I’ve just started this:
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I have a system where early morning reading is non-fiction heavy topics (see above), and night reading is fiction. Just finished:
And restarted:
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His mirror of her dream books are superb too
Jonas is supposedly an odious and unpleasant character who sits at the middle of a web sensing information that trembles along the silk.
He is a minor civil servant trusted to play an important investigative roll by those on the top floor. Privy to much information he controls that investigation with unpleasant determination.
This time we are tracking families involved in cocaine smuggling rings.
You have to concentrate. Information is often hap hazzardly offered leaving you to make the connections.
Third in the series. The other two more reasonably priced on Kindle.
Almost,perhaps not quite,the equal of LeCarre’s Smiley novels.
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I love sci-fi but often find it difficult to find well written intelligent and plausible sci-fi books.
I have to say Robert Doherty’s thrilling Area 51 series (there are several in the series) have me riveted!
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This suggestion seconded. Stereophile is the only place I see Thomas Conrad’s great jazz recording reviews anymore.
I haven’t read a book in years. Used to be an avid reader when I was younger and was able to read very quickly.
However, after seeing some good reviews of this book, “The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia”, I decided to order a copy to give it a go.
I also ordered the following books on eBay as well. “The Illustrated Story of Jazz by Keith Shadwick “, “History of Jazz in Britain 1919-1950, by Jim Godbolt” and “The Story of Jazz by Joachim-Ernst Berendt”.
I thought, in for penny, etc.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
DG…
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Dear old Jim Godbolt was always around in those days. He was a prolific jazz writer and edited Ronnie Scott’s house magazine for many years.
His version of events is very authoritative and humorous.
They’re used to bean lp set to accompany the book.
Good reading.
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Enjoying this fascinating account, as an audiobook, on the history of the HeLa cells that have brought such benefits in medical science. The personal story and life of the black American woman, Henrietta Lacks, from whom the original cells were taken from her cervical cancer tumour.
The cells were taken without her knowledge – and became a multimillion-dollar industry. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with ethical and moral consequences.
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I read these all again during lockdown. The Dune saga is one of my all time favourites.
Still waiting on film number 2 from Denis Villeneuve. I quite enjoyed the first one.
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The second part of the film which I believe will only cover the second half of the first book will not be released until early November in the UK so still a bit of a wait, these books have been my return to Sci Fi after a break of about 20 years and I must say they have been a bit of a revelation in respect to the concepts that Herbert attempts to cover especially considering that he wrote the first book in 1965
Yes, the year I was born.
I have a 20th Anniversary copy that a bookshop owner friend of mine gave me for my 20th birthday.
Gollancz only printed 2000 of them. It is a beautiful edition.
I read Dune the first time when I was just 14 or 15 and have been thrilled by them all every time I’ve read them since then.
I’ve been rather remiss in my reading and don’t really remember if I’ve read much (or any) Martin Amis.
Given today’s news I’ll do something about that.
Reading Money (mostly because John Niven praised it and I respect his opinions).
I’ve only read London Fields, which I did like. At the time of publication, I had the sense that it was his magnum opus. I gather it’s still praised, but it may no loner be categorized that.
I’ve heard much praise for Time’s Arrow…
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An enthusiastic review in The NY Times. I did read her Booker Award novel some time back. I must say I felt I needed a primer on astrology.
I knew nothing of her until I read the reviews for this. We all have different tastes but I will say this requires no specialist knowledge and, for me, is one of the very best pieces of fiction I have read in decades. I’m about thirty five pages from the end and have no idea how it will end. My eyes tire easily but it’s no exaggeration to say that had the opportunity arisen I would have read this in one sitting.
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