I am struggling to name my Top Five, but I know it would include anything by Wally Lamb (I Know This Much Is True, for example), anything by Margaret Forster (especially Have the Men Had Enough), all of Bill Bryson's books.
I agree with scotzsue and Tonks. I am a big fan of Neville Shute. I thoroughly recommend his biography (it may have been an autobiography, I can't remember now, and I can't remember the title either!) When travelling around Australia I re-read Neville Shute's A Town Like Alice, but I'd rather not re-read On The Beach in view of what's going on between Russia & Ukraine. It may be too close to the truth in the future.
I also like to soak up autobiographies of people who have lived worthwhile lives, in other words, not so-called celebrities.
All my reading is from books that I've found in book exchanges, book fairs and charity shops. I can't remember the last time I bought a new book.

 

[L' Hobo]

Just finished, Jean de Florette.
Before I start Manon de Source I've started Don Quixote.

I like to challenge myself to read foreign language books of an age that have been translated.(Les Mis.)
I find the 'old fashioned' language makes my brain work.

I loved the films, especially the first!

 

[Emmit]

I loved the films, especially the first!

I had both on DVD, lent them to a friend? and lost them.
After a search of about 10yrs I found the pair of them, brand new, (still in cellophane)
appropriately in Gods Waiting Room, Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

The woman in the Charity shop didn't know what to make of the geriatric, (me) jumping
up and down with joy.

 

[L' Hobo]

I had both on DVD, lent them to a friend? and lost them.
After a search of about 10yrs I found the pair of them, brand new, (still in cellophane)
appropriately in Gods Waiting Room, Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

The woman in the Charity shop didn't know what to make of the geriatric, (me) jumping
up and down with joy.

Do you need another friend you can lend them too?

 

[Emmit]

Do you need another friend you can lend them too?

You have two chances
Fat chance and NO! chance at all.

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