Books - what are you reading just now?

BrianM said:
Has anyone read the game of thrones books?
Just finished the series and the books are normally better....
Haven‘t read a lot of fantasy books.
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I've read of all them. They're very good but they are not an easy read, especially if you aren't usually a fantasy reader and George RR Martin has a tendency to go whole chapters without referring to character plots so you often have to remember what's happening in the books. But if you can bare with it they're certainly interesting.
 
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Read The Puppet Show by M W Craven on holiday the other week. https://www.mwcraven.com/book/the-puppet-show-washington-poe-1/ If you're intro your serial killer/will they catch them books then whilst it is nothing new, as kind of what is there new to say, it is very well done. Usual warning as it is a bit gruesome in places and there is a troubling theme that seems to be in every dark drama series on TV nowadays as well, but it did rattle along.
 
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Just started The Mirror and the Light - the final book in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.

Read the first 2 books over the last month, and can honestly say they are among the best things I've ever read. Absolutely gripping and the prose is a joy to read.
 
The poison path. Random kindle freebie that is a detective thriller apparently. 30 pages in and it seems OK.

Secondly M05 insurance law. As interesting as it sounds ? and purely work related
 
Still reading The Kingdom of Scotland by Agnes Mure Mackenzie. It has taken me ages to read and to try and understand the 16th, 17th and early 18th Century religious conflicts and upheaval in Scotland...but it explains a lot of the background and huge contradictions in Scottish history - the Stewarts, MQoS, John Knox, King Billy, Glencoe, 1603 and 1707 anyone...phew.

Now in early late-Georgian / Victorian times, and apart from the dying embers of the clearances and the massive social upheaval that that involved; and social and political emancipation - all is relatively calm and straightforward...:)

I was given this book as a present when I was about 13 (by my very intelligent and very well-read aunt and uncle) and I have never previously got past King David I (a very good King - as Sellar and Yateman might have described him :) )

For my next read I will have to pick up something a bit easier that I can read in under a month.
 
Have pretty much finished Andy Mcnabs books. They are all similar, not intellectually challenging, and can be torn through. Good mindless fun reading.
 
murphthemog said:
Have pretty much finished Andy Mcnabs books. They are all similar, not intellectually challenging, and can be torn through. Good mindless fun reading.
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Pretty much how I found them and the Chris Ryan books. If you want something similar but usually with a bit of a historical/treasure hunt style try the Scott Mariani series about Ben Hope, former SAS major turned freelance kidnap specialist. A fun read and not to taxing.
 
murphthemog said:
Have pretty much finished Andy Mcnabs books. They are all similar, not intellectually challenging, and can be torn through. Good mindless fun reading.
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There's certainly a place for this type of novel - at least where I do most of my reading!
Just finished another 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' tome (Girl Who Lived Twice) which is definitely not one for that place!
Started another Bernard Cornwell one..Sword of Kings, latest in 'Last Kingdom' series which I've really enjoyed.
 
Wolf said:
Pretty much how I found them and the Chris Ryan books. If you want something similar but usually with a bit of a historical/treasure hunt style try the Scott Mariani series about Ben Hope, former SAS major turned freelance kidnap specialist. A fun read and not to taxing.
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if your willing to suspend a bit of belief, but with great historical context try some of the Matthew reilly books like, five greatest warriors, 3 secret cities, 6 sacred stones - the jack west novels.

Real page turners.

Ok he should have been killed 58 times in each book, but some of the ways he gets out of it are "creative" an sometimes corny, but the history aspects are good.
 
Nearly there with Bill Bryson-'The Body'-amazing what we're made of and what we should/could be able to do with what we've been given as building blocks.
Somewhat been influenced by watching the film 'LUCY'yet again(based on what the mind should be able to achieve....although with the help of drugs?)
Will follow up with either William McIlvanney-'Strange Loyalties' or delve back into 'American Nations' by Colin Woodward,basically about the many seperate countries/states of America coming together(seems to be relevant today given the divisions that seem to be springing up in different areas in the U.S.A.lately)
Oh,and by the way,had a lesson today which seems to have had the effect of making me fall in love with our cruel mistress....will now dream about that new Calloway Xspeed 3 wood.
Jimbo
 
murphthemog said:
Have pretty much finished Andy Mcnabs books. They are all similar, not intellectually challenging, and can be torn through. Good mindless fun reading.
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He must have stopped books because there aren’t any new ones coming out. Saying that, because I am not commuting at the moment I am not reading anyway. I got 5 books on my kindle for future after lock down already.
 
A flame for the Fire by Nigel Tranter.

Historical novel about the Kennedy clans influence around the time of James 1V of Scotland
Good read set around the castles and villages of my neighbourhood
 
Dumped Lolita after not very long at all Very rare that I don't get anywhere into a book - however Lolita isn't any book.

And so for light relief from that I have just rattled through Bill Bryson's Down Under - my first Bryson and I loved it - will do more as there are three on the bookshelf waiting.

Meanwhile - something completely different. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
 
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