What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Mr. Smith]

Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre

[Mr. Smith]

Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre

[Mr. Smith]

Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre

I read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in December and have been meaning to pick up the other two books of the "Smiley" trilogy. How you like?

I just used my Amazon Christmas money to order the following:
Democracy, Charles Tilly;
Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy, Barrington Moore, Jr.;
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century, Vladimir Tismaneanu;
The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin;
Fascism: Comparison and Definition, Stanley G. Payne

I've already read the Moore book, but the copy that my school's library has I most recently saw split in two halves, so I figured I'd better get my own copy. All of the books can, in some sense, be rationalized as feeding into my thesis work. The Tismaneanu book is the one exception; a political theory professor of mine introduced me to his work--or rather, his Amazon author's page--so I'd been meaning to read something by him for a while. As I'm not in the business at this point of comparing Nazism and Communism, I guess that would be my only specifically "pleasure" order. The rest are to be used, to some extent or another, as "background material".

I had to dump some books on Central Asia and the Transcaucasus into my "save for later" bin; I'll grab them eventually in my search for sources for my master's thesis.

I enjoyed the beginning, but then I lost it.

I'm actually working on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy now.

It's not the same exactly, but BBC's adaptations with Alec Guinness are pretty enjoyable [and a very very young Patrick Stewart as a silent cameo as Karla]. Well, at least the final part is covered 

[Mr. Smith]

Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre

FInished: Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963

Current:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

[Mr. Smith]

Finished up M.T. Anderson's Feed...scariest dystopia book...ever.

[Mr. Smith]

Previously: Dresden Files


Currently:Raspberry Danish Murder

Apparently, it's like Book 26 out of 28...but eh, I needed a book to read, and I was hungry at the time. And hey the author's surname is Fluke.

[Mr. Smith]

Strawberry Shortcake Murder

Not high art, but a little Columbo mixed with a recipe book isn't that bad of a time-passer.

[Mr. Smith]

Finished up: Crazy Rich Asians

Current: Apple Turnover Murder

[Mr. Smith]

Finished Up: Apple Turnover Murder

Current: Lemon Meringue Pie Murder, The Apprentice: Trump, Russia, and the Subversion of American Democracy

Coming Up: China Rich Girlfriend (part 2 in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy)