So... what are you reading?

[The Q]

While lying In bed glass of Highland Park in hand. I've just read:

The Scotch whisky book by Mark Skipworth (157 pages)

This was picked up recently as a second hand book and mine is the 1998 edition. It was first published 1987 and no doubt there are later editions.

I found it quite informative not surprisingly it concentrates on Scottish distillers of whisky but does reference others around the world. It covers their histories some differences in production, how whisky is made and produced malt and blended.

It took me about 1.5 hours to read and was easy and pleasant to read

[James Hood]

Final rewrite of own 2nd novel prior to sending to publisher.

'Amazing how warts are still found, despite multiple goings-over....

[kilted firefighter]

Seeds of deception by Jeffrey Smith. Exposes cover ups about the safety of producing and eating genetically modified foods. I'm now afraid to eat.

[Jack Daw]

For Christmas, my brother gave me, "Being Nixon: A Man Divided," by Evan Thomas. It was a good read, and I had time to finish the entire book in a few days as I was lucky enough to find the time during the holidays to read for more than an hour at each sitting!

I'm currently reading, "Eisenhower," by Geoffrey Perret. This has been in my possession for 16 years, but I'm just now getting to it. I'm struggling with some narrative choices, but it's still worth reading (along with other bios). Here's a thought: If Ike had scored well enough on his examination, he may have gone to his intended Annapolis rather than 'settling' for West Point.

[JonathanB]

Scotland Michael Lynch only just begun as a break from:

Murder Must Adertise Dorothy L Sayer less than 100 pages to go and soon get to whodunit. This was having a break from:

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky tr. David Macduff I read it in an Edwardian translation when I was a teenager and didn't understand it, other than it took equally seriously sex and religion (two subjects that were never to be discussed in my experience) . This is a more recent translation and in its intense way I'm appreciating it. But I needed a break. although I'm two thirds through.

[Peter Crowe]

I am currently re-reading Neil Munro's Doom Castle first published in 1901.

[Macman]

"Hell in a Very Small Place: the Siege of Dien Bien Phu" by Bernard Fall.

[GMan]

Because I like to read old books, to see what they think the future is like, I am reading a book from 1974 titled The Cultural Conradictions of Capialism by Daniel Bell

[EagleJCS]

Still going through the Sir Walter Scott e-books. Now on The Antiquary. Also reading one of the set of four Jules Verne hardback books I was gifted on my 11th birthday: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

[JonathanB]

The Antiquary was one of Walter Scott's favourites, apparently. He identified with the antiquary himself and sent himself up.