Just started two: the first is part of the Lewis Trilogy that I’m reading in reverse; second is the book that spawned the film about a German prisoner of war who escaped from incarceration in Siberia.
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Predictably, The Graun really didn’t like it, but Murray’s tome has been well-received elsewhere. Thus far, a reasonably well-argued thesis.
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Trying something different this month. A title that I was familiar with but never read.
Beau Geste
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It’s not showing up on my iPad? What us it?
I’ve been listening to the audiobook, incredibly thought provoking, and a brilliant analysis of how society has changed in little over a decade, with unifying themes of how this has come to be, whereas most of us probably just feel the world has gone rather mad in some areas!
He can come across as a bit of a pompous snob on TV (love it or loathe it), but there is real humanity/empathy on display in his narration at times, particularly when he discusses our inability to forgive past transgressions on social media.
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I found three mistakes in the book but was too late to notify Mr. Patrick Sloyan since he had passed away shortly after completing this work. I could not establish contact with any of the St. Martin Press editors so I posted them on their Facebook page as requested. A very strange process.
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Think I’ll give that a read.
David Lagercrantz is continuing the original Stieg Larsson’s trilogy Millennium. This is the first book of the new series of three so far.
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At the risk of Mr Dane deciding this is too political for the forum now, this just-published book is fascinating. Steve Richard’s analysis is forensic and does not pull its punches. I’m reading it backwards, So I have read the chapters on May, Cameron, Brown and Blair. Next up therefore is Major. Anyway I highly recommend, especially if you hanker after being a future PM! (The sub-title could have been “why they failed”.)
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Written by an ex-collegue of my wife. It takes place in Turkey and since my grand parents are from there I was given a copy to read.
Will Birch is a brilliant writer and with a subject like Nick Lowe (anything he hasn’t done in the music business isn’t worth doing) it is a great story and read.
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@Haim how was it?
I loved Being Dead by Crace. Well, “loved” is perhaps the wrong word!
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I just started it. The plot moves very fast and the chapters are quite short. I will let you know when I am done reading it.
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“The British Are Coming” by Rick Atkinson, the first volume in a trilogy history of the Revolutionary War. Like he did with his WWII trilogy, incredibly ‘alive’ and readable for a history book. A really fun read for a history book.
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Oh, I have to find this. Currently working my way towards a black belt in Kenpo karate and it’s hard to find books that aren’t too dry and serious.
I wish that Atkinson would have given us more of the politics on the US side instead of just a battle after battle. I don’t think that I will bother with the last two parts of this trilogy.
The thing that he is doing well is covering the British side. Funny, Years ago I went to one of his lectures and had a chance to complain to him of not covering at all the German’s perspective in his WW II trilogy. He replied at the end Ike that he was only interested in the American side. I guess things change…