What are you currently reading ?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[FierceKitty]

Very much so---the middle parts of Fortune!

Ah, these little embers of literacy in the ashes of post-Thatcher UK schooling!

[Techno]

Just started "Siege of Khartoum" by John Wilcox.
That's going to last a few days.......15 CDs.
Cheers - Phil

[howayman]

Does it take that long to read a cd ?
My preThatcher education must have failed me.   

[Hertsblue]

Ah, these little embers of literacy in the ashes of post-Thatcher UK schooling!

Thatcher was still a Lincolnshire housewife when I left school.

[Fenton]

Just started "Siege of Khartoum" by John Wilcox.
That's going to last a few days.......15 CDs.
Cheers - Phil

I will have to have al ook online to see if the library has it for download..I find with audiobooks that even though the subject matter might be interesting , if we dont like the reader then we probably stop listening to it

[Techno]

Hi Steve...

The reader is Graham Padden.

I'm certain I've listened to another 'book' in this series 'starring' ex Captinn Simon Fonthill (set in India ?) and thoroughly enjoyed it.
This one's good too.
It IS fiction....In case you were thinking it's a factual account of the 'event'.
Cheers - Phil.

[Womble67]

Just started Wolfe at Quebec

take care

andy

[burnaby64]

Re-reading Peter Fleming's 'Invasion 1940' which is about exactly that: the threatened Nazi invasion of these islands and the measures taken against it. I like his dry humour and well-chosen anecdotes, especially the account of "a 63 year old Zulu whose father had led one of Cetewayo's impis against the British and who had been at one time a lion-tamer; he was among the first volunteers [LDV, later Home Guard] in a coastal district of Glamorganshire where it was hoped that, if the invaders landed, his appearance on the foreshore might suggest to them a serious error in navigation had been made."

[Ace of Spades]

'Soldier Sahibs'; interesting history of the Sikh Wars and the Young Men on the North-West Frontier around the middle of the 19th century.
Lots of interesting personal accounts though slightly confusing with all of the characters, functions and positions that keep whirling around. Some decent maps throughout the book would have been nice too! Really hate having to look up that one map everytime and then find out that the town or pass mentioned in the text is not on it...

Ah well, I'll get used to it... someday...

Cheers,
Rob

[Techno]

Finished listening to the Siege of Khartoum....Thought it wasn't too bad at all.
Now on to 'The Quarry' by Ian Banks.

The 'hero' is portrayed as a tad 'strange' (very 'hyper')....But done sympathetically.....Quite enjoying it...Even though he admits to playing the EE's games on his computer early on in the story.
Cheers - Phil

[freddy326]

Just finished Thunder in May and following it with Seelowe Nord both by Andy Johnson, I'm trying to get my early WWII mojo back!!

[Ithoriel]

"Arena" by Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. A prequel to the Macro and Cato series.

[Hertsblue]

Having been initiated into Robert Fabbri's Vespasian series I've just had to read all the rest of them. Finished Rome's Tribune, No 1, and now halfway through Rome's Executioner, No 2, I'm well immersed.

[Ithoriel]

My father dropped off three of the Vespasian series last time he was here. Looking forward to reading them.

Andrzej Sapkowski's "Time of Contempt" (part of the Witcher series) up next though, after Arena.

[GordonY]

Wading through the entire Terry Pratchett Discworld novels, a cracking read.

[Fenton]

I am re reading Thief of Time as I type

[cameronian]

'Soldier Sahibs'; interesting history of the Sikh Wars and the Young Men on the North-West Frontier around the middle of the 19th century.
Lots of interesting personal accounts though slightly confusing with all of the characters, functions and positions that keep whirling around. Some decent maps throughout the book would have been nice too! Really hate having to look up that one map everytime and then find out that the town or pass mentioned in the text is not on it... Sad

Ah well, I'll get used to it... someday...


Drives me nuts; maps with no N-S axis, no scale and half the places mentioned in the text omitted, grrrrrrrrrr  

[marie]

Train spotters weekly

[Fenton]

Train spotters weekly

Really ?

Do you have issue 603?, the one with the Double converse bogie controversy?