Lemondropkid Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 3 hours ago, galenkia said: Stephen King's latest. Another book that was cheaper in hardback than Kindle. £11 delivered to the locker versus £12.99 for the Kindle version. Plain crazy- good for you buying the hardback. Quite worrying really have one huge firm trying to control the price of books (and setting a crazy one). £12.99 for downloading a file!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Just finishing this light but amusing read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 8/9/2022 at 6:56 AM, Lemondropkid said: First time I've read a Maigret book, only 160 pages, whole stack of them at the local library. Gushing reviews of the writer from the great and good of literature world- let's see🙂 I have a copy of A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories. Georges Simenon was a fascinating man, a Belgian, who once claimed to have had 10,000 lovers in the 61 years since his 13th birthday. His second wife claimed it was closer to 1,200, one of whom was Josephine Baker. Pity he never came to Thailand he could have easily doubled that figure! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 On 9/9/2022 at 9:30 PM, Lemondropkid said: Plain crazy- good for you buying the hardback. Quite worrying really have one huge firm trying to control the price of books (and setting a crazy one). £12.99 for downloading a file!!! I donate them to the charity shop when I have a few finished. Like to see other people have the chance to enjoy them. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) Fizzed through this short novel. Picked out at random from a charity shop, will be going back shortly for them to resell. A clunky translation left me disappointed compared to the stellar reviews on the cover. Took so little time to finish, I persisted and skipped through part of the defendant's back story, when it was obvious what that was going to reveal Edited September 12, 2022 by Lemondropkid 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Just starting the latest from Lynda. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 As three of the six books I had to read weren't worth reading l finished them fairly quickly. Needing something to read until I could visit the library l searched the bookshelf and came up with this old favorite. First published in 1947. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 This. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Running in the Family is a fictionalized memoir, written in post-modern style involving aspects of magic realism, by Michael Ondaatje. It deals with his return to his native island of Sri Lanka, also called Ceylon, in the late 1970s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Most of the way through this. First in the Atlee Pine series, it shaped up to be a classic but the story has taken several hard to believe turns. Shame as the central character is great. Did notice that this debut gets the worse reviews of the series. A one-off duffer? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sangsom Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Haven’t read a book in 30 years, don’t get it, boring as fk. Give me the TV all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Recommend on here by @andycoll, my first by this author. It's like Carl Hiassen on speed. Didn't know what to make of it at first but starting to love it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Latest from John Sandford Righteous Prey by John Sandford (Lucas Davenport/Prey series #32) Overview: Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two by Larrie D. Ferreiro Overview: Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb "ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory: the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists and planners, but were designed and mass-produced by American engineers and factory workers. Churchill's American Arsenal chronicles this vital but often fraught relationship between British inventiveness and American technical might. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 On 10/5/2022 at 2:22 AM, Zeb said: Latest from John Sandford Righteous Prey by John Sandford (Lucas Davenport/Prey series #32) Overview: Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. Just finished this one. Have to say it's not up to the usual standard of Sandford's previous books. He doesn't mention a ghost writer, but I wonder... The biggest plot hole I couldn't get past was the fact The Five are Bitcoin billionaires, but a big portion of the book has a sixth going from city to city to collect cash so she can disappear. Why on earth didn't she have a Bitcoin wallet which the billionaires could transfer money to. Of course if she did then there wouldn't be anything to write about. Another minor quibble is the author interjected politics into his writing that didn't do anything to further the plot, other than to get a few political digs in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 9 hours ago, forcebwithu said: Just finished this one. Have to say it's not up to the usual standard of Sandford's previous books. He doesn't mention a ghost writer, but I wonder... He is pushing 80 so you never know. He has involved his son in recent books so that might be the case here. I listened to it on an audiobook and still enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Half way through this fictionalised novel based on the true story of nine negro men arrested for the rape of two white women which never occurred. Kickstarted the civil rights movement in Alabama in 1931. Excellent so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Like all Winterson novels (Sexing the Cherry, The Passion), this ambiguous love story is a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: the body as physical phenomenon, and the body as repository of our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman named Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared, who reveals the topography of desire for readers. From: https://books.google.com/books/about/Written_on_the_Body.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Ian Rankin - Inspector Rebus Book 24 - A Heart Full of Headstones John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Although it's not the first time the legendary detective has taken the law into his own hands, it might be the last. What drove a good man to cross the line? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke faces Edinburgh's most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop goes missing after claiming to harbour secrets that could sink the city's police force. But in this investigation, it seems all roads lead to Rebus—and Clarke's twin loyalties to the public and the police will be tested to their limit. A reckoning is coming—and John Rebus may be hearing the call for last orders... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqualung Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 (edited) On 10/16/2022 at 10:24 AM, galenkia said: Alan, I know you enjoy your books and cricket. Have you ever read Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins and Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson? Im not a great reader tbh but both these books are brilliant if you enjoy club cricket. If you haven't read them I'm willing to send them to you if are interested. (once I'm back from Thailand in January). Edited October 20, 2022 by Aqualung Forgot to post pictures 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs...even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumoured to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to 'clean up the Coast.' Hugh's father became the 'Boss' of Biloxi's criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father's clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom. Rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters, The Boys from Biloxi is a sweeping saga of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves in a knife-edge legal confrontation in which life itself hangs in the balance. In this novel, Grisham takes his powerful storytelling to the next level, his trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the chapters until the stunning conclusion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Latest from John. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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