Just finished Double Cross by Ben Macintyre, great read, well written. Having read a few popular history books of WWII, it's interesting to see how certain key people crop up in more than one.

 

Just started this

 

Getting into the spirit of Christmas

 

On paper:


Lots of fun. My first by this author. Not really fantasy fiction but sort of.

On Audiobook:


This 20 & 1/2 volume series is one of the best fully realized literary world ever put to paper. I have read the series at least 3 times over the years and it never fails.

Good Stuff

 

I've been reading the same thing at least once a day since August 1st 2011.

 

500 years of history thru the eyes of a fish including recipes



Onset of globalization circa same

 

A couple of recent acquisitions,

 

Almost finished with the excellent The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk



Highly recommend Six Frigates by Ian Toll

 

My avatar picked up this for me to read:

 

Just finished this:


Couldn't put it down.

 

Not the easiest book to find.

 

I preferred Jazz and A Song of Solomon, but still enjoying this

 

Po' boy graduates Yale law and writes his memoir at 30



Skimmed a bit of the drivel but found some unintended insights to the 2016 US presidential election (written and published prior)

 

They turned this mystery novel into a 2015 Broadway play, but I'm just getting around to reading it now:

 

Both a pertinent and poignant time to re-read this.

 

A book I picked up at the wooden boat show in Tasmania

 

The importance of an antagonist



Well written and terrific subject but was surprised when I read "the end" little more than halfway thru, Philbrick spent a lot of effort documenting his sources !

 

Some quiet time with "weird fiction". HP Lovecraft and a 1960 Vulcain