Lemondropkid Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Stillearly said: Just bought these from a charity book sale , I've never read SM before Bargain. Read them as a teenager thought they were briliant. Coincidentally bought a set in a charity shop last year but never got around to reading them before moving home. Off they all went back to the same charity shop with lots of my other belongings!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Just finished this. Not to bad. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe’s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. Denning offers a fresh, sophisticated, and engaging cultural and environmental history of skiing that alters our understanding of the sport and reveals how leisure practices evolve in unison with our changing relationship to nature... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Giving this one a go now. Good so far. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Pleased to pick this one up at a bargain price from a charity shop. Story set during Syria's civil war. Has started well, find I'm having to concentrate to remember the Syrian characters names( no bad thing) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 On 8/28/2023 at 4:51 AM, andycoll said: Giving this one a go now. Good so far. I have that in hardback at home but not started it yet. Great author with a great sense of humor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 On 8/29/2023 at 7:13 PM, Lemondropkid said: Pleased to pick this one up at a bargain price from a charity shop. Story set during Syria's civil war. Has started well, find I'm having to concentrate to remember the Syrian characters names( no bad thing) As a postcript, this was briliant. I'd highly recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 A new author for me that I've only just starting reading. Georgoe Pelecanos, one of the writers on the Wire so that hooked me in. Stunned his books get so many mixed reviews on goodreads, so of these guys must be too tied up in their own predjuices. I'll go with Stephen King who loves him! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 On 9/1/2023 at 5:19 PM, Lemondropkid said: A new author for me that I've only just starting reading. Georgoe Pelecanos, one of the writers on the Wire so that hooked me in. Stunned his books get so many mixed reviews on goodreads, so of these guys must be too tied up in their own predjuices. I'll go with Stephen King who loves him! I've read most of his books over the years. His earlier books are better than his later offerings but their still worth reading. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Currently reading this. Not a Slough House book but a collection of short stories dating back to 2006. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 2 hours ago, andycoll said: Currently reading this. Not a Slough House book but a collection of short stories dating back to 2006. Thanks, was aware of this book, Added to my shopping list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Just finished this,a brilliant warts & all read. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 This. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Binge reading the To Dugan series. Now on the last book in the series, Deadly Crossing. A good author, but unfortunately I don't think I'll have anything new to read from him as he hasn't published anything since 2017. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 On 9/4/2023 at 4:03 PM, coxyhog said: Just finished this,a brilliant warts & all read. I read this when it came out, great read. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 My reading had dropped off a cliff. Got back into it again, still reading the Mark Billingham book. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 Latest Karin Slaughter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 This is due for release later this week - The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office Credit guardian Mick Herron’s new novel opens with a simple assertion: “The worst smell in the world is dead badger.” The poor beast itself turns up soon after, as does a “flight kit”: the stash of documents, currency and disguise kept close at hand by spies just in case. A frantically violent night-time chase through unexpectedly hostile Devon farmland quickly follows. But it is not the action, or even the tradecraft, that will reassure Herron readers that they are on secure ground with The Secret Hours, his 16th novel across 20 years. It is the stench of that badger. Herron has become something of a laureate of decrepitude. His Slough House series features the fabled Slow Horses, British secret agents cast out to the periphery of the shadow world via an imaginatively comprehensive assortment of personal, operational, moral or other failings. In those books both the dilapidated building and its equally distressed inhabitants are subjected to a detailed physical scrutiny that doesn’t shy from matters of hygiene and odour. Most particularly in respect of Herron’s leading protagonist, Jackson Lamb, the flatulent, corpulent, unwashed leader of the Slow Horses, captured in all the spirit of his brilliance and boorishness by Gary Oldman in the Apple TV+ series. While The Secret Hours is billed as a standalone novel, it is really more of a lean-to, or even an extension. Among the new faces there are plenty of familiar names, storylines reappear in one guise or another and the world is still populated by the joes and the dogs and the milkmen and the rest of the glossary of Herron’s Spook Street. More here - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/08/the-secret-hours-by-mick-herron-review-secrets-and-spies 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 7 hours ago, Zeb said: This is due for release later this week - The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office Credit guardian Mick Herron’s new novel opens with a simple assertion: “The worst smell in the world is dead badger.” The poor beast itself turns up soon after, as does a “flight kit”: the stash of documents, currency and disguise kept close at hand by spies just in case. A frantically violent night-time chase through unexpectedly hostile Devon farmland quickly follows. But it is not the action, or even the tradecraft, that will reassure Herron readers that they are on secure ground with The Secret Hours, his 16th novel across 20 years. It is the stench of that badger. Herron has become something of a laureate of decrepitude. His Slough House series features the fabled Slow Horses, British secret agents cast out to the periphery of the shadow world via an imaginatively comprehensive assortment of personal, operational, moral or other failings. In those books both the dilapidated building and its equally distressed inhabitants are subjected to a detailed physical scrutiny that doesn’t shy from matters of hygiene and odour. Most particularly in respect of Herron’s leading protagonist, Jackson Lamb, the flatulent, corpulent, unwashed leader of the Slow Horses, captured in all the spirit of his brilliance and boorishness by Gary Oldman in the Apple TV+ series. While The Secret Hours is billed as a standalone novel, it is really more of a lean-to, or even an extension. Among the new faces there are plenty of familiar names, storylines reappear in one guise or another and the world is still populated by the joes and the dogs and the milkmen and the rest of the glossary of Herron’s Spook Street. More here - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/08/the-secret-hours-by-mick-herron-review-secrets-and-spies Got a hold at the library on this one. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Life, Music, Elton, and Me by Bernie Taupin An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and long-time collaborator of Elton John. “I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . . The thing is good, bad, or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug.” This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman) and even John's own autobiography, Me. But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 An autobiography, had never heard on the author till hearing him name checked recently. Has a real dig at Phil Mickelson in the foreword- think I'm going to enjoy this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 Just received this Love these type of books , we had a couple of Pears Cyclopedia when I was a kid and I also had Schott's Miscellany in the early 2000's 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Just starting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) On 9/29/2023 at 1:30 PM, Stillearly said: Just received this Love these type of books , we had a couple of Pears Cyclopedia when I was a kid and I also had Schott's Miscellany in the early 2000's Brilliant Used to love dipping into books of facts as a kid. Sort of infotainment but you did pick up lots of knowledge. Guiness Book of Records was another great favourite of mine. A great prep for the rigours of adult life, such as the pub quiz😀 Edited October 1, 2023 by Lemondropkid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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