[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Redinpeace]

Just finish Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab which actually improves with every read.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Modern Slave/Gaia Cooper …it’s a very tough read

 

[Swegulls]

The Impossible Journey - Thor Pedersen

 

[DJ NOBO]

The chimp paradox - Steven peters

 

[Surf's Up]

A Gentleman in Moscow - book being read by a book club I belong to - load of old tut....well written but totally unreal scenario, factually incorrect in several ways and makes the Russian Revolution seem like a rather gentile tea party. The main protagonist should've, would've been shot in the first chapter in reality as opposed to being allowed to ponse around in a posh Moscow hotel drinking fine wines, being witty and interesting, getting laid and generally surviving very comfortably.

 

[portlock seagull]

The Prosecutor by Jack Fairweather.

The life and work of Fritz Bauer, a German Jewish lawyer who made his countrymen and country face up to their Nazi crimes and the national complicity-in.

Astonishing man, the stamina, courage and determination he showed made this an honour to read really.

 

[US Seagull]

Reading A People's History of Soccer (called A People's History of Football in non-US editions) by Mickaël Correia (translated by Fionn Petch from the original French version)

It's alright. Interesting bit in the chapter about women's football.

In girls schools, football made a timid appearance at Brighton High School for Girls, Roedean School, and Girton College, Cambridge. But the practice was quickly prohibited by the governing body before the British Medical Journal proclaimed in December 1894 that football should be damned out of hand as dangerous to the reproductive organs and breasts because of sudden jerks, twists and blows.

Also, worries that men might sneak into the women's game are as old as time

The femininity' injunction found in all these reports was accompanied by a growing interest in a young footballer of just 14, Miss Nellie Gilbert, nicknamed "Tommy" by the journalists. 'Her arrival sparked laughter, though it was more due to her size and boyish appearance than anything else', reported the London daily Pall Mall Gazette on 25 March 1895. 'In the first place, she looked ridiculously small to participate in a football game. On top of that, she was built like a boy and ran like the kids who can run very fast at the age of ten'. Unanimously seen as the best player of the British Ladies' Football Club, the gender ambiguity of Miss Nellie Gilbert was constantly hammered home by the media. 'He (or she) moved around the pitch like a young colt, and was often"on the ball", tackling with courage', wrote the Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette. 'He (or she) Was constantly alert, agile and energetic'

 

[jakarta]

Three at the minute, still ploughing through Alistair Cooke's America,. Bought (good face for radio) Rory Stewart's Parliament dairy Politics on the Edge (a bit turgid and it is clear who the hero of the tale is) and found the marvellous Robert Harris fantasy Archangel in the spare bedroom so giving that another read.

 

[Beach Hut]

Three at the minute, still ploughing through Alistair Cooke's America,. Bought (good face for radio) Rory Stewart's Parliament dairy Politics on the Edge (a bit turgid and it is clear who the hero of the tale is) and found the marvellous Robert Harris fantasy Archangel in the spare bedroom so giving that another read.

Presumaby Alistair Cooke, letter to America?

Currently waiting to be read, recently read Rory Stewart book and a very good read

 

[jakarta]

Presumaby Alistair Cooke, letter to America?

Currently waiting to be read, recently read Rory Stewart book and a very good read

Cooke is based upon his TV Series America.

I am finding it it difficult to plough through the Rory Stewart book, probably because it confirms all my views about politics.

 

[Beach Hut]

Yemen - Tim Mackintosh-Smith