BOOKS

Sheesh!...What are the chances that someone with the name Lou Gehrig would actually catch Lou Gehrig's disease?

Pogue Mahoney wrote: Sheesh!...What are the chances that someone with the name Lou Gehrig would actually catch Lou Gehrig's disease?

Ha ! Ha ! .

[QUOTE=Biker Pat] "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Steig Larsson

Super crime fiction thriller.


Pat,  I hope you read the rest of the Trilogy,

Just finished 2 books :

"The Mark Of Cain" - Lindsey Barraclough

The ancient spirit of a dark and powerful witch is reawakened when restoration work is carried out on an old manor house.

"Whitewash" - Alex Kava

A sinister plot is unveiled that puts corporate greed and corruption ahead of human life.

Just read "Darkline" - Patrick Bentley

Set in and around Skerries. Story of drug and alcohol abuse amongst the younger generation as well as gangland related violence due to drug dealing. Very vivid and a stark reminder of the drug underground that's going on.

Reading the third of the "Peter Grant" detective series, the first of which is "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch.  Well worth a read.  

Just finished "The Help" - Kathryn Stockett.

Superb book about what life was lile for negro maids in the white people homes.

Finished "Pol Pot" - Philip Short.

"A gripping and definite portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times" The headline on the back of the book.

However much of this man's policy for "independence mastery", basically to make Cambodia independent and masters of their own destiny, harked back to the great Angkor days (Angkor Wat being one of their great achievements and recognised today as a UNESCO world heritage site) and which was a great time in their history. Pol Pot wanted to recreate this.

Alas constant colonisation, particularly French, Pol Pot's stay in Paris where he went to be a student and took French Revolutionary practices to heart, the corruption of the Cambodian monarchy, the American's indiscriminate bombing of Cambodia during the Viet Nam war, Cambodia's constant mistrust and longstanding wars against with neighbour's Viet Nam and Thailand, China and Soviet Union involvment protecting their interests in the region, left things ripe for a determined leader with fanatical communist views (he took Stalin's and Mao's idea of communism to the absolute extreme). And when it all imploded nobody wanted to know. As usual when the major powers of the world battle for control and supremecy in a region (look at Syria today) the ordinary populace suffer, in Cambodia to the worst extremity. Today Cambodia is..............well I cannot say because who knows who reads this and I visit there a lot but suffice

"Star Of The Sea" - Joseph O'Connor.

Set in 1847 on board the famine ship Star Of The Sea.

Wonderful book outlining the background to characters on the ship and giving a vivid description of the horrendous famine years.

"The Storyteller" - Jodi Picoult.

Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses—and then he confesses his darkest secret – he deserves to die because he had been a Nazi SS guard. And Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.

Excellent read with vivid descriptions about happenings at Nazi concentration camps.