What are you reading?

[countrygirl]

I started reading "Red Tape and White Knuckles" by Lois Pryce. One woman's motorcycle adventure through Africa. She starts in Tunis and finishes in Cape Town. It will be finished soon i think. I'm a big fan of travel writing.

[Peat Sampras]

I started reading "Red Tape and White Knuckles" by Lois Pryce. One woman's motorcycle adventure through Africa. She starts in Tunis and finishes in Cape Town. It will be finished soon i think. I'm a big fan of travel writing.

Did she arrive in time for kick off of the World Championships? ;D

try this one

http://www.appins.org/martin.htm

A dude who travelled the Isles in 1697. Travel writing at it's best IMHO.

[Bud Light]

Research Methods in Anthropology. Lord, take me now.

May I suggest The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza? Very enjoyable book.

[Robert]

Just finished The City And The Stars by Arthur C Clarke.
Just started A History Of Israel: From The Rise Of Zionism To Our Time by Howard Sachar.

[Peat Sampras]

Henning Mankell: Italian shoes. God, this book has me feeling depressed and I'm only at the half of it

[Maccy]

Still ploughing through Churchill by Clive Ponting which is a very critical account. Meandering towards June 1940 - when Churchill became PM.

I am also reading "Appreciating Whisky" by Philip Hills having picked it up from the Library. A stunning book on Whisky so far - The introduction alone makes this a very special book. (I am reading this book much quicker than the other one and will probably read it again.)

[C57]

I've finished "Appreciating Whisky" now.
Notes on Alcohol now, by Walter Gilbey

[countrygirl]

I'm already well into "Queen Of The Elephants" by Mark Shand.

[Call me Jane]

I'm currently reading "999" a horror anthology. Don't really know if anyone is interested in that genre.

However, I was also browsing through this book I picked up during an Achor Steam tour, "Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender". Well it's quite amazing the advice that is given for bartenders and traders of whisky and other spirits. I don't want to give too much away in case any of you want to check out the book. But it lists such secrets of the trade as adding prune juice, blood (perhaps prune puree???), etc. and caramel to increase the appearance of the whisky's age up to 10 years. Also mentions outright deceptive practices as diluting the whisky with the use of other spirits and using creosote. YIKES! That's now regulated by our environmental protection agency. It's mostly a bartending book with drink recipes from before prohibition hit the united states, but I found that bit somewhat interesting.

http://www.anchorbrewing.com/about_us/c ... oothby.htm

[C57]

Re-reading Peat Smoke and Spirit

[Peat Sampras]

I read Theodore Boone by John Grisham yesterday. Seems there will be a follow up, isn't it, Mr Grisham? Is this going to be a series?... why not.

[Call me Jane]

I've finished "Appreciating Whisky" now.

Just wondering if you think it's worth the $100 it's being sold for in the US at amazon. I have found a copy at a nearby library in another town. Must be a collector's item!

Can anyone make a cheaper recommendation for a person like myself seeking basic whisky information? Or an online book I can purchase? I have one of those new-fangled iPads now.

Thanks, in advance.

[C57]

It really depends what you're after.

Charlie McLean's "Malt Whisky"
Michael Jackson's "Whisky"
Jim Murray's ""Complete Book of Whisky"

They're probably in my reverse order of enjoyment but that's due to my style preferences, not necessarily content

[Malt-Teaser]

I just finished reading the immensely powerful and great sequel to Pillars of the Earth; World without end.

Marvellous!

[JamesC]

Just got back off my hols where I read four good books, enjoyed them all;

Madusa - Clive Cussler
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Chasing the Eighties - Spencer Austin
Whisky Dream: Waking a Giant - Stuart Rivans

[countrygirl]

I have finished "Queen of the Elephants" by Mark Shand. Its a brilliant sequel to the brilliant "Travels on my Elephant" which i first read over 10 years ago.

I have just started Rosie Swale Pope's "Just A Little Run Around The World", 5 years 3 packs of wolves and 53 pairs of shoes.

[Pete Smoke]

I have received a b'day gift from the Mrs of a book called The Villain, The Life Of Don Whillans. I have avoided this book for the last few years as i'd read that the author Jim Perrin didn't actually like Don at all and it showed in the book. I recently decided i'd like to read it as i've been fascinated by this bar-room brawling mountaineer for most of my life.

[Peat Sampras]

Anne Cleeves, Raven Black. A good book, especially now that I've been to Shetland and know most of the places they talk about.

[malt_boy]

Just finished Slash's self-titled autobiography, and now on to The Time Machine by H.G Wells

[Uisgehound]

I just received a copy of "Whiskey & Philosophy:A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas" from Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Philosophy-Small-Spirited-Everyone/dp/0470431210/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285896765&sr=8-1-spell

[Tim F]

Currently reading Umberto Eco's "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana". It's ok, not as good as Name of the Rose but better than Travels in Hyperreality or The Island of The Day Before, neither of which I could finish. Before that it was Philip K. Dick's Time out of Joint, quickly preceded by Chandler's The Little Sister. Next up is The Big Sleep, which I'm ashamed to admit I've never read before.

[Robert]

Finishing up Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Next is Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk

[Peat Sampras]

Colin Baxters Island Guide on St. Kilda. I want to be on Soay

[Mark C]

Discovering Scotland's Distilleries by Gavin D. Smith & Graeme Wallace dropped through the letterbox this morning so having a flick through that.

[Maccy]

Halfway through "Lord of The Flies." I haven't read this for many ,many years. I really liked "The Inheritors" and the "Rights of Passage" trilogy by Golding, so thought it would be good to go back to where it all started.

"LOTF" is a disturbing book. A look into the darker side of human endurance, through the eyes and exploits of children!

Quite brilliant.