What BOOK are you reading right now?

Fabulous book.

A masterpiece

me too

I struggled through it too, but you'll never regret reading it.
When I was stationed at Ben Guerir AFB in Morocco in the late fifties, situated in the middle of a desert, we heard a scream one evening. We heard the day after, that a guy went crazy.

I'm reading my ninth Alan Furst book, Blood of Victory. At this point, given the complexity of the books, I'm not remembering off hand which characters were in which book and what situations were in which book..
Ha, I may have to reread them. They're keepers.

found a copy of the 1946 edition of this



(a summer day with the bee people)

on the sidewalk today - leftover from the weekend yard sales

had great fun reading it and looking at the pictures

superfun

I'll be re-reading this a few times

Currently reading Seveneves by Neal Stevenson.

Next up: The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting:

I just finished reading The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. This is a historical novel based on someone from the old testament. After I read the book, I did some checking around on Google. Then I had only one option. Yes, I pulled out the bible and read the relevant pages. Tres interesting. (An understatement, IMO.)

I also just finished reading The Cases that Haunt Us by John Douglas. Douglas was an early profiler for the FBI. Hi applies profiling principles to old, well-known cases.

I just finished reading my eleventh Alan Furst book, good of course, but he was a tad vague at the end, and that is not my favorite author mode.

I'm off to my second Philip Kerr novel, which I must have not been paying attention to when I ordered it (I order cheap, via ABE books, what is available by whom).
Turns out it is about my home town, Los Angeles, and what I take as (after two pages) a chinese developer thug. Hah, we worked with chinese developers and were mutually business happy - I liked them. So, this is apt to be a book about scary architecture and people the opposite of we knew.

The name of the book seems to be GR D, a little hard to tell from the cover. or the binding. Too cute book design, I say. Also, apparently there is no identification of the person who provides drawings, a matter that annoys me.
Let's say that I am crabby to start with.

I'll report if I make it through.

I'm less then half way through Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, as a much needed bit of change of pace.

I'm reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Its about the life in afghanisthan and the destruction Taliban caused in the llives of people like you and me.

Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace

Past the half way point (reread) of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids' Tale, via Audible. It's far more scarier then I remember when I first read it, especially given our political climate.

re-reading



still good and interesting but darker than I recalled it being

the tie-in to Tulipmania in 1636/7 is still one of my favourite aspects of the book

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/

I finished The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett, liked it pretty well (said to be his first novel), except for the last sentence or two, unclear what happened. I looked it up on line afterwords and I wasn't the only irritated person. Still, I will read more Follett in the future.

Started to read a Michael Crichton, Sphere. Not a favorite type of book for me, SciFi ish. I put it down to try another of my GoodWill book buys, but will get back to it eventually.

Thus I am reading Steve Martini's The Jury. So far so good.. I've read him before and remember liking his stories.

a failure to complete?

No, I finished it, but it was a slog for me. Others might like it.

Did a bit of reading on beaches while holidaying on various Greek Islands.
I didn't actually take any books, so choices were limited to what little English language material you could find in newsagents and bookstores - or what you could swap in accomadation collections.

Leaving Berlin - Joseph Kanon
(a good read about post war Berlin as the cold war begins - Surprisingly emotionally inert protagonist)

Daughters of Mars - Thomas Kenneally
Interestingly written, and entertaining but quite a few of the storylines seemed familiar because I'd watched the ANZAC Girls miniseries (which either plagiarised this novel or both were based on the same diaries.

Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett
Follet being Follet. Meticulously researched then romantically glossed over and made implausible because he wants his characters to be writ large but invisibly on history's stage. Even though I hadn't read the the first two books of the triology it made no difference. Can't wait till they make it into a tv series and merge several characters into one and drive me completely insane. (I'm watching you World Without End screenwriters).

Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
Didn't realise this had been made into a movie until I finished it. A decent read with elements of Memento - just occasionally it drags but mostly intriguting.

The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas Home
The novel that 'raised the bar for Scottish detective fiction. A good holiday read. If they make it into a movie I have Miranda Hart cast for one the lead roles.

I've liked Kanon, forget the titles and the storylines; that was a while ago.

Greek Islands!!!!

I like that approach to reading - accommodation collections.

It's similar to reading only from the little free library on our block.



(if this isn't ours, it was made from the same template)


I found Raymond Chandler there and I think Set just brought back something interesting from there.

A neighbour recently put about a hundred books out on his driveway for us all to pick through. Even the Korean politics collection found a home. My favourite find from that day (so far) was



I didn't know that Johnny Cash was such a history buff or that he had a massive personal library. I couldn't put the book down. Either Johnny or his ghost writer was very gifted. Some beautiful sentences in that book. A particularly good section on how differently people experiencing the same thing can report/remember it and how that effects our understanding of historical events.