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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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confusticated

Finished When Breath Becomes Air today, I don't usually read non fiction but would highly recommend it. It's about and written by a neurosurgeon who had terminal cancer, so his story is interesting in itself, but he was an excellent writer too. It's fairly short but beautifully written.

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confusticated wrote: »

Finished When Breath Becomes Air today, I don't usually read non fiction but would highly recommend it. It's about and written by a neurosurgeon who had terminal cancer, so his story is interesting in itself, but he was an excellent writer too. It's fairly short but beautifully written.

Agree fully. I avoided it for a while because I was expecting it to be depressing and while it is obviously sad much of the book relates to his life pre-cancer. For such a young man he had an incredibly mature attitude to life and death. What impressed me most was the honesty of the writing. One of those rare books that you know you will never forget.

eire4

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I read this a while ago and while it had some interesting stuff in it I couldn't shake the feeling that he set out with a very specific aim and wasn't going to let facts get in the way.

Can't say I felt that way about it myself. I thought he put forward a very compelling book overall.

Fathom

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman

Callan57

The Good People by Hannah Kent

Wyldwood

Callan57 wrote: »

The Good People by Hannah Kent

Does this live up to her previous novel Burial Rites? Loved that.

ahlookit

Finished dreamland by Sam Quinones... Very interesting if somewhat depressing account of opiate addiction in the US. It charts the rise of Oxycontin and how it paved the way for black tar heroin addiction in middle America.

Next up is my signed copy of Jo Nesbo's new one, The Thirst!

Birneybau

Latest Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo, ' The Thirst'. Cracking start, has never written an un-enjoyable book.

One previous was ' The Spinning Heart' by Donal Ryan that I was very impressed with.

Callan57

Wyldwood wrote: »

Does this live up to her previous novel Burial Rites? Loved that.

Only beginning it but I loved Burial Rites so hope it's to same standard .. yet you know in a few days

Fathom

The Burial Hour
by Jeffery Deaver

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

Tells the story of the extended Morgan family living and working in a Welsh mining village through the eyes of the youngest son, Huw. I'm not sure when exactly it's set, they've got trains but no cars as of yet.

It's pretty good so far, I'm only about a third of the way through but I am enjoying it.

marienbad

Finished The Better angels Of Our Nature - A History Of violence in Humanity by Steven Pinker

By the time the 800 odd pages are finished he drums into you that despite every thing we see and read that safest place to be right now since the dawn of the is here right now in the Western Democracies - and it is getting better .

The Greeks And Their Gods - W.K.C . Guthrie , al only but a goodie , first published in 1950 and sets out as a kind of religious companion to the Greek Classics - and it does exactly that - I just loved it

The Deaths Of Berlin - the 2nd Otto Fisher Novel by Jim McDermott - investigating Murder in Berlin in December 1994 - great way to learn more of the background to a country is to read the fiction set in that country of published at the time in that country - and I am going through a German binge right now - Weimar , Between the Wars , The Aftermath etc - Forget Kursk , Ardennes , Jodl , Keitl , this is much more interesting - how did it happen - what gave rise to it .

Xofpod

Notes from a coma, Mike McCormack

LionelNashe

At the moment I'm reading Irish crime fiction.

Finished broken Harbour by Tana French, and just started In The Woods - Both pretty good. The main characters'/narrators' voices are very distinct and well developed in each.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

LionelNashe wrote: »

At the moment I'm reading Irish crime fiction.

Finished broken Harbour by Tana French, and just started In The Woods - Both pretty good. The main characters'/narrators' voices are very distinct and well developed in each.

I read a few of her books a while ago and I enjoyed the first two but by the third one it was very obvious that her books all follow a very basic structure, part of which involves a random red herring plot that takes up huge chunks of the book and never come to anything. Also, and I found this especially with Into the Woods and The Likeness, the questions you want answered never get answered.

Ipso

Have you read any of Alan Glynn's books?
I really enjoyed Winterland, Graveland and Bloodland.

Callan57

Finished The Good People by Hannah Kent ... fascinating & even more amazed when I read in the author's note that it is based on actual events in Kerry pre-famine!

Next it's Beloved by Toni Morrison

Fathom

The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware

Fathom

Fathom wrote: »

The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware

Fast read!

Day Lewin

The Alexandria Quartets, by Lawrence Durrell.
It's four books, (a Quadrilogy?), all developing the same series of events from different points of view.
I'm most of the way through the second. They are beautifully written.

marienbad

A German Winter - the 3rd Otto Fischer Novel - Jim McDermot

Stettin/Szczecin in 1945/46 - and we watch as a 1000 year old German city becomes part of the new Poland with all the mass expulsions and murders. You can't beat fiction to flesh out the reality behind the history books

Eamon de Valera A Will To Power - Ronan Fanning . This should be an interesting read .

The Secret Life of Trees : How They Live and Why They Matter - Colin Tudge

Not my usual interest at all but a really fascinating read .

Xofpod

White Tears, Hari Kunzru.
Absolutely loved Gods Without Men and hoping that this will be of similar quality.

Callan57

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Fathom

Third Wave
by Steve Case

Fathom

Fathom wrote: »

Third Wave
by Steve Case

Page turner.

eire4

Finished A Prayer for the Damned by Peter Tremayne. A very enjoyable murder mystery set in the 7th century in Ireland with his famed character Sister Fidelma leading the investigation.

Xofpod

Very good read but not quite at the same level of Gods Without Men. Would heartily recommend both though.

Next, on to The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli.

Xofpod wrote: »

White Tears, Hari Kunzru.
Absolutely loved Gods Without Men and hoping that this will be of similar quality.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I'm on the last of the Elena Ferrante Neopolitan novels. The 3rd one took me a while to get through, bit of a bore really. They're a strange series of books because essentially everyone is horrible and the main character, who narrates the whole thing, is the kind of person you'd love to punch in the head and tell her to cop on, and yet I am invested in finding out what happens to them all.

ahlookit

Next up is Jon McGregor's new one, Reservoir 13 . Hoping its up to his previous efforts.

Cloudio9

On a Cormac McCarthy binge at the moment.

First was "The Road" which is probably the most haunting thing I've ever read.

Next was "Blood Meridian" which I've seen best described as an "anti-Western"

Now I'm on "No country for old men" which is somewhat ruined by having seen the movie.