Books you're reading... and should read.
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The Wisting novels actually get better by increments as the series progresses imho.
If you like American PI-type series, I'd recommend the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. Set in Florida, they start in the 60s and end in the early 80s. Lots of period colour, so again of their time, but very easy reading.
If you like American PI-type series, I'd recommend the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. Set in Florida, they start in the 60s and end in the early 80s. Lots of period colour, so again of their time, but very easy reading.
I'm about to start the third Whisting novel. Really enjoyed the previous two
Have spent the last week or two proof reading a novel by an old friend - he actually recruited me when we moved down here and he and his late wife became family friends. He had moved to this area about 6 years before us, and is a Geordie (from Whitburn, Notty). He has written over a dozen novels since he started writing after retirement, some based in the North East or the Lake District, where they spent a lot of time. At 93 years old the book before this one was about life in a care home - and he's going stir crazy at the moment - if he leaves the confines of the care home premises, he is required to self isolate, so can't get out for a walk or ride on his electric buggy
Have spent the last week or two proof reading a novel by an old friend - he actually recruited me when we moved down here and he and his late wife became family friends. He had moved to this area about 6 years before us, and is a Geordie (from Whitburn, Notty). He has written over a dozen novels since he started writing after retirement, some based in the North East or the Lake District, where they spent a lot of time. At 93 years old the book before this one was about life in a care home - and he's going stir crazy at the moment - if he leaves the confines of the care home premises, he is required to self isolate, so can't get out for a walk or ride on his electric buggy
Interesting couple of recent reads:-
Ben Elton - Identity Crisis which skewers woke/cancel culture etc, really funny though runs out of gas towards the end.
Johnathan Coe - Middle England. Just finished this one, beautifully written, very rooted in facts of the lunacy of the last 10 years or so, also at times very funny but overall a much more serious novel.
Ben Elton - Identity Crisis which skewers woke/cancel culture etc, really funny though runs out of gas towards the end.
Johnathan Coe - Middle England. Just finished this one, beautifully written, very rooted in facts of the lunacy of the last 10 years or so, also at times very funny but overall a much more serious novel.
"Travels in the Third Reich".
An eclectic history drawing on first-hand accounts by students, ex-soldiers, diplomats, academics, tourists, school kids - you name it, really. Unfiltered by later history, as it were, it's a fascinating contemporaneous look at the German State, from the late Weimar to the start of WW2.
An eclectic history drawing on first-hand accounts by students, ex-soldiers, diplomats, academics, tourists, school kids - you name it, really. Unfiltered by later history, as it were, it's a fascinating contemporaneous look at the German State, from the late Weimar to the start of WW2.
Went away last week, and borrowed a book from my son, "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor. It's a fairly hefty tome which I'm still reading, and my son warned me that there are parts which don't make good bedtime reading. It provides a graphic description of the conditions faced by both sides, and the cruelty and total lack of respect for their own citizens/soldiers by both Hitler and Stalin, each being shown as equally narcissistic. I certainly had one night of bad dreams after a day when I'd read a fair chunk
I'm thinking of getting "Putin's People"
Been tempted for a while, quite interesting reading I would have thought.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...erine-belton-review-relentless-and-convincing
Been tempted for a while, quite interesting reading I would have thought.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...erine-belton-review-relentless-and-convincing
Can thoroughly recommend "Red Notice" on a similar theme. Excellent insight into how Putin manipulates Russian business from someone who was a victim of it
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00O30HFT2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00O30HFT2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
