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

 

[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

 

[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. Stupendously well written, a deep dive into the complex dynamics of abuse. Really excellent and something that will stay with me for a while.

 

[StoneRoad]

23) Far side of the World by P O'Brian
24) Reverse of the Medal by P O'Brian
25) Letter of Marque by P O'Brian (finished the last of these three on 3rd March 2021
26) Thirteen-gun Salute by P O'Brian (underway 4/3/21) completed 8/3/21

27) Nutmeg of Consolation by P O'Brian (underway 8/3/21)

 

[Biddlybee]

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. Stupendously well written, a deep dive into the complex dynamics of abuse. Really excellent and something that will stay with me for a while.

Might have to borrow if it's a physical book x

 

[seventh bullet]

1/30 The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack

2/30 Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression - Wendy Z. Goldman

3/30 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

4/30 Failed Fuhrers: A History of Britain's Extreme Right - Graham Macklin

5/30 The Spectre of Babeuf - Ian Birchall

 

[May Kasahara]

Might have to borrow if it's a physical book x

Yes of course! I thought of you actually...can drop it round this week with the duvet cover if you like x

 

[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. A bit confusing at times but vivid and compelling

 

[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

Continuing my attempt to make 2021 the year I justify owning so many Doris Lessing novels. Interesting in that I knew relations between the USSR, the Axis and the Western powers were obviously a wee bit inconsistent in the late 30s, but I'd previously mostly really considered it from like the communist viewpoint of switching between popular frontism and the Third Period, Hitler-Stalin pact and all that, I'd not given as much thought to the equally dramatic shifts that had to take place in like respectable bourgeois opinion when they had to suspend anti-communism from about 41-45. Also belatedly realised that a) these books are actually taking place in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe rather than South Africa itself, and b) that Lessing was still actually in the CP while writing it - I was so used to thinking of her as an ex-CP writer that I never really thought of any of her books as being from her time as a party member. Think the invasion of Hungary happened between this and her finishing the next one, though.
Anyway, going to try Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other next.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
2/20 - The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Love and Obstacles - Aleksandar Hemon
4/20 - The Bees - Laline Paull
5/20 - The Radium Girls - Kate Moore

 

[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

 

[StoneRoad]

27) Nutmeg of Consolation by P O'Brian (underway 8/3/21) completed 10/3/21

28) Clarissa Oakes by P O'Brian (underway 11/3/21)
I'm still enjoying these novels, despite this being yet another repeat reading, this time without interruptions / gaps for looking at other books.
(apart from work-related publications, when looking something up)

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
2/20 - The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Love and Obstacles - Aleksandar Hemon
4/20 - The Bees - Laline Paull
5/20 - The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (A)
6/20 - Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

 

[Fozzie Bear]

6/30 Jo Bloom - Ridley Road

A romantic novel in which the male protagonist infiltrates Colin Jordan’s National Socialist Movement with help from the Jewish anti-fascist 62 Group. The female protagonist is mainly lovely and beautiful and worried, but there are some good scenes with her working as a hairdresser in sixties soho and having nights out with the girls.

It‘s pretty good I’d say (being a world expert on the romantic novel lol). Entertaining but probably not an essential addition to yer anti-fascist bookshelf. Soon to be a TV series so that will be interesting.

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
2/20 - The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
3/20 - The Passage - Justin Cronin

 

[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

 

[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
5/35 Ralph Miliband - Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour
6/35 Adolf Reed Jr - Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
7/35 Adolf Reed Jr - Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-segregation Era
8/35 Adolf Reed Jr - Nothing Left: The Long Slow Surrender of American Liberals
9/35 Jack Holland & Henry McDonald - INLA: Deadly Divisions

 

[StoneRoad]

28) Clarissa Oakes by P O'Brian (underway 11/3/21) completed 15/3/21
I'm still enjoying these novels, despite this being yet another repeat reading, this time without interruptions / gaps for looking at other books.
(apart from work-related publications, when looking something up)

29) Wine Dark Sea by P O'Brian (underway 15/3/21)
This one starts with a description of a submarine volcanic eruption that breaks the surface.

 

[seventh bullet]

1/30 The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack

2/30 Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression - Wendy Z. Goldman

3/30 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

4/30 Failed Fuhrers: A History of Britain's Extreme Right - Graham Macklin

5/30 The Spectre of Babeuf - Ian Birchall

6/30 To Do Something Beautiful - Rohini Hensman

 

[Cloo]

In calling it about one book per 10 days in average, so let's assume about 36 a year!

 

[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

 

[D'wards]

1/24 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
2/24 - London's Fields: An Intimate History of London Football Fandom by Mark Waldon
3/24 - Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4/24 - Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

 

[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

 

[StoneRoad]

29) Wine Dark Sea by P O'Brian (underway 15/3/21) completed 19/3/21
This one starts with a description of a submarine volcanic eruption that breaks the surface.

30) The Commodore (underway 19/3/21)

 

[Me76]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
2/20 - The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Love and Obstacles - Aleksandar Hemon
4/20 - The Bees - Laline Paull
5/20 - The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (A)
6/20 - Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

How good is Good Feminism? Heard a bit about it.

 

[Me76]

1/40 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
2/40 Focused and Challenged, Lisa M Hawkins
3/40 It Takes Blood and Guts, Skin and Lucy O'brien
4/40 Naturally Gifted, Lisa M Hawkins

5/40 Unearthly Host, Lisa M Hawkins - this isn't published yet. Its my friend who is the author and I get the privilege of reading them before publication as I proof and check stuff for her. Very pleased with this one, but it's very long and proofing means it takes me longer to read than normal.

Would recommend her series if you like urban fantasy though.

Looking forward to reading something quickly where I'm not looking out for commas and apostrophes now.

 

[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

 

[Biddlybee]

How good is Good Feminism? Heard a bit about it.

She writes really well and not living in the US there are quite a few things that hadn't crossed my mind. It's a short good read.

 

[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. Well written, solid thriller

 

[Winot]

1/29 Illness as Metaphor & Aids and its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
2/29 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - Paul Turner

3/29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland

Finally got round to reading this 30 years after publication. Pretty Gen X huh? Nicely written though ultimately quite lightweight.