What Are You Reading...?

[PsychoticBadger]

As someone who can't understand the need for a TV in a CV/MH I'll ask for your top 5 desert island books you'd have with you on the road as well as your current read. And if you're like me you may well have paper copies as well as 5000+ on your e-reader. Feel free to say which one you prefer also.

 

[cliffanger]

I’m reading Tolstoy’s The Awakening at the moment. Not quite as heavy as Hugo’s Les Miserables, but not far off

I love the Barchester Chronicles, the Poldark novels, and the Anne of Avonlea books.

The Horseman Riding By trilogy and the Lord of the Rings are also my favourites.

So those are my five, albeit collectively a lot of reading!

PS - I also loved Belles on Their Toes, which I’ve read countless times - so I’m a true eclectic!

 

[Fatmrsgeorge]

Current read - Kristin Lavransdottir by Sigrid Unsett. (Ploughing through but kind of enjoying)

Top 5 ( over and over again)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
The murder at the vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett

Aye. Shows my age but still absolute belters.

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

This thread

 

[Vikdikdok]

Anything Sci-fi as long as it's not idiotic

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[Saucer]

Currently reading The End of the Affair by Graham Green

 

[fat haggis]

I’m currently devouring. A Gimp A blimp And a bucket of Shrimp.
I might need to watch a movie afterwards to calm down.

 

[olley]

Amazon delivered The Trading Game this afternoon, should make interesting reading.

 

[dunnah01]

Jerome k jerome- 3 men in a boat. Dull as dishwater so giving up with it tonight

 

[AndyPK]

‘The invention of clouds’.

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[Ridgeway]

Funnily enough (OPs forum name) just on Slaying the Badger.

 

[K R B]

Blood sweat & tyres
Both been through the ringer
Good read

 

[AlunandFelicie]

Anything Sci-fi as long as it's not idiotic

The Pike Chronicles (SF) 12 book series

David Weber’s Honor Harrington series starting with ‘On Basilisk Station’ (Sf) probably my favourite series of books (stretching to 20+books atm).

 

[AndyPK]

The Pike Chronicles (SF) 12 book series

David Weber’s Honor Harrington series starting with ‘On Basilisk Station’ (Sf) probably my favourite series of books (stretching to 20+books atm).

I’ve read quite a few of them!

 

[Edendeb]

Just reading Dolores Redondo, The Baztan trilogy. They are set in Navarro and I am really enjoying them

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[Gerry77]

I was recommended a book by a local farmer/author James Rebanks ( Shepherds life etc and his latest The Place of Tides).
Wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame! I didn’t read it as a child so that’s what I am reading now. My usual books have been by Robert Goddard and Jeffrey Archer. I can also recommend the biography of George Mallory the Everest climber.

 

[BusyBuilder]

Reading the war Diaries of Victor Klemperer, To The Bitter End.
He was a jew married to an aryan living in Dresden . It chronicles the daily torments of Jews in nazi Germany from 1941 through to 1945.
It's an eye opener how things change little by little till Jews literally have nothing and no rights, though to begin with they don't see it. Even being sent to Poland, they think it's to work.

 

[Roby2008]

Current Hardback: Angela Merkels Autobiography

Classic Hardbacks: Tolkien , Jules Verne

Kindle: 500 + SciFi and anything and everything

 

[Jenben]

I run a book club for the WI and am also a very keen reader. Currently reading Elly Griffiths series of books featuring Dr Ruth Galloway , it’s a mix of archaeology and a detective plot set in Norfolk.

For book club we are reading Belinda Bauer ‘exit’ and ‘weyward’ by Emilia Hart . Two books for februarys meeting as we don’t meet in January.

For March we are reading Joseph O’Connor ‘my fathers house’.

Edit - at book club we have a mix of formats , books, ebooks and a few are audiobooks users.

 

[BusyBuilder]

One book I just have to recommend, this book is a real life boys own adventure . When I read it (twice now) I can hardly put it down, don't read it in bed as you'll get no sleep !
If you watched the program on tv about finding Shackleton ship in the South Atlantic, this is just a small part of the book.

An Unsung Hero, about Tom Crean, part of the South Pole and Shackleton expeditions.

Tom Crean retired to a pub on the Dingle Peninsular southern Ireland, called the South Pole and it's worth a visit if you ever go down that way.

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[Jim]

For March we are reading Joseph O’Connor ‘my fathers house’.

It looks good. I've had that in my shopping basket a few times, but worry that it might be a little too literary for my taste.

 

[Jenben]

It looks good. I've had that in my shopping basket a few times, but worry that it might be a little too literary for my taste.

No, definitely not too literary, it’s a bit ‘great escape’, very loosely based on a true story and I think he is writing a follow up book. It has made me go and look at some further history relating to Italy and the war as I knew nothing about this.

An upside of being in a book club is that you do end up reading stuff you might avoid/miss.

 

[scotzsue]

Love this thread, but favourite 5 oh dear what I will list is 5 books I have kept and reread several times.
A Town like Alice by Neville Shute first read when mum got it from the readers digest book club, she said I was too young so i read it under the covers
High Citadel by Desmond Bagley Companion book club 5/9 another that was mum's
Anything by Agatha Christie, nice gentle murders I tend to speed read, so find something new each time, or maybe my memory is going.
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Can't get to the rest to see another I reread,
so will say
Author Laurie R. King - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries, written as though he was areal not a fictional character, very cleverly done.
Fan of Elly Griffith too,
Tend to take my Kindle with me, bought first after weighing the books we carried after our first trip, if we are having a lazy day I can read 2/3 in a day, as I said I tend to speed read.
Do take atlases and the owners manual for the motorhome. and usually 2/3 paperbacks to swap.
Don't like science fiction, or graphic spy/thrillers

 

[maison]

The Khan Dynasty series by Conn Iggulden.

Follows the Kahn Dynasty from Genghis onwards. Excellent read if you like history and adventure.

Wolf of the Plain
Lords of the Bow
Bones of the Hills.

Very well written and immersive books.

 

[mackeellan]

There are a few fact based novels by Leon Uris.
Varying from the Irish potato famines, rebuilding Germany and Berlin in particular after WW2, Jewish ghetto uprising in Warsaw, the Inns of Court in UK.
I collected and read all of them but, I admit, some are heavy going and also very emotional too.

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[AlunandFelicie]

To Those that haven’t given Terry Pratchett’s Disc World novels a go ,worth a shot great humour

 

[Tonks]

I run a book club for the WI and am also a very keen reader. Currently reading Elly Griffiths series of books featuring Dr Ruth Galloway , it’s a mix of archaeology and a detective plot set in Norfolk.

Are you enjoying the Elly Griffiths books, Jenben ? I love mysteries so am always interested in finding new authors!

I work in publishing so I read a lot. I mostly read fiction, but at the moment I'm also reading a couple of non-fiction titles. Currently on the go are:

Running on Empty: 18,000 Miles Down Africa with Parkinson's. By Guy Deacon.
About Guy Deacon's journey from the UK to South Africa in his VW campervan. It took him 12 months. He broke down five times, had one emergency evacuation, and took 3650 prescription pills for his stage 3 Parkinson's. I've been reading it on and off for several weeks now, around other things! Getting more engrossed now that I've got to the actual journey.

Road Trips. By Amy Shore.
Amy Heynes (nee Shore) is an automotive photographer I've been following for several years. I've been to hear her speak twice. Her photos of vehicles are a mix of fine art and documentary with a slight retro feel to the processing. This book is a collection of her work from various road trips in multiple countries and I'm enjoying it very much. It is however a serious 'coffee table' book, and is in the 'art books' price range rather than the biographies price range!

The Dark Wives. By Ann Cleeves.
The latest of the 'Vera' novels.

Despite always having several books on my TBR pile, I also do re-read favourites. I read (or listen to on unabridged audio) all the Chronicles of Narnia every year. They have a depth of writing which means that decades after first reading them I'm still impacted by something in the story, or something in the writing of the story, which I'd not noticed before. I collect children's books by specific authors, written from the 1940s to 1960s, so I re-read those from time to time.

I read digitally and physically, but the split often tends to be digital for work, and physical for pleasure. I often read using my Kindle app when I'm standing in queues or waiting for appointments.

I post on Instagram as @anneonbooks. A mix of stuff for work, stuff for pleasure, and #campervanreading posts.

A Town like Alice by Neville Shute first read when mum got it from the readers digest book club, she said I was too young so i read it under the covers

A Town Like Alice is a powerful read. I read it while a teenager. The TV adaptation was also very hard-hitting.

 

[ToGoldlyBo]

Currently reading a real surprise: Joanne Harris moonlight market.
But generally for fun reading: space opera and hard sci-fi plus some kind of fantasy. Top favourites currently included:
1. Terry Pratchett - Thief of time, but all of them really
2. Becky Chambers - the long way to a small angry planet
3. Iain M Banks - all of them, but especially The Hydrogen Sonata
4. Kenneth Graham - wind in the willows
5. Sarah Bakewell - At the existentialist café

 

[carolyn]

Just finished reading the latest Tim Sullivan book. They’re fiction , crime but set in and around Bristol but the Detective DS George Cross is on the Autistic spectrum. The stories are good, a bit different but well done. The trouble is I end up reading the new one in 2 or 3 days in the winter.

Another detective series is the Inspector Gamache books by Louise Penny set in French speaking Canada. 18 books.

I read all sorts but I can rarely remember the names it’s just that there are so many of these even I can’t forget!

 

[Saucer]

Current Hardback: Angela Merkels Autobiography

Classic Hardbacks: Tolkien , Jules Verne

Kindle: 500 + SciFi and anything and everything

I’ve got the Merkel book lined up

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