What are you reading?

[parsonjack]

43 minutes ago, Superscally said:

I've heard this is decent:

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/becoming-forrest-one-man-s-epic-run-across-america/9780008472511

 

Very decent.....I'm just at the bit where Nads returns and you head off to pick up Jenny ❤.  A great read so far 👍

[Superscally]

3 hours ago, parsonjack said:

Very decent.....I'm just at the bit where Nads returns and you head off to pick up Jenny ❤.  A great read so far 👍

😍😍😍😍 Oooh! Just about to get PROPER interesting! 

[Respectfatfrog]

Just started this good read so far. 

[blutarsky]

Happy World Book Day!

My colleagues think I've come as Forrest Gump. They don't realise I'm actually @Superscally

[jimmillen]

Bloody world book day... Words to make parents' hearts fill with dread. 😐 Our daughter's school decided to 10x the stress levels this year by asking for their costumes to be non-fiction based, FFS. In the end she's gone in more or less normal non-uniform clothes with a book about some businesswoman we happened to have in the house! Luckily quite a lot of the other kids also had similarly half-assed attempts. 😂

 

[Avalon_Fields]

My favourite book of the year so far is this one:

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, Avalon_Fields said:

My favourite book of the year so far is this one:

I loved it. Did you read the whole thing hearing his voice in your head? I am currently reading Mark Lanegan's 

[Neil]

i'm reading this forum 🙂 

[found home in 2009]

I read a lot, but don't really contribute to this thread often. Just finished A Man Called Ove and had to share how good I thought it was. Best book I've read in ages. Loved the humour in it, but it was also very touching and heart warming.

[Punksnotdead]

10 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

My favourite book of the year so far is this one:

I fancy that one myself. Is it just poetry or other stuff as well?

[Avalon_Fields]

10 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

I fancy that one myself. Is it just poetry or other stuff as well?

No, there's almost no poetry, it's simply an auto-biography. Obviously he has a way with words. The interactions of many famous people in music and beyond is fascinating, as is his upbringing and early years. The only section I got a bit bored with was his heroin junkie years. It's a good portrayal of Manchester too.

[Avalon_Fields]

23 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

I loved it. Did you read the whole thing hearing his voice in your head? I am currently reading Mark Lanegan's 

Yes, because his prose leaps out of the pages at you.

[Punksnotdead]

10 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

No, there's almost no poetry, it's simply an auto-biography. Obviously he has a way with words. The interactions of many famous people in music and beyond is fascinating, as is his upbringing and early years. The only section I got a bit bored with was his heroin junkie years. It's a good portrayal of Manchester too.

Ah, even better. Might buy that this weekend.

[gigpusher]

13 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Yes, because his prose leaps out of the pages at you.

And he has such a distinctive voice and writes in the same manner so when you read it it's as though he is in your head reading it to you. 

[mcshed]

A publisher has just me a copy of Dolly Parton's thriller that she has written in collaboration with James Patterson. I'm not sure if I can bring myself to read it.

[Superscally]

4 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Happy World Book Day!

My colleagues think I've come as Forrest Gump. They don't realise I'm actually @Superscally

I'll be your wingman anytime! Xxx

[TheDayman]

Two absolutely fantastic books worth reading (particularly given current events):

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-notice/bill-browder/9780552170321

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

https://www.waterstones.com/book/prisoners-of-geography/tim-marshall/9781783962433

 

 

Edited March 5, 2022 by LostHorizon

[Quark]

Just finished @Superscally's Becoming Forrest. Had a lot of chat here already about it, but if you like running, travelogues or just stories about people, it's well worth a read. Top running champ!

[Superscally]

3 hours ago, Quark said:

Just finished @Superscally's Becoming Forrest. Had a lot of chat here already about it, but if you like running, travelogues or just stories about people, it's well worth a read. Top running champ!

Thanks matey!! I'll bring a Sharpie to the farm if I get there...

[philipsteak]

On 3/3/2022 at 6:14 PM, LostHorizon said:

Two absolutely fantastic books worth reading (particularly given current events):

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-notice/bill-browder/9780552170321

Prisoners of Geography: 10 Maps that Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

https://www.waterstones.com/book/prisoners-of-geography/tim-marshall/9781783962433

 

 

I read Prisoners of Geography a few years ago. Its very good.

I've recently seen and heard a few explainers on how we got to where we are with Ukraine and Russia and most of them seem to be a rehashing the Russia chapter (with newer bits added obviously)

[Neil]

On 11/6/2020 at 8:51 PM, 87 BEANS said:

Just read My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay, would really recommend it to get a first hand account of the care system and his story growing up, plus it has a few of his poems in it at the end too.

just asked my librarian wife to get me that after hearing Lemn talk about it on five live this afternoon, which had me in floods of tears, such an awful thing to happen to someone, how he was treated by his adopted parents, w*nkers.

[clarkete]

What am I reading...this bl**dy forum far too often.  If it carries on like this I'm sure to get fired by June.

[Wanderlei]

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

[funkychick2007]

7 hours ago, Neil said:

just asked my librarian wife to get me that after hearing Lemn talk about it on five live this afternoon, which had me in floods of tears, such an awful thing to happen to someone, how he was treated by his adopted parents, w*nkers.

Hes inspirational  he came and spoke to us on one of training days and work with some of our care leavers! 
definitely makes you think! 

[John the Moth]