What are you reading?

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine ~ Anna Reid

Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism and Crime ~ Taras Kuzio

Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War ~ Taras Kuzio

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine ~ Anne Applebaum

 

[funandflirty]

Surrounded by idiots by Thomas Erikson

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine ~ Anna Reid

Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism and Crime ~ Taras Kuzio

Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War ~ Taras Kuzio

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine ~ Anne Applebaum

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I've got a book 'Prisoners of Geography' by Tim Marshall. It's about geopolitics, and a chapter of it goes in to why Putin is obsessed with Ukraine. Worth a look if you ever come across it.
btw I'm still looking out for 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe you recommended to me some time ago. I haven't forgotten, I'll pick it up one day.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Surrounded by idiots by Thomas Erikson

A book about chat rooms? cheap shot, I apologise.

 

[funandflirty]

A book about chat rooms? cheap shot, I apologise.

That made me chuckle .

It’s about communication style and how you can adjust to communicate more effectively, it is very interesting

 

[TheBabayaga]

The collection of ghost stories are amazing.

I like a good ghostie story....whats it called the book or author or both?

 

[JennyFleck]

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Figuring by Maria Popova
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

 

[IglooLass]

“1963, A Slice Of Bread And Jam” by Terry Rattigan
A tale of being “dragged up” in 1960’s Gorton near Manchester, and the author’s close encounter with Hindley & Brady.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

I have three books on the go at the moment; the new Rivers of London (9) - Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch, which is shaping up to be much better than the last one; My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn; Vera book 6 - Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves.

I've just picked up 'Rivers of London' by Ben Aaronovitch, and I remembered it being mentioned in this thread, what with me having the graphic novel comic book. I understand this book to be one of an on-going series, but there's nothing on the cover to indicate which in the series this is... I'm hoping it's book one

 

[JennyFleck]

Just My Luck by Adele Parks
How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

 

[JennyFleck]

Euphoria by Lily King
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

They Have Their Exits - Airey Neave
I had a chance to pick up this book some time ago, but for some reason, I think it was a bit tatty, I didn't buy it. A dear friend passed this copy on to me, knowing that I'd like it, he wasn't wrong.
Many will not even know who Airey Neave was, and I wouldn't blame them for that. He was the MP murdered by terrorists when his car was blown up as he was driving out of the houses of parliament underground car park. Decades earlier, he'd described his exploits in this book, of how he became the first British POW to escape from the notorious Colditz Castle. A ripping yarn.

 

[JennyFleck]

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Circe by Madeline Miller

 

[Cera]

People.

Always people.

Their energy field fluctuates like a Boris Johnson polygraph test.

 

[a1needygal]

The Overstory by Richard Powers... and I don't recommend it. It's like Moby Dick for trees and less interesting. Recently I've read Moby Dick itself, Children of the Dust, The Time Machine, The Notebook, Z for Zachariah, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Fault in our Stars, The English Patient. I thoroughly recommend The Notebook and Fault in our Stars.

In terms of favourite books ever, in no particular order I'd say... The Silmarillion, Animal Farm, On the Beach, Earth Abides. The End Specialist

 

[JennyFleck]

The Overstory by Richard Powers... and I don't recommend it. It's like Moby Dick for trees and less interesting. Recently I've read Moby Dick itself, Children of the Dust, The Time Machine, The Notebook, Z for Zachariah, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Fault in our Stars, The English Patient. I thoroughly recommend The Notebook and Fault in our Stars.

In terms of favourite books ever, in no particular order I'd say... The Silmarillion, Animal Farm, On the Beach, Earth Abides. The End Specialist

I absolutely LOVED The English Patient

 

[JennyFleck]

AI 2041 Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

 

[Cat100]

I just finished reading Invisible Women by Caroline Cricdo Perez. It looks at how society is constructed and managed by men to the detrament of women. A good read if you like economic, social, environmental policy planning as well as history.

I am currently reading No More War by Dan Kovalik. It is a good read if you are into International Humanitarian Law.

And just so everyone does not think I am an academia girlly swat I just started reading Sisters Behaving Badly by Maddie Please. It was free with my Amazon account and have no idea if it is good or not.

 

[Magpie]

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

Not read a novel for ages, but I found this book in the second hand book shop the other day and having read it about 25 years ago I decided I wanted to read it again. It's kind of an experiment of sorts to see how differently I feel about it and see how much I've changed after a quarter of a century of the joys and woes of life.

It used to be one of my favourite books and Hermann Hesse is definitely one of my favourite authors. He wrote a note in subsequent editions of the book to say that he was dismayed by how it had become embraced by the younger generation and how he thought it had been seriously misunderstood. After all it is a story about a middle aged man. I am now a middle aged man, perhaps this time I will know what he means.

For anyone who likes poetic writing and poetic novels I would recommend Hermann Hesse.

 

[Moriarty]

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Circe by Madeline Miller

Why would anyone read Atwood unless it was for an exam or a bet.