PS to avoid any confusion, reading books (and posts) offers the best value when one is actually able to comprehend what one reads.
PS One is correct . One’s reading and posting capabilities have improved beyond recognition since one landed from CH .
Mike
Discovered the most recent book by Louise Penny “The long way home” ISBN 978-1-250-02206-6 on the “Quick Read” shelf (7 Days) while renewing my library card. It was a grab, check out and “run” decision. One more of the Inspector Gamache novels.
What do I like best about that series - which all play in Quebec? the interspersed French dialog which gives it the “special touch”. Unlike the Deryn Collier books there is no English translation in parentheses after that dialog.
A “new to me” Swedish author with one whopper of a book! “Mona” by Dan Sehlberg ISBN 978-1770893931 Very hard to put down, but too long to read in one sitting. Perfect for a quiet or rainy weekend.
Henning Mankell is well/best known for his “Kurt Wallander” series. But he takes a different tack — pun intended — with “Depths” ISBN 978-0307385864.
Set at the start of WW1 it is a dark book with a very unsettling main character.
“Discovered” an additional Swedish author, Håkan Nesser and his Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren. Oddly the series plays in a Dutch speaking country and the currency is Guilders 
Goodreads sums it up like this
These books play out in a fictitious city called Maardam, said to be located in northern Europe in a country which is never named but resembles Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. The names however are mostly Dutch.
Anyway, the book I just finished is called “The return”.
Very good read.
PS apparently there’s also a TV series http://www.tv.com/shows/van-veeteren/episodes/ but I rather read.
I consider reading to be one of the most widespread hobby, but still it can capture a great number of people all over the world. I like the fact that this very hobby can open a various range of opportunities for different people with absolutelly different preferences, as for me, I preffered quite different books in different periods of my life, once I was thrilled with advanture books, then I was fond of detective stories, nowadays I read books on various topics, which wide my outlook!:))
And there’s always something new to learn e.g. today SWMBO returns from the library with a few issues of “Mystery Scene” magazine http://www.mysteryscenemag.com
That is just one more of the many things I didn’t/don’t know. There must be a magazine on any topic one can imagine.
Already read the blurbs on two more Scandinavian authors, sound interesting.
What’s on the present reading list? Something that would make the Friar’s heart take that extra skip. 
http://www.amazon.ca/Abused-Confused-Misused-Words-Structure/dp/1620870479
It’s a real page turner, “The Bomber” Liza Marklund http://www.amazon.ca/The-Bomber-Liza-Marklund/dp/0307358437 One down, two more to go in this pick-up. 
PS Public libraries must be among the most useful institutions on the planet.
Here is one that should be mandatory reading for all Canadians. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)http://www.amazon.ca/Kill-The-Messengers-Mark-Bourrie/dp/1443431044
As always just a recommendation and strictly my opinion.
Hey I just got a copy of a book called American Locomotives 1871-1881. If you want to see some nice old locos and how they work and are built you need to see this book. Its old had to get my copy from interlibrary loan. It has drawings, schematics, standards, and data an many early locos. I wish I had this when I started my loco build.
If you have an ebook reader (and you can get one for free for your smart phone or tablet) I can highly recommend bookbub.com.
You can sign up (it’s free) and you get a daily email of specials on books tailored to your reading interests. You just check the categories that you’re interested in (action&adventure, science fiction, thrillers, historical fiction, etc) and the email they send you will list some books that are either free or very cheap. You can then click on a book and download it. I usually read the reviews first, but if it sounds half decent and it’s free, there’s not much to lose.
I’m currently finishing “The World According To Clarkson” by Top Gears Jeremy Clarkson. Its a few years old now but still quite entertaining.
One example he talks about the time while at his country home trying to shoot Foxie Woxie at night using a second hand set of night vision goggles and in the process shooting and killing David Beckham… well a chicken named David Beckham.
Clarkson might get fired by the BBC.
He has just been suspended for punching out a producer on set because his sandwich was not ready (so they say)…
Seems they may have had enough of him…BUT…money speaks…and he is a high earner for them…
Ross Mansell said:
Clarkson might get fired by the BBC.
He has just been suspended for punching out a producer on set because his sandwich was not ready (so they say)…
Seems they may have had enough of him…BUT…money speaks…and he is a high earner for them…
Last quote I heard from him on overnight radio: “I’m sitting having a beer, waiting for the storm to blow over.” (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
New to me authors:
Vicki Delany “Under Cold Stone” — plays in Banff and the Kootenays. More on order.
Jenny Milchman “Cover of snow” plays in the Adirondacks upstate NY.
Ross Mansell said:
Clarkson might get fired by the BBC.
He has just been suspended for punching out a producer on set because his sandwich was not ready (so they say)…
Seems they may have had enough of him…BUT…money speaks…and he is a high earner for them…
I think they will find a way to mend their fences, lose Jezza and you kill the shows chemistry.
Now that school is over for the summer, I have time to read again.
Just finished
“Mayday Mayday: The most exciting missions of rescue, interdiction and combat in the 200-year annals of the US Coast Guard” by Samuel Schreiner
“The Milwaukee Road Revisited” Stanley Johnson.
Still to read, but look equally interesting are
“Imperial Cruise” James Bradley
“Fredrick Billings: The Story of one of the 19th Century’s great railway builders and early American conservationists” Robin Winks. I found this book on a whim, and it should be interesting reading as my MA project was about conservation and the NP.
“Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage” Sherry Sontage & Christopher Drew
I love my Kindle. Being able to adjust the type size is great. Many free books on the Amazon site and some have been quite good, some not so good. My hands don’t like big books or paperbacks, so the lightweight Kindle is good for that also. Bruce, thanks for that link, will try it out.