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Finished “The Long Night” by Christine White recently. Really enjoyed this book and how it was written with each chapter switching characters. Boy oh boy that twist got me, had to re read a few parts to make sure I fully understood what was happening. Has been one of the quickest books I have read in a long time

 

[Cossie]

How was it? Considering it as a gift for a family friend who is a huge fan of that era of Australian touring car racing.

Did you buy it for them?

I've just ordered Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventure.

We had friends visiting and I gave her the copy of Fabric to read. Sigh, my list is getting too long....

 

[Montien]

I've just started Kill Bills! by Joel Gibson.

As someone currently in "status-chasing" mode, I'm finding it highly relevant. It’s essentially a field guide for the exact kind of logistics theater we talk about here. Stacking discounts, hacking the loyalty portals, and negotiating the loyalty tax we all try to avoid.

 

[Cossie]

Currently reading Abi Austen's autobiograhy, " Sugar and Spice". I'll get a copy of her book "Lord Robert's Valet: Afghanistan Kandahar War" as well.

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[Cossie]

Next up, just ordered a copy of a book by Elspeth Beard about her solo ride around the world on a motorbike in the eighties. Lone Rider: The First British Woman to,Motorcycle Around the World.

 

[Cossie]

Just finished Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventures, quite a good read, love him or hate him, Clarkson does provide good entertainment and his relationship with Hammond and May worked really well.
Anyone that liked Top Gear, or the Grand Tour, will I'm sure enjoy this book.

Now on to probably another 50 books I have that I haven' read yet! Probably the one mentioned in my post above.

 

[Drakecula]

I finished Pharoah and am taking a break from the Ancient Egypt books for the moment. I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens which was a good read. I did struggle a little with the language, but I think it helped that I'd seen an adaptation so was familiar with the story. My Granny has passed me her complete collection so I will have to add a Dickens or two each year to slowly get through them.

Currently I'm reading The Strangest Criminals by Blake Polden. I picked it up from the author (yay it's signed) at Book Fair Australia in Melbourne just recently. I'd say it's an urban fantasy, and plays out through flashbacks in a way, as the characters are being interviewed about what has happened. The main character is a sort of magical herb drug dealer who is part of a secret cult/crime syndicate. Magic is separate from the 'human world' so it's all underground stuff. But it's well written and kind of funny - a bit Douglas Adams-y sometimes.

But it will stay home and safe, while I've packed a couple of books I picked up second hand to take on my upcoming trip. I've got Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner to help keep me entertained.

 

[mrsterryn]

Thanks for that @Drakecula just got that book , definitely sounds intriguing

 

[VPS]

I finished Pharoah and am taking a break from the Ancient Egypt books for the moment. I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens which was a good read. I did struggle a little with the language, but I think it helped that I'd seen an adaptation so was familiar with the story. My Granny has passed me her complete collection so I will have to add a Dickens or two each year to slowly get through them.

Currently I'm reading The Strangest Criminals by Blake Polden. I picked it up from the author (yay it's signed) at Book Fair Australia in Melbourne just recently. I'd say it's an urban fantasy, and plays out through flashbacks in a way, as the characters are being interviewed about what has happened. The main character is a sort of magical herb drug dealer who is part of a secret cult/crime syndicate. Magic is separate from the 'human world' so it's all underground stuff. But it's well written and kind of funny - a bit Douglas Adams-y sometimes.

But it will stay home and safe, while I've packed a couple of books I picked up second hand to take on my upcoming trip. I've got Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner to help keep me entertained.

Interested in what you think of the Lost Apothecary. I won’t give any spoilers but there was something that just really irritated me.

 

[Skyring]

The last "mainstream" books I read were Fuzz by Mary Roach, a quirky look at criminal behaviour by animals, and Michael Connelly's The Proving Ground. Other than that it's been mostly my own books, reading and re-reading them as part of the publication process, and lately I've been revisiting Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, with ten books over the last couple of months.

I thought I was done and dusted with Sharpe years ago, but now I find that Cornwell – a remarkably prolific writer – has been filling in the empty spaces in the extraordinary career of Richard Sharpe, a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars who progresses from private soldier in India to colonel at Waterloo and beyond. Sharpe manages to find himself in some dramatic situations, often at the heart of some pivotal battle, gaining – and inevitably losing – the girl.

Some extraordinary battle scenes and a fair amount of skullduggery and lurking as Sharpe, the orphaned son of a prostitute in London's slums never really masters the social graces but still rubs shoulders with the famous figures of the age.

It's been a new delight, and yet another distraction, as I revisit the old stories where the details have long since slipped my mind, along with a string of fresh tales. I'm up to book eight in my renewed reading, with another sixteen or so to go.

 

[Cossie]

A couple new ones....

Arrived today, Free Ride by Noraly Schoenmaker. Itchy Boots

Also coming tomorrow is All the Gear, No Idea. Michelle Harrison.

All the Gear, No Idea: A woman's solo motorcycle journe…

Just because someone told her India was "really in your…

www.goodreads.com

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[tgh]

My son bought me the Free ride book for Xmas and I have donated it back to him to read.
It's….ok…...

 

[DejaBrew]

1984. Feels like the right time to re-visit it.

 

[Brissy1]

1984. Feels like the right time to re-visit it.

On my 1st reading, it was futuristic.

 

[Drakecula]

Interested in what you think of the Lost Apothecary. I won’t give any spoilers but there was something that just really irritated me.

I didn't end up reading it on holiday, but I've taken it into work so I'll slowly get to it over future lunches. I've read about four chapters so far and I'm intrigued and enjoying it.

While I was on holiday I did read Bitter Greens though, and left it on the river cruise ship. Probably the only English book, the rest looked German to me. It was a good story, an origin story of the Rapunzel story.

I also read a couple of e-books. The Spellshop, and The Enchanted Greenhouse, both by Sarah Beth Durst. They are considered 'cozy fantasy' and they were such a nice, warm, fuzzy kind of read. They're both set in the same world, but follow different characters. Apparently there will be another two stories set in this world, so I will likely pick those up when they're out too.

Still going with The Strangest Criminals - I am wanting to just read read read it, but I'm going slow so I can savour it. Sounds weird, but that's how my brain works.

 

[exceladdict]

A few recent books completed:

• Golden Son, the second in the red rising saga. Faster pace than book one and certainly other fantasy/sci fi I have read recently (e.g. most of Brandon sanderson's cosmere and the first two Wheel of Time books). I didn't like it as much as book one, but am still looking forward to the third (audio)book when it's available at my library for free.
• Speaking of the wheel of time series - I enjoyed book two, the great hunt, probably more than the first and I can see now why so many people were complaining about the (now cancelled) tv show's digressions from the source material.
• The shortest history of innovation, which it turns out is by politician Andrew Leigh, was enjoyable and complements others in the series like the shortest history of economics.
• How big things get done is a good book of principles for project management, and taught me a few things I didn't know about the opera house's construction!

 

[Drakecula]

• Speaking of the wheel of time series - I enjoyed book two, the great hunt, probably more than the first and I can see now why so many people were complaining about the (now cancelled) tv show's digressions from the source material

I think I read through The Great Hunt at a much quicker pace than Eye of the World. I've only seen season one of the WoT show and ugh. I mean, the essence is there I guess. It's certainly based on the books, sure. It's certainly not super true to the books. And they did Perrin so dirty! I should watch the rest of the show just because it's there, but I will likely continue to be grumpy at it, ha.

 

[exceladdict]

I think I read through The Great Hunt at a much quicker pace than Eye of the World. I've only seen season one of the WoT show and ugh. I mean, the essence is there I guess. It's certainly based on the books, sure. It's certainly not super true to the books. And they did Perrin so dirty! I should watch the rest of the show just because it's there, but I will likely continue to be grumpy at it, ha.

Yeah, I think I watched s2 but haven't seen s3. Happy with the books for now. Two down, over 10 to go! Feel like I get value for money with these with Audible, same with the stormlight archive monster length tomes!