What book are you reading right now?
Posted by: Chillkram on 23 May 2010
I am currently reading Suetonius, 'The Twelve Caesars'.
How about you?
Still in a Navy SEAL writers mode, but what a difference between the two.
Grabbed this very cheaply at an outlet store (Ollie's for those in the USA who might know of the chain) with low expectations, and it has actually turned out to be pretty good; better than I expected. Has thus far revealed a few facts that I didn't know, despite having a fair sized Beatles library. Easy read with the daily vignette format, and some decent photos too.
Saw the film and thought that it would make an interesting read. Starting today.
Not the easiest stuff to read, still recommended. Going tomorrow to hear a lecture about her writing.
Picked up from the local Oxfam shop, hardback in perfect nick:
The White Road is a part travelogue, part history and part memoir but De Waal, an award-winning ceramicist, takes as its subject the history of porcelain production and much of it makes for fascinating reading. De Waal’s pilgrimage begins in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen, home to “a millennium of skills, fifty generations of digging and cleaning and mixing white earth”.
Started last night. I greatly enjoyed his first book "The Hare with Amber Eyes".
Just started with this one, plan to get a lot done today and tomorrow..
Followed the series since the first book and the last two books including this one have been excellent.
An Xmas pressie. Peter Doggett looks at Bowie in his 1970s (1969 to 1980, actually) pomp, adopting the same approach as the late great Ian MacDonald in his brilliant Revolution In The Head. Doggett isn't quite the write than MacDonald is (few are) but it's a great book that both illuminates The Dame's music and drives you back to it. Recommended.
Another Christmas gift - a well-written, evocative guide to London life in the Middle Ages (1390), during the Great Plague of the 1660s, the late Victorian period (1884), Shakesperean London (1603), the coffee house era of the 1710s and the post-war years (1957).
Based on finding out about it on the Naim forum...
I hope Lewisohn gets to complete his Trilogy as planned. 'In an interview published on 28 December 2013, Lewisohn estimated that the second volume would be published in 2020 and the final volume in 2028 ("about the time he turns 70").'
Since he's about 6 months younger than I am, I hope we both make it that far!
While he is still with us.
steve
A spy story during WW I taking place in England and India.
Kevin-W posted:An Xmas pressie. Peter Doggett looks at Bowie in his 1970s (1969 to 1980, actually) pomp, adopting the same approach as the late great Ian MacDonald in his brilliant Revolution In The Head. Doggett isn't quite the write than MacDonald is (few are) but it's a great book that both illuminates The Dame's music and drives you back to it. Recommended.
Well that was farsighted of someone...
steve