What Was the Last Book You Read?

[calamus]

Just finished When the Going was Good by Evelyn Waugh. Loved it. I'd already read all of his fiction, most of it several times, but this was the first time I'd read this account of his travels in the 1930s. At one point he was a war correspondent in Abyssinia, and his real life adventures there, which inspired Scoop, were no less surreal and absurd than the fictional account he confected later. It was a delightful revelation to find the source.

[Chemyst]

🦢 ⚔️ 🌊

[VertOlive]

Just started Robert Cardinal Sarah's God or Nothing

[Lady Onogaro]

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, also The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson and Unto Us a Son is Given by Donna Leon.

[Lady Onogaro]

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett is my current waiting room time filler. It handles short dips and "how much longer can they possibly be" waits with equal thought-provoking aplomb.

I'm listening to Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens in anticipation of the Amazon Prime version in late May. It's both hilarious and oh so true in spots. so much more fun to listen to than the news.

[calamus]

Have now gotten hooked on Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk thriller/suspense series. More addictive than oxycontin. Can't stop turning the pages.

[kulnet]

Just finished up Summerland by Chabon and just started American Gods by Gaiman. I am finding it impossible to put down.

[Lady Onogaro]

Just finished A Question of Faith by Donna Leon. I have now finished the entire Brunetti series.

[Cookedj]

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon by Alex Kershaw. I love history, especially Military history. I'm currently reading 60 Miles of Border by Terry Kirkpatrick (for pleasure), Marcelo in the Real World with my class and I have one or two military history books in the truck for appointment times.

[titrisol]

Robur the Conqueror! I found this book the other day, a nice edition with he original illustrations (hand-carved gravures)
I read this as a child, and is still one of the best Verne books.

[VertOlive]

Er...The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson. The author is a Texan and a huge draw for Panhandle readers in the 6th grade, we're reading aloud after dinner.

[calamus]

I love Hank the Cowdog! I used to read those books to my son. I think I enjoyed them more than he did.

[Paddler]

Mosquito! by Joe Holliday. This is the story of the de Havilland Mosquito, a British fighter/bomber/reconnaissance aircraft in WW II. The plane was manufactured in England, Canada, and Australia. The emphasis is on the Toronto factory, as that is where the author worked.

As a bomber or recon plane, it usually flew unarmed because, for years, it was the fastest warplane in the sky. It was made of laminated balsa wood and spruce and carried a crew of two.

[VertOlive]

Reading with son: The Great Ships by Patrick O'Brien.

Solo reading: Pandemic by A.G. Riddle. Free Sci-Fi off the Kindle

[Lady Onogaro]

I just finished last night Alexander McCall Smith's Friends, Lovers, Chocolate.

Just about finished with Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott. I really want to read her autobiography. I loved her fiction, The Coral Thief and Ghostwalk.

[Linger]

I recently finished "Green Hills of Africa" by Hemingway. Not his best work, but it gives a nice insight in early 30's travelling into Africa to hunt big game.

[Voiren]

I just finished R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War - it had been my commuting book, but I devoured the rest between dinner and bedtime last night. I thought it was really good. It does go from a martial school type of book to one covering the atrocities of war and the reactions of the traumatised which seems to have thrown some readers, but I knew that before I got it. Preordered the next. (It is set in a fantasy version of China, kind of).

Before that I read F.D. Lee's The Fairy's Tale: A Novel for People Who Don't Trust Fairy Tales - fun and lighthearted. Narrative convention and control of stories vs real people. First in a trilogy.

I was briefly staying with my parents a week and a half ago and read most of C.J. Sansom's Sovereign (Shardlake series book 3) in an evening. I didn't start quite at the beginning, but read all the way to the end and stayed up far too late. It was extremely well-written and I'm going to look out the series. Historical mystery set during the reign of Henry VIII and close to his court, with all the unpleasantness that implies!

(I didn't intentionally go for authors who use two initials...)

[Lady Onogaro]

I started that Kuang book--I don't know why I haven't finished it. I'll gie it another try.

I want to read Samson's Tombland. I saw it at the library on the holds shelf. I'll put in for it.

[VertOlive]

One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence. Time travel, Dungeons and Dragons, with a dose of chemotherapy thrown in.

[junglejim]

Just finished Red Sister by Mark Lawrence late last night. "It is important when killing a nun to ensure you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply."

Ink reviewer Visvamitra over at fpn often writes this phrase to show off the color and shading effects of the ink. After reading that phrase a few times I was intrigued by the book. And it was a really good book! Now starting part 2 of the trilogy, called Grey Sister.

All the Best.