metalman Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 In a P.G. Wodehouse mood at the moment so I've just finished Ukridge and now I've just started Big Money. You always know what you're going to get with a PGW book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeG Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. A strange story based in Germany in the late 30's/early 40's. Interesting and quite educational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatrajah Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 (edited) On & off I am working my way through Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi. It's in the original italian, so it's quite hard going in places but it somehow brings the story to life in a way that an english language version wouldn't. Edited July 14, 2017 by fatrajah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooker147 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Arnold Schwarzengger Total Recall - Amazing life story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 (edited) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. A strange story based in Germany in the late 30's/early 40's. Interesting and quite educational. Great book, <removed> film. It was originally a children's book but gained an adult readership. Edited July 22, 2017 by nikki-red Masked swearing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestTinsley Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 The Politics of Dispossession by Edward Said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I've just finished the Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander trio and started The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin, with The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz's follow on to Stieg Larsson, to follow. I also have Luca Turin's The Secret of Scent on the go by the bedside and am rereading The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James le Fanu as and when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lectrolove Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 I've just finished the Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander trio and started The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin, with The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz's follow on to Stieg Larsson, to follow. I also have Luca Turin's The Secret of Scent on the go by the bedside and am rereading The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James le Fanu as and when. I can't do that, have more than one book on the go at a time. My brain just refuses to do it. If I open a second book while already reading one I never go back to the first one. Just can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Just started the latest one by L. C. Tyler, called Herring in the Smoke. A few days ago after it had just come out it was on offer on Amazon for £4.99 in hardback but it seems to have gone up a bit now. This is turning out to be a series I can depend on for a good read every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lectrolove Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. An ode to the spaces in between, the places that are neither town nor countryside but the scrappy no man's land we usually ignore. Sewage works, car parks, landfills and dumps, that kind of thing. Doesn't sound very inspiring but it's actually a good read, quirky and almost elegiac at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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