What book are you currently reading?

Why are you reading your own books?

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Stavast - Knife Fighting in the Netherlands - The Forbidden Art of Bekkensnijden
Book by Jerome Blanes"

 

Currently reading "open the ports". A book from the 50's about the formation of the navy clearance/bomb disposal diver "P" parties that were tasked with clearing the North European ports and docks of the bombs, booby-traps and unexploded ordnance left behind by the retreating Germans after the d-day invasion. It just so happens my maternal Grandfather was one of those divers so it's a very poignant book for me. Absolutely horrifying stuff where they had to crawl along the bottom of the sea bed in zero visibility finding explosives by touch alone, but also coming across corpses too. A level of bravery and nerve I can barely comprehend.

 

He’s forgotten the ending

 

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman. It's interesting and the historical perspectives are fascinating, but it's a little lightweight if you've already read Post-Capitalism by Paul Mason

 

"Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Bit of a slow burner so far but I'm enjoying it. Hope the pace picks up in the next hundred pages or else I may not finish it.

 

Jasper fforde the last dragon slayer series, I think their meant for "young adults", but their great, classic fforde inventiveness, if you enjoy word play, meta fiction, with a nice sideline in social commentary check it out!

 

Reading Gardens of the Moon by Eriksson. Way less confusing than I remembered.

 

Taiji Qi by Stuart Alve Olson

 

Living My Life by Emma Goldman

 

"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King.

 

Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Cheng Manching

 

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
History Is Our Mother: Three Libretti by Alice Goodman
The America Play and Other Works by Suzan-Lori Parks

 

I'm reading the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A.Salvatore. I read the Icewind Dale saga ages ago and didn't really get what the fuss was about, but 80 pages in and it's far superior.

 

Cool. My mate at Uni had the omnibus and swore by it. Never really liked DnD fantasy novels but gave the trilogy a go on a whim a couple of years later and was pleasantly surprised . The Dark Elf Trilogy is an excellent character study on what it means to be a moral individual in an amoral society. The third novel Sojourn sits as a limited edition hardback copy on my shelf it touched me that deeply. 5 stars.

 

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Started it on Sunday night and finished it this morning. Much darker tones than the movie and it was weird reading parts that were later adapted for the sequel. Plus, having been a die hard fan of the movies for most of my life, I can't help but picture the actors in their respective roles as I read the book. Still, it was a great read. And because I'm studying a PhD in biological physics (which has a solid maths component) I actually understood most of the crap Ian Malcolm talked about.

 

Definitely.

 

I really like that book, too. Crichton wrote some great stories. Congo and Sphere were two I enjoyed that were later adapted into fun movies.

 

I’m reading A Book of Voyages, edited by Patrick O’Brian.

It’s basically a collection of personal journals and logs of people’s travels, both by land and sea.