What are you reading?

[rolandson]

The Churchill factor.

Unusual insights into Churchill's life, his successes and his failures.

Boris Johnson can really write.

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A fellow by the name of Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian, made that portrait. He was able to make an image of "the real Winston"...

He reached over and snatched his cigar out of his mouth and then released the shutter.
Ballsy fellow. Two actually. As it happens.
The result...

Yousuf Karsh 1941​

We would do well to have a few more Winstons about I think.

 

[Quikstyl]

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Have to listen to "Haunted" by Poe (his sister) while reading that.

 

[monte merrick]

 

[Eoraptor1]

SPQR, by Mary Beard, and Beautiful Maria of My Soul, by Oscar Hijuelos.

JAMES

 

[davidKOS]

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times​

 

[Neil.C]

Re reading Patrick Hamilton's canon starting with Twenty thousand streets under the sky.

It never fails to please.

 

[Dadocaster]

Still reading William Gibson. I am not the marathon reading machine I used to be. Takes a while now.

 

[Mansonienne]

 

[Slider58]

 

[Believer7713]

Just started this yesterday. Only one chapter in but some really interesting history and theories so far.

 

[circles]

Just finished the last in the Murderbot Diaries series. Very good. I predict a movie.

 

[Strums]

Great read: Robby Krieger - Set The Night On Fire

https://www.google.com/books/editio...dSseEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

 

[crawdaddy]

These are the next 2 to be read....

 

[Machew]

Do audio books count?

 

[Jerseystratfiend]

Trying to become a more enlightened man

 

[Jerseystratfiend]

Do audio books count?

Dnt see why not

 

[Neil.C]

Do audio books count?

The thread is called, "What are you reading".

Can you read an audio book?

 

[circles]

The judges will make an exception in this case. Proceed with the audio book. I will caution the defendant, though.

 

[Slider58]

 

[GhostJam47]

Double Cross by Ben Mcintyre

True story of British/Allied spies and double agents during WWII and the underappreciated part they played in D-Day invasion by spreading misinformation to Germans.

Fascinating read so far.