good morning and welcome to another edition of What are you reading right now?, where your hoddler-in-chief takes the literary temperature of cartilage free captain.
A lot has changed since I last hosted this feature. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis has come and gone. I even read another book in-between posts.
That book was Tokyo Express, a Japanese murder mystery housed in a slender novel that relied on the fastidious train schedules of post-war Japan. It was a fun read after some heavy lifting
earlier this year. It essentially cast doubt on a double suicide along the beach – or was it?
There were genuinely some page-turning moments in there, but now I’m glad that I’ve got my palate cleansed.
And now I’m back to the heavy lifting with Say Nothing, a nonfiction which follows The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It’s been on my bookshelf for years. So long, in fact, that I had it before the Hulu series even existed.
I am reading the book the same time as I’m watching the series. I don’t necessarily think there are any spoilers to be contained because this all happened many, many years ago.
But this does seem like a book I should’ve read by now, and I want to rectify those years of neglect with some thorough page-turning in the coming weeks.
As always, feel free to share some of the things you’re reading – and have a happy and safe 4th weekend.
Fitzie’s track of the day: We’re an American Band, by Grand Funk Railroad
And now for your links:
The Athletic ($$): “How will Mateus Fernandes fit in at Spurs, and could De Zerbi ask him to emulate a former player?”
BBC: “Secret location & sleep devices: England bid to combat noisy Mexico fans”
