What are you reading? 2019

I'm reading The Third Man at the moment and really enjoying it. It's in a hardback copy that has three Graham Greene books;

1. The Tenth Man - little known but I really do recommend this!
2. The Third Man - need I say more. Halfway through it but even though I know the story inside out (the film is one of my all time faves) it is still an enjoyable read.
3. Our Man in Havana - next to be read.

I find a lot of old writers a stodgy read but Graham Greene is different. The only struggle is putting it down.

 

Well i'm over half way through my book but purchased another today...as i like a book on standby and i thought i'd swap to a Rengency book by a different seller but the book as good ratings

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Not forgetting................

• The Man Who Fell To Earth
• A Man Called Ove
• The Green Man
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Elephant Man

 

This book i started earlier...that's through the window waste of money and bl__dy boring

 

Found me a series of books this morning after taking me ages but finally got there

First one ...Fragments of Grace : Book one of the Dragonblade series by Kathryn Le Veque

 

#1 son bought me this for Mother's Day and last night I thought it was about time I opened it



First few chapters seem a bit ... 'rushed' and somewhat ... flimsy, but, hey ho, I'll carry on with it as he and I often share books and he'll want my opinion on it when I've finished.

 

M your the first person i've ever heard say sharing their books with the sons plus opinions after...that's nice mate

 

I'll get #1 son to post that later so you can say you've heard it twice
We share a love of reading and his reading ability was way ahead of his peers because of it. It's better than nice, its a real bond we have. We don't always read the same genre though but we do swaps when we've both run out of reading material.

 

My dear wife Valerie was an avid reader. I am sure there are some of the titles mentioned here that are on our shelves.

Sadly due to glaucoma, I don't read as much as I used to. I love books that put me in the picture. Like it was in childhood days, Saturday morning pictures, and YOU were the hero. Val did introduce me to Clive Cussler books. I find a problem here. OK I liked Jack Higgins also. With fiction the author so often compiles a kind of data bank. So you are enjoying the read and then, a familia few paragraphs appear.

Even now aged 78 I am still studying and researching. So much of my reading entails research. It's just an oddity about me. I want to know. I want to learn. Apart from using the internet, save pounds in buying books. My latest book is. Maggots, Murder, and men. By Dr. Zakaria Erzinclioglu. It's about Forensic Entomology

 

I wanted to give this one a great review on the premise that the blurb promised a "breakout psychological thriller". Did it deliver? Not in my opinion. It wasn't a poor read, it simply wasn't what it was hyped up to be! Silence of the Lambs (in my opinion) is very much a "psychological thriller"; this ... wasn't. More of a damp squib. In a "good" book there tends to be a character that you can either relate to, or at the very least, like. None of the characters in this book gave that. In which event, look to the plot. The reviews which stated such promise as "you're in for surprises until the very last page" ... leave much to be desired because there really wasn't any surprises; or at least, no "surprises" which haven't been seen before.

I don't regret the time spent reading it, but I can say that I wouldn't recommend it because of its predictability. It wasn't "new", it wasn't ground breaking and, most likely, in a few weeks time, I will (hopefully) have forgotten I've read it on the basis that there are far better books out there that I have already read and which would still hold "surprises" if I read them a second time!

Moving on ...

 

Well i've been doing some reading with Kathryn Le Veque books and they've been wonderful to read.
Yesterday i purchased another book by Wendy Vella supposed to be a new writer and the book sounds good...so i'll see what it's like later today plus there's a series of these books

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I think it's disgusting @wiseowl how years ago women had to go under false names just to get their writing printed.