Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny. Like visiting a soul friend who knows how you think and feel and doesn't judge.

 

The Frood, a sort of biography of Douglas Adams

 

Re, re reading The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien.

 

Vox, by Christina Dalcher. set in the not too distant future, almost present day, where all women (amongst other restrictions) are only allowed to say one hundred words a day otherwise their bracelets emit electric shocks.

 

Fintan O'Toole Heroic Failure - Brexit and the Politics of Pain. Fascinating! I've only read a couple of chapters so far but I haven't read anything I'd disagree with.

Lynn

 

Just finished I am Pilgrim and now starting Station Eleven. Quite a cheery book, so far most of the population of the Earth has been wiped out, so things can only get better right?

 

Ah! another rewrite of Bob Dylan...

 

Haha, not quite a world war, or an original idea, but the devil is in the detail

 

Just started Phillip Pullman's latest in his 'Book of Dust' series; however, I've had to stop, as real world events are getting so depressing, I'm struggling to concentrate and it's sucking all the enjoyment out of reading.

 

Entertaining Mr Pepys by Deborah Swift.
It's the 1660s. Interesting times!

 

I'm also a fan of Tolkein, but I find the many books finished off by his son, to read more like history text books than novels. I've battled my way through the Silmarillion twice, and managed unfinished tales & lost tales 1 & 2, before learning not to bother.

Just recently I've been binge reading Dan Brown: Angels & demons, inferno, deception point... (now on the da-Vinci code)

 

Just about to start Peter Robinson WHEN THE MUSIC 'S OVER this will be the third or fourth DCI Banks I have read.

 

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor.

It was one of those 99p Kindle books that looked like a bit of light escape from my historical novels.
It turned out to be a real insight into the old age of several characters closeted together in a hotel in their failing years.
In the end I had to find a handkerchief.
Very well written.

 

Storm Front by John Sandford! It has more holes in the story than a tea bag and how it sold 40million copies I have no idea but I will carry on till the bitter end
X Don

 

Don't you just hate it when that happens? You really want to stop because it's that bad, but you still want to reach a conclusion. I think I have only ever stopped reading a book once. It really was that bad.

 

Harpo Speaks! - the autobiography of Harpo Marx. Very amusing. After that the new Asterix is waiting.....

Lynn

 

That's one reason I avoid novels; they rarely reward time spent on them.

 

It wasn’t a novel I was commenting on. It was the bible.




Ok not true.

 

Just finished Dara Ó Briain's Tickling the English. An amusing history of one of his tours, with digressions about the English.

Next on the list is Orwell's Diaries. A somewhat heavier read, I suspect.

One thing I noticed, on the page concerning copyright etc, is the line "George Orwell has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work". Obviously some legalese that has to be there, but looks a tad odd all the same.

 

70 years is up as of the end of January this year, so copyright of the author doesn't exist anymore. If it were assigned to someone else, that's a different matter.

Perhaps it's his big brother asserting dominance