This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

A Hero Of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov .

When this book became available in one of those Amazon 99p deals I decided to fill a 40 year gap in my reading history , it being about the only one of the great Russian novels I had never read .

At first it seemed it was just going to be one of those episodic Russian novels we come across so often , but then it switches to Pechorin ,the titular hero's diary and it suddenly takes off and is so modern . I can see why it is so loved in its homeland ,and why the Crimea and Caucasus are such a central part of the Russian self image .

The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks

End of Watch
by Stephen King

PMBC

Just finished John Grisham's The Litigators - great read if yore are a fan. I read in two sittings

Xofpod

Fathom wrote: »

End of Watch
by Stephen King

Any good? I read the first one and have the second on my bookshelf but am finding it hard to summon up the enthusiasm.

I normally give SK the benefit of the doubt though.

Xofpod wrote: »

Any good?

Fathom wrote: »

End of Watch
by Stephen King

Good. Fast read.

The Thirst by Jo Nesbo

Callan57 wrote: »

The Thirst by Jo Nesbo

Good read?

Fathom wrote: »

Good read?

Almost half way into it ... gripping & bloody

Callan57 wrote: »

Almost half way into it ... gripping & bloody

Spooky? Thanks for recommendation.

eire4

Finished Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. An interesting concept but not as good as the other Greg Bear books I have read.

LionelNashe

Reading 'The Gunslinger' by Stephen King. I read it in the early 90s, and a couple of the sequels, and I always loved the first sentence. Reading it again, I like the use of flashbacks. By chapter 7 in the first part, there's actually a whole chapter (from a woman's point of view) that is a flashback within a flashback within a flashback.

Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum.

The New Irish Poems selected by Selina Guinness

Gonzovision

I have just finished 'The War in the West: The Allies Fight Back' by James Holland, another excellent read and looking forward to part 3 next year.

Also 2 quick re reads of 'Animal Farm' and 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. Just browsing for something new there now. Nothing in my vast pile takes my fancy today. Always the way

Kurtosis

I finished Silence by Shusaku Endo yesterday, it's a beautifully written book but it didn't really grab me and took me a while to get through it, may have just been the wrong type of novel at the wrong time for me.

Started Conclave by Robert Harris last night, enjoying it so far!

lockman

The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Short Stories, Leo Tolstoy

LionelNashe

lockman wrote: »

The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Short Stories, Leo Tolstoy

I read that short story last month. Afterwards, I had to check Wikipedia to figure out what the point was.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Harry Angstrom

For anyone interested in the work of Anaïs Nin, there's a programme at 10pm on Radio One on Tuesday night discussing her novel A Spy in the House of Love.

Belle E. Flops

'The Muse' by Jessie Burton.

Xofpod

Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood.

Camino Island
by John Grisham

slouching towards bethlehem - joan Didion

The Myth Of The Rational Voter : Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - Bryan Caplan.

Pastoralia - George Saunders

Dear Mr M by Herman Koch

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney. It's about drug dealers in Cork city. I'm not sure I'm that invested in the actual story itself but the writing is good enough to keep me reading.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney. It's about drug dealers in Cork city. I'm not sure I'm that invested in the actual story itself but the writing is good enough to keep me reading.

Just discovered that I should maybe have read The Glorious Heresies first as this one deals with one of the characters from that book. Maybe that's why it feels like something's missing from this one.

Joe_ Public

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Just discovered that I should maybe have read The Glorious Heresies first as this one deals with one of the characters from that book. Maybe that's why it feels like something's missing from this one.

Well I've read The Glorious Heresies so between us we've got it covered

In all seriousness, though, I thought it was quite passable and fairly well written, but the plot lines didn't grab me all that much and no real interest in the follow up.