eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[StoneRoad]

7) The Blood-dimmed Tide by H Weinstein [pt5 of 6 - Mere Anarchy] underway 9/1/21 finished 10/1/21
8) Its Hour Come Round by MW Bonanno [pt6 of 6 - Mere Anarchy] underway 10/1/21

Several times recently, I've done something other than read to relax (I've been revisiting some superfiendish suduko, with varying levels of success) ...
8) Its Hour Come Round by MW Bonanno [pt6 of 6 - Mere Anarchy] underway 10/1/21 finished 12/1/21
or the reading sessions have been relatively shortened by other demands on my time ...
9) Homecoming by Christine Golden (13/1/21) last read these two about three years ago, so rather a quick read through
10) The Farther Shore by Christine Golden (14/1/21) [sequel to 9] finished 13/1/21

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11) Strangers from the Sky by MW Bonanno (underway 14/1/21)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

2/30 Hari Kunzru - Red Pill

Interesting take on the rise of the alt-right through the eyes of a niche arty liberal writer. Great deviation in the middle into the East German punk scene vs the Stasi.

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy

 

[billy_bob]

Not setting myself any 'lots of 500 page bastards' challenge this year: I did that last year and then there was this distracting pandemic thing. Apparently that's still knocking around but I've aimed high at 60-69 anyway. We'll see what happens.

1/69 Seishi Yokomizo - The Inugami Curse
2/69 Valeria Luiseldi - Lost Children Archive

No. 2 is already setting the bar high.

 

[billy_bob]

1/35 Wayne Hussey - Salad Daze

If you asked me which rock star I would least want to read a memoir by, I think he might be second only to Geddy Lee from Rush

 

[StoneRoad]

Several times recently, I've done something other than read to relax (I've been revisiting some superfiendish suduko, with varying levels of success) ...
8) Its Hour Come Round by MW Bonanno [pt6 of 6 - Mere Anarchy] underway 10/1/21 finished 12/1/21
or the reading sessions have been relatively shortened by other demands on my time ...
9) Homecoming by Christine Golden (13/1/21) last read these two about three years ago, so rather a quick read through
10) The Farther Shore by Christine Golden (14/1/21) [sequel to 9] finished 13/1/21

e2a
11) Strangers from the Sky by MW Bonanno (underway 14/1/21) finished 17/1/21

I'm deliberately excluding the mountain of periodicals I get through ...

12) Master & Commander by P O'Brian (underway 18/1/21)

 

[Smokeandsteam]

If you asked me which rock star I would least want to read a memoir by, I think he might be second only to Geddy Lee from Rush

It’s a surprisingly good read. Yes, he’s a bit of a knobhead - no getting round it. He’s much less wild than he think he is too.

But, the sections on post punk Liverpool and, of course, the fractious Sisters era were a must read nostalgia wallow for me. Highly recommended. Probably won’t buy volume 2 which will be The Mission years mind..

 

[MBV]

Going to go for 12...

1. Slade House - David Mitchell (almost finished)

 

[Little Piranha]

Going to go for 12...

1. Slade House - David Mitchell (almost finished)

I like David Mitchell a lot but haven't read this one. How did you find it?

 

[MBV]

I like David Mitchell a lot but haven't read this one. How did you find it?

So so but that's because I don't enjoy supernatural stuff (it was a present)

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
2. Eric Hobsbawm - Primitive Rebels
3. Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/45 Ippolita - In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism

Looks interesting!

 

[Threshers_Flail]

2/30 Hari Kunzru - Red Pill

Interesting take on the rise of the alt-right through the eyes of a niche arty liberal writer. Great deviation in the middle into the East German punk scene vs the Stasi.

On my list!

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[Chairman Meow]

1. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart. Bloody depressing! But very good, I can't stop thinking about it.
2. A Spot of Folly, Ruth Rendell

3. Asta's Book Ruth Rendell

 

[billy_bob]

It’s a surprisingly good read. Yes, he’s a bit of a knobhead - no getting round it. He’s much less wild than he think he is too.

But, the sections on post punk Liverpool and, of course, the fractious Sisters era were a must read nostalgia wallow for me. Highly recommended. Probably won’t buy volume 2 which will be The Mission years mind..

Fair enough. I concede that liking an artist or their work doesn't necessarily mean you'll like their memoir - I've read plenty of rubbish by people I admire.

 

[butchersapron]

First lot of this year:

1 - Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, 1976-1982 - David Renton
2 - Threats to Democracy: The Radical Right in Italy after the War - Franco Ferraresi
3 - The Hitler Conspiracies The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination - Richard J. Evans
4 - The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism - Mario Tronti, Edited and Translated by Andrew Anastasi
5 - Beaten But Not Defeated: Siegfried Moos - A German anti-Nazi who settled in Britain - Merilyn Moos
6 - Fascists Among Us: Online hate and the Christchurch massacre - Jeff Sparrow

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/35 Wayne Hussey - Salad Daze
2/35 Steven Morris - Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume 2
3/35 Paul Gilroy - There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation

 

[Chairman Meow]

What are the rules if you abandon a book. I assume you don't count it? I am half way through Peter Carey's Amnesia and I hate it. So disappointing, he used to be so good. If anyone else has read it should I persist?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Exile" - James Swallow

2. "Rules For Perfect Murders" - Peter Swanson. Excellent literary thriller

 

[Little Piranha]

2. "Rules For Perfect Murders" - Peter Swanson. Excellent literary thriller

Sounds like perfect lockdown reading, I've added it to my list.

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy
3/70 A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais

 

[Little Piranha]

3/4 The One From The Other - Philip Kerr

 

[Throbbing Angel]

1.Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
I had to finish it today so it didn’t fuck up another day of my life reading it
Put me right off reading

ffs, I have a copy on my pile, I thought this was universally loved?

Anyway, As I haven't started reading this year I'm going for 30-39 (nearer 30 I reckon)
a mix of paper and kindle, fiction and non

 

[bellaozzydog]

ffs, I have a copy on my pile, I thought this was universally loved?

Anyway, As I haven't started reading this year I'm going for 30-39 (nearer 30 I reckon)
a mix of paper and kindle, fiction and non

it’s an amazing heart tugging read but all most too much for me at the minute

I seem to be in a bit of a “heart rending memoirs of LGBT and poverty versus religion” rut at the minute

amazons algorithms keep seeing me off.

 

[bellaozzydog]

1. Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart
2. Nell, a disorderly woman Nell McCafferty
3. Foundation, Isaac Asimov

 

[hitmouse]

1. Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
2. Eric Hobsbawm - Primitive Rebels
3. Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism

Oh, Jackie Wang snap! What did you make of it? I think I felt a bit lukewarm about it just after finishing, but the final section has really stuck in my head. I think I liked the poetic bits more than the academic bits, but mostly I just wish more of the book had been somewhere in the middle ground between the two? Also I remember hating Primitive Rebels back in the day, been around a decade since I read it though.

First lot of this year:

Fucking hell, it's only been 2021 for about a week. Is the Talia Lavin Culture Warlords book on your to-read list? Do you, or anyone else, reckon it'll be worthwhile?

 

[butchersapron]

Oh, Jackie Wang snap! What did you make of it? I think I felt a bit lukewarm about it just after finishing, but the final section has really stuck in my head. I think I liked the poetic bits more than the academic bits, but mostly I just wish more of the book had been somewhere in the middle ground between the two? Also I remember hating Primitive Rebels back in the day, been around a decade since I read it though.

Fucking hell, it's only been 2021 for about a week. Is the Talia Lavin Culture Warlords book on your to-read list? Do you, or anyone else, reckon it'll be worthwhile?

Read it last year, didn't think much of it tbh Couldn't stand the style and the content was terribly shallow.

 

[hitmouse]

Fair enough, probably won't make a priority out of reading that one then. Still not got around to reading Insurgent Supremacists, and that one's been out for years.