What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

Kalimah · 10-01-2021 12:14am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

If it's just Cremuel doing his thing I could prob read 900 pages of it.
I'll read it eventually but might need a break from that universe for a while when I finish BUTB.
I knew Anne B's fate but I've no idea what happened to Jane S or anything after that so at least there's an element of surprise in the next book.

I have it on my bookshelf still to read! I was champing at the bit to buy it when it was published but the sheer size of it precludes me from carrying it around on a bus so I’ll leave it a while longer!

appledrop · 10-01-2021 12:14am

AndOne wrote: »

Shop local. Buy some fruit and veg instead!!!

If anyone does want to shop locally I'd recommend the company of books in Ranleagh.

If you live near they actual deliver to you house, I'm in North County Dublin but just one set fee for postage so I got loads of books in one order during last lockdown.

The books arrived the next day!

You can keep amazon all you want especially now with brexit things taking weeks to arrive thats if they will even deliver here anymore!

appledrop · 10-01-2021 12:43am

Kalimah wrote: »

No - female. I thought it wandered all over the place time wise and there was no structure to it either. Several comments re the murders of Brian Murphy (Annabels) and that lady and her daughters who were murdered in a fire in their house on Christmas Day didn’t sit well with me at all.

Ah right, I was just wondering as I could see how male might not be as interested in parts when she was talking about what it is like being female in mainly male environment. I would agree it does wander a good bit but I didnt mind that.

Thats books for you very subjective each to their own.

AndOne · 10-01-2021 12:49am

appledrop wrote: »

If anyone does want to shop locally I'd recommend the company of books in Ranleagh.

If you live near they actual deliver to you house, I'm in North County Dublin but just one set fee for postage so I got loads of books in one order during last lockdown.

The books arrived the next day!

You can keep amazon all you want especially now with brexit things taking weeks to arrive thats if they will even deliver here anymore!

Charity book shops are the way to go. I've never walked by a shop without buying at least six top end books.

Rathmines charity shop is like easons every new top book 3 for 5 euro ðŸ‘Œ

megaten · 11-01-2021 11:30am

Started and finished Piranesi but Sussanah Clarke yesterday, was looking forward to it and it needed up bring pretty satisfying. Good book for the times considering the situation of the protagonist.

kildare lad · 11-01-2021 11:53am

I've just finished the Damian Seeker series of books written by S G MacLean.
They're about Damian , who'd be Oliver Cromwells top spy or agent in England. The books are very well written and have good plots , if anyone has any free time over the quarantine and likes historical fiction novels these are well worth it .

I'm nearly finished reading a Bernard Cornwall called The Archers Tale , it's another historical fiction book about an archer from England who goes to war in France in the 14th century . It's another excellent book from a great author

mariaalice · 11-01-2021 5:44pm

Given up on the John Banville book

https://www.easons.com/Rorys-Story-PB-en-us.aspx

Not something I would normally read, a really interesting book.

I actually think the content of the book would be a great thread on AH.

There is one astoundingly nasty review of the book on amazon. There seems to be something about anyone perceived as thick having the confidence to do something, it really seemss annoys people.

silliussoddius · 11-01-2021 6:11pm

kildare lad wrote: »

I've just finished the Damian Seeker series of books written by S G MacLean.
They're about Damian , who'd be Oliver Cromwells top spy or agent in England. The books are very well written and have good plots , if anyone has any free time over the quarantine and likes historical fiction novels these are well worth it .

I'm nearly finished reading a Bernard Cornwall called The Archers Tale , it's another historical fiction book about an archer from England who goes to war in France in the 14th century . It's another excellent book from a great author

That's a good series. Agincourt is also great.

fixXxer · 11-01-2021 6:22pm

I was given a copy of Old Ireland In Colour for christmas.

Not a story, but old photographs colourised and tidied up. Worth a look if you have an interest in Irish history.

breezy1985 · 11-01-2021 6:26pm

fixXxer wrote: »

I was given a copy of Old Ireland In Colour for christmas.

Not a story, but old photographs colourised and tidied up. Worth a look if you have an interest in Irish history.

Is it heavy on the Misty eyed ratch cottage stuff or does it also show that life for the hard dirty world it was ?

I love history and photography but am always weary of ye olde Ireland stuff

fixXxer · 11-01-2021 6:40pm

Nothing is romanticised, in my opinion just presented "as is". Some of the west of Ireland pictures look incredibly stark in colour, more real feeling than the black and white we're used to. I think I've said that right...

The instagram account is worth a look if you're on the fence about it.

Dial Hard · 11-01-2021 7:13pm

It's taking me forever to read The Mirror and the Light as it's so unportable. I do a lot of reading in the bath but it's not really an option with this. Raging I didn't bring my bath bridge with my when I moved home for lockdown.

I posted about Marie Cassidy's book when I read it. Interesting subject matter but all over the place. Her editor is more at fault than she is, imo. They're the professional.

breezy1985 · 11-01-2021 7:21pm

fixXxer wrote: »

Nothing is romanticised, in my opinion just presented "as is". Some of the west of Ireland pictures look incredibly stark in colour, more real feeling than the black and white we're used to. I think I've said that right...

The instagram account is worth a look if you're on the fence about it.

The instagram has sold me on it. I had seen a few pictures on Facebook but it was people fawning over the auld ones from the Aran islands and it put me off a bit but it looks really good judging by the other photos

gutenberg · 11-01-2021 7:46pm

Finished Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet and loved it, very moving.

About to start Barack Obama's autobiography A Promised Land. I got it for Christmas and it seems... topical?!

Collie D · 11-01-2021 8:01pm

When Nothing Else Matters by Michael Leahy

About Michael Jordan’s second comeback for the Washington Wizards. It was a present and to be honest I know nothing about basketball (didn’t even know he had multiple retirements or played for a team other than the Bulls). Interesting enough and doesn’t particularly paint him in a great light but probably more for basketball fans than the average reader. Will finish it though...still hoping for some sex and drugs.

kildare lad · 11-01-2021 8:02pm

silliussoddius wrote: »

That's a good series. Agincourt is also great.

Have it there, just havent got roubd to it yet. If you like historical fiction Conn iggulden did a great series on Genghis Khan.

silliussoddius · 11-01-2021 8:48pm

kildare lad wrote: »

Have it there, just havent got roubd to it yet. If you like historical fiction Conn iggulden did a great series on Genghis Khan.

Was thinking of reading that series, but went with his Wars of the Roses on instead. It's on my to read list.

Barna77 · 12-01-2021 10:47am

silliussoddius wrote: »

That's a good series. Agincourt is also great.

Is that part of a series too?

bladespin · 12-01-2021 11:54am

It's so easy - Duff McKagan, great storyteller I have to say, some life there.

Everlong1 · 12-01-2021 4:29pm

Just read Led By Donkeys, an enjoyable account of four British activists who started a guerilla poster campaign against Brexit where they put up billboards with quotes from the likes of Farage and Boris highlighting their stupidity.

https://twitter.com/bydonkeys/status/1113827097930280960

Reading Shane Ross's In Bed With the Blueshirts, a pleasant enough account of his time in Government.

breezy1985 · 12-01-2021 5:08pm

Ide have no time for Shane Ross but that is one cracker of a book title

silliussoddius · 12-01-2021 5:14pm

Barna77 wrote: »

Is that part of a series too?

It's stand alone, still set during the Hundred Years war. From what I remember the Archer's tale series is earlier and ends at Crecy.

Glenomra · 12-01-2021 5:16pm

The Quakers in Limerick by Hiram Wood. Many of the principal limerick businesses were owned by Quakers. Also famine relief etc. Interesting.

Barna77 · 13-01-2021 4:00pm

silliussoddius wrote: »

It's stand alone, still set during the Hundred Years war. From what I remember the Archer's tale series is earlier and ends at Crecy.

Don't know if these have been mentioned here.
I read a few years ago The Accursed Kings series, set on 14th century France. The Hundred Years War from the French point of view.
Pretty good books and easy to read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accursed_Kings

Thelonious Monk · 13-01-2021 4:54pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's taking me forever to read The Mirror and the Light as it's so unportable. I do a lot of reading in the bath but it's not really an option with this. Raging I didn't bring my bath bridge with my when I moved home for lockdown.

I posted about Marie Cassidy's book when I read it. Interesting subject matter but all over the place. Her editor is more at fault than she is, imo. They're the professional.

I finished Bring up the Bodies last night and started TMATL right away. Kindles though, the way forward!
Took me about 30 mins or something to read 1% of it or something, if I get it finished before summer I'll be happy!

appledrop · 13-01-2021 5:10pm

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's taking me forever to read The Mirror and the Light as it's so unportable. I do a lot of reading in the bath but it's not really an option with this. Raging I didn't bring my bath bridge with my when I moved home for lockdown.

I posted about Marie Cassidy's book when I read it. Interesting subject matter but all over the place. Her editor is more at fault than she is, imo. They're the professional.

I'm the same do my best reading in bath with my candles best way to relax! It wasn't easy but I did read all of The Mirror and The Light this way.

appledrop · 13-01-2021 5:12pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I finished Bring up the Bodies last night and started TMATL right away. Kindles though, the way forward!
Took me about 30 mins or something to read 1% of it or something, if I get it finished before summer I'll be happy!

I'm old school hate kindles, even more so at moment as spending all day doing online learning/ meetings so once evening comes delighted to pick up a book!

Thelonious Monk · 13-01-2021 5:40pm

appledrop wrote: »

I'm old school hate kindles, even more so at moment as spending all day doing online learning/ meetings so once evening comes delighted to pick up a book!

Yeah but they're not hard on your eyes, they're different to normal screens, and very light and easy to hold and portable.
I find books a pain in the ass now.
Also it's so easy to get a book within seconds really for Kindle, I bought one because I couldn't find Watership Down in any book shop in Dublin, I mean ffs.

Only problem is I don't get to show off all my books in a bookshelf when I'm in web meetings which seems to be the done thing now.

Thelonious Monk · 13-01-2021 5:40pm

And wtaf is a bath bridge

appledrop · 13-01-2021 6:03pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yeah but they're not hard on your eyes, they're different to normal screens, and very light and easy to hold and portable.
I find books a pain in the ass now.
Also it's so easy to get a book within seconds really for Kindle, I bought one because I couldn't find Watership Down in any book shop in Dublin, I mean ffs.

Only problem is I don't get to show off all my books in a bookshelf when I'm in web meetings which seems to be the done thing now.

Oh I know not same as computer I tried one once but not for me. I love everything about a real book, turning the pages, the feel of it and even the smell of new book!

My husband tried to convinced me one year when going on holidays as I already had an overflowing suitcase + had 7 books to bring with me but even then I wouldn't give in!

I do leave any books I read on holidays there so not carting them back.

A bath bridge is like a holder that goes across the bath that you can put shower gels , balance a book on etc.

What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

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