eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow

44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard

40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown

42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat

 

[shifting gears]

1/25 - Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier
2/25 - James Rebanks - English Pastoral: An Inheritance
3/25 - Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
4/25 - Isaac Asimov - Foundation
5/25 - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
6/25 - Jim Dodge - Not Fade Away
7/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
8/25 - Richard Wright - Black Boy (the restored text)
9/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
10/25 - Hans Fallada - Alone in Berlin
11/25 - David Keenan - This is Memorial Device
12/25 - J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights
13/25 - William McIlvanney - A Gift from Nessus
14/25 - Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
15/25 - The Secret DJ - The Secret DJ
16/25 - William McIlvanney - The Big Man
17/25 - Kevin Barry - City of Bohane
18/25 - Norman Jay MBE with Lloyd Bradley - Mister Good Times
19/25 - Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
20/25 - Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
21/25 - Albert Camus - The Plague

22/25 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
2/20 - The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
3/20 - The Passage - Justin Cronin
4/20 - The Twelve - Justin Cronin
5/20 - The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin
6/20 - Stalin Ate My Homework - Alexei Sayle
7/20 - Shuggie Bains - Douglas Stuart
8/20 - Call of the Wild - Jack London
9/20 - White Fang - Jack London
10/20 - The Troop - Nick Cutter
11/20 - Migration- Helen Marshall
12/20 - Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. Exile" - James Swallow
2. "Rules For Perfect Murders" - Peter Swanson
3."False Values" -Ben Aaronovitch
4. "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" - Stuart Turton
5. "The Kind Worth Killing For" Peter Swanson
6. "Fellside" - M. R. Carey
7. "The Devil and the Dark Water" - Stuart Turton
8. "In the Dark, Dark Wood" - Ruth Ware
9."Cry Baby" - Mark Billingham
10. "Little Disasters" - Sarah Vaughan
11. "A Song for the Dark Times" - Ian Rankin
12. "The Last Thing to Burn" - Will Dean
13. "The Sanatorium" - Sarah Pearse.
14. "Blood Orange" - Harriet Tyce
15: "Recursion" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Woman in Cabin 10"- Ruth Ware.
18. "The Turn of the Key" - Ruth Ware
19. The Passengers" - John Marrs
20. "Anatomy of a Scandal" - Sarah Vaughan
21 ."The Six" - Luca Veste
22. "The Sentence is Death" - Anthony Horowitz
23. "The Silent Patient" - Alex Michaelides
24: Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
25: "Out of the Dark" - Gregg Hurwitz
26. "The Coffinmaker's Garden" - Stuart MacBride
27. "The Nameless Ones" - John Connolley
28. "The Other Mother" - Michel Bussi
29. "Eight Detectives" - Alex Pavesi
30. "The Appeal" - Janice Hallett
31. "Five Minds" - Guy Morpuss

32. "The Cold, Cold Ground" - Adrian McKinty. Really, really liked this, engaging thriller with an interesting central character

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ippolita - In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism
2/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Salvation Lost
3/45 Alfred Jarry - The Ubu Plays: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded and Ubu Unchained
4/45 Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
5/45 Phillip Neel - Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict
6/45 Christopher Hill - A Nation of Change and Novelty
7/45 Plato - The Last Days of Scorates
8/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Saints of Salvation
9/45 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
10/45 Londa Schiebinger - Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
11/45 Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
12/45 Ali Land - Good Me, Bad Me
13/45 Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients
14/45 Salam Pax - The Baghad Blog
15/45 Silvia Federici - Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
16/45 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - A Cat, A Man and Two Women
17/45 Philip K. Dick - Valis
18/45 Voltaire - Everyman Selected Writings
19/45 Anne Leckie - Ancillary Justice
20/45 Edward Lucie-Smith - Movements In Art Since 1945
21/45 Jim Thompson - Croppers Cabin
22/45 Willemien Otten and Nienke Vos. Eds. - Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity
23/45 Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
24/45 Philip K. Dick - Eye in the Sky
25/45 Doug Werner - Backpackers Start-Up
26/45 James Joyce - Dubliners
27/45 Raymond Williams - Communications
28/45 Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality Vol.1
29/45 Philip K. Dick - The Broken Bubble
30/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
31/45 Tricia Jenkins - The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
32/45 Ukrainian National Association (ed.) - Ukraine's Claim to Freedom (1915)
33/45 Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
34/45 Chester Himes - All Shot Up
35/45 Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life
36/45 R. D. Laing - The Facts of life
37/45 Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
38/45 James Ellroy - Widespread Panic
39/45 Philip K. Dick - Galactic Pot Healer

40/45 Margaret Atwood - Year of the Flood
41/45 Ruán O'Donnell - Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985

 

[StanleyBlack]

1/20? Mittelholzer, Edgar (1955) My bones and my flute: a ghost story in the old-fashioned manner. Caribbean Modern Classics paperback edition published 2015. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. (9781845232955) Finshed May/June 2021
2/20? Beatty, Paul (2016) The sellout. Paperback edition published 2017. London: Oneworld Publications. (9781786071460) Finished 13 June 2021
3/20? Bloom, Jo (2014) Ridley road. Paperback edition published in 2015. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (9781780228242) Finished June 2021
4/20? Golding, William (1954) The lord of the flies. Paperback edition published 1987. London: Faber & Faber. (0571084834) Finished August 2021

5/20? Lee, Stewart (2010) How I escaped my certain fate: the life and deaths of a stand-up comedian. Paperback edition published 2011. London: Faber & Faber. (9780571254811) Finished November 2021

Not sure why I read this, especially as I'm reading almost nothing these days, as I don't like stand-up comedy. In fact, I really hate all those panel shows. Anyway, any book that has footnotes that take up entire pages is alright by me. I enjoy Stewart Lee's performance and writing but I'm not sure I find it funny. Perhaps I have no sense of humour?

 

[yield]

1. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
2. The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard
3. The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
4. The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
5. An American Utopia by Frederic Jameson
6. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
7. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
8. The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

9. Circe by Madeline Miller
10. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy
3/70 A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
4/70 City of the Dead - Sara Gran
5/70 Surviving The Evacuation: Book 18 : Rebuilt in One Day - Frank Tayell
6/70 Outback Outbreak - Frank Tayell
7/70 Big Sky - C J Box
8/70 Hungry - Grace Dent
9/70 The Grey Goose of Arnhem- Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
12/70 Edge of Darkness -Kyla Stone
13/70 Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera
14/70 Phantom Prey - John Sandford
15/70 Anti-Social : The Secret Diary of An Anti-Social Behaviour Officer - Nick Pettigrew
16/70 Red Wolves - Adam Hamdy
17/70 Wicked Prey - John Sandford
18/70 Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought The CIA,The Brainwashers, And Themselves- Matthew Sweet
19/70 Dispatches - Michael Herr
20/70 Ramble Book : Musings on Childhood, Friendship,Family and 80s Pop Culture - Adam Buxton
21/70 This Other London : Adventures In The Overlooked City - John Rogers
22/70 A Song For The Dark Times - Ian Rankin
23/70 Pendulum - Adam Hamdy
24/70 Freefall - Adam Hamdy
25/70 Aftershock - Adam Hamdy
26/70 In Search of The Dark Ages - Michael Wood
27/70 Zero Day Code - John Birmingham
28/70 Fail State - John Birmingham
29/70 Edge of Anarchy - Kyla Stone
30/70 Endgame : 1945 - David Stafford
31/70 Free Fall - Robert Crais
32/70 The Promise - Robert Crais
33/70 Indigo Slam - Robert Crais
34/70 L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
35/70 The Last Detective - Robert Crais
36/70 The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
37/70 Chasing Darkness - Robert Crais
38/70 The First Rule - Robert Crais

****
39/70 Taken - Robert Crais

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy
3/70 A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
4/70 City of the Dead - Sara Gran
5/70 Surviving The Evacuation: Book 18 : Rebuilt in One Day - Frank Tayell
6/70 Outback Outbreak - Frank Tayell
7/70 Big Sky - C J Box
8/70 Hungry - Grace Dent
9/70 The Grey Goose of Arnhem- Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
12/70 Edge of Darkness -Kyla Stone
13/70 Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera
14/70 Phantom Prey - John Sandford
15/70 Anti-Social : The Secret Diary of An Anti-Social Behaviour Officer - Nick Pettigrew
16/70 Red Wolves - Adam Hamdy
17/70 Wicked Prey - John Sandford
18/70 Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought The CIA,The Brainwashers, And Themselves- Matthew Sweet
19/70 Dispatches - Michael Herr
20/70 Ramble Book : Musings on Childhood, Friendship,Family and 80s Pop Culture - Adam Buxton
21/70 This Other London : Adventures In The Overlooked City - John Rogers
22/70 A Song For The Dark Times - Ian Rankin
23/70 Pendulum - Adam Hamdy
24/70 Freefall - Adam Hamdy
25/70 Aftershock - Adam Hamdy
26/70 In Search of The Dark Ages - Michael Wood
27/70 Zero Day Code - John Birmingham
28/70 Fail State - John Birmingham
29/70 Edge of Anarchy - Kyla Stone
30/70 Endgame : 1945 - David Stafford
31/70 Free Fall - Robert Crais
32/70 The Promise - Robert Crais
33/70 Indigo Slam - Robert Crais
34/70 L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
35/70 The Last Detective - Robert Crais
36/70 The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
37/70 Chasing Darkness - Robert Crais
38/70 The First Rule - Robert Crais
39/70 Taken - Robert Crais

***

40/70 The Sentry - Robert Crais

 

[Fozzie Bear]

21/30 12 Rules For What - Post-Internet Far Right: Fascism In The Age Of The Internet

23/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing The Police

Same publisher as the 12 Rules For What one, which also means full marks for design and illustrations. You can read the whole thing online at the Dog Section website too.

The majority of the book is taken up with why the police - and policing - is bad, with some contributors expanding the readers' view of the police to include border controls etc. This is fine, as far as it goes, but I'd venture that people who pick up a book called "Abolishing The Police" are already not massive fans of the police. In fact, loads of people have criticisms of the police, especially now, which makes the book quite timely. It's just that there is a gulf between criticising the police and calling for their abolition that I think could have been given more focus here.

The vast majority of contributors are academics of some sort and there is a tendency to get a bit word soupy and very intersectional. But having said that, a lot of them also seem to be doing useful work in communities, which is more than I am at the moment. The editor was roughed up by Hackney police for giving a kid who was being arrested a bust card - and was hauled over the coals by the tabloids for her efforts into the bargain, including an especially foul piece by Jeremy Clarkson iirc. I contributed to her crowdfunder fwiw.

Perhaps it is this lecturey/footnotey profile of the contributors that made a lot of the material a bit abstract for me. I am sure that someone in the book would say this abstractness is because I am a cis white middle class bear who is not a sex worker or mad* or a bunch of other things, which would mean that I am more likely to be on the sharp end of policing in my daily life. Despite these privileges, I would like to abolish the police. And I am aware that there are times and places where this has happened in some ways, or where practical steps have been taken towards doing that. So perhaps the book could have been strengthened by including some more concrete examples of that.

There are some very useful chapters later in the book on transformative justice (as opposed to restorative justice) which I would recommend. And mentions of other sources to go for further information. The glossary in the book is a link to the related Abolitionist Futures website, which seems a lot more practical and readable. So you might want to start there.

*Mad is the term used in the book, as in Mad Pride, reclaiming "queer" etc.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow
44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause

46/52 - William Boyd - Trio
47/52 - Stephen King - Night Shift (re-read)

 

[hitmouse]

1/30 Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism
2/30 Jerold J Kreisman & Hal Straub - I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
3/30 Stuart Turton - The Devil & The Dark Water
4/30 Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
5/30 DD Johnston - Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs
6/30 Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
7/30 Bertolt Brecht - Threepenny Novel
8/30 Doris Lessing - A Proper Marriage
9/30 Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
10/30 Ruth Kinna & Clifford Harper - Great Anarchists
11/30 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
12/30 Doris Lessing - A Ripple from the Storm
13/30 Notes From Below - From the Workplace
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine
34/30 Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
35/30 Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
36/30 Michelle Good - Five Little Indians
37/30 Kim Moody - On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
38/30 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium

Found this possibly easier to read than I expected, but who doesn't love a good apocalyptic sect? Interesting how Cohn seems a lot less sympathetic to those he studied than, say, Christopher Hill. Made me quite want to re-read Q at some point. Now reading The Wilhelmshaven Revolt by Ikarus/Ernst Schneider, which doesn't count cos it's a pamphlet but feels quite appropriate for Armistice Day, and also an interesting contrast with the Cohn, and will probably start Cindy Milstein (ed) - There Is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart next.

 

[butchersapron]

Cohn was quite openly a reactionary - he hatred all that and feared it was happening again.

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy
3/70 A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
4/70 City of the Dead - Sara Gran
5/70 Surviving The Evacuation: Book 18 : Rebuilt in One Day - Frank Tayell
6/70 Outback Outbreak - Frank Tayell
7/70 Big Sky - C J Box
8/70 Hungry - Grace Dent
9/70 The Grey Goose of Arnhem- Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
12/70 Edge of Darkness -Kyla Stone
13/70 Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera
14/70 Phantom Prey - John Sandford
15/70 Anti-Social : The Secret Diary of An Anti-Social Behaviour Officer - Nick Pettigrew
16/70 Red Wolves - Adam Hamdy
17/70 Wicked Prey - John Sandford
18/70 Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought The CIA,The Brainwashers, And Themselves- Matthew Sweet
19/70 Dispatches - Michael Herr
20/70 Ramble Book : Musings on Childhood, Friendship,Family and 80s Pop Culture - Adam Buxton
21/70 This Other London : Adventures In The Overlooked City - John Rogers
22/70 A Song For The Dark Times - Ian Rankin
23/70 Pendulum - Adam Hamdy
24/70 Freefall - Adam Hamdy
25/70 Aftershock - Adam Hamdy
26/70 In Search of The Dark Ages - Michael Wood
27/70 Zero Day Code - John Birmingham
28/70 Fail State - John Birmingham
29/70 Edge of Anarchy - Kyla Stone
30/70 Endgame : 1945 - David Stafford
31/70 Free Fall - Robert Crais
32/70 The Promise - Robert Crais
33/70 Indigo Slam - Robert Crais
34/70 L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
35/70 The Last Detective - Robert Crais
36/70 The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
37/70 Chasing Darkness - Robert Crais
38/70 The First Rule - Robert Crais
39/70 Taken - Robert Crais
40/70 The Sentry - Robert Crais


***

41/70 Voodoo River - Robert Crais

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown
42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat

43/35 A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Lidia Yuknavitch - The Misfit's Manifesto.
2. Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice.
3. Caroline Bird - The Air Year.
4. Alice Walker - The Complete Stories
5. Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa
6. We Are Wolves - horror anthology
7. Mhairi McFarlane - Last Night
8. Sarah Jane Blakemore - Inventing Ourselves
9. Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties
10. Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic
11. Lex Croucher - Reputation

12. Jesse Sutanto - Dial A for Aunties. Yet more book club trash. I'm quite embarrassed that my last note on this thread was several months ago and also featured read-in-a-day fluff; I do actually have four other books on the go (weighty lit, complex non-fic and stuff for work, all really interesting), but am so tired from work all the time that I am crawling through them all at a page a week

 

[colbhoy]

1/9 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
2/9 - Taken by Robert Crais
3/9 - Benediction by Kent Haruf
4/9 - Perfect Prey by Helen Fields
5/9 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
6/9 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
7/9 - The Glory Of Their Times by Lawrence S Ritter

 

[billy_bob]

1/69 Seishi Yokomizo - The Inugami Curse
2/69 Valeria Luiseldi - Lost Children Archive
3/69 William Faulker - Light in August
4/69 Nancy Jennings - Bats
5/69 Mark Forsyth - The Elements of Eloquence
6/69 Sholem Aleichem - Tevye the Dairyman
7/69 Sholem Aleichem - Motl the Cantor's Son
8/69 Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson and John Widdowson - Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England
9/69 Shaun Bythell - Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops
10/69 Mignon Fogarty - The Grammar Devotional
11/69 Danny Dorling - The Equality Effect
12/69 ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
13/69 Deborah Eisenburg - Your Duck Is My Duck
14/69 Michael Rosen - So They Call You Pisher!
15/69 Alison Moore - Missing
16/69 Colum McCann - Zoli
17/69 Felix Weinberg - Boy 30529: A Memoir
18/69 Jon McGregor - This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
19/69 Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys
20/69 Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto
21/69 Jeremy Hardy - Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes
22/69 David Szalay - All That Man Is
23/69 Colum McCann - This Side of Brightness
24/69 Robert Macfarlane - The Wild Places
25/69 Judith Hermann - Alice
26/69 Alice Gregory - Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
27/69 Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
28/69 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks
29/69 Steve Hanley - The Big Midweek: Life Inside the Fall
30/69 Kevin Barry - Beatlebone
31/69 Susie Dent - Word Perfect
32/69 Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch
33/69 Pamela Hurle - Bygone Malvern
34/69 Colum McCann - Apeirogon
35/69 Travis Elborough - Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
36/69 Colum McCann - Fishing the Sloe-Black River
37/69 Kit de Waal - Supporting Cast
38/69 Kerry Hudson - Lowborn
39/69 Rick Zednik - A Country Lost, Then Found: Discovering My Father's Slovakia
40/69 Kevin Barry - That Old Country Music
41/69 Richard Herring - The Problem with Men
42/69 Edward Brooke-Hitching - The Madman's Library
43/69 Angela Saini - Superior
44/69 Terri Givens - Radical Empathy
45/69 Antonio Iturbe - The Librarian of Auschwitz
46/69 Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House
47/69 Jon McGregor - Lean Fall Stand
48/69 Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall
49/69 Elizabeth Hay - Alone in the Classroom
50/69 Kurt Vonnegut - Palm Sunday

51/69 Dr Boule Whytelaw III - Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World While Black
52/69 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
53/69 Heather Augustyn - Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roger Steffens - So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
2/45 Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind
3/45 Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4/45 Liz Braswell - Unbirthday
5/45 Michael Wood - In Search of the Dark Ages
6/45 Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
7/45 Nizrana Farook - The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
8/45 Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: the Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
9/45 Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
10/45 Katherine Rundell - Rooftoppers
11/45 Carrie Gibson - Empire's Crossroads: a History of the Carribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
12/45 Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
13/45 Robert Jordan - A Crown of Swords
14/45 Albert Camus - The Stranger
15/45 Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
16/45 Andre Gide - The Vatican Cellars
17/45 Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
18/45 Robert Jordan - The Path of Daggers
19/45 A N Wilson - After the Victorians: the Decline of Britain in the World
20/45 Ian Thomson - The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
21/45 Bram Stoker - Dracula
22/45 Neil Gaiman - Fortunately, the Milk
23/45 Laura Spinney - Pale Rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
24/45 Carlos Moore - Fela: This Bitch of a Life
25/45 Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
26/45 Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
27/45 L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
28/45 L Frank Baum - The Marvelous Land of Oz
29/45 L Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz
30/45 Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs
31/45 Linda Woodhead - Christianity: a Very Short Introduction
32/45 Alastair Reynolds - Aurora Rising
33/45 Joe Abercrombie - A Little Hatred
34/45 Don Letts - There and Black Again
35/45 Sathnam Sanghera - Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
36/45 Mike Berners-Lee - There is no Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
37/45 L Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
38/45 L Frank Baum - The Road to Oz
39/45 L Frank Baum - The Emerald City of Oz
40/45 James Rebanks - English Pastoral: An Inheritance
41/45 Stephen Fry - Troy
42/45 William Wordsworth - A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England
43/45 Steve Jones - Lonely Boy
44/45 Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
45/45 Nick Hayes - The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
46/45 Anonymous - The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
47/45 David Bishop & Karl Stock - Thrill-Power Overload: 2000AD - The First Forty Years
48/45 John Lydon - Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
49/45 Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
50/45 Alistair Reynolds - Elysium Fire

51/45 Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

 

[shifting gears]

1/25 - Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier
2/25 - James Rebanks - English Pastoral: An Inheritance
3/25 - Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
4/25 - Isaac Asimov - Foundation
5/25 - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
6/25 - Jim Dodge - Not Fade Away
7/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
8/25 - Richard Wright - Black Boy (the restored text)
9/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
10/25 - Hans Fallada - Alone in Berlin
11/25 - David Keenan - This is Memorial Device
12/25 - J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights
13/25 - William McIlvanney - A Gift from Nessus
14/25 - Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
15/25 - The Secret DJ - The Secret DJ
16/25 - William McIlvanney - The Big Man
17/25 - Kevin Barry - City of Bohane
18/25 - Norman Jay MBE with Lloyd Bradley - Mister Good Times
19/25 - Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
20/25 - Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
21/25 - Albert Camus - The Plague
22/25 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw

23/25 - Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
2/20 - The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
3/20 - The Passage - Justin Cronin
4/20 - The Twelve - Justin Cronin
5/20 - The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin
6/20 - Stalin Ate My Homework - Alexei Sayle
7/20 - Shuggie Bains - Douglas Stuart
8/20 - Call of the Wild - Jack London
9/20 - White Fang - Jack London
10/20 - The Troop - Nick Cutter
11/20 - Migration- Helen Marshall
12/20 - Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
13/20 - A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nichols

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown
42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat
43/35 A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky

44/35 A Tribute to Noel Ignatiev 1940-2019 by Hard Crackers Magazine

A book length tribute to the late writer and political activist, Noel Ignatiev.

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown
42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat
43/35 A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
44/35 Hard Crackers Tribute to Noel Ignatiev

45/35 To Catch a Spy by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[D'wards]

1/24 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
2/24 - London's Fields: An Intimate History of London Football Fandom by Mark Waldon (aka Cerberus )
3/24 - Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4/24 - Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
5/24 - Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
6/24 - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
7/24 - Ramble Book by Adam Buxton
8/24 - Volcano Adventure by Willard Price
9/24 - Creepshow by Stephen King
10/24 - Jaws by Peter Benchley (reread)
11/24 - What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe
12/24 - The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey
13/24 - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
14/24 - Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
15/24 - Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake
16/24 - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (reread)
17/24 - The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
18/24 - Oh! To be in England by H.E. Bates
19/24 - The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey
20/24 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
21/24 - And Away by Bob Mortimer
22/24 - Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
23/24 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown
42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat
43/35 A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
44/35 Hard Crackers Tribute to Noel Ignatiev
45/35 To Catch a Spy by Stuart M. Kaminsky

46/35 Mildred Pierced by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ippolita - In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism
2/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Salvation Lost
3/45 Alfred Jarry - The Ubu Plays: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded and Ubu Unchained
4/45 Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
5/45 Phillip Neel - Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict
6/45 Christopher Hill - A Nation of Change and Novelty
7/45 Plato - The Last Days of Scorates
8/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Saints of Salvation
9/45 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
10/45 Londa Schiebinger - Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
11/45 Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
12/45 Ali Land - Good Me, Bad Me
13/45 Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients
14/45 Salam Pax - The Baghad Blog
15/45 Silvia Federici - Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
16/45 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - A Cat, A Man and Two Women
17/45 Philip K. Dick - Valis
18/45 Voltaire - Everyman Selected Writings
19/45 Anne Leckie - Ancillary Justice
20/45 Edward Lucie-Smith - Movements In Art Since 1945
21/45 Jim Thompson - Croppers Cabin
22/45 Willemien Otten and Nienke Vos. Eds. - Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity
23/45 Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
24/45 Philip K. Dick - Eye in the Sky
25/45 Doug Werner - Backpackers Start-Up
26/45 James Joyce - Dubliners
27/45 Raymond Williams - Communications
28/45 Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality Vol.1
29/45 Philip K. Dick - The Broken Bubble
30/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
31/45 Tricia Jenkins - The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
32/45 Ukrainian National Association (ed.) - Ukraine's Claim to Freedom (1915)
33/45 Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
34/45 Chester Himes - All Shot Up
35/45 Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life
36/45 R. D. Laing - The Facts of life
37/45 Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
38/45 James Ellroy - Widespread Panic
39/45 Philip K. Dick - Galactic Pot Healer
40/45 Margaret Atwood - Year of the Flood
41/45 Ruán O'Donnell - Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985

42/45 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
43/45 Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam
44/45 Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow
44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause
46/52 - William Boyd - Trio
47/52 - Stephen King - Night Shift (re-read)

48/52 - Roddy Doyle - Love
49/52 - Minette Walters - A Dreadful Murder

 

[hitmouse]

23/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing The Police

Same publisher as the 12 Rules For What one, which also means full marks for design and illustrations. You can read the whole thing online at the Dog Section website too.

The majority of the book is taken up with why the police - and policing - is bad, with some contributors expanding the readers' view of the police to include border controls etc. This is fine, as far as it goes, but I'd venture that people who pick up a book called "Abolishing The Police" are already not massive fans of the police. In fact, loads of people have criticisms of the police, especially now, which makes the book quite timely. It's just that there is a gulf between criticising the police and calling for their abolition that I think could have been given more focus here...

I was thinking that I was sure I'd seen a PDF somewhere of some insurrecto zine that had quite a harsh review of this, but couldn't for the life of me remember the name or where I'd found it, but eventually managed to track it down:

DYSORGANISM: LONDON 11TH SEPTEMBER 2021 FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EXISTENT FOR THE SELF-ORGANISATION OF THE STRUGGLE | Act for freedom now!

actforfree.noblogs.org

Now I've found it again, I'm reminded that I found the bloody thing to be pretty much entirely unreadable, and was left thinking that, whatever disagreements I might have with Koshka Duff, I'm about 90% certain that I have a lot more time for her than I have for whoever writes Dysorganism. But anyway, if you would like to read a critical review - sorry, "fragments of an anti-review" - of the Duff book, then that's one, I suppose.

1/30 Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism
2/30 Jerold J Kreisman & Hal Straub - I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
3/30 Stuart Turton - The Devil & The Dark Water
4/30 Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
5/30 DD Johnston - Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs
6/30 Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
7/30 Bertolt Brecht - Threepenny Novel
8/30 Doris Lessing - A Proper Marriage
9/30 Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
10/30 Ruth Kinna & Clifford Harper - Great Anarchists
11/30 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
12/30 Doris Lessing - A Ripple from the Storm
13/30 Notes From Below - From the Workplace
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine
34/30 Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
35/30 Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
36/30 Michelle Good - Five Little Indians
37/30 Kim Moody - On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
38/30 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium
39/30 Cindy Milstein (ed) - There Is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart

Probably of limited interest if you're not Jewish? The essays are certainly of varying quality, but that tends to be the way with anthologies. Certainly made me think a fair bit about the differences between old and new Jewish anarchisms, different national contexts, and so on. One of the contributors put together this playlist of contemporary klezmer-influenced music, which has some bangers imo. And another contributor claims to have encountered a sefardi recipe that makes nice matzo (well, what they actually say is "the best matzo I've ever eaten", so possibly not actually nice but still nicer than other matzo), which is an intriguing claim, but not actually so intriguing I feel motivated to make it myself. Some nice visual/graphic art in there as well. And a surprisingly fast read for a book that's not far shy of 400 pages, especially since while reading it I got sidetracked by Viz and the LRB turning up, and a little poetry pamphlet called The Canine Redeemer Has Entered The Bunglaow by Nell Osborne. Probably starting Patricia Highsmith - Little Tales of Misogyny next.