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?
Starting tonight:
Whilst doing research for my next layout project.
steve
Picked this up from an antique book shop
Originality. A popular study of the creative mind. By T. Sharper Knowlson. Original 1918 edition. Absolute joy to read.
Just finished reading this. Found it a gripping and atmospheric thriller. Clever writing leaves you questioning/doubting the evidence and witness statements.
Just started this short one after reading a 750 page tome...
Starting:
Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a contributor to The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and many other publications. He teaches in the political science department at Yale University.
The only book to dramatize from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare.
Just finished this one. Ready for the book 9 in detective Bennett sequence.
Planned by Churchill, authorized by Eisenhower, and executed by five specially trained bomber units, the attack on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, was among the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II. If it succeeded, the Nazi war machine would be brought to its knees.On August 1, 1943, nearly 200 bombers flew from North Africa, with directions to descend on the target at treetop level, bomb the refineries, and return. But despite warnings that the secrecy of the mission had been compromised, it went ahead. The ensuing air-ground battle claimed dozens of aircraft, and many of the survivors were forced to ditch into the ocean due to lack of fuel and/or terminal damage."Into the Fire" recreates this great battle, combining original research and interviews with survivors in order to capture the tension, drama, and heroics of this fateful attempt to cut of the Nazi supply of "black gold."
Starting:
Michael Lewis’ new book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Minds discusses the underpinnings of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s psychological work, focused on judgment and decision-making.
I read this book many years ago, fortunately I forgot the whole story. Reading it again is exciting, the characters are so believable, Grishan knows how to set court room tension and introduce unexpected situations. The story is about probate of a rich estate, and the usual vile vultures which fight over money. In my old work involving law, the worse type of human beings I came across were not criminal clients but beneficiaries of a will and persons who think they should inherit under the will. An average human being who was tolerated and accepted in this world becomes a monster, losing all integrity, good will just on the sniff of money. At least among criminals there was a sort of a code of behaviour and they knew it was wrong what they did (if they did do the guilty act).
I am addicted to my Kindle...reading it in Dutch...
First edition of Ackroyd's typically idiosyncratic, but beautifully written and generally splendid survey of the English imagination.
Now reading about kayak, adventure and Siberian mistique.
Was given this for Christmas (!) Wasn't sure about it as I didn't know much about him but finding it a fascinating read. He's slightly crazy but seems a decent and genuine bloke. And he lives less than 50 miles from here as I was amazed to find.
steve
Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men [& women] into Whiners Weenies and Wimps by Burgess Owens
Recently finished this:
I only finished it because I was on holiday and didn't have anything else to read. It's ok I 'spose, it is a different take on the thriller genre, but I don't see what all the fuss was about.
steve