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Just finished The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. An imaginative tour de force. But I am not surprised it did not make the Booker shortlist. I also just read J by Howard Jacobson - a very disturbing novel about hate in the near future and the latest by Haruki Murakami. J was the best of the three and is a Booker shortllsted book.
(Thanks for the review, Prospero. I bought Bone Clocks a week or so ago, but I haven't started it yet. I'm waiting for an appropriate window of spare time to materialize.) Just finished The Frangipani Hotel which is collection of Vietnamese "ghost stories" collected and reworked by its Vietnamese/American author, Violet Kuppersmith.
That sounds good Trish... I will get it. I am presently reading a novel called A Tale For the Time being by Ruth Ozeki... who is now a Zen Buddhist nun.
I think if you liked Mitchell's first three books - Ghostwritten, Number9dream and Cloud Atlas yu'll like The bone Atlas. I was not so keen on the two books in between.
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran. Think of it as a better version of Almost Famous told thru the eyes of a girl, with better music (England/early 90's). The main character is pretty entertaining.
AD&D 2nd Edition Night Below Campaign Box Set
Book 1: The Evils Of Haranshire
In the middle of William Gibson's Peripheral. Gibson's got his mojo back.
Currently in the middle of "Revelation" the 4th book in the Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom.
Finished Munich Airport by Greg Baxter (2015), which is an accomplishment for me as it's modern fiction and I struggle with this genre. Your mileage may vary, but it reminded me stylistically of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, which I was never able to finish. LOL
Here's a very favorable paragraph from a review in The Guardian:
This rich and profound book is full of philosophical ideas and stark, ascetic beauty. There are no speech marks. The past and present interleave with one another in long blocky paragraphs without chapters or line breaks (as in Bernhard). The writing is scrupulous and often superb. Plot backs blushingly away and, instead, we are sifting deep into the archaeology of character in order to try to see existence itself
I bought this book used on Amazon, total bullshit. Turns out it's a book for women.
"John le Carre" the new biography by Adam Sisman.
A scholarly yet very readable biography of David Cornwall , pen name John le Carre , whose life was every bit as interesting as his novels.
http://www.amazon.com/John-Carre-Bio.../dp/0062106279
"To Explain the World : The Discovery of Modern Science " by Steven Weinberg
New from the Nobel physicist , very fresh and readable treatment of the history of science.
http://www.amazon.com/Explain-World-...lain+the+world