Books - What are you reading?

I stepped on my kindle this morning, I won't be reading much for a while :(

Contact Amazon, they make their money on the book sales, not the Kindle sales so they'll probably replace it for cheap.

I got a deal on a new Kindle when I dropped the old one. Half price maybe?

The art of Penguin science fiction

Nice!

Really, huh? My parents owned all of these style John Wyndham books when I was younger:

I loved them. The covers and the books.

I broke my kindle last year and they replaced it under warranty for free, they didn't even ask how it got broken.

I just broke it again though, they offered me a paperwhite for £63, I think it must be the older generation.

I was given a paperwhite 3g and cover to replace a 4 year old kindle keyboard 3g.

I did have to kick up a bit of a stink though.

Finished Enduring Love yesterday after two nights of reading. Great little book, really enjoyed it. It reminded me of another of my Norwich influenced favourites, The Remains of the Day, at times, with lone lead men and their internal ruminations on the human condition. Maybe that's all the UEA Creative Writing course taught in the seventies! Can anyone recommend any more McEwan?

Pelican Books' new website is a pocket library accessible from smartphones and tablets

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/pelican-books-new-website-is-a-pocket-library-accessible-from-smartphones-and-tablets-9856084.html

finished this [The Human Stain], very readable. only read Portnoys Complaint before. would read more Roth.

Iain Banks now, Dead Air. Mainly read his SF. Is good.

Yeah Iain M Banks Sci-Fi is incredible, I think I have a full collection. I prefer the Sci-Fi work to his more critically acclaimed literary stuff, though I loved the wasp factory. Its a real shame he died so early. Great author.

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.
Truly stunning book. Really inspiring and beautifully written

Just finished Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot. Amazing book. Funny, bonkers, weirdly moving. Reminiscent of Phillip K Dick, if Phillip K Dick had managed to stay off the speed for long enough to figure out how to structure a story. Also reminded me a lot of Infinite Jest - mostly because you can imagine the futures that Wallace and Boudinot create having a lot of overlap. Recommended.

Just heard an interview with him on the Guardian books podcast. Added his works to my to-read list.

Karenina is dragging a bit, but I am determined to finish it. I'm shelving it for a couple of days while I read this:

I listened to a Q&A on the Guardian Books podcast with the author yesterday and just had to read this book.

A new David Mitchell novel, rejoice!

If anyone has yet to read 'One Night in Winter' by Simon Sebag Montefiore, do so immediately and thank me later.

Foxglove Summer, the latest in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.

Harry Potter for grownups, in a good way.

I liked his earlier stuff - First Love, Last Rites; Comfort of Strangers and Child in Time (though read them a VERY long time ago). Not as much of a fan of the later stuff and I got to within a page of finishing Saturday and gave up.

got the xmas list sorted, in part from some recommendations off here

dave eggers - the circle
douglas fairbairn - shoot
john williams - stoner
david foster wallace - infinite jest
john kennedy toole - a confederacy of dunces
robert mcfarland - the wild places
stephen king - under the dome
don carpenter - hard rain falling
jim dodge - stone junction

could do with some more non fiction on it

William Gibson signing his new book "The Peripheral" at Forbidden planet tomorrow ..

H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald. Just a lovely book. Part memoir, part nature writing, part literary biography. Gorgeous prose: she has a real eye for the fine poetic detail of the natural world. Achingly sad in parts, very funny in others.

Now 150 pages deep into A M Homes May we be forgiven. So far, so fucking good.

Waterstones discount code - 10% off orders > £24.99 until Dec 23rd. GF1025

Reasonably scarce First Edition of Michel Houellebecq's Whatever at Kentish Town Oxfam £1.49.

found it a good winter read, especially enjoyable when in bed recovering from illness - just in case you've got anything coming on!!