What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

I've taken a break from the Emperor Of Maladies to read something a little less depressing. I'm now reading This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters). It's the new book from Jay and Mark of Mapmen fame on YouTube. So far so good and I like reading it with their voices in my head 😅

I'm currently reading The Wager by David Grann. I clearly wasn't paying nearly enough attention when I was reading the back of it in Dubray, cause I thought it was a novel, but it's actually non-fiction. It's about a mutiny on a British warship in the 18th century. I'm enjoying it. This same guy wrote Killers of the Flower Moon.

Killers of the Flower Moon sounds right up my street 🖕

This. I decided years ago (after flinging a book at a wall, it was so bad) that life is too short to read rubbish books. It was immensely freeing!

I thought the War parts were a bit of a slog, the "peace" sections were more interesting.

It's rare I give up on a book, I will usually persevere.

Just finished Red Sky in morning by Paul Lynch. Was a bit meh - the prose is alright , written in vernacular of the time but not much of a plot and just sort of fizzles out..

Now reading Butter by Asoka Yuguzi - some Japanese food porn with a serial killer twist … tasty stuff.

Surprised about the negative opinions re: War and Peace - thought it was amazing. But then always did have a gra for the Russian authors. Keeping track of the characters can be a challenge but Tolstoys incredible at character development and its definitely a slow burner but the last few chapters of the main story are worth the effort. Epilogue Part 2 is definitely a slog…. essentially a philosophical treatise stuck onto the end of the book. r