What Are You Reading Now?

[HelenaWojtczak]

What Are You Reading Now?


Murder and Crime - Whitechapel and District.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Crime-Whitechapel-District/dp/0752455494/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344327377&sr=8-2

Helena

[K-453]

M. V. Hughes: "A London Child Of The 1870s".

Description of a girl's childhood 1870 - 1879. Not really my kind of literature, as it was a bit cheesy, but it added to my background knowledge.

As a girl, the author was not allowed to go out much - see the snippet about Lord Mayor's Show. "Needless to say, I never saw the show myself."

The second snippet mentions Sir W. Gull. ... And such a wise man is thought to be a serial killer!

The third snippet contains a hint that explains much, and a gem of Victorian pedagogics.

[Doug Irvine]

Just finished The Deep Blue Good-By, a Travis McGee novel by John D. MacDonald and just started The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

[Beowulf]

Currently going are:

Cemetary John by Robert Zorn.

Mary's Mosaic by I forgot

Black Dahlia Avenger II by Steve Hodel (it's about 1,000 pages)

And I just received The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule and Murder In the Gilded Age by I forgot about a torso murder in America in 1897.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Well, I just finished reading Lovers Lane by Rick Geary, about the Hall-Mills murder. Brand new release and very inexpensive for anyone who wants to read about the murder but doesn't want to pay the high priced Fatal Tryst. It is done all in kind of adult comic book style but has all the details of the books on it.

Just starting Jack the Ripper and black magic. I'm sure it's interesting but unlikely. I'm sure they will mention the address of Miller's court being number 13. This is Friday the 13th and there is a thunderstorm going, I'm in.

[Scott Nelson]

And I've just finished last month's exciting issue of Sunset Magazine.

[Tom_Wescott]

All non-fiction at the moment

Currently going are:

Cemetary John by Robert Zorn.

Mary's Mosaic by I forgot

Black Dahlia Avenger II by Steve Hodel (it's about 1,000 pages)

And I just received The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule and Murder In the Gilded Age by I forgot about a torso murder in America in 1897.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Doug Irvine]

I just finished Goodbye Curate by Fred Secombe and just started My Silent War by Kim Philby.

[The Good Michael]

I even learned something about international finance. Entertainment and new info: what more can one ask from a novel?

That might be the key: Learning something from a novel.

Mike

[Cogidubnus]

Robert Crais

Well I've got "Demolition Angel" on the go again...for about the fourth time...I don't know why but this one gets me...I've bought loads of his other books and let them go but this one really gets me (I feel I ought to add that my library amounted to in excess of 10,000 books, but my wife seriously objected and I've been purged down to just over 2,000...well...as far as she knows anyway)

Dave

[The Grave Maurice]

I'm just finishing Stone's Fall by Iain Pears, a novel about international finance set in London, Paris, and Venice between 1867 and 1909. Sound boring? Well, it isn't. It has interesting characters and an intricate plot created by a master wordsmith that held my interest through 594 pages. I even learned something about international finance. Entertainment and new info: what more can one ask from a novel?

[The Good Michael]

About 200 pages left to go in The Terror. It has everything: Villains, heroes, normal horror, supernatural horror, several mysteries, nautical and ship details... I can't wait to see what happens.

Mike

[The Good Michael]

Dan Simmons! I read a horror book by him years ago. Very good. What's the Terror about? I recently read (devoured is more like it) Stephen King's new book 11/22/63. Suitably, I'm now reading Mark Fuhrman's book on the JFK assassination, and it may just be the perfect JFK book. At only 226 pages, it's all meat and no fat.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Tom,

i don't want to give anything away. The book is about the Franklin expedition to the Northwest Passage in the 1840s. It is true to history and wonderfully detailed, but there is an element of terror and some mystery that makes this book absolutely wonderful. The details and description of weather conditions and simple things like the use of coal and rum rations, just make it all feel real. Keep in mind that I'm in Kazakhstan where it has hit -40 several times this winter with godawful wind that I still take a daily walk in, so I feel connected to these hapless sailors.

Mike

[Beowulf]

I did get a copy of In the Fog, by Richard Harding Davis, an old one from 1902 with lovely plates. Very nice book and good story. Really takes you back to those times.

This author intrigues me as he did go to Mary Kelly's place after her tragedy sometime later. Wish he wrote more about that.

[Tom_Wescott]

Dan Simmons! I read a horror book by him years ago. Very good. What's the Terror about? I recently read (devoured is more like it) Stephen King's new book 11/22/63. Suitably, I'm now reading Mark Fuhrman's book on the JFK assassination, and it may just be the perfect JFK book. At only 226 pages, it's all meat and no fat.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[The Good Michael]

Now I'm reading The Terror by Dan Simmons. It is everything I want in a book so far at about 200 pages. Have 500 or so to go. Absolutely a joy to read, and I'm not a big Simmons fan.


Mike