What are you currently reading?

[5TailFox]

Not sure if it’s reading in the technical sense but as I have a long commute I regularly listen to Audiobooks. I have just finished Ashfall by Mike Mullin. A **** story of life after Yellowstone super volcano goes off. I really enjoyed it and will definitely be listening to the other books in the current trilogy (a fourth is rumoured to be in the works)

I also have Prepper’s Apocalypse by Anthony Newman on the go. Set after an unknown EOTWAWKI event which has knocked out all electronics after a high atmosphere atomic detonation, it follows a family’s struggles to cross the country to hold up in their off grid ranch. Quite good so far.

Both worth a read/listen if you are into this genre

 

[Falstaff]

Simon Scarrow series on Roman soldiers - interested in their kit/off grid & travelling methods
R.Mear & Raymond Hill's Wild Food, incl Ancients cooking methods.
Collins Gem little book on Trees

 

[Chris]

Simon Scarrow series on Roman soldiers - interested in their kit/off grid & travelling methods
R.Mear & Raymond Hill's Wild Food, incl Ancients cooking methods.
Collins Gem little book on Trees

Gordon Hillman? Loved the Wild Food TV series. He sadly died a few years ago.

 

[matarius777]

Gordon Hillman? Loved the Wild Food TV series. He sadly died a few years ago.

This is what I was wondering, there is a book called Wild Food by a Jason Hill, published, I think, in the 1940s. Turns out I actually had the Mears/ Hillman Wild Food book, I’d bought it when buying Ray Mears’ books when highly reduced, to add to my Bushcraft collection, totally forgot about it- I’ll give it a read now!

 

[TeeDee]

This is what I was wondering, there is a book called Wild Food by a Jason Hill, published, I think, in the 1940s. Turns out I actually had the Mears/ Hillman Wild Food book, I’d bought it when buying Ray Mears’ books when highly reduced, to add to my Bushcraft collection, totally forgot about it- I’ll give it a read now!

Enjoy getting annoyed that the proof reader was on holiday.

 

[matarius777]

Enjoy getting annoyed that the proof reader was on holiday.

Oh dear, is it one of those. It’s really going to play havoc with my pedantic nature then!

 

[Sherpa]

I walked alone , Earl of Cardigan

 

[Falstaff]

Gordon Hillman? Loved the Wild Food TV series. He sadly died a few years ago.

I didn't know he was dead, sad to hear that, he was a font of knowledge both theory and practical and able to pass it on.

 

[CLEM]

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, so far so good.

 

[BumblingAlong]

Animal Farm - George Orewell

 

[SkipperT]

Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury

 

[Pattree]

Re-reading the “Bony” (Detective Napoleon Bonaparte) series by Arthur Upfield. They are Whodunits but involve a lot of indigenous Australian culture. While I know little, the bit that I do know accords with what he writes so just maybe it’s right!

 

[bearbait]

The Power, by Naomi Alderman.

I'm finding it a very powerful and compulsive read. (As was the previous book of hers I read - The Future.)

[Quote from Wikipedia:] The Power is a book within a book: a manuscript of an imagined history of the tumultuous 21st century period – now 5,000 years in the past – during which womankind became the dominant gender after developing and sharing the power to emit electricity from their hands.

 

[Paul_B]

Just finished coffin Road by Peter May on my kindle in landscape mode, e ink kindle that is.

I'm wondering about buying another one but they're over five quid. Library might be better and cheaper but I find I can read a kindle but a paper book I don't.

No idea why this is, but it could be because it's easier to use. Close the kindle it switches to standby or off, open up you swipe to waken and you're straight at the page you were reading. Paper books you have to find the bookmark and it might go missing or lose your place. Also i can read my kindle in the dark without extra light so I don't disturb people even when reading on bed late at night.

 

[Pattree]

The only downside to a Kindle that I’ve found is that you can’t really wazz it at the wall when you read something seriously irritating.
I use mine daily. It’s not a book, it’s a library. I’ll be reading “Boney” books on mine for a while.

 

[hughtrimble]

Paper books you have to find the bookmark and it might go missing or lose your place.

A few years back I was given some stainless steel line markers - they're very small metal arrows that clip onto the page and can also be used to mark the line you were reading up to. They very much stay put, no risk of them falling out at all. Recommended.

 

[matarius777]

A few years back I was given some stainless steel line markers - they're very small metal arrows that clip onto the page and can also be used to mark the line you were reading up to. They very much stay put, no risk of them falling out at all. Recommended.

Like these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amabro-Stainless-Bookmarkers-Bookmarks-Teachers/dp/B0D1GF737C

I have a rather nice old silver bookmark of my grandfather’s that clips on the page in the same way, but there is a lot more protruding out of the page, which is fine if you just put the book down on a table after reading, but my book goes everywhere with me in my back pack and the bookmark ends up twisting and chewing the page, unfortunately. These look like they would be a lot better in that respect, especially in a hardback, where the covers protrude beyond the pages.

 

[hughtrimble]

Like these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amabro-Stainless-Bookmarkers-Bookmarks-Teachers/dp/B0D1GF737C

I have a rather nice old silver bookmark of my grandfather’s that clips on the page in the same way, but there is a lot more protruding out of the page, which is fine if you just put the book down on a table after reading, but my book goes everywhere with me in my back pack and the bookmark ends up twisting and chewing the page, unfortunately. These look like they would be a lot better in that respect, especially in a hardback, where the covers protrude beyond the pages.

Same idea as your link, but the only part protruding is maybe 1mm where the steel folds over. I'll try and find a link when I'm back home.

 

[hughtrimble]

Same idea as your link, but the only part protruding is maybe 1mm where the steel folds over. I'll try and find a link when I'm back home.

@matarius777 They seem to be called 'book darts' - quite a few different sellers have them: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22502866...Vm8AsQ-QMa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I often carry a book in my pocket, almost always soft back, and they have on occasion had a page cut into slightly by one of these depending on how tightly packed the book is. Changing where you place the marker, such as on the top edge of the page (so removing the line marking benefit) can reduce the risk of damage depending on how you're carrying the book.

I would of course prefer not to damage the books, but it's a balance for me between having the damn bookmark fall out, or have one of these really rather unobtrusive things in there. Plus I'm also carrying the (almost always second hand) books so they're not exactly staying pristine anyway.

 

[grainweevil]

Someone gave me some of those book darts once, and I found them such horrible page maimers that I actually threw them away* sooner than see another innocent book get scarred by one.

In my extreme youth, the "in" thing was to use the corner of an envelope. Cut off the corner (as large or small as you desire) and simply slip it over the corner of the page you wished to mark. Added bonus of space to make notes or whathaveyou on it. Then Post-It notes came in, which were even better.

*This not a thing I do. I have the piles of junk to prove it.