What's Everyone Reading?
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders - First 100 Years. Got it for Christmas, complete with autographs.
I was wondering if anyone here has read, "Who Owns the Arctic" by Michael Byers?
CPAC has a segment called Podium and Michael Byers gave a talk on the subject of his book last night. He made some very interesting points on Canada's policy and direction regarding the Arctic.
CPAC has a segment called Podium and Michael Byers gave a talk on the subject of his book last night. He made some very interesting points on Canada's policy and direction regarding the Arctic.
You're right about Michael Connelly, I've read 'The Poet', 'The Narrows', 'Blood Work' and 'Void Moon'.
I read 'Chiefs' by Stuart Woods a good 10 years ago, but I don't remember seeing much else by him in UK libraries or book stores. What do you think are his best books?
I also like reading George Pelecanos, James Sallis, Jeffery Deaver, Don Winslow, James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, John Sandford, Tim Dorsey, Harlan Coben, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore Leonard, Edward Bunker, etc.
Plus old crime classics by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Mickey Spillane and Patricia Highsmith.
Currently I am reading there novels (bound in one volume) by John Brunner. He is a British sci fi writer, and just about the best Dystopia writer around. His books Last Stand on Zanzibar (which describes he evils of overpopulation) and Sheep look Up (which tackles pollution) are classic, among sci fi fans.
In a couple of days I am going to leave off on John Brunner and start on The Hobbit. It is the best adventure novel around and I always read The Hobbit before I start on an exotic, foreign vacation. It puts me in the proper frame of mind.
In a couple of days I am going to leave off on John Brunner and start on The Hobbit. It is the best adventure novel around and I always read The Hobbit before I start on an exotic, foreign vacation. It puts me in the proper frame of mind.
Just finished Licence to Kill, by Robert Pelton........it is an overview of private military security companies such as Blackwater. Interesting, not nearly as much of a cheerleading exercise as I originally expected.
Just started Rex Murphy's Canada and Other Matters of Opinion. Wonderful! The introduction is Murphy in full rant.....no holds barred.....the first three pages are worth the price of the book.
Just started Rex Murphy's Canada and Other Matters of Opinion. Wonderful! The introduction is Murphy in full rant.....no holds barred.....the first three pages are worth the price of the book.
I'm reading "Roswell" by Rupert Matthews, an in-depth study of the alien spacecraft which crashed on the Foster Ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947 and the USAAF's subsequent cover-up saying it was just a weather balloon. I'm so engrossed in this book that I was up until 2am last night reading it.
I'm also reading "Sweeney Todd: The real story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by Peter Haining in which the author describes the life of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, born in Brick Lane in the foul-smelling, fetid slums of East London in 1756 and who was hanged in 1802 for killing hundreds of his customers by slashing their throats in the barber's chair and dropping them into the cellar below to cut up their body parts and take them to nearby Mrs Lovett's pie shop for her to bake them into her pies.
I'm also reading "Sweeney Todd: The real story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by Peter Haining in which the author describes the life of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, born in Brick Lane in the foul-smelling, fetid slums of East London in 1756 and who was hanged in 1802 for killing hundreds of his customers by slashing their throats in the barber's chair and dropping them into the cellar below to cut up their body parts and take them to nearby Mrs Lovett's pie shop for her to bake them into her pies.
brushing up on instruction 'How to lay Ceramic Tiles'.
Going to do my bathroom floor.
I laid tiles all round my tub some years ago, turned out
great, but that was years ago, just need a little reminder.
Going to do my bathroom floor.
I laid tiles all round my tub some years ago, turned out
great, but that was years ago, just need a little reminder.
"The Meaning of Everything" by Simon Winchester
It's the story of the 68 years it took to compile the 15,490-page Oxford English Dictionary.
It's wonderfully written and surprisingly interesting.
It's the story of the 68 years it took to compile the 15,490-page Oxford English Dictionary.
It's wonderfully written and surprisingly interesting.
Just finished 'Fool', by Christopher Moore.
A hilarious, irreverent, and completely funny novel based on King Lear. It was great.
A hilarious, irreverent, and completely funny novel based on King Lear. It was great.
I grabbed up a handful of books the other day at the library.
Two were large 'illustrated novels' (ie, a bunch of artwork someone tried to build stories around after the fact), by author Audrey Niffenegger, entitled 'The Three Incestuous Sisters', and 'The Adventuress'.
One that I just finished reading was 'Finding Violet Park', by Jenny Valentine. It was a story about a young boy, whose father went missing years before, finding an urn of ashes on a shelf in a taxi shop, and embarking on a quest to find out more about the woman they once were. It is a 'junior fiction', perfect for a light read during baths, but not so junior that it was a bad read.
Now I have just started in on 'Slummy Mummy' by Fiona Neill. I'm less than a chapter in, and have already been enjoying it.
Two were large 'illustrated novels' (ie, a bunch of artwork someone tried to build stories around after the fact), by author Audrey Niffenegger, entitled 'The Three Incestuous Sisters', and 'The Adventuress'.
One that I just finished reading was 'Finding Violet Park', by Jenny Valentine. It was a story about a young boy, whose father went missing years before, finding an urn of ashes on a shelf in a taxi shop, and embarking on a quest to find out more about the woman they once were. It is a 'junior fiction', perfect for a light read during baths, but not so junior that it was a bad read.
Now I have just started in on 'Slummy Mummy' by Fiona Neill. I'm less than a chapter in, and have already been enjoying it.
Finished Rex Murphy's Wonderful Canada and Other Matters of Opinion.......then read some pure entertainment; Ariana Franklin's Grave Goods, the third book in a set that began with Mistress of the Art of Death...... historical novels about a female forensic pathologist in Henry II's England (seriously!) .......they are really good, and each novel stands alone......now back into serious stuff....Never at Rest, Richards Westfall's biography of Sir Isaac Newton........(too much science, but I want to know more about the man)