What are you currently reading ?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I hear tablets are the in thing?

Yes I've got a clay kindle.

IanS

[fsn]

Perhaps there's a cream that can ease that? 

[Hertsblue]

Yes I've got a clay kindle.

IanS

Must make turning the pages a little problematical.

[Ithoriel]

Must make turning the pages a little problematical.

I think I may have posted the link before but here's the Help Desk solving a "paging" problem

[Fenton]

Just finished reading Field Grey by Phillip Kerr about Bernie Gunther a 1930's Berlin policeman though the story jumps back and forward between then and 1954...loads of books in the series .....highly recommended

[cameronian]

I discovered him a few months ago and read the entire series in a fortnight, not great literature but definitely page turning stuff with lots of fascinating little snippets of history thrown in.

[Hertsblue]

Literature = all those books the critics laud but which no one can be bothered to read. 

[burnaby64]

Just finished 'Happy Odyssey', the memoirs of General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC. He was twice wounded in the 2nd Boer War, lost an eye in Somaliland, was wounded several times, including the loss of a hand, in the Great War, and survived a crash-landing in the sea and became a POW in Italy in the Second World War. He served as a model for Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook in Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy. He headed the British Military Mission during the Polish-Soviet War where he was a great success with the Polish officer corps since, as Norman Davies puts it, 'he was wealthy, aristocratic, cosmopolitan, Catholic, heroic, and indefatigably foolhardy.'  The memoirs make a fascinating read and you have to admire the old-fashioned modesty of the man: he does not once mention his VC.

[Fenton]

Just finished Raising Steam by T Pratchett...bit disappointed I think this the third or 4th book in a row now by him I havnt actually laughed at during any part of the book

[Ithoriel]

Just finished Raising Steam by T Pratchett...bit disappointed I think this the third or 4th book in a row now by him I havnt actually laughed at during any part of the book

Even struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's disease he writes a better yarn than most. The recent books were amusing rather than laugh-out-loud funny but I still enjoyed them immensely.

[get2grips]

They are getting darker...

Started off silly...
Then became funny with a hint of social conscience...
Now dark with puns.

Funny though, I've loved every stage

[marie]

still Mr Selfridge......too busy painting...

[Techno]

"How the Light gets in"....By Louise Penny.
Apparently the ninth and final (?) book in a series about corruption in a section of the Canadian police force. (Fiction)
Pity.....It's been rather good.....But now I know how al the loose knots from the earlier stories tie together, I wouldn't want to listen to them.
Cheers - Phil.

[burnaby64]

Just started Mike Rapport's '1848: Year of Revolution.' So far a lively, detailed read. Best anecdote thus far concerns a Spanish exponent of militarist reaction who, on his death-bed, was urged by his confessor to forgive all his enemies. 'I don't have any,' he replied, 'I've had them all shot.'

[FierceKitty]

Just started Mike Rapport's '1848: Year of Revolution.' So far a lively, detailed read. Best anecdote thus far concerns a Spanish exponent of militarist reaction who, on his death-bed, was urged by his confessor to forgive all his enemies. 'I don't have any,' he replied, 'I've had them all shot.'

I've always been taken with Macchiavelli's deathbed scene:

Priest: My son, do you renounce the devil and all his works?
Macchiavelli: Father, this is no time to be making enemies.

Almost worth becoming a Catholic to have a parting shot like that to look forward to.