Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

Welcome to this weeks blog. Heres a roundup of your comments and photos from last week.

Glozboy said:

Ive been enjoying Dickie Birds autobiography this week. There are some great anecdotes and Bird isnt backwards in coming forwards about his opinions on modern cricket and certain people within the game. The best aspect of reading it is that Im doing a think Yorkshire accent in my head the entire time, which is great fun, and makes the bits involving Geoffrey Boycott all the more enjoyable!

Being Russian, I was supposed to read it for school and then for uni; but I never quite got to it. Had an idea it would be a boring chore. Guess what its not! Its like the real-life story, evolving in multiple layers, even war pieces are quite interesting, and I am learning a lot about my countrys mentality and way of life in 19th century, which I didnt really knew before. Its a beautiful experience.

I bought the book today. Really looking forward to reading her thoughts on the subject of Climate Change and Capitalism. Big fan.

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By TaymazValley

27 September 2014, 18:27

I was wondering: is there a specific word in the title of a book that immediately draws you in and makes you want to buy the book?

For example, I recently read The Lighthouse by Alison Moore without knowing anything of the plot (but I obviously did know it had been shortlisted for the Booker so my choice may have been biased), just because I love this word and what it conveys. Even if the book proved too inconsistent, it created exactly the bleak atmosphere I was looking for with this word. Suffice it to say Im quite impatient to read the real deal that is To The Lighthouse.

I read The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig for similar reasons I have something of an obsession with finding novels set in or about people working in the Post Office, as with the obvious exception of Bukowski and J. Robert Lennons Mailman, I have struggled to find any other novels on a similar topic. I did also read David Brins The Postman recently, again just for the title if anybody knows any more mail-centric novels I have overlooked then I would be grateful for a tip-off.

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