What Are You Currently Reading

[stranger]

Laidlaw, Canongate, have re-released all three of McIlvanneys classic Glasgow detective stories after too long out of print. Well worth a re-read.

[Sharon]

Oh, I could give Laidlaw a go again.

Just started http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/864581.Fatal_Passage



I do like freezing cold tales of adversity, discovery and adventure.

[InkMan]

Reading a pristine 1973 edition of William W Barr's Glaswegia. I have picked up some interesting facts.

Shuggy

[Mori]

Found this one from a box in my attic, The Fireside Book of David Hope. An array of poetry with some nice graphics , well seeing its DC Thomson publishing.

[banjo]

britain.what a state.from the department of social scrutiny.ian vince.

[Vinegar Tom]

The Business

[The Egg Man]

Eejit here, despite never having seen even so much as a still from the tv series, has bought the entire set of the 'A game of thrones' books, wholly on the basis of the John Lanchester review in the LRB.

What's the tv series like? No spoilers please, btw.

Anyone who missed Kirsty Wark's BBC2 interview with Iain Banks should catch up ASAP.

[Lucky Poet]

I feel slightly ashamed to admit I have never read a word of Iain Banks. Not that I've actively avoided his books, ye understand...

[John]

I once took a girl on a first date to see The Wasp Factory at The Citizens. The relationship went nowhere after that.

[Dot]

I feel slightly ashamed to admit I have never read a word of Iain Banks. Not that I've actively avoided his books, ye understand...

I was just thinking the same thing earlier on today.
I do remember watching The Crow Road adapted from one of his books though it was a while ago.

[Vinegar Tom]

Anyone who missed Kirsty Wark's BBC2 interview with Iain Banks should catch up ASAP.

If that is the same programme as Ian Banks - Raw Spirit, it is just starting on BBC2.......

[Lucky Poet]

Currently reading Robert Crawford, 'On Glasgow and Edinburgh', as ye do. Promising, so far.

[The Egg Man]

Anyone who missed Kirsty Wark's BBC2 interview with Iain Banks should catch up ASAP.

If that is the same programme as Ian Banks - Raw Spirit, it is just starting on BBC2.......

That's the one. Ms Wark and I have a mutual friend. She (the friend) has spent ages trying, without much success, to convince me that Ms Wark is a human being. Raw Spirit suggests my pal might be right.

[The Creeping Spleen]

Currently reading "The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling.

Just out of idle curiosity to see if she can actually write a "proper" novel.

[RDR]

currently reading:
The Ravens: The True Story of the Secret War in Laos