The "I am currently reading" thread

Ok just finished Animal Farm. I think I understand a little better. At first I thought the moral was that communism does not work and revolution is pointless. Now, from what I can gather, the animals began under the capitalist rule of Mr Jones, then Old Major envisioned Communism and shared this idea with the animals. After the revolution, Napoleon corrupted their utopia by implementing something akin to Stalinism... that's my schoolgirl take on it anyway.

I apologise to Mr Orwell for thinking the worst and hope he can stop spinning in his grave now.

The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth. His follow up to the Booker winner Sacred Hunger about the 18th century slave trade.

Bomber Command by Max Hastings. Fascinating for anyone with an interest in WW2 history.

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D.James. It's a sort of sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and is written using that Austen kind of style and vocabulary, but features crime and police, as you would expect from P.D.James. I'm enjoying it.

Im just reading the Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest.

The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg

Me Before You: Jojo Moyes. Funny, heartwarming, humbling, thought-provoking, NOT chick-lit - but have some tissues handy.

Me Before You: Jojo Moyes. Funny, heartwarming, humbling, thought-provoking, NOT chick-lit - but have some tissues handy.

Lit-porn?

jb

Just finished reading Operation Fortitude, a history of the Allied deception that fooled the Nazis into holding back a large part of their army during the first weeks after D-Day (when the Allies were most vulnerable) and the double agents and their handlers who pulled it off.

A very good read with some fascinating info on the characters involved like the double agent who was the inspiration for James Bond.

Just finished reading Operation Fortitude, a history of the Allied deception that fooled the Nazis into holding back a large part of their army during the first weeks after D-Day (when the Allies were most vulnerable) and the double agents and their handlers who pulled it off.

 

A very good read with some fascinating info on the characters involved like the double agent who was the inspiration for James Bond.

Who's the author please?

Who's the author please?

Oops forgot to mention that. It's by Joshua Levine.

The full title is Operation Fortitude: The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War.

Here's the Amazon link

Finished: Lenin : A Biography - Robert Service

Started: Trotsky : A Biography - Robert Service