What books are we reading at the moment ?

[rafletcher]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

[Mr Larrington]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

WTF   I hope that's a mispring

Edit: Publisher's webby SCIENCE still says August 25th.  2016.

[Mrs Pingu]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

WTF   I hope that's a mispring

Edit: Publisher's webby SCIENCE still says August 25th.  2016.

I notice a tweet from the man from 4 days ago, consisting of many repeats of the word 'done'.

[fuzzy]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

WTF   I hope that's a mispring

Edit: Publisher's webby SCIENCE still says August 25th.  2016.

I notice a tweet from the man from 4 days ago, consisting of many repeats of the word 'done'.

'I've been done up like a kipper'- 'done in', 'done for'?

[rafletcher]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

WTF   I hope that's a mispring

Edit: Publisher's webby SCIENCE still says August 25th.  2016.

Fantastic Fiction say "21st September 2107". They tend to be quite accurate. That's for Kindle and hardback. Oddly they have Jan '17 for paperback - but maybe that should be Jan '18.

[Mr Larrington]

2107?  I'll be dead by then and so will Mr Aaronovitch, because I will have killed him utterly to DETH long before

[tiermat]

The Booker long list is out, so I have started on the first on my list, "My Name is Lucy Barton"

[TheLurker]

Well it won't be "The Hanging Tree" by Ben Aaronovitch anytime soon. A not from our library reservations system yeserday. My bold 

"Reservation for The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch has been cancelled as we have been informed that publication has been delayed until at least September 2017. A new order will be made once we have a confirmed publication date."

Damn and blast. 

[Mr Larrington]

A plane crashes in the Jura, leaving a sole survivor, a three month old girl.  Is she Lyse-Rose de Carville? Is she Emilie Vitral?  Do we actually give a shit?  If you are ever tempted to read After The Crash by Michel Bussi, do yourself a favour and read the Yellow Pages instead.  It may be just a piss-poor translation from the original French. Or not.  Oh, and the "delicious sting in the tail" that the Sunday Mirror's Deirdre O'Brien claims exists was so obviously telegraphed about a hundred pages from the end that Bussi might just have well have had one of the protagonists switching on a big neon sign reading "Guess which hackneyed thriller cliche he's gonna use next?"

Poor.

[T42]

Black Swan Green, my third D. Mitchell in a row.  Might need to read the Adrian Mole canon for comparison, but DM's idea of how a 13-yr-old's mind works isn't far off how I spottily remember my early teens.

[tiermat]

Now on to the second book on the long list, Hystopia by David Means.

If you like The Chimes, from last years list, you will probably get on with this.  Set in an alternative 1970's Michigan, where Kennedy wasn't killed, rather was re-elected for a third term, the Viernam war drags on and 'Nam Vets are treated to a process called "enfolding" to try to counteract PTSD.

[Torslanda]

The rather wordy titled 'The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives', condensed and edited by Richard Holmes. A great military historian and professor.

Condensed, it's still around 500 pages but very readable.

[Torslanda]

A plane crashes in the Jura, leaving a sole survivor, a three month old girl.  Is she Lyse-Rose de Carville? Is she Emilie Vitral?  Do we actually give a shit?  If you are ever tempted to read After The Crash by Michel Bussi, do yourself a favour and read the Yellow Pages instead.  It may be just a piss-poor translation from the original French. Or not.  Oh, and the "delicious sting in the tail" that the Sunday Mirror's Deirdre O'Brien claims exists was so obviously telegraphed about a hundred pages from the end that Bussi might just have well have had one of the protagonists switching on a big neon sign reading "Guess which hackneyed thriller cliche he's gonna use next?"

Poor.

So, not a fan . . . ?

[Mr Larrington]

A plane crashes in the Jura, leaving a sole survivor, a three month old girl.  Is she Lyse-Rose de Carville? Is she Emilie Vitral?  Do we actually give a shit?  If you are ever tempted to read After The Crash by Michel Bussi, do yourself a favour and read the Yellow Pages instead.  It may be just a piss-poor translation from the original French. Or not.  Oh, and the "delicious sting in the tail" that the Sunday Mirror's Deirdre O'Brien claims exists was so obviously telegraphed about a hundred pages from the end that Bussi might just have well have had one of the protagonists switching on a big neon sign reading "Guess which hackneyed thriller cliche he's gonna use next?"

Poor.

So, not a fan . . . ?

Whatever gave you that impression

[Canardly]

Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake...an old classic.

[pcolbeck]

The Leapard - Tomasi di Lampedusa

though I am in Florence not Sicily

[Steph]

The rather wordy titled 'The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives', condensed and edited by Richard Holmes. A great military historian and professor.

Condensed, it's still around 500 pages but very readable.

Still have it to hand in a ...small...room to dip into now and again. I have the DVD set of the TV series, but I keep that elsewhere.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Just finished The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, about a man who goes to another planet as a Christian missionary. Really liked it.

[andrewc]

About 3/4 of the way through Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)  which is a depressing tale of a failed attempt at interstellar colonization & should be mandatory reading for people who think we can fuck this planet up & then move elsewhere.

[T42]

In any case, (time left to total fuck-up) << (time to develop interstellar mass transit) without a now-tell-me-professor-level event.

Black Swan Green continues droll but conventional by Mitchell standards, and my re-read of Carrion Comfort feels like eating slice after slice of boiled ham, i.e. pleasurable enough but somewhat flat.

[Mr Larrington]

Damn and blast Waterstones for not opening until 09:30.  Do I want to hang around a bleak shopping centre for twenty minutes before coming in to look for light fiction for my upcoming holibobs?  No.  No, I do not.

[Paul]

Just finished Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (again).  It doesn't get any better, does it?   

Hmm, having just started this for the first time, and searched here for views, I wonder if -  having turned 50 last year (and therefore presumably having less time left than I've already had) - I should drop it now and read something else

 I'm only reading it now because

1. it was one of the very small selection at the camp site;
2. it was 50p, and;
2. several people have recommended it to me over the years.

That said, it's okay so far (page 50 or so), and far better than I remember Hardy: I was required to read Far From The Madding Crowd at secondary school. What idiot thought that long descriptive passages of the countryside and weather would turn teenage boys on to literature? It's a wonder I ever picked up another book.

[fuzzy]

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell.

The tale of a young boy of noblish birth, captured by Vikings.

Not a bad read so far for an Amazon freebie.

[lou boutin]

Has that been televised?  I read the overview and thought I'd watched it on tv.

[fuzzy]

I understand that I has. Not seen it though.