This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Angels Flight over the weekend.

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and mind-blowing is right! Keep the aspidistra flying is a good rom-pov (romantic povertry, coined!) by Orwell. He is not known for warmth in his books but this book made me want to strip my life down to a packet of cigarettes, a plant and a damp bedsit. Must read it again actually.

Thanks a million for the suggestion. Adding it to the list (the ever growing list)

I must give the short stories a go too. I enjoyed 1984 so much more than I was anticipating, and its the first book I have read in a while that I really didnt have to force my self to read it.

Have started the Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer. I loved Kane and Abel so I cant wait to get stuck into this

Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier. It's amazing how little the lot of the unemployed (and those who vilify them) has changed. As usual, beautifully write, beautifully compassionate, filled with piercing insights.

Game of Thrones, book 2 - A Clash of Kings. Better than the series, but the series is still brilliant!!

Summertime Death by Mons Kallentoft

Lolita. It really is an amazing book

Nocturnes. A collection of short stories by John Connelly. There are some brilliantly freaky stories in there.

Finished a re read of another very enjoyable novel by Michael Connelly in his Harry Bosch series City of Bones.

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Apologies if this sounds smart arsey but I've noticed that you seem to be re-reading all these crime thrillers, I could never read one twice particularly when there are so many other books out there to be read, do you really love them that much? How can you enjoy them when you know how they end?

Germ of a discussion here, do you reread any books ? I too have noticed eire4 is on a Harry Bosch binge and I must confess I too have reread quite a few of Michael Connelly's books, particularly the early ones .

marienbad wrote: »

Germ of a discussion here, do you reread any books ? I too have noticed eire4 is on a Harry Bosch binge and I must confess I too have reread quite a few of Michael Connelly's books, particularly the early ones .

To be honest I would hardly ever re-read a book and if I do it's because I know it to be brilliant and have mostly forgotten it. A few weeks ago I read East of Eden for the second time but that was after almost twenty years, last year I re-read Strumpet City after a similar time gap, I've been meaning to do it with Star of the Sea but I always stop myself before I start.
I'm not big into crime fiction but recently I tried Michael Connolly(Lincoln Lawyer) and Denis Lehane(gone baby gone and Live by Night), of the three the only one that I thought was any good was Live by Night but I won't ever be reading it again, I just don't see the point when I know what happens and there are millions of other books in the genre.

I'm in the middle of Kate Atkinson's Life after Life which I am enjoying and I'm also making my way slowly through Con Houlihans non sports collection A Harvest.

Finished a re read of Michael Connelly's Chasing The Dime which was a little different from his other novels so far but just as enjoyable.

I'm currently reading Kill The Dead by Richard Kadrey. It is book 2 of the Sandman Slim series

Midwinter Sacrifice by Mons Kallentoft