Last book I read was "The Enemy" by Lee Child. Read is used loosely as I let others read to me via Audible. I am hooked on the Jack Reacher series.
David
Last book I read was "The Enemy" by Lee Child. Read is used loosely as I let others read to me via Audible. I am hooked on the Jack Reacher series.
David
E.H.Gombrich: A Little History of the World. Actually a book for kids, but nevertheless a nice and informative book - reminded me how little I picked up during history lessons in school, as it was so boring (Gombrich is anything but boring).
Just started on "guns germs and steel" (Jared Diamond) to get a completely different perspective...
New member of the eating your words institute here. An avid reader and book sniffer who recently got a kobo glo. Love it. Very convenient, light and easy to hold. I still prefer paper books but for convenience this little gadget can't be beat.
Still reading the paper version of Van Gogh: The Life.
Reading the electronic version of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Finished On Beauty by Zadie Smith today.
Prior to that (over the past couple of weeks),I read Dan Fante 86'd and Lynn Breedlove's Godspeed.
Might re-read a Martin Amis next.
Last book finished, Sea Changes, by Derek Turner.
Just started The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. Clearly going to be much different from the movie version, which I saw years ago.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
I read White Teeth at the end of 2000 (it was given to me) and was impressed, and I very much enjoyed Autograph Man. I only liked On Beauty. As soon as I read the last paragraph, I saw the book as a film, complete, and was weirdly disappointed.
I had not heard of NW until your question, Laura N, and I look forward to reading it. Thanks.
I have been on a post-apocalypse bender lately.
I have very much enjoyed Ben Winters' The Last Policeman and Countdown City, the second in the trilogy. Very good stuff, and a different take on the sub-genre. Can't wait for the third installment coming in July.
Combining vampires and the end of the world is a trilogy from Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan is The Strain trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, and The Night Eternal. These are NOT your sparkly, broody, angsty, teenage fiction vampires. Apparently a TV series has been ordered from the books.
+1 on The Last Policeman, very good. I didn't know the second book was out. Thanks for sharing that.
This thread has been inactive for a while, hasn't it?
Books I've read recently.
The Faith Instinct, How Religion Evolved, and Why It Endures, by Nicholas Wade.
A Troublesome Inheritance, Genes Race and Human History, by the same author.
Special Tasks, The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster by Pavel Sudoplatov et al.
And right now I'm reading The Good Soldier Švejk, by Jaroslav Hašek, with illustrations by Josef Lada.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
I wasn't even aware that this thread existed. The last book I read was a crime novel with a spoonful of magic realism stirred in, by a Finnish author with a surfeit of vowels and diacritics in his name. Unfortunately my wife seems to have hidden it. Anyway, it gets a lukewarm recommendation ... I'll let you know if I find out what it was.
Prior to that was Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. If you're in the market for that, you'll know what to expect.
Spikey Mike (July 20th, 2014)
Currently reading Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue.
Really enjoying reading it and makes me appreciate even more the work the volunteers of Mountain Rescue teams do.
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
I just finished Mitch Cullin's A Slight Trick of the Mind. I understand it is to be made into a film with Ian McKellan as Sherlock Holmes. I believe he is working with the same director he worked with on Gods and Monsters (a film I liked very much).
It's really a very good book on memory, mortality, loss, loneliness, etc. Not everyone will like it in these days of SHERLOCK, but I found it quite moving.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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