lunababymoonchild Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 All Saints Day, today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 At the moment I am currently reading: The Vaccine by Joe Miller Echoes of War by Bernard Lovell I am also thinking of starting Insurrection by Robyn Young so that I have some fiction on the go alongside the non-fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Just given up on Primo Levi's The Periodic Table. I know it's almost sacrilegious to say this in the light of all the praise heaped on it (and the Royal Institution's labelling it the greatest ever science book written - really?!), but I found this really tedious. Genuinely struggled to stay awake reading it. I've read about a third of it, and can't see why it's so highly rated. 2 stars out of 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 On 11/1/2022 at 11:03 AM, Brian. said: I am also thinking of starting Insurrection by Robyn Young so that I have some fiction on the go alongside the non-fiction. I gave Insurrection a few chapters but it wasn’t grabbing me so I put it aside for the time being. Instead I picked up Before the Frost by Henning Mankell which is the only Linda Wallander book. Apparently Mankell had planned a trilogy of books but the actress who played Linda in the Swedish TV took her own life. He was so distressed over this that he couldn’t bring himself to write anymore books in the trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Have moved on to Carson McCullers' The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, the book for Georgia in my Tour of the USA. I'm about halfway through, and so far it's superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 Have abandoned Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman and started Knut Hamsun's Mysteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebug Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Re-reading A,J.Cronin's 'The Stars Look Down'. A magnificent book about the class struggle and workers rights that was a rather good TV series many years ago, and a pretty poor film. The reason the film was poor, it only covered the first half of the book, and omitted all the political aspects that came later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Having finished with The Vaccine by Joe Miller my next book will be The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Nearly finished Magpie by Elizabeth Day. Reading Room by Emma Donoghue next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Bought 'Tropisms' by Nathalie Sarraute. Currently reading 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 On 11/7/2022 at 10:01 PM, Hux said: Currently reading 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison. Be interested to hear your opinion on Invisible Man, I have the paperback. I think you would be interested in Mysteries by Knut Hamsun. It's not as good, imho, as Hunger but it does centre on one man and his viewpoint, which I'm sure that you like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 13, 2022 Author Share Posted November 13, 2022 I'm still reading Hiawatha and making progress with Mysteries (by Knut Hamsun) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 14, 2022 Author Share Posted November 14, 2022 (edited) Having finished Mysteries I have started Félicie, Georges Simenon, Maigret 25. Still reading Hiawatha Edited November 14, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Completed A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o - a book group read, but also my choice for Kenya in my Read Around the World challenge. Outstanding. 5/6 stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Started reading 'Madonna in a Fur Coat' by Sabahattin Ali. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Just bought Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut in paper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Just started Empty Smiles, by Katherine Arden on e-book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nergion Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I'm about 2/3 of the way through Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I found this book interesting, especially the parts dealing with Genghis Khan's (chaotic!) early life, the clever battle tactics the Mongols used, and the lasting effects to this day of the Mongol Empire. One of the better history books I've read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Currently reading Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Dierdre Sullivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Nergion said: I'm about 2/3 of the way through Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I found this book interesting, especially the parts dealing with Genghis Khan's (chaotic!) early life, the clever battle tactics the Mongols used, and the lasting effects to this day of the Mongol Empire. One of the better history books I've read. I’m tempted to buy this for my sister (she was reading a fiction book set during the rule of Gengis Khan and loved it!). She doesn’t usually read non-fiction history books but I’ve seen a lot of good reviews of this one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 Finished Empty Smiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 (edited) I just bought The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill , paperback Edited November 23, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domi9907 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Currently reading Reminders of him Coleen Hoover. I recomend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Finished Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch by Rivka Galchen. Very interesting subject material, but distinctly unimpressed with the book itself. 2stars out of 6. Currently reading the non-fiction book the novel is based on: The Astronomer and the Witch by Ulinka Rublack, about the scientist Johannes Kepler's defence of his mother against charges of being a witch. Vastly better - well written and absorbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudz Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 I picked up the first seven books in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths today. Haven’t read anything by this author before but have heard good things about her, specifically about this series, so thought I’d give them ago. The good news is that I did borrow them from my local library rather than buy them so that’s progress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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