What Are You Reading?

[Blake]

Check out Joe Kenny's Glorious Trash Blog for hilarious reviews of all those TNT books.

Thanks for the tip about that website:
Glorious Trash
I'll be looking at it some more. It seems some French guy wrote TNT.

 

[EMARX]

I'm halfway through The Curable Romantic, by Joseph Skibell. It's like Woody Allen meets John Irving and I started The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. Man this guy can spin a yarn!!

 

[cat in a bag]

I am 3/4 of the way through The Colour of Magic. My first Discworld! Enjoying it.

 

[Haunted]

I am about to start Stephen King's Danse Macabre. Looking forward to it.

One of my favorites!

 

[Haunted]

or kindle for PC/Mac That's what I used before I bought an actual reader. It's a free download for your computer. Then, if you ever do get a reader, the books will be in your kindle cloud and you can load them on the reader

I have a kindle app on my Samsung android, works wonderfully. Maybe too wonderfully.

 

[skimom2]

I have a kindle app on my Samsung android, works wonderfully. Maybe too wonderfully.

I have one on my phone, too, but I always forget about it--lol. I think I used it once, in desperation when my kindle ran out of juice mid-chapter. For me, reading on a phone is even more difficult than reading something long on the computer :/.

 

[Haunted]

I have one on my phone, too, but I always forget about it--lol. I think I used it once, in desperation when my kindle ran out of juice mid-chapter. For me, reading on a phone is even more difficult than reading something long on the computer :/.

You know, when people talk about preferring to read a book on their tab or phone, my sister has become one of those, what occurs to me is that I don't have to plug in my book for power to continue on with the story. I do read on my tab, but mostly books that I can't find in the store or library and really, really hate it when it tells me I have to re-juice just when the story is getting good!

 

[Kurben]

Currently reading a very interesting book called "The Complete Jack the Ripper" by a guy named Donald Rumbelow. I like it that his book doesn't so much try to figure out who Jack the Ripper was but puts forth information from police reports and witness accounts without trying to spin the story itself. A good read so far, about half way thru.

A very good book on this notorious killer. I've actually read a few and thats myy favourite just because he does not focus on telling us his theory of who he was. Instead he goes through the case and, at least in my edition, some of the more wellknown theories that have been put forward and discusses them.

 

[skimom2]

A very good book on this notorious killer. I've actually read a few and thats myy favourite just because he does not focus on telling us his theory of who he was. Instead he goes through the case and, at least in my edition, some of the more wellknown theories that have been put forward and discusses them.

I'd like to read that one. I've seen the cover before, but I'm wary of "I KNOW WHO DID THIS!" books ever since Cornwell's book--she really made some leaps in logic and it irritated me.

 

[Kurben]

I'd like to read that one. I've seen the cover before, but I'm wary of "I KNOW WHO DID THIS!" books ever since Cornwell's book--she really made some leaps in logic and it irritated me.

I've read a few of these. They are very irritating. They are so sure but there is alot of uncertainties that they just skip or fail to mention. Like some archaeological tv ducumentaries i've seen. They call themselfes documentaries but never mentions that what the actors play out is one of several different possibilities. They present fiction as fact which i always disapprove of. In a documentary what is speculation and what is fact should be separated.
But i liked Rumbelows book. He is an expoliceman and know better the difference between fact and speculation, a distinction crimewriters sometimes have a difficulty with.

 

[skimom2]

I've read a few of these. They are very irritating. They are so sure but there is alot of uncertainties that they just skip or fail to mention. Like some archaeological tv ducumentaries i've seen. They call themselfes documentaries but never mentions that what the actors play out is one of several different possibilities. They present fiction as fact which i always disapprove of. In a documentary what is speculation and what is fact should be separated.
But i liked Rumbelows book. He is an expoliceman and know better the difference between fact and speculation, a distinction crimewriters sometimes have a difficulty with.

Thank you! I'm going to see if I can get it from our library. I think the same about speculation presented as fact--my son and I were just watching a series about Egypt that did that. I don't know a lot about Egyptian history (your paper was a great help to me!), but even I could see gaps in what it was possible to KNOW and what was guesswork that could be incorrect. That reminds me--have you read The Woman Who Would be King? I've seen it in the library and have wondered about it.

 

[Kurben]

Thank you! I'm going to see if I can get it from our library. I think the same about speculation presented as fact--my son and I were just watching a series about Egypt that did that. I don't know a lot about Egyptian history (your paper was a great help to me!), but even I could see gaps in what it was possible to KNOW and what was guesswork that could be incorrect. That reminds me--have you read The Woman Who Would be King? I've seen it in the library and have wondered about it.

No, have not read but have heard of it. Hatshepsut is a fascinating figure in history, not only egypts. There have been other female pharaohs but they have not been successful. But she was not only a success but one of the best pharaohs egypt had during their 3000 years of power. Why? Thats what this book tries to answer and it uses of course some speculation in doing so. If you want to know more about this enigmatic character i think its a good book. There is speculation but i've heard that she at least tries to clarify what we know and what we must speculate in with the help of words like perhaps, maybe, likely and so on. This propably goes alot deeper into her story than i did in my paper. But as far as i heard it is written for the reader and should not demand prior knowledge. So i should definitely give it a try if you want to know more of Hatshepsut.

 

[Haunted]

Finished The Ice Twins by Tremayne, whoboy, what a story!

 

[MadamMack]

I finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I miss Francie! A very good book. Now I'm reading The Girl on the Train.

 

[ghost19]

A very good book on this notorious killer. I've actually read a few and thats myy favourite just because he does not focus on telling us his theory of who he was. Instead he goes through the case and, at least in my edition, some of the more wellknown theories that have been put forward and discusses them.

Absolutely sir. That is the one. I've read several books on Jack the Ripper, so far imho this is the most interesting one.

 

[muskrat]

I've got both Rumbelow and Cornwell on the shelf. The Rumbelow is far superior, and offers chapters on other creeps, like Peter Kurten--now that cat was a creep.

 

[Haunted]

I finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I miss Francie! A very good book. Now I'm reading The Girl on the Train.

From special treat to special treat!!

 

[fljoe0]

Run - Blake Crouch

I read a few posts here about this author and decided to give him a try and I haven't been disappointed. This one is a real page turner.

 

[Haunted]

I reviewed The Third Wife for NYJB. It's a pretty good book! This is one where the epilogue was definitely needed--without it, my estimation of one character arc would be a lot lower. The story kept me interested and absorbed, and I enjoyed a slower reveal than one generally sees in recent books.

Really enjoying this, the writing is clean and the characters stand out. Looking forward to some quiet time to get more into the story.

 

[skimom2]

I've read a few of these. They are very irritating. They are so sure but there is alot of uncertainties that they just skip or fail to mention. Like some archaeological tv ducumentaries i've seen. They call themselfes documentaries but never mentions that what the actors play out is one of several different possibilities. They present fiction as fact which i always disapprove of. In a documentary what is speculation and what is fact should be separated.
But i liked Rumbelows book. He is an expoliceman and know better the difference between fact and speculation, a distinction crimewriters sometimes have a difficulty with.

Our library doesn't carry the Rumbelow book, so I'm heading online to look

Inspector of the Dead is just as well done as Murder as a Fine Art. I'm very pleased to have discovered Morrell's Victorian crime fiction! Now on to The Woman Who Would Be King