Question What are you reading?

[GrumpyBlue]

Ah yes, Past Tense was its name, terrible book

Got Past Tense to read plus another 5 or 6 Reacher books (I`m a bit behind)

 

[Napster]

Got Past Tense to read plus another 5 or 6 Reacher books (I`m a bit behind)

I love the early stuff but some of his later stuff is overlong in my opinion

 

[GrumpyBlue]

I love the early stuff but some of his later stuff is overlong in my opinion

I`ll bear that in mind ?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Katherina Volkmer's The Appointment.Funny.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Fernando Aramburu's Patria (Homeland).This is a wonderful book.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Ah yes, Past Tense was its name, terrible book

Really, I enjoyed that one. The only one in the 'Reacher' series I could not get into was the last one, ' Blue Moon', after which he announced that he was retiring and passing the next one to his brother.

 

[Napster]

Really, I enjoyed that one. The only one in the 'Reacher' series I could not get into was the last one, ' Blue Moon', after which he announced that he was retiring and passing the next one to his brother.

It just never got going. I was 100 pages in and nothing had happened.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Just finished this partial autobiography this morning which details the former Stones' Manager's early years up until his 'discovery' of Marianne Faithfull and his part in the production of 'As Tears Go By'. It's a great read - ALO writes some wonderful prose himself - with contributions from many of the other 'movers and shakers' of that time in the early sixties too. I'll be looking to learn about more of his unusual and driven life, especially his creation of Immediate Records, in his follow-up, i.e. '2Stoned'.

 

[ESG]

Read most of the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Now working my way through The Late Shift which introduces Renee Ballard who is later worked into a couple of Bosch books. Not a bad read once it got going.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Sandra B.Tooze's excellent biography Levon:From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and beyond.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Ian Rankin's A Song for the Dark Times.The latest Rebus.Wonderful stuff.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading John Kampfner's
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

Excellent read.

 

[Napster]

The Black Swan

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and The Dollmaster by Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror eBook : Oates, Joyce Carol: Amazon.co.uk: Books

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror eBook : Oates, Joyce Carol: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Roddy Doyle's Love.Nobody writes dialogue better than RD.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading "Hello I must be going" .Groucho and his friends.Charlotte Chandler's excellent memoir/biography.

Sample wit:- Q. What do you think of computer dating?

Groucho:- It's only a good idea if the computers are madly in love.

Boom,boom. Often hilarious.

 

[graingerroad54]

When footballers were skint- by Jon Henderson. A time when internationals and journeymen earnt the same money, lived on the same streets as the fans and travelled on the bus to work !

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just picked up Giles Tremlett's massive The International Brigades:Fascism,Freedom and The Spanish Civil War.Should keep me busy for a bit.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Jonathan Coe's wonderful Mr Wilder and Me.A treat for all film buffs in general and Billy Wilder fans in particular.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Selina Todd's excellent The People :The Rise And Fall of the Working Class.

 

[graingerroad54]

Currently reading Selina Todd's excellent The People :The Rise And Fall of the Working Class.

Rereading Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr. We follow ex copper Bernie Gunter through Hitlers Berlin over three stories. Kerr follows up with Gunters misadventures over several novels post war.