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I’m still reading The Collector, by N. Roberts. It’s taking a little while to finish it.. a lot of Cluedo fact finding in there.

Teatro Grottesco.

Anthology of short horror stories my wife got me for Christmas, by Thomas Ligotti, a revolutionary author in the field who many compare to Lovecraft in his literary uniqueness.

There are about 85 pages left of the said book I'm reading. There's a hunt on for the lost imperial eggs given by the Tsar to his wife. I researched that family and found out how they died. Quite disturbing.
Anyway, this has the novelists work of fiction in it, so, of course there is a sinister plot of murder espionage and crime, as well as being pigeon holed by two (young) love struck lovers. Who don't happen to meet by chance.

I'm noticing a sharp rise in American romance becoming more like a Jackson video of Billie Jean and Thriller with people plunging to their.. fate. I'd hate to be an American living in the suburbs of Paris right now.

The Cuckoo's Calling by J.K Rowling was just the same. The era can be past or up to date, but you pick these books out, and despite the bad or good intentions, the character gets defeated in a tensed up storyline with Peter Falk staring out the book at the end. Sometimes the endings of Roberts, gets so immersed in the Cluedo aspects that the lovers take a backseat ride.

I'll stay with this but maybe its time for some more overlooked British writers to make a move on the publishing scene.

Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe by Richard Bradley
Is one I am reading for some research purposes though I find Bradley's insights into archaeological theory always worthwhile.
For fun I am working on the Plague by Albert Camus, though I have to admit I find the large character cast within it difficult to keep straight and the obvious NAZI symbolism of the plague rather tedious from a modern perspective, I much preferred The Stranger.

The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum by Neurotypical Political Science Proffessor John J. Pitney Jr.

I am reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

I have to say it - the thing that drove me absolutely nuts about A Brief History of Time was how desperately I would work to figure out what he meant, maybe 3 pages of it, and then he would say, "This was disproved in 1912." So there I was - more than once! the proud possessor of untruth. I have no science background but I was determined to learn. I do wish Dr. Hawking would edit that book so that it would say: "The following is not true," and *then* proceed to tell about the interactions of schmiggerboots or whatever it was.

I am slowly making my through Dean Koontz's The Face. It is startling how poor I am at following story lines, though.

Just finished The Penguin History of Latin America today.



Going to start on The Fortunes of Africa next.

The decades of economic mismanagement of Latin American countries serve as a lesson in FUBAR and the futility of protectionism, but I'm fairly certain that the history of Africa will prove to be even more insane..

On to Volume 15 - Peveril of the Peak - by Walter Scott - very interesting how many Harry Potter references or coincidences I am finding in these books - found a reference to The Hand of Glory as a thieves tool - never come across that before.

Just read this morning in Peveril of the Peak a reference to Dobby's Grove - apparently an old English word for goblin. Fascinating!

Um, I tend to keep a few books running...depending on mood and location?

'Vision in Silver' by Anne Bishop, third in the, 'The Others' series.
'How to be a Victorian' by Ruth Goodman (nonfiction) - Wonderful tome on what life was actually like in the 1800's (hint: smelly, dirty, cold, hungry)
Midnight Hunters series by L.L. Rand
'Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science' by Marjorie C. Malley
'SQL Server 2016 High Availability Unleashed' by Paul Bertucci

I'm also pre-reading, trying to find books, authors and especially series that would be suitable for my daughter. Her reading ability is advanced but her emotional maturity is not, so most age appropriate & older are too stressful. She's almost done with everything we could find by Diana Wynne Jones (e.g., 'Howl's Moving Castle' and others).

Currently working through a chapter at a time of Manly P Hall's Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

Ordered the John Michael Greer's re-edit of the Complete Golden Dawn - coming by way of Amazon supposedly early next week (1/8/16 release date)

I've also been chewing on the Essential Rene Guenon - had that on my Kindle, lost it for a few weeks, found it again, might circle back to complete that when I'm done with the above two.

Publisher's synopsis: London, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known... Dr. Fu Manchu. Denis Nayland Smith pursues his quarry across continents and through the back alleys of London. As victim after victim disappears at the hands of the Devil Doctor, Smith must unravel his murderous plot before it is too late.

I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling...the 5th book of the Harry Potter
series.

I finished reading a book about ten days ago, called The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah.

The write up was one of graphic detail, during the Jews torment in the second world war,which follows a young rebellious woman who is French and joins an allied occupation in war torn occupied France.
This was actually based on a true story, about a woman who helped downed airmen cross a dangerous path into the alps to reach the Spanish consulate headquarters.
It did make me question my own survival abilities. She got tortured as a POW, and her dad took the rap for her mistakes. Getting himself hanged and punished by the firing squad.

The one I’m reading at the moment is second-hand and about fifteen years old, written by a male author. Hammer’s War.
Although the last one was poignant in memory, hopefully, this one won’t dwell on all the unpleasantness that war brings.
So far, there is no eloquence at all and seems amateurishly written. I despise any mention of the third Reich, so not looking too promising there.