[EnglishBob]

Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan

[Gorgarath]

I've almost finished Tin Cans and Greyhounds by Clint Johnson. One of the places on my bucket list to visit is Baton Rouge where they have a Fletcher class destroyer in WWII configuration, which is what my grandfather would have served aboard. (He was on the USS Albert W. Grant @ Layte Gulf, among other places.)

[robgski]

I don't read much science fiction any more, but I really enjoyed David Drake's General series, a blend of sci-fi and black powder and saber battles, really well done stuff.

[Belcik]

A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking

[Canada_Rockies]

A brilliant man.

[Nakedgun]

Just completed: "Crusaders" by Dan Jones.

[Prince Harbinger]

Born a Crime.

[SimonC]

We Fought For Ardnish by Angus MacDonald

I did my first 'bothy' trip to Peanmeanach Bothy on the Ardnish Peninsula in October 2019. It a great experience. Six of us went for 3 days and were fortunate enough to have the bothy more or less to ourselves (one visitor spent a night with us) though we had a couple visitors. The only facilities were a good dry building with a fireplace and somewhere to sleep and eat though you had to take your own firewood, food and booze. We swam in the freezing see, washed in the burn, used the shovel to bury our human waste, told stories by the (needed) open fire, ate muscels in white wine fresh from the sea outside the bothy and listened to the rutting deer outside our door (no more than 15 feet away at times).

An amazing experience and one I'll never forget.

Back to the book which tells the story of a soldier in the Lovat Scouts who was from Peanmeanach, Ardnish.

[Racer X 69]

Datsun 240Z Engineering Development, The Journey from Concept to Reality, by Hitoshi Uemura, former principal design engineer at Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. Foreward by Yuichiro Motomura. Recently translated to English from Japanese.

The book covers the Engineering Development of one of the worlds best Sports Cars was carried out between 1966 and 1969.

[robgski]

Finished "SPQR" so I will need another dining room table book.

[Not a Number]

Since John le Carré just passed away I'll binge read his novel. I've read 80% of his Cold War novels and none of his Post Cold War books.

Starting at the beginning with "Call For the Dead".

[EnglishBob]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson

[stevejo]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Slow start but getting better:-)

A thousand splendid suns is also a very good book by this author.

[Racer X 69]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson

Great book. I read it when I was ten or eleven, along with another wartime books, To Hell And Back, by Audie Murphy, and PT109, the story of John Kennedy’s experience in WW2.

[Madaboutpix]

Current read: Cormac McCarthy, The Road (ebook, London: Picador, 2010) - not sure if I like it yet, as McCarthy's slightly cumbersome style may become an issue.

Favourite book: Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (ebook, London: Faber, 2010) - I've made it the one I perhaps enjoyed reading most this year, given that I pick my reads with care and, not surprisingly, end up liking most of them.