eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[butchersapron]

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.

I'd def read that before the Lavin one.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[billy_bob]

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

3/69 William Faulker - Light in August

 

[chilango]

3/50: The Death of Homo Economics - Peter Fleming

 

[Little Piranha]

4/52 Rules For Perfect Murders. Thanks for the recommendation QueenOfGoths.

 

[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

 

[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
4/35 Beatrix Campbell - Goliath: Britain’s Dangerous Places

 

[Pickman's model]

1. Roderick Conway Morris, 'Jem: memoirs of an Ottoman secret agent' (London: Corgi, 1989)
2. Heather Ann Thompson, 'Blood in the water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its legacy' (New York: Vintage, 2017)

 

[StoneRoad]

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

12) Master & Commander by P O'Brian (underway 18/1/21) finished 23/1/21

unlucky 13) Post Captain by P O'Brian (underway 24/1/21)

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Lidia Yuknavitch - The Misfit's Manifesto.

2. Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice.

 

[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 and Motl the Cantor's Son

 

[MBV]

1. Slade House - David Mitchell (almost finished)
2. The Party - Elizabeth Day

 

[JimW]

Started a recent translation/parallel text of the Zuo Tradition, foundational history work in the Chinese tradition that expands on the Spring and Autumn Annals purportedly collated by Confucius. The intro and discursive apparatus is really good and thought provoking, imagine the actual old Chinese text and translation will be something I plod through all year as I want to brush up my classical and it's just not a speed read even in translation.
I have a knockoff which when you see the.price you'll understand Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. Phantom Blood - Araki Hirohiko.

 

[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

Probably not a great book, but I think I liked it more at the end than when I started, which I guess is good? Anyway, I can't claim to be entirely immune to the charms of like occult intrigue and that.

 

[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)

 

[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 and Motl the Cantor's Son

7/69 Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson and John Widdowson - Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England
8/69 Shaun Bythell - Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops

8 was awful. I mean, I know it's probably only meant to be the kind of impulse-buy tillpoint gift you get people you don't really like for Christmas, but still. His original Diary of a Bookseller had some charm and the mild anthropological interest of insight into a seemingly antiquated way of making a living - this was just that book with everything but the whinging removed.

 

[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

 

[Sweet Meiga]

1/50 Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory
2/50 Adam Stout - Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend

 

[StoneRoad]

unlucky 13) Post Captain by P O'Brian (underway 24/1/21) completed 28/1/21

14) HMS Surprise by P O'Brian (underway 28/1/21)

 

[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

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. Phantom Blood - Araki Hirohiko.
2/25. Battle Tendency - Araki Hirohiko.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Lidia Yuknavitch - The Misfit's Manifesto.
2. Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice.

3. Caroline Bird - The Air Year. Just sublime, life-givingly brilliant poetry, recommend to everyone.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch

 

[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

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I'm setting a target of 12, so one a month. I used to be a voracious reader but have struggled to focus and concentrate in recent years due to mental health stuff, so lost the plot and lost interest in books I started.

I managed to read a few books while on holiday late last year, though, so hope to get the bug again and have bought a few books recently in anticipation/as encouragement.

1. Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I'm reading in the original French, for a book club, as I'm also trying to brush up my French.)

2. The Stranger Times, C.K. McDonnell (It's set in Manchester, at a weekly newspaper that reports the weird and wonderful.)

 

[belboid]

I have failed miserably on my reading the last couple of years, so will attempt to put that right this time.

1/30 - Tim Harford - How to Make the World Add Up
2/30 - Andreas Eschbach - The Hair-Carpet Weavers
3/30 - Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire - Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
4/30 - Chris Mullin - The Friends of Harry Perkins


Quite how the last one got to be published is a mystery. Not only is it just generally abysmal but it is completely internally inconsistent. Labour haven't won an election since Harry was overthrown, but somehow Tony Blair was a Labour PM being one of the more notable contradictions.