Books - what are you reading just now?

I have just read How not to run a football club by Nathan Fogg about Blackpool FC and the Oyston family, and also Fledging by Hannah Bourne-Taylor a nature memoir
 
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Beau Geste is a fine novel. If you enjoy it, its loose sequels are worth looking up too.
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Beau Geste done and dusted. It may be from 1924 but what a cracking adventure and read. Much recommended. I can now watch the 1939 film adaptation starring Gary Cooper, Ray Millard and Robert Preston. Always an issue that for me. Watch film or read book first.

Next up...The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
 
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Just finished Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid. For the uninitiated, he is the lead singer with Primal Scream.

It's surprisingly well written, and his formative years were very much like mine - born a year after me, grew up in a Glasgow slum, mad about Celtic and punk rock as a teenager.

Keeping on with the music theme, I'm about to start Lonely Boy by Steve Jones. It's the basis for Danny Boyle's Pistol series.

After that, it's The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I loved A Gentleman in Moscow, The Rules of Civility less so. Hopefully this is up to the standard of the former.
 
rudebhoy said:
Just finished Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid. For the uninitiated, he is the lead singer with Primal Scream.

It's surprisingly well written, and his formative years were very much like mine - born a year after me, grew up in a Glasgow slum, mad about Celtic and punk rock as a teenager.

Keeping on with the music theme, I'm about to start Lonely Boy by Steve Jones. It's the basis for Danny Boyle's Pistol series.

After that, it's The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I loved A Gentleman in Moscow, The Rules of Civility less so. Hopefully this is up to the standard of the former.
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Will check out Tenement Kid as I also was a Glasgow tenement kid. Ours wasn't a slum but it was slipping down the Mount Florida hill and our close is no longer there. We moved from MF 6 yrs before Gillespie moved there but I remember growing up there quite clearly.
 
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Just finished The Hunt for the Silver Killer by David Collins (after seeing it mentioned in The Times). Quite alarming but very much a non-fiction page-turner.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Beau Geste done and dusted. It may be from 1924 but what a cracking adventure and read. Much recommended. I can now watch the 1939 film adaptation starring Gary Cooper, Ray Millard and Robert Preston. Always an issue that for me. Watch film or read book first.

Next up...The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
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The Miniaturist is another corker! (y)
 
Just finished A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) by Richard Hughes.

On the surface a children's pirate adventure akin to Treasure Island, but in fact a lot deeper and darker story of child psychology and relationships. A 1965 film (Anthony Quinn and James Coburn) was criticized as it steered clear of many of the difficult things around the children and their relationships with the main adult characters that makes the novel what it is.

Though near 100yrs old it's not a long book and worth reading. The film is indeed OK but largely avoids the difficult aspects of the novel.
 
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And so after a couple of pretty short adventures - Beau Geste and A High Wind in Jamaica - now for something completely different.

A book I’ve mused about reading for many a moon…Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Apparently his masterwork ahead of WaP…which I may or may not subsequently embark upon depending upon how I get on with AK. But if I can read and enjoy the longest of Dickens then I am not daunted by AK.
 
Italian outcast said:
Read them in order - the characters don't always last - they are great though - the last two in particular
Will watch the show later in the year
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You weren't wrong - read about 5 of them so far, all excellent fun

I'm thinking of becoming like Jackson Lamb in my managerial style :eek:
 
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