FabSwingers.com forum: What book are you reading at the moment?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I like to have a little light reading before I go to sleep of an evening. I have over the Christmas period read Rob Halford's autobiography Confess and yesterday I finished John Cooper Clarkes autobiography which I found a bit hard work to get to grips with. Now I am about to pick up a John Grisham book I got from the supermarket as he is pretty easy going.

But I am just wondering what books you like to read and do you have any recommendations?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13th deadly sin. James Patterson

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By *nked_kittenWoman
over a year ago

Ankh Morpork

Duty calls. It’s a 40k book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Re-reading Game of Thrones series

(Already done LoTR & few others during lockdown)

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By *ljamMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick. I'm not much of an Elvis fan, but the book was discussed on a podcast I listened to a while ago so I thought I'd give it a whirl. So far it's a very well put together book.

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By *ambozaMan
over a year ago

kilburn park

Answering Back

A great little poetry collection complied by Carol Anne Duffy

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

I love it when you start a new book which you cant put down

Just starting girl a by Abigail dean.

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By *killsMan
over a year ago

Never Never Land

The sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind

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By *oroRick1027Man
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

"Under a graveyard sky" john ringo

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

That's reminded me that I started reading The Holiday back in summer, and have never got back to it. I wonder where I've put it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thank you for your input everyone I'll have to have a look around for something new as I have read a couple of John Grisham books as they are so light reading. And I need to find something new soon..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But I am just wondering what books you like to read and do you have any recommendations? "

I read Rob Halford's book too, I thought it was excellent. He's a bit of a character

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By *oublesixesMan
over a year ago

Corby

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Derren Brown - Happy: why more or less everything is absolutely fine.

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By *razzyhorseMan
over a year ago

cambridge

Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

But I am just wondering what books you like to read and do you have any recommendations?

I read Rob Halford's book too, I thought it was excellent. He's a bit of a character

It was superb and the last couple of chapters had me crying like a baby

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just starting (after many good reviews) one two three four - the Beatles in time, by Craig Brown

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

The operators

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By *LEX DUMASMan
over a year ago

WALSALL .butts near Arboretum

Big Juggs.The History of Ceramics

by O.R Harder

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ant Middleton's First Man In

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rising star. The maling of Barack Obama

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Gruffalo....A bit heavy going and a bit scary tbh

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Still on Cilka's Journey the follow up to Tattoist Of Auschwitz and very good it is too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Still on Cilka's Journey the follow up to Tattoist Of Auschwitz and very good it is too"

Oh is there a follow up! I didn’t know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Traces by Patricia Wiltshire and Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ... need to finish one lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Thursday murder club

Quite enjoying it , very easy reading

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fire watching by Russ Thomas.

It’s not the sort of thing I’d usually read but I have to say it’s absolutely engrossing so far.

Would strongly recommend.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Still on Cilka's Journey the follow up to Tattoist Of Auschwitz and very good it is too

Oh is there a follow up! I didn’t know "

Yes, tells the story of Cilka (who was in Tattoist) from the perspective of what happened to her after liberation from Auschwitz with some flashbacks thrown in.

Is a work of faction in that a story has been created around available information about her but a lot of it is the author's imagination of what happened based on that information.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Monsters of River and Rock, Adrian Smith

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An Anatomy of a Scandal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Thursday murder club

Quite enjoying it , very easy reading"

Finished it yesterday, was enjoyable easy reading

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By *_elia DominaTV/TS
over a year ago

Edinburgh (She/Her)

Forum posts and messages....

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By *olex99Man
over a year ago

Hull

Cunk on everything by Philomena Cunk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It is delightfully dark and intense.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Secrets of Gaslight Lane - M R C Kasasian

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its a big one

The boundless sea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Star Wars, the rise of Darth Vader

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Readers Wives

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I just picked up the atlas of improbable places

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

Grey Knights omnibus from the Warhammer Black Library.

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By *oelDorianMan
over a year ago

vanaheim

The dark tower

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Going for some light relief with the urban fantasy series Kate Daniels by ilona andrews. Some hot shapeshifter sex!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just finished “prisoners of geography”

And now listening to Max Brooks “devolution”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'A Life of My Own' by Claire Tomalin

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Circe, Madeline Miller.

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By *lueeyedblonde78Woman
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Hard girls by Martina Cole

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

Billy Connolly tall tails and wee stories, absolutely brilliant

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

A History of the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert (volume 1). Luke

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I am currently re-reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King, I haven't read it since I was a teenager many moons ago

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

A James Patterson one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Where the crawdads sing

Beautiful book

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber (by Bimisi Tayanita)

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By *inger_SnapWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset

The Coffin Markets Garden - Stuart McBride, latest in the Ash Henderson series.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber (by Bimisi Tayanita) "

Thats a great title

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just finished 'easily distracted' by steve coogan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two margarines on the go and other domestic dilemmas

John shuttleworth's guide to every day life .....has me in stitches and personaly signed to me for my 40th birthday the other week

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reading 2 books on parallel - Homo deus (Sequel of Sapiens) and Gut (fascinating story of our interiors)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still on battle flag bernhard Cornwall is very good series bit geeky really but I enjoy historical fiction

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reading 2 books on parallel - Homo deus (Sequel of Sapiens) and Gut (fascinating story of our interiors)"

I've got Sapiens and Gut next to read ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reading 2 books on parallel - Homo deus (Sequel of Sapiens) and Gut (fascinating story of our interiors)"

There was an amazing Radio series in the gut a couple of years ago. I remember Fecal transplants (hope no one's eating) and being astonished by how much more dna is the micribes in our gut than we have.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reading 2 books on parallel - Homo deus (Sequel of Sapiens) and Gut (fascinating story of our interiors)

I've got Sapiens and Gut next to read ... "

Sapiens is a life altering book for me ... author is a magician.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reading 2 books on parallel - Homo deus (Sequel of Sapiens) and Gut (fascinating story of our interiors)

And how little we understand about our gut!

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By *8 genny shovelMan
over a year ago

Devon

Hells Angels, the life and times of sonny Barger and the Hells Angels motorcycle club a very good read as I've read it before.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

The dinner guest..b p walter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I listen to audio books more than read now but recently listened to

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and the the first two books in Stephen King's Black Tower series

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By *ero666Man
over a year ago

fife

The Garden Gang book set

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber (by Bimisi Tayanita)

Thats a great title

It’s one of a series of 5 books published by Reach around Books

Also includes:

Suzy likes to look at balls

Come Swing with Us!

Spank the Monkey Lends a Hand

And

Put Tony’s Nuts in your Mouth!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dark Fire, by CJ Sansom. The se ond in the Shardlake series. Crime fiction from 16th Century London. Excellent writing

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

The debt.

I like smutty romances

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Dave Grohl biography.

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Still on battle flag bernhard Cornwall is very good series bit geeky really but I enjoy historical fiction

I'm reading Flame Bearer, one of the final books from the "The Last Kingdom" series.

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By *urchoicenowCouple
over a year ago

Ashford

Currently reading a series by Mark Dawson about a bloke called Milton who is an ex assassin, sort of like Reacher novels. Very good though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surrounded by idiots by Thomas Erikson, it’s really interesting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Surrounded by idiots by Thomas Erikson, it’s really interesting "

Is that a how to survive life in the workplace / psychology genre?

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By *ljamMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch; and The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold

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By *eparrain1Man
over a year ago

Stone

The Baltimore Boys by Joël Dicker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch; and The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold "

Peter Grant series.

I'm currently reading the Rotherweird Trilogy by Andrew Caldecott.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The first Omnibus of Gotrek and Felix

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Latest nick hornby one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Re-reading...

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence - book one of The Broken Empire, it's Grimdark fantasy at its best.

And

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Still on battle flag bernhard Cornwall is very good series bit geeky really but I enjoy historical fiction

I'm reading Flame Bearer, one of the final books from the "The Last Kingdom" series."

Recently read War Lord, the final book. Fantastic series of books.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Traces by Patricia Wiltshire and Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ... need to finish one lol "

Sapiens is a fantastic book.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Just about to start One Two Three Four

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By *phrodite_AdonisCouple
over a year ago

The state of affairs: rethinking infidelity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The state of affairs: rethinking infidelity

Sounds emotional.

I’m still reading Firewatching, not had much spare time for reading lately.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going for some light relief with the urban fantasy series Kate Daniels by ilona andrews. Some hot shapeshifter sex!"

Was a really good series!

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By *ausageNmashCouple
over a year ago

Andover

Erebus by Micheal Palin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just finished Sarah J Maas’s “A court of thorns and roses” series

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By *omewhatSlightlyDazedMan
over a year ago

Warwick Birmingham & YamYamLand

I find it really difficult to get into most books but when I find one I like I do get pulled in,

Best one I've read recently was The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finishing priest kings of gor and going to read some poetry after that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just finished devolution by Max brooks

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By * Sophie xTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby

Nora Roberts, Year One.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I never read books; I used to spend a lot of time studying academic articles on a very wide range of subjects, in order to educate myself; before the university's facilities were closed and the reopened restrictively.

I believe the so-called education I received at school was inadequate and geared to the lowest common denominator.

Books do not appeal to me.

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

I’ve just bought The Tattooist of Auschwizt - not started it yet though

J x

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By *b793Man
over a year ago

Yeovil

i know it may be a bit childish but recently re-read all of the percy jackson books and loved them as much as i did the first time around, loved the sequel heroes of olympus so much too

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

100 days Admiral sandy Woodward

Diary of the task force commander south Atlantic 1982

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