What book are you currently reading?
Watch this postThought 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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Really enjoying reading this true story
Other books I like are by James Paterson, Lee Child (jack reacher) Stephen Leather Chris Ryan,Andy McNab,and the like.
Thats all for the mo....take care my friends.
jack Higgins ,really good stories to which many of his books always have a twist in it some where,
another book that im reading is the true war time storey ,called (zigzag,) real name (Eddie chapman) a true war time story of a criminal ending up as a double agent, working, that is spying for England, but convincing the German Nazi party, he was working for them too,and being given the iron cross,
he really lived life on the edge but some how managed to do the impossible, eventually given a royal pardon, from the British government,
Christopher plumber played the character in the film version,
and like some of these true action stories, fact seems at times stranger than fiction, strange but true,
a really good bed time read,
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31719036-sooz888
If anyone shares my taste in reading, please feel free to add me as a 'friend' there.
It's heavy going at times, but immensely readable with some astonishing stories. There's nothing straightforward in the world of espionage!
These books are real page turners and you will be hooked.