Thread: What are You Reading?

For a change of material and venue, I have been re-reading the Robert Van Gulick book series about Judge Dee- Jhien Jeh. They are a fictional stories revolving around the deeds and intelligence of an actual historical figure of ancient China. I first ran across a copy written in English in the Base Library in the early 60's while serving with the US Navy in Japan.
Judge Dee stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"""The Chinese Nail Murders"
Judge Dee, and his four helpers, solve three murders: that of an honored merchant, a master of martial arts, and the wife of a merchant, whose corpse has no head. Judge Dee soon comes under pressure from higher-ranking officials to end his investigation. Naturally, Judge Dee refuses to give up until he has learned the whole truth.
A nail murder was a motif of crime in ancient China.[1]
The case of the headless corpse was based on an actual 13th-century Chinese murder casebook.""

Three solutions in one book. The series of about fifteen books is quite commonly available on line for a fairly low cost per book.
~Richard

I'm not reading anything remotely educational nor informative at the moment, however, a week ago I came across a type of "Choose Your Own Adventure" type of book many of us read as children. It's entitled, "Who Killed John F. Kennedy, A Lose Your Own Adventure" from Despair, Inc. I'm certain it will be refreshing and at the same time depressing escape from the news of the day.

They Fired the First Shot 2012
By A Friend of Medjugorje

I had heard a lot about it and I'm only on page 58 of over 900 pages. Yes, you read correctly, over 900 pages. Interesting so far...

Hmmm i read the back of the Cereal box every moring dose this count?

No,,,,,,,,,,

I'm not reading anything remotely educational at the moment as I'm on holiday.

I read a book called Silverthorn by Raymond Fiest last week - a fantasy novel, second in the "Riftwar" series. I remember reading the first, Magician, as a kid. It's a pretty good yarn, though being the second in a trilogy means the ending is nebulous and I'm seriously contemplating buying the last one to find out what happens - or maybe I'll just Google it (but there's no fun in that!).

This week I am reading a truly terrible book called "The Bones of Zora". Well, I keep falling asleep so I am only 3 chapters in - maybe it gets better... Some kind of sci-fi I think.

James.

I did plenty of reading in the last few weeks, My Travels with Charlie by Steinbeck as well as Grapes of Wrath. Then there was Catherine the Great, pure history and a good read and then there was something my daughter gave me called Game of Thrones which was far better than I had anticipated.

Game of Thrones? Never heard of it...

James.

Currently half way though a re-read of Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas.

Planning to reread a few of his novels, namely The Crow Road and Against a Dark Background, for starters. Next up in my to-read queue, though, is a non-fiction book by Iain Banks—Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram—documenting a tour of Scotland's whisky distilleries; followed by The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, which I hear is very good.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Game of Thrones? Never heard of it...

James.

Well, good. At least you'll be surprised when the weather changes?