last books read

best place for me to read the books - a beach; so during my sunbathing I got three books by David Liss; he is quite unknown here in Poland and his first book was published in 2005 I think, so I discovered this writer really quickly. The titels are: The Conspiracy Of Paper, The Coffee Trader and A Spectacle Of Corruption. What the books are about - a bit of detective story, a bit of thriller with financial and religious threads, all stories based in XVIII century. Readable :).

i'm just reading stuart maconie's 'pies and prejudice'.

i vaguely remember it being discussed on these boards before, so i shan't go on at length, except to say it's absolutely bloody brilliant - the best thing i've read for yonks. i started it on the train last friday and kept having to put it down because i was doing too much laughing out loud in the quiet coach.

brought a tear to my eye last night too though. i'm actually starting to dread getting to the end.

I've just started The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr. Murder mysery set in 1897 Manhattan. Just finished Persuasion (Jane Austen).

into the wild - john krakauer

Shellshocker wrote: I've just started The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr. Murder mysery set in 1897 Manhattan. .

I'll try to get it next, also The Alienist is quite good Ive heard.

arek wrote:

Shellshocker wrote: I've just started The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr. Murder mysery set in 1897 Manhattan. .

I'll try to get it next, also The Alienist is quite good Ive heard.

I've heard so too. I bought The Angel of Darkness at a used book sale for $1, I couldn't pass up the price, considering I'd heard good things about the author. I wish I had read The Alienist first, though, because he is constantly referencing things that happened in that book. I like this book so far, though I am only 150 pages into it and it is 752 pages long.

I just finished reading the biography of Damon Albarn by David Nolan (and Martin Roach.)

I find it hard to read now while my kids are home on summer vacation. I either have to reread the same sentence 5 times or read a page and realize I haven't absorbed anything because I'm not concentrating. Is it September yet?

How to Research - 2nd edition L.Blaxter C.Hughes M.Tight

I'm reading Shawn michaels Biography and trying to finish Neil redferns biography

Last book read ~ Fox's Book of Martyrs.

...for the 4th time this summer.

revisiting Trevor Ravenscroft's The Spear Of Destiny, it may not be 100% historically accurate...but it is always interesting to read.

also reading a history of the exploration of the Niger River, by Sanche deGramont, and for light relief, sections of the Simon Reynolds book on post-punk and the Paul Morley collection of Joy Division articles.

Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

It's fun being 12.

Roger red Hat and Billy blue hat

Just finished The Bourne Betrayal (but somehow written by Eric Van Lusterbader rather Robert Ludlum, hows that work then??) and just started Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs.

The Twilight series, sadly enough.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I Am the Cheese

I've recently read The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders by Colin Wilson (translated into Japanese by Akira Suzuki).

I've also read a fluffy (and not so highbrow) romance novel called Kocha wa Biyaku (I wrote the title phonetically), which literally means 'Tea is an aphrodisiac' in Japanese. It's about this young Japanese man who works at a tea company who travels to the UK, meets the boss of this huge fictional tea company (who is a British guy) to do business with him, and ends up being his lover.

Oh, and another recently read romance novel similar to the one above (because it's not highbrow and it's just for entertainment for me), would be the novel Ore no aniki wa ore no mono, which literally means in Japanese, 'My Older Brother is All Mine', and it's about two twin brothers.

the energy saving leaflet that came with mi gas bill.

The Bible

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I Am the Cheese

I enjoyed that, read it in less than two hours though.

Not the last book i read but the last good book i read - The Giro Playboy by Matt Smith.