| World Book Day Book Thread 08:30 - Mar 7 with 8774 views | Steve_M |
What's everyone reading at the moment then? Alternately best book you've read this year?
I'm reading Serhii Plokhy's account of the Chernobyl disaster, it's excellent although not exactly pleasant reading. I'm half-way through, the reactor has exploded and the level of denial from people refusing to accept what they can see is extraordinary.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309/309197/chernobyl/9780141988351.html
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:38 - Mar 7 with 3044 views | artsbossbeard |
Always Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs.
Genuine laugh out loud stuff mixed with teen angst and being uncomfortable around the opposite sex. I'm re-reading it again on a long haul in a few weeks.
Currently reading Ashes in the Snow which follows the story of a Lithuanian family caught up in the land grab around WWII, their treason conviction and their expulsion to a labour camp in Siberia. Grim reading. |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:45 - Mar 7 with 3026 views | RobTheMonk |
I'm reading through The Expanse series for the first time. I've just finished book 3 and I'm really enjoying it.
Whenever I finish one, I read something completly different so not to get burnt out. At the moment it's Big Phil Campions, Fearless. It's not a literary classic by any stretch, but it's an easy read. |  | | |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:47 - Mar 7 with 3015 views | KTBlue |
just started 100 years of solitude, which isn't but could be a prelude to the next period of our history. |  | | |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:48 - Mar 7 with 3013 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Vietnam, an epic tragedy 1945-1975 by Max Hastings.
Great read if you enjoy well written history.
If You Would Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson.
Really enjoy his books though accept he is a marmite character to most people. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:52 - Mar 7 with 2996 views | uefacup81 |
Currently got two on the go:
Goalless Draws by David Squires is my bedside book:
Hops and Glory by Pete Brown for on the sofa:
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:52 - Mar 7 with 2995 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 08:38 - Mar 7 by artsbossbeard |
Always Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs.
Genuine laugh out loud stuff mixed with teen angst and being uncomfortable around the opposite sex. I'm re-reading it again on a long haul in a few weeks.
Currently reading Ashes in the Snow which follows the story of a Lithuanian family caught up in the land grab around WWII, their treason conviction and their expulsion to a labour camp in Siberia. Grim reading. |
Read the Clive James book on holiday a few years back.
Got some strange looks on the beach guffawing away. Great read. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:00 - Mar 7 with 2974 views | itfcjoe |
Reading Nick Cohen - What's Left via your recommendation on a thread a few weeks ago |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:08 - Mar 7 with 2957 views | giant_stow |
Just dropped my boy off at school - being the son of an obsessive and being into arsenal, he's got a home made arsenal shirt for a costume and the arsenal annual as his book. |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:08 - Mar 7 with 2946 views | chicoazul |
Im re-reading The Brothers Karamazov. That Grushenka, shes a cheeky one I tell ya. |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:09 - Mar 7 with 2946 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
A thread on TWTD about WBD |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:14 - Mar 7 with 2933 views | BlueBadger |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:08 - Mar 7 by giant_stow |
Just dropped my boy off at school - being the son of an obsessive and being into arsenal, he's got a home made arsenal shirt for a costume and the arsenal annual as his book. |
Should have thought slightly laterally and said he was going as Nick Hornby in 'Fever Pitch'. |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:18 - Mar 7 with 2920 views | giant_stow |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:14 - Mar 7 by BlueBadger |
Should have thought slightly laterally and said he was going as Nick Hornby in 'Fever Pitch'. |
Bollox, if I read books, I might have thought of that one! | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:24 - Mar 7 with 2902 views | BlueBadger |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:18 - Mar 7 by giant_stow |
Bollox, if I read books, I might have thought of that one! |
You can use a Kindle nowadays and not have to worry about the extra digit making it harder to turn pages. | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:25 - Mar 7 with 2899 views | factual_blue |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:08 - Mar 7 by giant_stow |
Just dropped my boy off at school - being the son of an obsessive and being into arsenal, he's got a home made arsenal shirt for a costume and the arsenal annual as his book. |
I hope you put 'Osborne 1-0' on the back as his number. |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:26 - Mar 7 with 2892 views | BlueBadger |
I've been through a few pretty heavy things this year, so I'm currently reading 'The Devastation of Baal', which is a Warhammer 40,000 spin-off novel. It's good, daft, mindless fun but I can feel my virginity growing back as I read it.
My personal 'book of all time' is 'Dangerous Parking' by Stuart Brown. There's a lovely article about it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/18/books.generalfiction | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:28 - Mar 7 with 2882 views | giant_stow |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:25 - Mar 7 by factual_blue |
I hope you put 'Osborne 1-0' on the back as his number. |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:32 - Mar 7 with 2867 views | BlueBadger |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:28 - Mar 7 by giant_stow |
Brutes |
Oh come now Ullers, you're far more of a Town fan than Redacted of North Essex is.
Well, you certainly seem to hate ITFC less than he does, anyway. | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:37 - Mar 7 with 2861 views | factual_blue |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:32 - Mar 7 by BlueBadger |
Oh come now Ullers, you're far more of a Town fan than Redacted of North Essex is.
Well, you certainly seem to hate ITFC less than he does, anyway. |
...Plus the Arsenal fans at his school won't even know Arsenal lost in a cup final. | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:38 - Mar 7 with 2860 views | BlueBadger |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:37 - Mar 7 by factual_blue |
...Plus the Arsenal fans at his school won't even know Arsenal lost in a cup final. |
They used to make quite the habit of it, back in the day. | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:39 - Mar 7 with 2860 views | factual_blue |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:38 - Mar 7 by BlueBadger |
They used to make quite the habit of it, back in the day. |
Ah, but our cup final victory was fourteen years BFE (before football existed). | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:44 - Mar 7 with 2852 views | Fixed_It |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:08 - Mar 7 by giant_stow |
Just dropped my boy off at school - being the son of an obsessive and being into arsenal, he's got a home made arsenal shirt for a costume and the arsenal annual as his book. |
Social Services referral number two on it's way... |  |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:45 - Mar 7 with 2847 views | Sikamikanico |
Always have 2 or 3 books on the go - old habit from when I was a kid. Currently reading:
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King - not his best but have not read it for a few years and I enjoy it.
John Wark's autobiography
The complete works of HP Lovecraft - Christmas present and a large number of short stories so good for when I only have a short time. |  | | |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:58 - Mar 7 with 2822 views | factual_blue |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:24 - Mar 7 by BlueBadger |
You can use a Kindle nowadays and not have to worry about the extra digit making it harder to turn pages. |
Or 'Devil make page appear by magic', as they say in norfolk. Then there's the literacy issue to confront. | |
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| World Book Day Book Thread on 10:05 - Mar 7 with 2806 views | soupytwist |
I'm reading Radical Essex which is a collection of essays about some of the less-known innovations and creativity of my home county. It’s good, if you like social history. |  | | |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 10:07 - Mar 7 with 2799 views | giant_stow |
| World Book Day Book Thread on 09:44 - Mar 7 by Fixed_It |
Social Services referral number two on it's way... |
No doubt questions will be asked.
Badger, I stopped hating you lot a while back, replaced first by indifference and now mirth-tinged pity. | |
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