CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off back to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution" by Stephen Knight: mostly bollox but quite inneresting bollox which makes a change. A butt of malmsey might have come in handy, like. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Bletchley Park People: Churchill's geese who never cackled" by Marion Hill: it's about people so a rather lighter read than "The Hut 6 Story" etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Bletchley Park People: Churchill's geese who never cackled" by Marion Hill: it's about people so a rather lighter read than "The Hut 6 Story" etc.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Dalek I loved you" by Nick Griffiths. :.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Smiley's People" by J. LeCarre.

A much easier read, thank feck. One can see why there was never a tv mini series of "The Honourable Skoolboy". .

Done.

Next: (since I don't have "The little drummer girl" any more* & don't want to read "The Russia House" or "The Perfect Spy"): "The Secret Pilgrim"

*Not only that I didn't buy the copy in the Oxfam shop the other week.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Dalek I loved you" by Nick Griffiths. :.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The funniest part was when he discovers the reason for the tightness of his new cords & the lack of any pockets. .

Next: "Westerns" by Philip French: it's about Western films: originally written in 1972 & updated 1977 & 2005.

"My mule don't like you laughin'". .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Westerns" by Philip French: it's about Western films: originally written in 1972 & updated 1977 & 2005.

"My mule don't like you laughin'". .

Done: first half is rather dry, the second half more inneresting: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Wild Blue" by Stephen E. Ambrose, he who I recall seeing as a talking head on "The World at War (1974): Reckoning: 1945 & after" or some such when he was a much younger man. Shame about the alleged plagiarism.

[xoggoth]

Got a little book club on Wednesday. Tried 2 books already and gave up, so many damn characters in them I can't remember who's who. Tried making notes and it looked like a 5 generation family tree.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: (since I don't have "The little drummer girl" any more & don't want to read "The Russia House" or "The Perfect Spy"): "The Secret Pilgrim"

Done: next: "A legacy of Spies" since I don't feel like reading any of the others at the moment & this is the one that started me on rereading such of the Le Carre oeuvre that I'd read back in the day, being full of names I remember.

Maybe I'll remember more of the plot too since I read it starting 10th of May. .

Fingers crossed on that one. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: next: "A legacy of Spies" since I don't feel like reading any of the others at the moment & this is the one that started me on rereading such of the Le Carre oeuvre that I'd read back in the day, being full of names I remember.

Maybe I'll remember more of the plot too since I read it starting 10th of May. .

Fingers crossed on that one. .

Gosh. Having revisited "The spy who came in from the cold" etc. it made rather more sense than on the first reading.

Next: "A small town in Germany", J. Le Carre

This was in an M&S hardback collection of his first five books. I've never seen the paperback version.

[WTFH]

Rare for me to do much reading these days, but I'm currently reading "I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes.

It's 800+ pages long, it's been a few years since I've read any fiction (excluding Daily newspapers).
I would thoroughly recommend the book, it was gripping from start to end.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Gosh. Having revisited "The spy who came in from the cold" etc. it made rather more sense than on the first reading.

Next: "A small town in Germany", J. Le Carre

Done: Next: "Agent Running in the Field" J. Le Carre.