What Are You Reading 2023

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  1. wiseowl

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    Currently reading The Diary of a Desert Rat by R. L. Crimp. Written by a lowly private during WW2, wonderful descriptions of his section a real motley crew all there for different complex reason. Lots of black humour written in an unpretentious style.

    I've read all the Spike Milligan WW2 accounts which are funny but he is not a character I could empathise with. R.L. Crimp comes across as a kind hearted ordinary chap.

    An excellent read, very different to the normal soldier's war memoirs often written by officers.
     
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      One from my current collection of reading matter is this one....odd but nevertheless I 'm finding it curiously interesting.

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        And this one..


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          ....and finally some fiction, written by the creator of Shetland and Vera. This has also now been adapted as a tv series.

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            I have only read the first "Vera" novel. She has only a small part in it. As if Ann wrote the book and then thought, this character has a future.
            I am currently reading "The Crossing" (Detective Louise Blackwell Book 1) by Matt Brolly. My wife has been reading the series so I thought I would give one a try. In my experience, it is not often a male author writes a female lead in a novel.
             
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              Ken Follett - Une Colonne de Feu. Again :yawn: I inherited a bookcase-full of books from a dear friend last year but 90% of them turned out to be whodunnits :gaah: You could count the number of genuinely humourous French writers on the foot of a three-toed sloth (if he let you) :biggrin:
               
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                I've just started reading a 14th century whodunnit. Season of Blood by Jeri Westerson. Part of a large series, but each book is a one off story and has the same lead character - Crispin Guest.
                 
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                  That sounds good, Sheal. Perhaps not so much French navel-gazing :roflol:
                   
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                    Good evening I am reading the Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth at the moment which I am enjoying immensely:smile:
                     
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                      glad I noted this thread, will get back to it when I need a book. Usually when I travel I find one to pass the time waiting for a plane, or at the beach etc. hard for me to sit about reading at home, too much to do.
                       
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                      We're all busy @redstar ......just a case of brilliant time management..:biggrin: :dbgrtmb:
                       
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                        I think I read more in the winter when the weather is against gardening, also shorter days. It's better than tv.
                         
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                        • pete

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                          I wish I could read books but I find I can read page after page and still it doesn't stick, my mind just wont concentrate and take it in.
                          Its been a long time since I've read a book and then it was always factual stuff, I can never visualise what is going on in novels.
                           
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                            Get a copy of Wyrd Sisters or Guards!Guards! or Pyramids by the late, great Terry Pratchett and then come back and tell us that you can't visualise what's going on :roflol:
                             
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