What are you reading right now?

[VPS]

I have just finished the new Richard Osman book. We solve murders. I still can’t believe that his books are so popular.

 

[kookaburra75]

But have started in earnest the first book in the Great Library series, Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine. Being a librarian I may be biased, but it's got a great premise. The library in Alexandria survived and is the source of the world's knowledge, but at what cost? No one is allowed to keep original books, all must be stored in the library and there are library soldiers who might search for illegal copies. There are dissenters called Burners who feel that knowledge should be free for all, not controlled. I'm about 80 pages in so far and I'm hooked!

It sounds like it's the opposite of the Fahrenheit 451, where books are burned by firemen as the government doesn't want people reading books, as it gives them dangerous ideas which would make them unhappy. A great read when you think Ray Bradbury wrote it in 1953, and amongst the ideas in the book is that people have earpieces in all the time listening so they don't have to interact with others (sound familiar), and watch wall sized TV's where they can be part of the cast on soapies (who wants to be Brooke or Ryde on the Bold and the Beautiful).

I'll have to check it out.

 

[Drakecula]

I'll have to check it out.

Fahrenheit 451 has been on my 'I'll have to read it one day' list. Books about books are good books! Haha.