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What book are you reading now?

Kitsune

I decided that I needed a new book to read and managed to find one on my bookshelf that I’d only half read so thought I’d finish it off: Tower, An epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones. I just wondered what everyone else is reading at the moment? What does everyone else like to read?

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  • I just finished Utopia for Realists. It is about Basic Income. That is being piloted in one or two places. And despite what our cynical History teacher told is about school and the necessity for austerity in those times, all that was based on faulty research and damn lies. Seems the Speenhamland system worked well. 

    Nixon came pretty close to implementing one. 

    Now though I am reading something that was on the back shelf for a while, Prisoner of midnight by Barbara Hambly. From a series of vampire tales.

  • in reply to nexus9

    This seems vastly more intellectual than the last book that I read! My 5 year old daughter's favourite book is 'Unicorn and the Rainbow Poop'! Which I have to read to her most evenings before bed! To be fair I would highly recommend it to anyone with young children, especially those that are still going through the 'toilet humour' stage!

    Let me know how the book 'Prisoner of midnight' is please? I'm partial to the odd vampire story, sometimes :-)

  • in reply to Kitsune

    Prisoner of Midnight is excellent. The whole series is. It might be better to start with the first though, this is the eighth and the last. The cost is called Those who Bunt the Night. A Spanish vampire coerces an old spy, James Asher, to work with him to find out who is killing vampires in Lodonrlped by his doctor wife, Lydia.

    Very atmospheric, part historical.novels, part detective novels too. 

  • in reply to nexus9

    Thank you for telling me about the book. Most of the vampire books that I've read are quite 'light', such as my eldest daughter's Nightworld collection, I'd probably get scared by anything heavier than that :-) she went through a bit of an obsession with Twilight when she was 12 which then progressed on to Vampire Diaries etc which I had to watch with her, Ian Somerhalder made it bearable :-) I get interested in the history of Vlad the Impaler and things like that. Real life people that sparked many horror stories.

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  • in reply to nexus9

    Thank you for telling me about the book. Most of the vampire books that I've read are quite 'light', such as my eldest daughter's Nightworld collection, I'd probably get scared by anything heavier than that :-) she went through a bit of an obsession with Twilight when she was 12 which then progressed on to Vampire Diaries etc which I had to watch with her, Ian Somerhalder made it bearable :-) I get interested in the history of Vlad the Impaler and things like that. Real life people that sparked many horror stories.

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