What are you reading

[postman]

Oh i say that was fancy,no idea how i did that.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bought this from an online bookclub/shop for about £2.50 a week ago. If bought new i think it's about 30 quid. It's not in bad condition for the price...and a spiffing read as well!!

 

[tyred]

Phil Llewellin's The road to Muckle Flugga. I read his stuff many years ago in CAR magazine and had been intending to read this for years. I bought a second hand copy online along with other books I'd been meaning to read as lockdown started. Really enjoying it. He was a great travel writer.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Bought this at ASDA

If it's even half the book his 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' is, it'll certainly be fascinating!!
I'll probably take it to work, for meal-break indulgence

It's the little things that he picks up on, like;
How 2 of the lightest elements, Hydrogen & Oxygen, combine to make something so heavy (water)


Some reviews;

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Guide-Occupants-Bill-Bryson/dp/085752240X/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=bill+bryson&qid=1598813847&sr=8-3

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Phil Llewellin's The road to Muckle Flugga. I read his stuff many years ago in CAR magazine and had been intending to read this for years. I bought a second hand copy online along with other books I'd been meaning to read as lockdown started. Really enjoying it. He was a great travel writer.

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I have that with a different cover (earlier edition)
I first came across Llewellin, with his Long Distance Diary in Truck magazine
(as a 13 - 16 year old, I had a subscription to it)

 

[swee'pea99]

Anna Karenina. Ooh, 'ark at me.

(Have to say, never having read any before I can see why Tolstoy is so revered.)

 

[stephec]

Bought this at ASDA


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If it's even half the book his 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' is, it'll certainly be fascinating!!
I'll probably take it to work, for meal-break indulgence

It's the little things that he picks up on, like;
How 2 of the lightest elements, Hydrogen & Oxygen, combine to make something so heavy (water)


Some reviews;

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Guide-Occupants-Bill-Bryson/dp/085752240X/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=bill+bryson&qid=1598813847&sr=8-3

I'm a few chapters into that at the moment, it's having to work hard to keep my interest.

 

[All uphill]

Henry James "The turn of the screw"

I have intended reading some of his books for years. A great storyteller, but not for anyone in a hurry!

 

[Teamfixed]

A gentle tale of a ride around the UK

 

[Cathryn]

I just read The Birds, a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier.

I had NO idea DdM wrote The Birds (which bears very little resemblance to the film). But it's incredible - utterly chilling, gave me disturbing dreams. There are 5 or 6 short stories in the book and even though short stories aren't usually my thing, they were all gripping and unsettling. One of my very favourite reads of 2020.

 

[Drago]

Postwar, by Tony Judt. An extremely in depth history of Europe the continent from WWII to date.

 

[DCBassman]

Overlord, Max Hastings. Well-written, just lnded so far...

 

[cyberknight]

Winds of Dune, enjoying it so far.

nearly finished the 1st dune book for the umpteenth time, the copy belonged to my dad from the mid 70s so it yellowed and creased but it will never be replaced .

 

[Yellow Fang]

I am reading Waverley by Sir Walter Scott, which is pretty good, although a bit slow reading. Also reading The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. It's a bit redundant reading it after having watched the film, but it's still good. Also reading The Bridge Busters by Mark Felton, which was about a raid to bomb two German aqueducts early in the war. I expect they succeeded or he wouldn't have written a book about it.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Anna Karenina. Ooh, 'ark at me.

(Have to say, never having read any before I can see why Tolstoy is so revered.)

I had a friend at college who surprised me by saying he was reading that. I was surprised because he was 18 years old and on an Software Engineering HND course. He said it was good.