So... what are you reading?

[The Q]

The Victorian railways, a factual book written in a slightly unusual way each chapter is a theme e.g. stations or staff rather than the normal timeline system
Unfortunately it's also a difficult read. it just doesn't flow.
I have just finished reading a novel about Mary Queen of Scots, unfortunately SWMBO had tidied up so I can't find out the author, because that was a good read and very carefully following the known facts.

[Julia Elliott]

Just finished "The Candlemass Road," by George MacDonald Fraser. A brief, very well written novel that provides an interesting and slightly unsettling glimpse into life in the borders late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The historical postscript is also a very good read. @Julia Elliot, thought of you as I was reading. If you haven`t read it, check it out.

thanks for the recommendation! will definitely add that to my list!! still working on steel bonnets actually.. life a little nuts right now.. lol

[Tasty Rabbit]

I'm currently reading this awesome book

[hoosier8]

Our book club book this time around is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. He was here for a free Friends of the Library lecture Friday. He left Kabul Afghanistan at the age of 11 with his family and was going to release the book earlier but 9/11 happened so delayed that. He called it The Kite Runner because he was watching TV (before 9/11) and saw that Al Qeada had banned flying kites and he remembered running around with his friends and flying kites as a kid. It is apparently very popular with teenagers and some schools have their classes read it so the Q&A went on for almost too long and was mostly young women. I have two weeks to read it before book club.

[Tomo]

Currently reading Ian Fleming's James Bond novels - up to Thunderball. It's interesting to see how they compare to the films.

I quite like tackling whole series of books and recently finished Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman Papers and the Wallander series by Henning Mankell.

However, I usually have a couple of books on the go and I tend to intersperse the Bond Novels with a bit of Nordic Noir (Jo Nesbo, Camilla Lackberg, Henning Mankill etc) and have a few of these waiting in the wings.

[Tarheel]

My great nephew is reading "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". I picked up a copy to reread it so he will have someone to chat with. I forgot how fun it was. It is interesting to hear his interpretations (he is 9 years old, I am 59)
His mother (favorite niece) will not let me introduce him to Abby Hoffman's, "Steal this Book" I think Orson Scott Card may be in our future.
For history, I like William Stephenson's "A Man Called Intrepid." WWII real life spy stuff.

[The Q]

just starting Cold War, building for nuclear confrontation.
It's a English heritage publication about buildings (mostly military) and what was in them from 1946 to 1989.
There worrying things is, its history, and it shows not only stuff I worked on but the stuff that replaced what i worked on. And I've not retired yet...
I still feel old... Very old...

[Jack Daw]

Just finished "The Candlemass Road," by George MacDonald Fraser. A brief, very well written novel that provides an interesting and slightly unsettling glimpse into life in the borders late in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The historical postscript is also a very good read. @Julia Elliot, thought of you as I was reading. If you haven`t read it, check it out.

Ah, I have read this book! It's very nice. I've been a fan of George MacD Fraser's stories for many years now. Lots of good humor in his tales, save his autobiography of his time during WWII, Quartered Safe Out Here.

[GMan]

I just started reading The Children Act by Ian McEwan.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Just starting the Shardlake series, Dissolution by C.J. Sansom.