Question What are you reading?

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Just finished Kati Morton's The Chancellor:The Remarkable Odyessy of Angela Merkel. Mutti will be missed.

 

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Finished Tamara Saviano's Without Gettiing Caught or killed:The Life And Musis of Guy Clark at the weekend.A comprehensive biography.For fans only I think.

 

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Just finished Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive.A strange hybrid of a book.Part road trip,story of an impending divorce and young chidren growing up.

 

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Just finished Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads.Rather better than the recent Private Eye spoof might suggest.Probably a bit too much religon in it for me.

 

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Just read Nicolas Finet's Love Me Please:The Story of Janis Joplin.Haven't read many graphic novels but this is enyoyable enough.

 

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Robby Krieger's Set the night on Fire :Living,dying and playing guitar with the Doors.Enjoyable.

 

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Nearly finished Steve Richards excellent The Prime Ministers We Never Had :Sucess and Failure from Butler to Corbyn.Probably the best book I've read on English politics this year

 

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Just finished Joey Barton's autobiograpghy No Nonsense.Thanks to SBH for the heads up on this. He's clearly a much more mult-dimensional chareacter than the mindless thug depicted by MSM.Having said that, personally I could heve done without the lashings of ultra violence and motivational psychology.Quite liked the football talk though.Not suprisingly, he didn't have any time for Dougie Freeman or Kevin Bond.Would be fascinating to know what he thinks of Kevin Maher but I guess we'll have to wait for his follow up book on lower league management for that,unless he achieves his ambition to "give something back" at OM and Newcastle,which I doubt somehow.

 

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Recently finished David Storey's posthumously published memoir,A Stinging Delight.Used to be a big fan of his back in the day.

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[yogi bear up the cagire]

Apart from Barna, can anyone else post on here?
I haven't looked at threads apart from football for a long while. I must be the last one to find out about Easyjet's return to Southend! When are they going to fly to Toulouse??? Anyway, books; I haven't stopped reading, just not posted what I've been reading on here. My english selection has been gone through and there's not much turning up in the 'foreign section' at Emmaüs. So, I've started reading in french. It's a bit slow going and I don't understand every word but it's OK. Just finished the 'policier' Le Cercle by Bernard Minier. He has been translated into English, so you wouldn't have to brush up on your 'O level' french to enjoy it! His police Inspector is Martin Servaz, who is conveniently based in Toulouse and his novels are set around the area (Saint Gaudens gets a mention!). It was a good read and you can just take one book on its own merits. However there is a series where the characters are developed through each book. Just started on another rather black thriller, Dans La Brume Ecarlarte by Nicolas Lebel, with vampire undertones. The story is developed through a number of threads, which will no doubt start to merge together in order to, hopefully, reach a thrilling conclusion

 

[Napster]

Apart from Barna, can anyone else post on here?
I haven't looked at threads apart from football for a long while. I must be the last one to find out about Easyjet's return to Southend! When are they going to fly to Toulouse??? Anyway, books; I haven't stopped reading, just not posted what I've been reading on here. My english selection has been gone through and there's not much turning up in the 'foreign section' at Emmaüs. So, I've started reading in french. It's a bit slow going and I don't understand every word but it's OK. Just finished the 'policier' Le Cercle by Bernard Minier. He has been translated into English, so you wouldn't have to brush up on your 'O level' french to enjoy it! His police Inspector is Martin Servaz, who is conveniently based in Toulouse and his novels are set around the area (Saint Gaudens gets a mention!). It was a good read and you can just take one book on its own merits. However there is a series where the characters are developed through each book. Just started on another rather black thriller, with vampire undertones. The story is developed through a number of threads, which will no doubt start to merge together in order to, hopefully, reach a thrilling conclusion

The best French crime author is Fred Vargas.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

The best French crime author is Fred Vargas.

Yes, you won't go far wrong there, she's really good. My wife has got quite a few by her and would agree with your opinion. Although she may qualify it by saying she's amongst the best!

 

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Just finished Robert Ford's et al The British General Election of 2019.Possibly a timely read after yesterday's "revelations" at PMQ's.

 

[Tinks]

My husband has given me kindle - which I have always been against as I love a book and he feel of a book but with a long haul pending holiday I have to be mindful of luggage allowance etc. and books do take up space. Anyhow, looking on line the amount of books that can be down loaded is phenomenal

 

[Rob Noxious]

My husband has given me kindle - which I have always been against as I love a book and he feel of a book but with a long haul pending holiday I have to be mindful of luggage allowance etc. and books do take up space. Anyhow, looking on line the amount of books that can be down loaded is phenomenal

Just seen that you can get a few freebies via 'Kindle Unlimited', including this one: ->



https://www.amazon.co.uk/FM247-RADI...ZFdCpkMQRUmHf-luZt-sBEgQH0NoJnMkDjxED8wT3hyUQ

 

[Rob Noxious]

I don't generally read 'sci-fi' but a friend (hugely esteemed, as the landlord of my local) lent me this. I'm also not a 'gamer' either, so this SF story about a scientist who has a brain scan and subsequently finds himself locked in various computer game worlds, seemed quite inauspicious. However, it's a fascinating and enjoyable novel, with occasional flashes of humour and some insights into how we might be controlled by powers beyond our comprehension.

It's a lengthy affair and it probably could have been condensed slightly as the detail is quite extensive on occasions. But it's very well-written and I can understand how the author has quite a loyal following.

 

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Just finished Bobby Rush's autobiography I Ain't Studdin? Ya:An American Blues Story.

Enjoyable.

 

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Just finished Steve Richards excellent The Prime Ministers :Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson.Doubt if I'll read a better book on UK politics this year.

 

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Michael Posner's enjoyable Leonard Cohen .Untold Stories :The Early Years.

An oral biography.Well edited and put together.TBF I've come across quite a few of these stories before.

 

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De la Mora & Pescador' s Diego Rivera.An interesting graphic novel and a useful corrective to the recent burgeoning Freda Kahlo industry.Personally I've always thought Rivera was the greater artist and a more interesting (if flawed) personality.