CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[sadkingbilly]

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
weirdly wonderful.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Spies" by Michael Frayn. WWII juvenile shenanigans that turn serious. Purchased 4th of September 2004, so it's matured well.

Done: Off to Oxfam with it*. Rather good if you like that sort of thing. Apparently it's "Literature" & was long listed for something or other. It's now set as an A level text, which is the kiss of death for any author's work. "Lord of the fecking Flies" in my case (for O level: loathed it & Golding ever since).

Next: "Railway to the grave" by Edward Marston: purchased (along with the others): 21st of May 2011.

*Hasn't got there yet.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Railway to the grave" by Edward Marston: purchased (along with the others): 21st of May 2011.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I rather like these, they're easy to read & quite enjoyable.

Next: "Blood on the line" by Edward Marston.

: This one has stalled.

It unstalled this morning at 05:30 following on from the Great Spider Hunt.

Should see the end of it before Easter, with luck. Well it didn't and it hasn't. So far.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Next: "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman. The usual wilderness of mirrors and CIA incompetence writ large with the odd UK traitor or dozen thrown in for good measure.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. Betrayed by traitors in the CIA and FBI. Executed 1986.

Next: "Sagittarius Rising" by Cecil Lewis.

[ResistanceFighter]

Henry V by Dan Jones.

Been a while since I read a history book, but Henry V is an interesting bloke and Dan Jones writing style is very good.

the real history is obviously nothing like the Shakespeare play (and all the movies and other works that are based on it)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. Betrayed by traitors in the CIA and FBI. Executed 1986.

Next: "Sagittarius Rising" by Cecil Lewis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-s...litary%20Cross.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The latter part is post war when he went to China in a futile attempt to set up a Chinese airmail service. It didn't work.

Next: "Inspector Colbeck's Casebook" by Edward Marston. A short story collection.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Next: "The Railway Navvies" by Terry Coleman. The men who built the railway system (after having built the canal system)..

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Written in 1965. Mr Coleman lasted until 2024 when he pegged it at 93.

Next: "Stand and Deliver:A history of Highway Robbery" by David Brandon.

[Zigenare]

"Electro-magnetism" - Second Edition by "I.S. Grant & W.R. Phillips" - Much more understandable now that I've passed my exams

Next task, start designing some antennas, and reinforcing my tinfoil hat...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Inspector Colbeck's Casebook" by Edward Marston. A short story collection.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Jeremy Thorpe: a secret life" by Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater, and David May, being the rise & fall of said politico.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Stand and Deliver:A history of Highway Robbery" by David Brandon.

Done: off to Oxfam with it: finished this very morning at 06:38.

Next: "2010: Odyssey Two" by A. C. Clarke.

Let's hope this one doesn't stall the way the Heinlein pair have, and the Tailor of Panama has.