(30-12-2021, 06:38 PM)sumstyle Wrote: [ -> ]I've finished Code Talker, which was an autobiography on Chester Nez, one of the Navajo marines that put together the unbreakable code in WW2 with the battles in the Pacific. Interesting back story with his memories of life on the reservation. Their treatment at the hands of white people - not at all dissimilar to the Maaori in NZ, complulsory land acquisition, happy for the men to fight in wars for the ruling class, but that didn't necessarily get them treated as an equal once back after the war.
Now listening to The Puzzle Women, which is a fiction book but based around the true facts of the Stasi in East Berlin, and all the documents they kept on the people they spied on. When the Berlin Wall was torn down, they started shredding all the evidence on the "lost people", yet there was a team of women that painstakingly recreated the pages manually so that records could be found of the disappeared.
They both sound interesting, might look out for them.
Just finished rereading Thud, by Terry Pratchett - and currently reading his Wyrd Sisters.
I'm currently reading Ask me tomorrow, Stan Barstow, a northern Brit writer in a similar vein to Alan Sillitoe. I've not read it for around 20 or so years, so have forgotten most of it.
I must re reread Pratchett, it's just such damn good exercise for the brain. Currently taking a break from fiction, particually crime fiction, and am reading about The Dambusters....after the dambusting. It must be a modern book - they have a black Labrador....
Currently reading The book of the unknown midwife, Meg Elison which won the Philip K Dick award. Dystopian sci fi set in the USA & the first in a series - which annoyed me when I realised, as I try to avoid any more series in case I cark it before being able to read them all.
Enjoying it so far.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5039-3911-0
Just finished reading The puzzle women, & really enjoyed it.
Just started Running Blind penned by Desmond Bagley
Oddly enough, I'm reading about a world caught up in a pandemic - probably not the best choice just now, but extremely interesting.
How to survive everything, Ewan Morrison, isn't all doom & gloom by any means, & I've found myself laughing several times. This is primarily a YA book but like many of the genre, an excellent read.
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur...on-3146083
Whew, that was a labor of perseverance, was a time when Desmond Bagley was unputadownable [sorry just invented that word], have say struggled to complete this book. Got several more to read but may try something from James Patterson, who a friend always raves on about
On my ereader, I have the complete set of "Doctor Thorndyke" stories, by R Austin Freeman. I'm re reading them.
Supernova wasn't bad but seemed to fizzle out a bit towards the end.
I'm now reading The hidden girl & other stories, Ken Liu sci fi short stories, really enjoying it.
