What are you reading at the moment?

Fantastic book, @Boab
Check out his Baroque Cycle for a real treat that's more than worth the investment of time.
As always with Stephenson, the quality of endings isn't his strong point (IMHO).

I'm currently reading Seveneves and, although it's not on par with either of the above, it's enjoyable and varied in style (I found the first section oddly reminiscent of Heinlein's prose *

*Thankfully neither politically aligned nor advocating familial purity **

** Hmmm - familial purity is, I guess, a central thread of two thirds of the book although not quite through, shall we say, the same mechanism.
 
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Not a subject I know very much about at all but I saw it in a charity shop for the princely sum of 20p so why not? I've had a quick look at the Amazon reviews and it's said to be lacking in detail but is apparently a very well balanced overview. Only a few pages in but very informative - to me at least!
 
Just finished, "To Kill a Mockingbird" and just started "Saints of the Shadow Bible" by Ian Rankin.

I have Saints.... in my queue.

Exit Music was the last Rebus I read. I've read Doors Open and am currently dipping in and out of The Complaints and once I'm done with that and The Impossible Dead I'll be back to Rebus!
 
My nephew has had his nose stuck in a book for the last week, apparently, too engrossed to use his ps4. Out of curiosity, I picked up the book and started to read. when I finally surfaced he was grinning, handed me a book which he daid wss the first in the series.
The author is Robert Muchamore, The book is a part of a series called 'Cherub' a secret government organisation of Kid spies.
Very well written and quite addictive, aimed at kids but sometimes the kids get the best books.

Jim
 
I've received numerous recommendations for his novels. I've some trepidation of starting the first because I rather fear it will curtail literary variety for the following year (i.e. I expect to savour whilst devouring). Soon.....

I think it's the last complete one unfortunately...

The whole lot are amazing! I've read them all twice and would probably have started again had I not given them to a mate who's since emigrated [emoji853]
 
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After labouring through nearly a third of Baldacci's plodding 'Memory Man', I gave up after realising it wasn't going to get any better.

So, back on familiar ground with the tragic and emotive world of Fitz and the Fool.
 
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