Reading.

[Yellow Fang]

@Yellow Fang just remembered another maritime one I enjoyed, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Is that actually about seafaring?

 

[Zanelad]

I tend to go through phases when reading. At times I'll have me head in a book or the Kindle all the time, then I'll go for a month or two without as much as turning a page. I tend to stick with authors I know and enjoy. Currently working my way through the Peter James Inspector Grace stories. I should have read them in sequence, but it's a bit late for that.

 

[sotkayak]

@Yellow Fang asked ''Any other good ones ?
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat is a must read....

 

[annedonnelly]

I tend to go through phases when reading. At times I'll have me head in a book or the Kindle all the time, then I'll go for a month or two without as much as turning a page. I tend to stick with authors I know and enjoy. Currently working my way through the Peter James Inspector Grace stories. I should have read them in sequence, but it's a bit late for that.

I very rarely manage to read anything in order. Mainly I buy from charity shops or borrow from the library so it's what's available at the time. I am working through Lee Child in order as the second hand Kobo I bought had most of them already loaded and I've bought the others as I spotted them.

 

[Yellow Fang]

@Yellow Fang asked ''Any other good ones ?
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat is a must read....

I have watched the film. It was an odd sort of a film. I assume it's very realistic. These days it seems odd to me that we made films about such a bitter war which at that time was still so recent. Not that some of them aren't great films.

 

[Broughtonblue]

@Zanelad i too tend to batch read, and like you have just found Roy Grace from Peter James, on the second one now, loved the 1st one .

 

[annedonnelly]

If you like Roy Grace/Peter James have you also tried Alan Banks/Peter Robinson? One of my favourite "police procedural" series.

 

[Zanelad]

If you like Roy Grace/Peter James have you also tried Alan Banks/Peter Robinson? One of my favourite "police procedural" series.

Thanks Anne. I'll download a sample or two on the Kindle and see how I get on.

Update....what the hell, for 99p I bought the first of the Alan Banks novels. I'll read the others in order if I like his style of writing. I'm off for a cuppa and a read. I may be some time.......

 

[annedonnelly]

I envy you the chance to read them from the beginning. 99p is less than I pay for charity shop copies

 

[Zanelad]

The first one was 99p. Somehow I think that the more recent ones will be more expensive. I'm enjoying the first book. Time will tell, but the signs are good.

 

[Ian H]

The last three books I finished on Kindle are Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, The Opium War by Julia Lovell, and The Last Broomsquire by Martin Hesp (he's a local author and it's fiction based on real-life Quantock characters). I have a small pile of real & virtual books lined up.

 

[normgow]

For seafaring books I suggest "The Last Grain Race" by Eric Newby. In 1938 he signed on as an eighteen year old apprentice and sailed to Australia on a four-masted barque in the last days of the great sailing freighters.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Just finished Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre, seriously good. I enjoyed the earlier Labyrinth too but this was even better.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Is that actually about seafaring?

Apologies for the late reply, its set in a seafaring community but no, not actually at sea itself. Very good though !

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Just hacking my way through the Dune Trilogy on Kindle.

Second time of reading - so long since the first time I've forgotten most of it.

Only the 4th book(s) I've ever read for the second time the others being:

Lord of the Rings

Shardick

Papillon