What book are you reading right now?

Not that I am. I have it to review.

steve

Signed by the author. There's one thing you can't accuse Hooky of in this book, and that's holding back...

Just finished this.............a journal of the life and often troubled times of Chuck.

Could posters please put their titles/authors in text rather than graphics - I can't read the latter.

Currently working through the Asimov robot/foundation universe (yet again) ... up to Robots and Empire

Allan Milne posted:

 

Could posters please put their titles/authors in text rather than graphics - I can't read the latter.

 

Currently working through the Asimov robot/foundation universe (yet again) ... up to Robots and Empire

 

Sorry Allan, 

Always remember in the Music thread......................forgot in the book one.

Anyway, It was "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", a journal of the life and often troubled times of Chuck Berry.

My copy is an older one (1952) costing 75 Cents.

Paper Plane posted:

Not that I am. I have it to review.

steve

As it happens, it wasn't very good so I sold it  at an exhibition I was at yesterday.

steve

Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair, for goodness knows how many times.  If you like the fantasy genre they don't come much better than this.

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias by W. Bruce Lincoln

A gripping counterfactual by a master writer.

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run

next up

Anthony Horowitz.   Magpie Murders

I had lunch (in a Scandi restaurant, natch) with the author of this book. She was a lovely lady and signed a copy for me. I'm reading it now - it's a frothy but entertaining look at Danish life and culture by an Englishwoman who settled in rural Jutland with her husband after the latter landed a plum job with the Lego company in 2010.

Kevin-W posted:

I had lunch (in a Scandi restaurant, natch) with the author of this book. She was a lovely lady and signed a copy for me. I'm reading it now - it's a frothy but entertaining look at Danish life and culture by an Englishwoman who settled in rural Jutland with her husband after the latter landed a plum job with the Lego company in 2010.

I'm sure the Norwegian and Swedish would have a different take on it, Kev. Norwegians, from personal experience, are some of the nicest people I have ever met. I don't  know what they take but they should "bottle it" as some sort of elixir and share it  with the rest of the planet.

This is also an interesting reading:

I'm in the middle of this, distractions keep me from finishing it. She's a great writer about men with great ideas that changed the world.  I saw her at a local talk and signed my book.  She keeps that energy going that you just want to keep turning the pages.  I love science and nature

 I had also read this summer which was a great explanation of how the founding fathers lived and managed to  create a new political system in the age of enlightenment. Turns out Adams and Jefferson, complete opposites were long time in London and found no help and lots of prejudice, but their gardens were full of American trees plants so they curried favors from many nations by sending them seed boxes. Washington wouldn't have a foreign plant on his estates and focused Mount Vernon toward the west  back to the east.  She really illuminated  the early political history that I was supposed to learn as a kid in Philly many decades ago.  She has more small books which I bought at the sale table.

Now when I watch British shows I realize many plants are ours but also Asian, South American because of the great explorers bringing back samples. The best gardeners along with the Japanese from my perspective.

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.

Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Beret.

I am lately quite into audio books as it's a great way to travel when going back and forth to the Netherlands and longer drives to concerts. Now I am havin the fascinating trilogy about Cicero by Robert Harris

It's the Dream
Translated by Robin Fulton

It's the dream we carry in secret
that something miraculous will happen,
that it must happen –
that time will open
that the heart will open
that doors will open
that the mountains will open
that springs will gush –
that the dream will open,
that one morning we will glide into
some little harbour we didn't know was there.

It's the Dream

It's the dream we carry in secret
that something miraculous will happen,
that it must happen –
that time will open
that the heart will open
that doors will open
that the mountains will open
that springs will gush –
that the dream will open,
that one morning we will glide into
some little harbour we didn't know was there.

Again an audiobook for my travel from and to the Netherlands...

Just finished a book about the most famous criminal of the Netherlands, it's hard to belief.....

Always wanted to read this, and now I am doing so...

A favourite from my Art student years.  Always a pleasure to dip into.

Bert Schurink posted:

Just finished a book about the most famous criminal of the Netherlands, it's hard to belief.....

 

Bert,

I am about to start my own Judas by my favorite Israeli writer: