Ian Rankin's latest Rebus novel. I'm struggling with it a bit, but I've realised that's because I'm binge watching back episodes of Endeavour and can't seem to switch between the two very well.

 

just finished
PIG: Tales From An Organic Farm

 

Just finished Lilly Allens book MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY i have also discoverred Lee Child's JACK REACHER Books which I read two o/f last week and have another sitting on the side to start when I finish here.
Don

 

I finally found a copy of Jack Fincher's book Human Intelligent.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Their-Brilliant-Careers-Extraordinary-Australian/dp/1863958630

 

Bill Bryson: The Road to Little Dribbling

Lynn

 

Ursula Le Guin: The Other Wind.

 

The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl

(and cursing Kindle's attempts to upgrade, blocked for now). Anyone else noticed how when you press Later for an upgrade, that lasts less than 5 minutes?

 

I do most of my reading the old fashioned way - the ereader (a Sony) is rarely turned on.

 

I used to but I find my hands and arms and eyes prefer the Kindle. I can increase the print size and don't have to wear glasses.

 

Some of the files on the Sony are camera repair and history books, and they're PDFs - you can't scale the print, like on an ebook.

 

I really enjoy crime/mystery novels set in different countries. Some of my favourites have been Indian and the Far East. French can be a bit angst-ridden as can Italian, but currently the Swedish one I'm reading has a nice fast pace, with touches of humour which is nice. Do you know of any New Zealand crime writers? I'm not into blood and guts and injections of culture and humour greatly enhance the experience.

 

I don't know of any contemporary NZ crime writers. In the past, Ngaio Marsh was the best known.

 

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse by George Simenon - some of my earliest television memories are the opening credits to Maigret starring Rupert Davies.

The recent editions of the Maigret books, published by penguin, all feature cover photos by Harry Gruyaert

 

Gosh, I knew her name immediately. I'm sure I read some of her work years and years ago. I've saved a website with all her work listed. I'll see if any are on Amazon for my Kindle. Thanks!

 

just finished another Jack Reacher and am starting a book I heard about on a radio four program a few weeks back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole

 

Matthew Legare's Shadows of Tokyo set in the early 1930s. Big history lesson!

 

Victor Hugo-Les Miserables.

 

My wife read that in the original French and précied it for me as "life is horrible and then you're dead". I tried reading it in English and realised she was right long before I got half way through. Mind you: the music's pretty good.

 

Ann Cleeves Hidden Depths a Vera novel