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What book are you currently reading?

Thought this would be a good place to share your taste in literature! What books have you read recently, what are you reading now and how would rate them? Would you recommend anything to a fellow Silverhairs friend?


Do you use a Kindle or similar or do you prefer a real book to hold?


I have just finished reading the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which my youngest daughter is studying for ‘A’ Level. It is a devastating, masterful and painfully honest story … it tells the gripping account of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and ruthless evil.


The Kite Runner is an astonishing, powerful book that had me riveted from the first to the last page. It is a story of fierce cruelty and yet redeeming love, as well as of an intimate account of family and friendship.


I found it compelling and disturbing and opened my eyes to how evil reigns in the Middle East. Next on my list is A Thousand Splendid Suns written by the same author.


How about you?


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Stoic
26th Apr 2015 09:10:29
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The book I am currently reading is "The Ancient Giants who Ruled America" by Richard J. Dewhurst. The missing skeletons and the great Smithsonian cover-up. It is especially interesting to me since I had never heard of these really ancient people called the mound builders. The mounds used as burial places are scattered throughout the United States are of differing sizes, some small and some very large indeed. The people evidently had no obvious relationship with the present native Indian population. They were extremely tall and well built, standing from seven to nine feet tall and over. Their civilisation goes back to 10,000 BCE, they mined copper and were very skilled in its treatment to make tools. As yet in the book it is not known what fate it was that overtook them. I am spellbound that the powers that be have never made a seriously study of this subject. The book is mainly made up of newspaper reports of diggings and recovery of artefacts and skeletons of these giants that existed so long ago. 😕
Response from Robs sister made on 12th Sep 2016 17:18:01
I am going to look for this book, not my usual read but it sounds fascinating.
Response from Joanielee made on 15th Oct 2016 20:45:05
fascinating, will look for it too, I love history and especially mystery history lol
Response from jeanmark made on 3rd Nov 2016 19:18:44
I haven't read Richard Dewhurst's book but it brought back a memory. Many years ago I was discussing 'body bags' (professionally as I worked in infectious Diseases and HIV) with a rep. He was trying to sell me a particularly type that would accommodate large and tall bodies. He kept going on about the zip that was the only part not biodegradable and I suddenly got the giggles as I was picturing archeologists in the future finding a zip and thinking "Those men were really tall if their trouser zip was 7 foot long"!
Response from Fruitcake13 made on 8th Nov 2016 18:11:58
Oh, jeanmark, thank you for that! I've just burst out laughing and slopped my mug of coffee everywhere! 🙂
NellC
2nd Jun 2019 12:05:58 (Last activity: 22nd Aug 2021 15:57:56)
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Great fan of Ellie Griffiths and Louise Penny, look forward to their latest books.
Response from BethB45 made on 28th Jun 2020 18:54:52
Love Louise Penny have read them all. Will check out Ellie Griffith! Always happy to find a new author.
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MollyUK
22nd Mar 2021 20:56:06
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I'm just about to start reading 'What You Want' by Constantine Phipps. It's not your conventional novel (300 pages written entirely in rhyming couplets) but the theme is same-old-same-old (man tries to forge new life after separation from his wife). Apparently there's every influence under the sun in this book (as one review says, "from Dante to Disney") so wish me luck, people. Cover me, Tex, I'm goin' in . . . .
caliboomer
1st Jan 2021 18:26:21 (Last activity: 1st Jan 2021 18:59:03)
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I was adding it up, between reading and the audio books I listen to. I've read about 6 books a month all year.I usually, now that I retired read most of the books sitting on the comfy chairs at Barns & Noble. I pick the new ones off the rack and read 4 or 5 chapters a sitting. I like and read them thru on Sundays. In a month it's easy to read 4 or 5. However we are in lock-down.Now its downloads, and that Amazon Audible site its cool because great books that are not on the shelf anymore are available. I'm mostly a non fiction person, I did just read the 2 Napoleon Hill books, Interview and something else with the devil. They were cute.A very eye opening book that's in public domain, The Grand Chessboard by Brzezinski, that cats been in the white house for decades as the "Russian" advisor. It will scare the poop out of you knowing how cavalier, and stupid our leaders are. Truly our leaders are like immature children, I can't believe they are college grads. They must have been the ones who know every question on a test before the enter the classroom. You know the type, everyone who's been thru college has seen it. We tell ourselves, "they are only cheating themselves" , but when the become world leaders they are cheating the world with their incompetence. They are dangerous.
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leeh1
19th Jul 2020 23:48:18 (Last activity: 20th Jul 2020 07:34:56)
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Just read The News of The World. Engrossing tale about developing friendship between an over 70 man and a ten-year-old recovered captive girl. She has lived with the indians for four years and considers herself an indian
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jeanmark
2nd Jul 2020 13:32:48
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This comment is in response to Wilf's!
Valleyman
1st Jul 2020 20:03:35
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Any of the Inspector Ghote novels by H.R.F. Keating are brilliant. And available on Bolinda audio books as well. The poor Bombay policeman goes through hell but always gets his man. Well nearly always!
BethB45
28th Jun 2020 18:43:34 (Last activity: 1st Jul 2020 19:51:57)
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Just finishedCamino winds by a John Grisham, Starting Creole Belle by James Lee Burke. This is the first time I’ve read James Lee Burke. It’s a little manic but still interesting. Hoping this remains interesting. Could use a new author as I’ve read all of Grisham, Lee Child’s, Balducchi, etc. Reading in the time of COVID 19 keeps me from going stir crazy.
Response from jeanmark made on 1st Jul 2020 15:49:19
Try Anne Cleeves and Val McDermid.
Response from BethB45 made on 1st Jul 2020 19:19:08 > @jeanmark
Thanks! Will check them out. Since previous post have given up on James lee Burke, a bit to dark. Have started wading through,” a short history of almost everything “ by Bill Bryson. Dense! But interesting enough to keep plugging.
Response from jeanmark made on 1st Jul 2020 19:51:57
I've just started reading 'The Room Where It Happened - A White House Memoir' by John Bolton!
CaroleAH
8th May 2020 22:37:09 (Last activity: 8th May 2020 22:39:09)
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I have just finished “The Offing” by Benjamin Myers and absolutely loved it. It was recommended by a member of my book group who had heard it on the radio’s Book at Bedtime programme. At times I almost felt as though the author had swallowed a dictionary because of the unusual adjectives and phrases he uses, such as caliginous meaning dark, dim or misty and gelid for icy or extremely cold - perhaps I’m not as literate as I would like to think!
Response from CaroleAH made on 8th May 2020 22:39:09
Oh and the title refers to the far horizon between sea and sky.
jeanmark
8th May 2020 15:27:14
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Just read Walking to the end of the World - A thousand miles on the Camino De Santiago by Beth Jusino. I thoroughly enjoyed reading her experience of the Camino walking with her husband as my husband should have started it this weekend!!
printsa
26th Oct 2019 19:23:25 (Last activity: 4th May 2020 04:54:12)
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Working my way through Kingsley Amis. Currently on That Uncertain Feeling
Response from Agliomby made on 4th May 2020 04:54:12
Next, try his son Martin. I read Kingsley years ago, and avoided Martin, presupposing he would be trading on his father's reputation. I was very wrong. The respect he has for his father is apparent not only by his comments, but by references obscure and direct in his books, especially 'London Fields'
Agliomby
3rd May 2020 04:44:28 (Last activity: 4th May 2020 00:40:36)
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Currently, I am reading Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and enjoying it immensely. It is one of the few I fid not read as a young man. I have gone back to that author after discovering Martin Amis, and his engrossing style. I was looking for an author doing more than just telling a story, and in fact I find the style of the two remarkably similar
I have tried e.reading but cannot concentrate with that medium. In fact the copy of Chuzzlewit I have is nearly as old as I am, and reminds me of the pleasure I have always got from a well bound and presented book. It is cloth covered, with quality paper that let's the pages turn and lie easily.
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Response from Agliomby made on 4th May 2020 00:40:36
Hello Elgin
Yes, my copy of Martin Chuzzlewit happens to also be an Everyman edition. I haven't read any Chekhov. My only competent language is English, and am therefore stuck with translations, and always feel my relationship with the author is being filtered.
I am interested to know what else you may be reading. My reading goes from Shakespeare, Milton, and George Chapman through to Ian Fleming, John Banville, Ian McEwan, and John leCarre, with the Brontes and my favourite of all time, George Eliot in between.
My reading is not at all academic, rather for pleasure.
The_bees_knees
29th Apr 2020 07:53:07
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I have recently purchased a copy of Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton having a few months ago become very moved by the 1951 Zoltan Korda film late one night.
(I haven't seen the 1995 version...but then I prefer old films and this is in black and white).
It was written in 1948 and I am interested how things were then in South Africa. My grandmother was living/working there at this time (having been exiled from Poland)
It is about apartheid, murder, the fathers of the two young men, (the suffering of the one who's son committed the murder and the father who suffers the loss of a son).
I have been saving this read (I do that) and well in my opinion books are by far better than films (I would be inclined to say this, speaking as a former Librarian)
Anyone read this already?
shrew1742
27th Mar 2020 10:08:48
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"Good Morning Mr Mandela" by Zelda la Grange ( his personal assistant).

Only part way through it but it's a very interesting read.
Dani
15th Mar 2020 14:40:19
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Just into the Hilary Mantel new publication, The Mirror and The Light. It’s super. At once I was back in touch with the characters from the previous two books, steeped in the intrigues of life in the court of Henry 8th. So much attention to detail. I’d recommend it to anyone.
ChrisC14
3rd Feb 2020 08:26:20
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Three Days and a Life by Pierre LeMaitre. Brilliant crime fiction. I recommend it!!!
I am happiest with my nose in a book. I get most of mine from our local Rowan’s Hospice shop.
lonewolf56
16th Jan 2020 21:05:11
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I am currently listening to Demi Moore's autobiography. It's well written and compelling (narrated by her.) She had a dysfunctional childhood, with a narcissist for a mother. Neither of her marriages was exactly stellar. I don't want to give anything else away, but I recommend it.
lonewolf56
16th Jan 2020 21:05:11
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I am currently listening to Demi Moore's autobiography. It's well written and compelling (narrated by her.) She had a dysfunctional childhood, with a narcissist for a mother. Neither of her marriages was exactly stellar. I don't want to give anything else away, but I recommend it.
shrew1742
24th Dec 2019 15:02:56 (Last activity: 24th Dec 2019 17:48:22)
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I have almost finished "The Downing Street Years" ( Lady Thatcher).

I did start reading this book about twenty years ago, but it was always in dribs & drabs
as I was still working full time. During the past month I have gradually worked my way
through it and I now admire her even more than when she was Prime Minister. An extremely
far sighted lady of whom we will probably never see the likes of again.

A few of you may think 'and thank goodness for that' regarding my last sentence. Yes,
she - as most of us have done - made mistakes, but on the whole the country was
left in a better state after her Premiership. She leaves the current crop of political leaders
standing as regards leadership.
Response from Wilf made on 24th Dec 2019 17:48:22
I agree she totally changed the country and society and made it entrepreneurial. She was a leader like Churchill. As for all the rest of the PMs they are political pygmies compared to those two.
Carbuff
20th Nov 2019 15:35:52
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3/4 of the way through "The Collectors" by David Baldacci. He is one of my favorite story tellers and this book does not disappoint .
dsr25
30th Oct 2019 07:56:22
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I’m reading (well listening via Audible!) to Plague of Shadows by Michael Wisehart, which falls under the fantasy genre. It’s the second book of the Aldorian Chronicals.

I’m enjoying it, but maybe not as much as the Dragonlance books or the Trudii Canavan series.
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