What are you reading?

I am reading "das Jahr der Maus" a collection of Science fiction stories. Already I found tow good ones.

I read one of the great Cyberpunk novels:

Walter Williams: Voice of the Whirlwind

It is a good read and has a few really nice ideas. All in all it is not as good as Neuromancer which is a defining work of Cyberpunk and probably a Inspiration to Voice of the whirlwind.
Also it is leaning very much on a Zen Approach to Military which is not really my Cup of tea.

Call for the Dead - John le Carré - Thought I'd go even earlier!

@petewxyz said
Call for the Dead - John le Carré - Thought I'd go even earlier!

Interesting books!

@torunn said
Interesting books!

Excellent, so many twists and turns. Could not have anticipated where The Spy who came in from The Cold was going. Tragic and intense!

@petewxyz said
Excellent, so many twists and turns. Could not have anticipated where The Spy who came in from The Cold was going. Tragic and intense!

And the story will progress in later books.

@torunn said
And the story will progress in later books.

I have The Looking Glass War sitting waiting but thought I would step backwards first and make it last!

Just finished:

Joachim Fest: Staatsstreich

A book on German resitsnace against the Nazi tyranny. A really worthwhile book.

@torunn said
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

I have just finished reading this entertaining book, A Gentleman in Moscow, written by Amor Towles:

"A Gentleman in Moscow is the 30-year saga of the Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who is placed under house arrest inside the Metropol Hotel in Moscow in 1922 when the Bolsheviks spare him from death or Siberia because of his 1913 revolutionary poem written in university..."

"...epic in its ambition, enthralling in its storytelling, entertaining in its humour and eloquent in its prose. The story is set amongst the socially chaotic birth of communist Russia, yet celebrates the dominion of the individual."

Reading it takes patience but is so rewarding. I think that maybe HandyAndy would like to give it a chance?

@torunn said
I have just finished reading this entertaining book, A Gentleman in Moscow, written by Amor Towles:

"A Gentleman in Moscow is the 30-year saga of the Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who is placed under house arrest inside the Metropol Hotel in Moscow in 1922 when the Bolsheviks spare him from death or Siberia because of his 1913 revolutionary poem written in university..." ...[text shortened]... it takes patience but is so rewarding. I think that maybe HandyAndy would like to give it a chance?

Sounds interesting! I'll add it to my list. Right now I'm working my way through Brenda Wineapple's "Ecstatic Nation," but I'll get to it soon. Thanks!

@handyandy said
Sounds interesting! I'll add it to my list. Right now I'm working my way through Brenda Wineapple's "Ecstatic Nation," but I'll get to it soon. Thanks!

I too will check it out but not until I can access, physically, our local library. Too frugal to order it as a keeper. 😲

@great-big-stees said
I too will check it out but not until I can access, physically, our local library. Too frugal to order it as a keeper. 😲

Good, I hope you will enjoy. I don't visit our library during current circumstances so I buy instead.

@handyandy said
Sounds interesting! I'll add it to my list. Right now I'm working my way through Brenda Wineapple's "Ecstatic Nation," but I'll get to it soon. Thanks!

I'm glad you will. It may be a bit light-weight literature to you, but I know you will appreciate it for its prose, intelligence and humour.

@HandyAndy
So the revolutionary poem was not revolutionary ENOUGH? Jeez, those were GREAT guys back then in the revolution, eh.

Betty Smith: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, published in 1943 but apparently not translated to Swedish until 2019 part 1, and 2020 part 2.