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Just started reading Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby jnr. Finding the language a bit hard to follow

The Informer by Brett Easton Ellis, borrowed from library. Doubt I'll bother to finish it .... total garbage. Every chapter is in first person, detailing an episode in their life. Every chapter is a different person, but there's a link connecting them all. The writing style is terrible and the...

Just finished Cormac McCarthy's Child of God. Compulsive yet disturbing. Page 164, I actually gasped out loud.

Just finished re-reading No Country For Old Men What a great story Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy

I tried to read a similar book, but about Ireland. Ended up skimming thru' it and not actually retaining anything. Took up too much room on my shelf so it had to go.

I had forgotten just how grim .... now on the charity shop pile.

Yeah, I thought the same. It was going on the charity pile, but I decided to give it another go. Strangely enjoying it, mainly 'cos of the good natured boy. Mind you, can't beat Dickens for bleak

Just finished a book I found outside someone's house .... Bone China by Laura Purcell .... utter escapist readable rubbish ... now on the charity shop pile. Now re-reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Know what .... after my post I decided to re-read WHs, flicked through it and gave up ..... it's dreadful :lolol:

Alternatives to Valium (How Punk Rock Saved A Shy Boy's Life) by Alistair McKay

Have you read Wuthering Heights? First time I read it I couldn't put it down and read the whole book all at once

The Light Pours Out Of Me (The Authorised Biography Of John McGeoch) by Rory Sullivan Burke

Just finished Crudo by Olivia Laing bit beyond me tbh .... may have to read it again (sometime)

Playing The Bass With Three Left Hands by Will Carruthers excellent read. Sad, funny and insightful

just started The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carre found it outside someone's house

The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O' Brien over 600 pages to get lost in and an easy read. Attracted to the fact it was originally banned in Ireland and branded as filth I bought it when Waterstones reopened.

I am re-reading The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (It's pretty grim)

I had a copy of that, but never got round to reading it :down: .... Finding re-reading books during lockdown really good. I am actually taking the time to read them and not just skim quickly during train journeys or whatever

It livens up at the end :D This morning I started re-reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson with wonderful illustrations by Ralph Steadman) Only got to page 6 and had to take a break from laughing so much