What book are you reading atm??

gramar wrote: »

I just finished No Safe House, a crime thriller by Linwood Barclay. An enjoyable read. Clipped along at a nice pace and kept the interest levels up all along. The kind of book you'd look forward to picking up.

One of my fav authors

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I got it for my daughter last year and she recommended I read it. I like the writing, if not all the characters. It's quite a door-stopper. I'm getting through it at a snail's pace, but I reckon I'll finish it eventually.

Just finished The 3G Way by Francisco Homem de Mello. Fantastic read for anyone leading functions or teams in a corporate environment. Quick easy read that shouldn't take more than 2 hours.

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I enjoyed it for what it is. Not the best book I ever read, but certainly not the worst.

I thought it was excellent

Just started reading George Orwell's 1984.

No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy.

Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I don't know why. Maybe it's just that you don't grow up any faster than what you have to.

Addisyn Agreeable Seeker wrote: »

I'm in the middle of Liz Nugent's Lying In Wait. Have to say I'm not loving it. I really enjoyed Unravelling Oliver and was hoping I'd enjoy this one as much but I just feel the characters are totally overdone in an 'Irish gombeen' kind of way. Some of it is really unrealistic and the twists are predictable too.

I seem to be the only one though as it has had rave reviews everywhere else!

I've read Unravelling Oliver too and really enjoyed it. I think it's harder to trust reviews and ratings nowadays as so many of them are by people who get free books from NetGalley or other publishers and they nearly always give gushing OTT reviews.

1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half - Stephen Bown
https://www.amazon.com/1494-Family-Medieval-Spain-Divided/dp/0312616120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496132794&sr=8-1&keywords=1494

Very entertaining and readable

"The Crying of The Wind" by Ithell Colquhoun. Ithell Colquhoun was a British surrealist painter and writer. This brilliant little book details her own details and reflections on Ireland after she traveled around the country here in the mid-twentieth century. Fascinating descriptions of our landscape, habits and history. Makes you look at it in a new light yourself. Grand little book, around 200 pages, perfect read if venturing on a short holiday around the country, or like me, just lounging and reading it out the back garden when I should have been cutting the jungle grass.

Reading 'The Power' by Naomi Alderman. It's really good so far - tore through half of it on a plane journey back from Italy.

Irish folk & fairytales by Michael Scott. Got this in my teens many moons ago & loved it. Really enjoying it again.

Death's End by Cixin Liu. It's the third book, following The Three Body Problem, and The Dark Forest, and I'm as hooked on it as I was on the other two. Reading them you get the feeling the author really wanted to write a non-fiction account of a potential future, and the characters are just there to bring a bit of colour - which they do splendidly. It's a very enjoyable read, scientific at times, then veering into sociology and psychology, then politics and strategy and tactics. Yet it's always surprising, and oddly optimistic, given the terrifying doomsday scenario at its heart.
I do hope there'll be more books in this series. Or even better, another and different series.