CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Spying Game" by Michael Smith, being a 2003 post 9/11 expanded rehash of a 1996 book.

Ironically it starts with Afghanistan in early September 2001, a few days before 9/11.

Finally ground my way to the end of this epic.

Next: The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Into Britain’s Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present by Francis Pryor.

There's 17 pages of preface.

[d000hg]

On a bit of a Terry Pratchett re-kick at the moment. I buy them on Kindle every time one is on offer and have been slowing growing my collection that way... a friend has the entire set in the classic paperback designs which I really love.

[cojak]

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.

I have a penchant for these disaster books, I’ve read Fatal Storm on the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race amongst others.

A combination of horror as the events unfold and pondering what I would do in those situations (not go in the first place I suppose…)

[DoctorStrangelove]

"Charles: The story of a Friendship": Michael Joseph, 1943.

A tale of a chap & his cat.

[NotAllThere]

Re-reading qntm's books. They make my head hurt.

[NotAllThere]

"Charles: The story of a Friendship": Michael Joseph, 1943.

A tale of a chap & his cat.

Ordered a copy. Thanks. (71p + £7 p&p!)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Into Britain’s Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present by Francis Pryor.

Fairly inneresting, now what to read next, that is the question.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Fairly inneresting, now what to read next, that is the question.

The answer being: "The Fever Trail: in search of the cure for Malaria" by Mark Honigsbaum.

[OwlHoot]

The Gangbuster, by Peter Bleksley, 2002

Good bathtub reading. Half way through it so far


The Last Viking - The true story of King Harald Hardrada, by Don Hollway, 2021

A bit expensive to risk getting wet in the bath, but good so far. The author is obviously a big fan of the grim old tyrant (who was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge while trying to conquer England in 1066, which is generally considered the end of the Viking age)


Conversations on Quantum Gravity, Jay Armas (ed), 2021

Good to dip into, but again not to risk dipping into the bath! Heavy going in places, by the nature of the topics, but mostly quite readable.

edit: Did a quick web search, and it seems that, sadly, Vikings Series 6 is the last. But the good news is that it will continue, after a gap of around 100 years, with a spin-off series called "Vikings: Valhalla". This will feature among others (talk of the Devil) Harald Hardrada!

[DoctorStrangelove]

"Charles: The story of a Friendship": Michael Joseph, 1943.

A tale of a chap & his cat.

Charles: 1930 - 1943.

Next:

"God won't save America: Psychosis of a nation" George Walden 2006.

The whys & wherefores of the demented colonials across the pond.

And, just think, in 2006 he hadn't seen 4 years of the demented orange one.