What books are we reading at the moment ?

[Steph]

Yay! Aunty Steffie sold another one!

I'm re-reading The 39 Steps, prior to embarking on the sequals that have Richard Hannay in them.

I warned you. I will find and burn your clogs.

[Vince]

Yay! Aunty Steffie sold another one!

I'm re-reading The 39 Steps, prior to embarking on the sequals that have Richard Hannay in them.

I warned you. I will find and burn your clogs.

[Mr Larrington]

Indeed he did young Polbeckers, which my son (who's loaning them to me) pointed out the other day. Ho hum, never mind. It shan't put me off and, in answer to the young shaver Mathew C, (who's derisive sneering tone has been noted  ), I'm an avid reader, so one a week will fly by. I'm enjoying them. It's escapism. It's fantasy. I also enjoy many other genres.

Don't worrry,  I'm sure you could find plenty to sneer at if I was daft enough to expose my book-shelves to scrutiny (including some reet dodgy SF/F)!

Hey, that would be a good one for 'The Gallery' wouldn't it!? …

My bookshelves

OK, Riggers, you start...

[Riggers]

… it is done

[Mr Larrington]

… it is done

I have just seen the thread   Mine will be along shortly once I'm sufficiently caffeinated.

[tiermat]

Have started Shift by Hugh Howey, the follow up to Wool.

It's a bit harder to get into the the first book, but getting good.

[Steph]

Have started Shift by Hugh Howey, the follow up to Wool.

It's a bit harder to get into the the first book, but getting good.

Stick with it and all will slowly become clear.

[Mrs Pingu]

I liked the Hugh Howey books

[Steph]

I am reading his 'Sand', among other books.

[Mrs Pingu]

Ms Gallumbits otp will be pleased to learn that I have now finished "Foxglove Summer" and reckon it to be well up to the standards of its predecessors (though I did find "Broken Homes" a little less excellent than the first three in the series).

I are also reading that just now. Be sad when I'm finished them.

I have finished that one and am now reading Nation by Terry Pratchett.

In the list for next are Colourless Tsuru thingy by Haruki Murakami and
The Peripheral by William Gibson.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Ms Gallumbits otp will be pleased to learn that I have now finished "Foxglove Summer" and reckon it to be well up to the standards of its predecessors (though I did find "Broken Homes" a little less excellent than the first three in the series).

I are also reading that just now. Be sad when I'm finished them.

I have finished that one and am now reading Nation by Terry Pratchett.

In the list for next are Colourless Tsuru thingy by Haruki Murakami and
The Peripheral by William Gibson.

I have just finished Broken Homes. I did not see the twist coming. I am aghast.

[tiermat]

I liked the Hugh Howey books

I am liking Shift, just, due to current circumstances(not least of which is tiredness and insomnia caused by Prednisol) I am finding it a bit harder going than I did Wool.

[Mrs Pingu]

Ms Gallumbits otp will be pleased to learn that I have now finished "Foxglove Summer" and reckon it to be well up to the standards of its predecessors (though I did find "Broken Homes" a little less excellent than the first three in the series).

I are also reading that just now. Be sad when I'm finished them.

I have finished that one and am now reading Nation by Terry Pratchett.

In the list for next are Colourless Tsuru thingy by Haruki Murakami and
The Peripheral by William Gibson.

I have just finished Broken Homes. I did not see the twist coming. I am aghast.

I was a bit shocked too.

[Dibdib]

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. I'm (very slowly - I'm not a massive reader) working my way through the Discworld universe, on account of somehow never reading any of them as a yoof.

[Riggers]

Robert Jordan's A wheel of Time. Book 3 of 14

[Wascally Weasel]

Robert Jordan's A wheel of Time. Book 3 of 14

I never got past book one.  A friend tells me that by about book seven the first half of the book is mostly recap.  This may be a lie of course.

[Wascally Weasel]

I'm reading 'The Lies of Locke Lamora'.

[ian]

London Falling. Interesting idea, akin to the Ben Aaronovitch books, but curiously hard to follow. I think it's the revolving characters, he keeps skipping from one to the other, and gives none of them time to develop, so I keep having to flick back a few pages. Maybe it'll sort itself out by the end but it wouldn't have benefited from building out a single protagonist rather than wheeling through four fairly indistinguishable ones.

[spindrift]

Please can you tell me the name of the WW2 thriller where a junior spy has an affair with an older man at a cottage and things are not as they seem? Recent.

[tiermat]

Robert Jordan's A wheel of Time. Book 3 of 14

I never got past book one.  A friend tells me that by about book seven the first half of the book is mostly recap.  This may be a lie of course.

Sounds like Tad Williams' SOP, except he doesn't just put the recap at the beginning, it's all the way through, and gets a bit annoying after a while.

[Riggers]

Don't worry chaps. M'brain can easily recognise tell-tale sentences of the dreaded re-cap, and take appropriate skipping action. For context purposes I can see why it's done, but it is annoying, I agree.

[Aidan]

Just finished Dancing with Myself  , Billy Idols biography.   I enjoyed it, language is a bit flowery in places, but it seems honest and no hold barred,  I found the mid/late seventies punk stuff particularly interesting as a contemporary. worth a read if you're of a certain age.

Just started rereading Catch 22.  read it years ago but can't remember much about it apart from the names of the main protagonists, so its like reading it anew!

[Steph]

It's a major major read...

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Ms Gallumbits otp will be pleased to learn that I have now finished "Foxglove Summer" and reckon it to be well up to the standards of its predecessors (though I did find "Broken Homes" a little less excellent than the first three in the series).

I are also reading that just now. Be sad when I'm finished them.

I have finished that one and am now reading Nation by Terry Pratchett.

In the list for next are Colourless Tsuru thingy by Haruki Murakami and
The Peripheral by William Gibson.

I have just finished Broken Homes. I did not see the twist coming. I am aghast.

I was a bit shocked too.

Finished Foxglove Summer. I want the next one NOW!

[Aidan]

It's a major major read...