Books - what are you reading just now?

[Robster59]

Leonardo Da Vinci By: Walter Isaacson
Really interesting if you like this kind of thing. Narrated by Alfred Molina and even comes with an accompanying PDF that you can refer to whilst listening.
A fascinating insight into one of the great geniuses and polymaths of all time.

 

[rulefan]

Secret - Jack Reacher. As per normal but a slightly different plot. A good read and page turner.

On reflection, not worth the effort

 

[Crazyface]

Johnson at no 10

I'm finding it quite sad. And also amazing that more time seems to be spent fighting amongst themselves and the civil service than being able to run the country how he wanted.

 

[Hobbit]

I dragged out one of my favourite books this week. I must have read it half a dozen times in the last 40 years. "When the lion feeds," by Wilbur Smith. It spawned two other books in "The sound of thunder," and "When a sparrow falls."

Wilbur Smith then wrote several other series around the Courtney family, prequels to the original book. But to me, the first 3 are classics.

Currently reading “When the lion feeds,” again. Hadn’t realised it’s 6 years since I last read it…

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Currently reading “When the lion feeds,” again. Hadn’t realised it’s 6 years since I last read it…

Think I started reading this way back then one short holiday at relatives - but didn’t get far through it before the holiday finished. It’s a book that has popped into mind over the years whenever WS is mentioned, and now that you mention it…will watch out for a copy at our Oxfam Bookshop.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

In the Blink of an Eye, Jo Callaghan. Very good, very interesting. It's about the use of AI in the police, fiction. Well worth a read.

 

[ADB]

With the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it’s inspired me to pick up a book I started years ago and never got through. The Struggle for Europe by Chester Wilmot chronicles the history of the Second World War from the Dunkirk evacuation - fascinating how things could have easily been different….

 

[Reemul]

Does anyone read fiction and in large amounts. I read about 3 books a week on average. Once had a ibrary of 10,000 books I sold to a man opening a second hand book shop.

I love reading but not in a serious way, no life lessons, no history, nothing factual, life is full of that rubbish.

Recently I have been hitting the LitRPG really heavily. Azarinth Healer series, Dungeon Crawler Carl, The Primal Hunter, The Wandering Inn, System Apocalype, Defiance of the Fall and The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound. Most comprise of 3 - 10 books per series.

Previous to that it was the John Sandford Lucas Davenport series - 24 odd books and just superbly written.

I love books on Vampires, Werewolves, serial killers, detective and aliens, i know i know but hey there is some great stuff out there and reading about what someone famous had for tea and overcame to make it, is boring as hell, next I will be watching paint dry...

Popcorn books ftw imo.

Just to add this is what I have sat on my kindle currently. Dissonance has 10 books so take a few weeks to get through.

Also got a 100 book on Amazon wish list. Too much to read and never enough time.

Reading - Dissonance - Book 1
A Journey of Balck and Red - Vampire
The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker latest, A Fav saving for that special occasion)
Kagen the Damned - Horror
Enter Systems - Apocalypse Book
The Senstives - Books 1-3 - Paranormal Horror
Son of the Endless Night - Horror
Empire of the Damned - Vampire Horror
Cato 5 - Roman Legion Series - Not bad but not realistic set in the Roman invasion of England
Speak the Nightbird - Detective Book
They Thirst - Vampire
The Mountain of Souls - Fantasy
The Way of Kings - Fantasy
Live to Tell - Detective - Book 4
Memories of Ice - Book 3 Fantasy
The Player of Games - Sci-Fi
Sunshine - Vampire

 

[Lord Tyrion]

@Reemul I read a lot, but not quite in your league. We have a great county library system up here. Online catalogue, order the book, get it sent to the library of your choice. I'll do 1-2 books a week on average.

I don't re-read books so having an extensive library at home wouldn't be for me. Always looks calming though, a library room.

 

[Reemul]

@Reemul I read a lot, but not quite in your league. We have a great county library system up here. Online catalogue, order the book, get it sent to the library of your choice. I'll do 1-2 books a week on average.

I don't re-read books so having an extensive library at home wouldn't be for me. Always looks calming though, a library room.

I just use Kindle Umlited £8 a month for as many books as I can read, rarely if ever buy a real book. Actually stayed up late tonight to finish Book 1

 

[VVega]

reading about what someone famous had for tea and overcame to make it, is boring as hell, next I will be watching paint dry...

I used to read fiction only thinking non-fiction is boring. Then I was given a book by an older friend about the space program development in the US and thought it was great.

Now I am older than that friend was and I mostly read non-fiction. Give it a try, there is more to it than celebs bios.

The last one I read was The Spy and The Traitor.

 

[backwoodsman]

I just use Kindle Umlited £8 a month for as many books as I can read, rarely if ever buy a real book. Actually stayed up late tonight to finish Book 1

I too now use Kindle Unlimited. Trouble is, I've not yet found what I'd term a 'decent' book on it. But, that said, pretty ordinary 'pot-boilers' abound in plenty.
M

 

[Reemul]

I too now use Kindle Unlimited. Trouble is, I've not yet found what I'd term a 'decent' book on it. But, that said, pretty ordinary 'pot-boilers' abound in plenty.
M

Depends on what you define a decent book, seems the top 40 books in book stores is filled with James Patterson ghost writer books, Lee Child book 400 and so on which is not my idea of a decent a book, a decent book is one I enjoy and i reckon I have had 50 good books off KU this year. ( I was off sick for 9 weeks and did a lot of reading this year)

One thing KU allows is for me to try a book or 6 hundred odd and dump them if they are rubbish, no reading to the end because I spent £7 on it, just move on.

 

[Crazyface]

Still reading the Boris book. I don't think it well written. I'm having read and reread passages of text over and over. Maybe I'm a bear of little brain. In other news, I've sorted my book shelves out and found ten books I've still to read. Won't be too bad now I'm retired and this weather keeps up.

 

[rulefan]

Damascus Station - David McCloskey.
Spy thriller. Good story but does get rather involved.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

@Reemul I read a lot, but not quite in your league. We have a great county library system up here. Online catalogue, order the book, get it sent to the library of your choice. I'll do 1-2 books a week on average.

I don't re-read books so having an extensive library at home wouldn't be for me. Always looks calming though, a library room.

I have a lot of books though not in @reemul’s league, and have built up too big a pile of books I have read and might read. And so I am doing a cull.

I pick up a book and if I feel good and it stirs +ve thoughts and emotions (usually from times long past) then I put it aside as a ‘probably keep’. Otherwise it goes to church or Oxfam. And that includes many books I’ve picked up as ‘interesting’ but still have not read. They go. And a key criteria for a final decision is it goes even if it stirs the emotions a bit but I could pick it up fairly easily from our local superb Oxfam bookshop.

And reading at the moment…The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis and When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner.

ETA…those of us struggling with pain and difficulty personally or with that being carried by others may find the Kushner book useful.

 

[Whereditgo]

Started reading the John Milton series by Mark Dawson, onto the 3rd book and good so far.

Might be one for you disillusioned Reacher fans.

 

[larmen]

Started reading the John Milton series by Mark Dawson, onto the 3rd book and good so far.

Might be one for you disillusioned Reacher fans.

Done that a while back. Not sure if I am up to date or not.

Currently catching up on the Gray Man series.
Since I am commuting by bike I just don’t get through them as I used to ;-)

 

[backwoodsman]

Started reading the John Milton series by Mark Dawson, onto the 3rd book and good so far.

Might be one for you disillusioned Reacher fans.

Read the series a few months ago. First book was sort of ok, but the series got tiresome very quickly. But sadly I'm the sort who can't leave a series unfinished. Now reading the Lance Spector series (by Saul Herzog) - even worse and am even more desperate for the series to end ...

 

[Fade and Die]

The women who wouldn’t wheesht…

A fascinating account of the fight for women’s rights in Scotland.

Gobsmacking stuff really but probably can’t go into too much detail here as it’s pretty political, (although it did unite women from all political parties)

Once I’ve finished with it I will lend it on because it’s important.