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This week I have been reading

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  • blackheathcanuckblackheathcanuck
    Reading Hardy Women (about the women in the life and fiction of Thomas Hardy) by Paula Byrne. If you love Hardy, you'll enjoy this 600-odd page volume.
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    DaveMehmet said:
    Whilst I'm reasonably well read, I realised a while ago that there's a lot of books I haven't got round to reading. Have got through a few classics and am currently on Grapes of Wrath. Gave up on Catcher in The Rye though unfortunately, call me a philistine but thought it was shite.
    agree on both counts .. Steinbeck is one of my favourite writers especially on the 1930s 'depression years' in the USA
  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    DaveMehmet said:
    Whilst I'm reasonably well read, I realised a while ago that there's a lot of books I haven't got round to reading. Have got through a few classics and am currently on Grapes of Wrath. Gave up on Catcher in The Rye though unfortunately, call me a philistine but thought it was shite.
    You phony!
  • North Lower NeilNorth Lower Neil
    edited June 3
    About halfway through Munichs by David Peace.

    I like David Peace books anyway, but he's reined in the usual quirks and repetition a bit in Munichs and it works better for it I think.

    Very affecting and melancholy look at a tragedy so far.

    I loved the Damned United but need to read Red or Dead after this one.
  • Clem_SnideClem_Snide
    edited June 3
    Nearly finished The Black Dog by comedian Kevin Bridges. Brilliant friends and family observation. Picked it up on a whim for £1 in a Charity Shop and can heartily recommend it.

    Before that it was Resolution - book 3 in the Irvine Welsh Crime trilogy.
  • CafcWestCafcWest
    “The city and its uncertain walls”. Haruki Murakami.  Read all his fiction now including his magnum opus IQ84.  Love his surreal stories.
  • JintsJints
    CafcWest said:
    “The city and its uncertain walls”. Haruki Murakami.  Read all his fiction now including his magnum opus IQ84.  Love his surreal stories.

    I think this is the only one I haven't read. Although the quality varies a bit I just love his style and storytelling.
  • SolidgoneSolidgone
    I’ve been dipping in and out of Bill Bryson’s book titled Home for the last couple of years. 
  • GisappointedGisappointed
    Anybody like crime thrillers? MW Craven is your man. Poe and Tilly, brilliant characters. Humour and clever plots.

  • EveshamAddickEveshamAddick
    Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. Very good so far, 100 pages in.
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  • EveshamAddickEveshamAddick
    Reading Sean Wilentz “Bob Dylan in America” - a fascinating read!
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    'City in Ruins' .. Don Winslow .. thought he'd retired ? .. anyway, what you'd expect from the master of 'wiseguys' / cartels fiction .. he's in top form here

    Also .. Clem Atlee's autobiography and a biography of him and Churchill, both excellent reads. A lot is know about Churchill, Atlee was quite unknown to me, he comes through as a very strong personality as befits the main 'architect' of the welfare state as we know it today, a very interesting man
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