Question What are you reading?

[KrustyTheKray]

Just finished Ian Rankin's A Question of Blood.The Rebus novels are really out there on their own in modern detective fiction.

Wow are you a speed reader on par with Johnny 5 from Short Circuit? ?

The amount of books you get through is on another level!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Wow are you a speed reader on par with Johnny 5 from Short Circuit? ?

The amount of books you get through is on another level!

It helps if you're retired. Currently reading Javiar Cercas's Lord of all the Dead.IMO he's Spain best living author.They hate him in Cataluña -despite the fact that he speaks and writes in fluent Catalan. Probably because despite this, he prefers to publish in Spanish first and as his regular weekly column in El Pais shows, he's no fan of Catalan nationalism/ independence.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Curently reading Javiar Cercas's The Imposter.A masterful account of Enric Marcos's life.

 

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Just finished Javiar Cercas's Outlaws-Wonderful novel about juvenile crime in the Girona area.Suprised no Spanish/Catalan director has got ot round to filming it.

 

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Just finished William Mcilvanney & Ian Rankins The Dark Remains; Laidlaw's First Case.Wonderful detective fiction.

 

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Just finished Alan Johnson's excellent first novel The late Train to Gipsy Hill.Not normally a reader of thrillers but this is first rate.

 

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Just finished Paul Preston's revised and expanded The Spanish Civil War :Reaction,Revolution and Revenge.Probably the definitive work.

 

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Just finishwd Sally Rooney's Beautiful World,Where Are You.Disappointing,particularly as I really enjoyed her 2 previous novels.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished William Mcilvaney's excellent Laidlaw. I'd agree with Val Mcdermid on the back-cover blurb that it's "A bloody good read".

 

[The Big Dady]

Just finished William Mcilvaney's excellent Laidlaw. I'd agree with Val Mcdermid on the back-cover blurb that it's "A bloody good read".

How long does it that you to read a book?

Do you speed read?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

1.How long does it that you to read a book?

2.Do you speed read?

1.Depends.I started this one day before yesterday I think.

2.No.I like to savour the words.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Javiar Cercas's The Tenant and The Motive.Wonderful comic novellas.

 

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Recently finished Wiliam Mcilvanney's The Papers of Tony Veitch, the 2nd in the excellent Laidlaw triliogy.

As it happens, I have a slight aquaintaince with the Gorbals world of mid-70's Glasgow described in the novels.Used to have a Scouse mate studying up there at Strathclyde and went to see him in the mid 70's a couple of times.Always remember coming back from one weekend on the sleeper to London and playing Sunday football in the Forest & District league the next day.Anyway,in the pre-match kick about the team captain came up to me and asked me how I felt."Rough" I replied (after a couple of nights out on the lash in Glasgow's pubs).He then broadcast to the rest of the team "It's all right lads, Phil feels rough". Different times.

 

[mfurok]

Recently finished Wiliam Mcilvanney's The Papers of Tony Veitch, the 2nd in the excellent Laidlaw triliogy.

As it happens, I have a slight aquaintaince with the Gorbals world of mid-70's Glasgow described in the novels.Used to have a scouse mate studying up there at Strathclyde and went to see him in the mid 70's a couple of times.Always remember coming back from one weekend on the sleeper to London and playing Sunay football in the Forest & District league the next day.Anyway,in the pre-match kick about the team captain came up to me and asked me how I felt."Rough" I replied (after a couple of nights out on the lash in Glasgow's pubs).He then broadcast to the rest of the team "It's all right lads, Phil feels rough". Different times.

As I recall, anyone who didn’t feel rough was dropped for the next game……with the exception of our youth prodigy of course……..

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Len McCluskey's autobiography Always Red.An inspirational read.

 

[ESG]

V2 by Robert Harris.

As with all his fictional stories set around real events a great read.

 

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William Mcilvanney's Strange Loyalties.The 3rd (and easily the best) in the Laidlaw trilogy.

 

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Baxter Dury's Chaise Longue.A first- rate acount of growing up a bit wild as the son of a famous dad.

Thanks Rob.

 

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Finished Harry Freedman's Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius yesterday.Bit too much religon ie Christianity and Judaism for me.

 

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Roddy Doyle's Life Without Children.10 short stories set in lockdown Dublin.Deeply moving.