What you reading at the moment?

[Greedo]

I discovered a guy called Stuart McBride a couple of weeks ago. Crime novel set in Aberdeen. First one Cold Granite was really good. Nothing taxing, just good old fiction. Onto his second one Dying Light and enjoying it as much as the first.

Bit like Rankins books but always seemed to get bored with his at one point or other.

 

[papercorn2000]

I read one of his recently and wasn't impressed.

Haven't really read any decent crime fiction for a while...

Currently reading Moby Dick.

 

[tyred]

That Summer by Andrew Greig.

 

[Auntie Helen]

I review books as part of my job, usually pre-release, but there's nothing particularly special in the last 10 books or so I've read (I read 1-2 a day). However, in my To Be Read pile, is Alan Johnston's story about being kidnapped. Should be a good read, although it's surprisingly short. Released in April, folks.

 

[Greedo]

In what way?

I think he's pretty good. Not life changing reading by any stretch but thought he was a not bad story teller in the mode of Rankin, Grisham etc...

I read one of his recently and wasn't impressed.

Haven't really read any decent crime fiction for a while...

Currently reading Moby Dick.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

I'm on my fourth book this year. So far I've read:

The Last King of Scotland.
American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power
The Ultra Marathon Man.
Final Winter (half way throughthis one)

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

This thread.

IGMC.

 

[Dayvo]

I think I'm still reading the same book the last time this book thread was posted!

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

 

[striker]

'Berlin'

 

[derall]

In the run-up to Darwin200, I'm re-reading 'On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'.

Also reading 'Aye, and Gommorah', a collection of short stories by Samuel R Delany

 

[John the Monkey]

Just finished "Blood River" by Tim Butcher, and started "Feersum Endjinn" by Iain M. Banks

 

[another_dave_b]

Haven't really read any decent crime fiction for a while...

Have you read Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther books? (series starts with March Violets/Berlin Noir)

I've just read 'A quiet flame', great stuff.

 

[ArDee]

Just Finished "An Utterly Impartial History of Britain" by John O’Farrell very good and “Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the way it comes apart” by Mark Eberhart also very good and just started “The Temporal Void” by Peter Hamilton.

 

[Aperitif]

'Lifeless' by Mark Billingham.

Could be about me I suppose, but it is actually an undercover policeman story - set in London - so far...

Seems ok

 

[Rhythm Thief]

... and started "Feersum Endjinn" by Iain M. Banks

That's a great book, I've read it twice now. SF with humour.
I'm half way through Bill Bryson's "Shakespeare".