What are you currently reading?

[Creamcrackered]

"Do no harm" by Brain surgeon Henry Marsh. Excellent - one of the best books I've read in the last 12 months. (best not to read it if you are prone to head aches).

 

[User169]

[QUOTE 3516608, member: 259"]Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh - one of a very few books I reread every five years or so.[/QUOTE]

The scene where the PE teacher shoots the pupil on the start line is one of the funniest ever!

 

[Sea of vapours]

"Do no harm" by Brain surgeon Henry Marsh. Excellent - one of the best books I've read in the last 12 months. (best not to read it if you are prone to head aches).

Me too, a fascinating and compelling book and it seems to be very 'honest and revealing'. At 80% through the book, I've not yet decided whether having read it would make me more or less comfortable if I, or someone I know, was undergoing neurosurgery.

 

[gbb]

Cold...by Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Not to far in, but quite good so far. It seems his first expeditions in Norway could so easily have ended in disaster. You're living on a knife edge at those extremes of weather and surroundings

 

[runner]

Insider. Gerry Bradley's life in the IRA. Being an irishman and having lived in Northern Ireland through all the bad times I was interested to read this when it was a kindle special offer last week. It's an excellent look into the working mind of an IRA man and quite poignant in that Bradly committed suicide not long after the book was published....I don't think certain people approved of what he did.

 

[stephec]

One Summer, 1927 by Bill Bryson. It's well written and does enough to keep you reading. I'm guessing it will appeal more to American readers as it is a chapter in their history.
In fairness, I now know a lot more about Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth. I bet they never feature in another quiz I ever enter.

I like Bryson, but this one I can't get into for some reason.

 

[Dayvo]

Buried - Mark Billingham

His Tom Thorne character is a real find in the world of crime fiction.

 

[Inertia]

For anyone with a kindle, One of my favourite trilogies, Robin Hobbs Assasins trilogy is on offer, a pound a book. I can recommend it if you like that sort of thing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_151291_67482041_pe_button/?node=5400977031

 

[Gravity Aided]

James Joyce, Ulysses
(and catching up with the Lectionary).

 

[cyberknight]

 

[vernon]

Sustrans' 'Yorkshire Wolds, York and Hull' map.

I can feel a mini tour coming on.

 

[Yellow Fang]

The Woman in White
A Month in the Country
Eating Animals
Money

 

[Roadhump]

I am reading Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, which my sister lent me a while ago. It has very good reviews and after reading about a third of it, I am really enjoying it.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I've got a couple of books on the go at the moment. A Lake District grand tour by Mike Carden & A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. I'd definitely recommend A Confederacy of Dunces to anybody.

 

[cisamcgu]

Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy

Only just started, but seems an entertaining read. Off to Marrkech in a couple of days so I will stop reading it now and take it with me