What book are you reading atm?? CHAPTER TWO

Only a Game? by Eamon Dunphy.

Excellent so far.

Returning Light by Robert Harris.

The memoirs of someone who worked on Skellig Micheal for 30 years. Quite poetic and plenty of flowery language. It was not really what I was expecting from it so far.

Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Just finished American Psycho. Not sure if it’s good or not!! The violence gets boring after a while and cartoonish in some ways. But without the violence and the reputation it gives the book would it be worth reading? Probably not.

The best chapter for me was one with no violence and described a phone call where characters are trying to decide where to go for dinner. I’ll probably give it a go again in a few months to see if I appreciate it more.

Prussian Blue - Philip Kerr.

Up to the usual high standard of the series - Will be sad to get to the last book.

Subterranean Sappers: A History of 177 Tunnelling Company RE From 1915 to 1919 by Iain McHenry

A fascinating read on the often forgotten vital role and contribution tunnelling companies played during The Great War. The majority of the men that comprised these companies were not soldiers by trade but from mining communities that answered their countries call. I had the pleasure of being on a WW1 Battlefield tour led by said author and he is a very knowledgeable man.

’Geek Love’ by Katherine Dunn. It’s about a carnie family in a travelling circus. The parents purposely try to have kids with deformities to put into the show.

Decent book, drags a bit at the start but once it gets going it’s very good.

Bones and All by Camille DeAngleis. Saw the film the other week and mentioned to my boyfriend that I'd like to read the book so he bought it for me 😀

Just finished ‘They’ by Kay Dick. An interesting one, it’s like a series of vignettes, from an unknown narrator, with a disturbing undercurrent throughout.

A group only referred to as “they” are taking over the UK, stifling artist and personal freedom. Things get progressively worse as it goes on.

The book has a subtitle of ‘A Sequence of Unease’ and it, most definitely, has that. If I’m honest, my only gripe is that the book is way too short.

Histories of Nations - Peter Furtado

Taste - Stanley Tucci

Bird Cloud - Annie Proulx

A History of the GAA in 100 Objects - Siobhan Doyle

The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer

Have all of the above on the go at the moment! Dipping in and out as the mood takes me. Not loving the last one (Filer) and thinking it might be one to not finish.

I’m thinking of loading up a box or 2 of my books and dropping them off at the charity shop, or else off a bridge.the ones I can’t seem to finish.

Phones have us ruined. I was always a complete and utter bookworm but even I struggle to get into anything lately. I've started leaving my phone in another room when I sit down to read lately and it's made a huge difference.

The Dynasty - Sports book on the rise of the New England Patriots and Tom Brady. Have little interest in American Football but the book has me gripped. Great insight into Tom Brady and the Kraft family (owners of the Patriots).

Finished a book called Survivors by the English/Australian author, Jane Harper. It's the fourth book of hers I read and plan on reading her fifth, I enjoyed all of them and if you're into crime fiction I definitely recommend her.

I'm rereading The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. It's beautifully written and while it's a sad story it's got lots of funny parts. I always liked the film with Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand but the book is miles better.

I have tons of books to get through but came across this one a few weeks ago and decided it was time to revisit it, there's a reason I kept my battered old second hand paperback (80p in a charity shop in Galway circa 1997).