Question What are you reading?

[Napster]

Alan Hollinghurst'sThe Stranger's Child.Simply wonderful.(Some might find it a bit too gay I suppose).

Ooh duckie.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Barcelona Ink
the city's writing/the best of 1-8.
Interesting stuff.I had no idea that P.J.Kavanagh taught at the (British)Institute(now Council)back in the 50's.He's suprisingly knowledgeable about Barcelona's brothels in that era.:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Robert MacFarlane's The Old Ways(A Journey on Foot).My Olympic reading.:winking:
Interesting, especially as it contains his description of the Broomway(the coastal footpath to Foulness).

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Not what I was expecting to be honest, but a decent enough read. Will be going on to Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton afterwards.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Still ploughing through the first of the 50 Shades books and finding it tedious in the extreme. Can't believe it's had the kind of rave reviews it has, I just want to slap the female lead hard....and in a way she wouldn't get any sexual pleasure from! Absolutely the most annoying "heroine" ever with her "firing up the mean machine" and going on about her "inner goddess" all the time, and as for the email conversations between her and Grey :punch:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Still ploughing through the first of the 50 Shades books and finding it tedious in the extreme. Can't believe it's had the kind of rave reviews it has, I just want to slap the female lead hard....and in a way she wouldn't get any sexual pleasure from! Absolutely the most annoying "heroine" ever with her "firing up the mean machine" and going on about her "inner goddess" all the time, and as for the email conversations between her and Grey :punch:

Mrs MK devoured book 1, but is getting seriously bored with book 2. How many ways can you describe a winky going into a foo-foo? :zzzzz:

 

[Pubey]

Mrs MK devoured book 1, but is getting seriously bored with book 2. How many ways can you describe a winky going into a foo-foo? :zzzzz:

Sounds like a good thread idea and one where SZ can really rise to the challenge:winking:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Sounds like a good thread idea and one where SZ can really rise to the challenge:winking:

Might have helped the author of those books if this had been done before she wrote her awful books!

 

[Pubey]

Might have helped the author of those books if this had been done before she wrote her awful books!

Don't say I didn't tell you!

Ha!

My wife will read any trash, but even she gave up on them. Complete pile of crap, and the author must be laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Just finished the first in the H.I.V.E. series (appropriately titled The Higher Institute of Villainous Education). Bit rough, bit simple, and could do with a bit more fleshing out but a good enough read, definitely keep an eye on the kindle market for the rest if they're cheap.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hemingway's Boat.Paul Hendrickson.Well researched but a tad dull.I suspect PH is not really much of a Hem.fan.I am(and have been) since I first read his stuff as a teenager.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Selected Stories of Mercé Rodoreda.One of the great giants of Catalan literature.I thoroughly recommend her outstanding novel-The Time of the Doves-about pre-civil war Barcelona.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Just finished The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva the latest in his Gabriel Allon series, he really does write a superior thriller.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Read a couple of books, lent to me by a writer mate, recently.These were The Barfighter by Ivan G.Goldman and D.James Smith's My Brother's Passion.
Liked both of them, especially the former.Though boxing novels aren't usually my thing.MBP reads like an updated To Kill a MockingBird. for our times.

 

[Bluesmanager]

The final Artemis Fowl book.

I have to admit, Colfer's been a bit ropey with some of these. The Eternity Code and The Atlantis Complex, I thought, were particularly... not bad or dodgy, but definitely weaker than the rest of the series. But this one is a fantastic way to wrap up the adventures of Artemis Fowl, criminal extraordinaire above and below the Earth.

 

[Jam_Man]

Battlecry of Freedom: The American Civil War, James McPherson

Interesting account of the civil war. First third was about the politics and economics leading up the the war which was hard going but once the war starts really interesting.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Red Card Roy.By Roy McDonough with Bernie Friend.Just got my copy today.Only had time to read the Southend chapters so far but they're excellent.A must read for any SUFC supporter.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Clifford King's(1959) Barcelona with Love.This is a 50's account of Barna, now sadly out of print.
CK was a contemporary of the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh's, at the British Institute(now Council).
Interesting to read for nostalgia buffs like me.
Not much of that Barcelona life, "below the Diagonal"(as they call it here)still survives in its 50's form, though for me the changes between pre and post '92 Olympic Barcelona were even more dramatic.

 

[Pubey]

The 2nd of The Dark Tower series. Good so far!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Game Of Thrones. It's actually pretty boring and kudos to HBO to making it must see TV.