What book are you reading right now?

I've just started reading this in the Italian translation, but I can't read about music if all terms are not competently and convincingly translated, so I'll buy the original version...  

His origins are foreign!  Is nothing sacred anymore..?

Just finished "The Voice", a biography of Frank Sinatra up thru his career crash in the 50s and his come-back with an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity". A very strange man in a strange place at a strange time. I can take or leave his music, but the man is fascinating and the book is hard to put down. I'm in line at the library for Volume 2, "The Chairman of the Board".

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Recommended by a friend...

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Last blast from a great public intellectual:

Ecco's last book written in 2015.

The Revenant (now a major motion picture)

The First 15 lives of Harry August by Claire North.

I was given this as a present last year and now I'm ready to dive in. This is the expanded edition: two volumes, 1,700 pages of incredible detail that only takes us up to 1962. I'll see you all on the other side:

Taking a break from the Lewishon. A gripping history of bootlegging:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Strange Pilgrims

Just picked this up and lost myself in the utterly delightful twelve short stories, thematically similar and as ever with his writing occupying a parallel world of plausible magic.

Love in the Time Of Cholera is perhaps my favourite book of all time.

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The First 15 lives of Harry August by Claire North.

Loved this book, also Touch, same author/pseudonym (pen name of Catherine Webb).

Finished The Revenant, then watched the film - almost completely different story, so I recommend the book not the film.

Now reading "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald.

Fascinating account of the making of a landmark album. Another excellent entry in Bloomsbury's generally splendid 33 1/3 series (athough the Unknown Pleasures one is crap):

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"Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with veterans of the war—fighter and helicopter pilots, tank commanders and Recon soldiers, paratroopers, as well as women soldiers, wives, and others—bestselling author Steven Pressfield tells the story of the Six Day War as you've never experienced it: in the voices of the young men and women who battled not only for their lives but for the survival of the Jewish state and for the dreams of their ancestors."

A collection of personal accounts of selected battles, just gives you a taste of the events but not the large picture of the war.

Scary stuff indeed. Basically we're burgered. I recommend this to anyone who cares about human existence on this beautiful planet.

A couple, long married, is spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished seventy-year-old brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by “friendly fire."

Still ploughing through Lewishon's mammoth Fabs tome, but I'm currently also reading this...

A novel about a Gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, taking place in Czechoslovakia starting in the early 1930s and through WW II and the Communist regime that followed.