@Ute42 I know it sounds weird, but I have to read manuscripts by living authors for my job, so for pleasure reading this year, sorry, only dead ones. Reading contemporary books is hard when you're in this business - I know how the sausage is made. I do it, I mean I have done it every year except this one, but I haven't seen anything come out this year that makes me want to drop everything and read it. If a book has a lot of attention i already know everything about how that happened. I probably first heard about the book two years ago, when it was sold, and I've had lunch with the editor and heard all about it, and I know how many lies have already been told behind the scenes, and what the marketing budget is, and how Person A thought it was a load of crap and Person B the best book ever written, and how the author is sleeping with her publicist, while her husband, a lesser author, is home with the kids in Brooklyn but sleeping with his editor, and should I go on? I think now you don't think it's weird at all.
And you're reading Keith Richards' book, which of course wasn't written by him at all. It was written with "the assistance of" James Fox, but I doubt Keith actually sat for hours in front of his computer "writing." James Fox wrote one of my favorite books of the '80s, WHITE MISCHIEF, about ex-pats in Kenya, PROBABLY BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR.