hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
To be fair, Old Nina Power was great. But yes, I suppose this particular week has not been kind to the claim she makes that "if anything, we have dismantled patriarchy in a rather extreme way."
Never mind the virus here's the 2022 reading challenge thread
- Thread starter Pickman's model
- Start date
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I suppose being old, I remember her more for her CPGB days.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
That's a bit of lefty trivia I've never encountered before.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
1/45 Maya Angelou - Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
2/45 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
3/45 Julia Buxton - The Political Economy of Narcotics
4/45 Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
5/45 Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
6/45 Cindy Milstein - Taking Sides
7/45 Phillip K. Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
8/45 Jim Thompson - Recoil
9/45 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
10/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - Empire of Capital
11/45 Bernard Schweizer - Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
12/45 Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
13/45 Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
14/45 Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
After hearing so much praise from hitmouse I just had to. Fair play, her tongue is pure withering.
2/45 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
3/45 Julia Buxton - The Political Economy of Narcotics
4/45 Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
5/45 Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
6/45 Cindy Milstein - Taking Sides
7/45 Phillip K. Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
8/45 Jim Thompson - Recoil
9/45 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
10/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - Empire of Capital
11/45 Bernard Schweizer - Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
12/45 Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
13/45 Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
14/45 Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
After hearing so much praise from hitmouse I just had to. Fair play, her tongue is pure withering.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I just realised I'm clearly much older that I think and I'm getting her totally confused with Nina Temple
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yes, after doing a quick bit of googling I did wonder if that was what was going on.I just realised I'm clearly much older that I think and I'm getting her totally confused with Nina Temple
1/20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2/20 Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
3/20 The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom
4/20 Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5/20 Socialism and the Intelligentsia 1880-1914 edited by Carl Levy
6/20 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7/20 Rizzio by Denise Mina
8/20 Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
9/20 Marx on Money by Suzanne de Brunhoff
10/20 Real World by Natsuo Kirino
Proto-incel misogynist violence derails the lives of a group of young women. Parts of this were very good, although I did think the split perspective narrative in such a short novel left some of the key characters too lightly sketched.
2/20 Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
3/20 The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom
4/20 Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5/20 Socialism and the Intelligentsia 1880-1914 edited by Carl Levy
6/20 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7/20 Rizzio by Denise Mina
8/20 Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
9/20 Marx on Money by Suzanne de Brunhoff
10/20 Real World by Natsuo Kirino
Proto-incel misogynist violence derails the lives of a group of young women. Parts of this were very good, although I did think the split perspective narrative in such a short novel left some of the key characters too lightly sketched.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75. The Story of England - Michael Wood .
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I always admire a reader that goes on a binge of an author.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
1/29 Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
Musings on photography. Nice photos but the writing style was a bit lofty for my taste.
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
Musings on photography. Nice photos but the writing style was a bit lofty for my taste.
shifting gears
Well-Known Member
I used to do this a lot, but now really try and avoid doing it, as I find all their work then kinda blends into one. I at least try and read one book by another author in between reads of the same author these days…
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75. The Story of England - Michael Wood .
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 David Katz - People Funny Boy: the genius of Lee Scratch Perry
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
His best one yet. Absolutely amazing.
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
His best one yet. Absolutely amazing.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 David Katz - People Funny Boy: the genius of Lee Scratch Perry
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
His best one yet. Absolutely amazing.
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
His best one yet. Absolutely amazing.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
1/30 Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2/30 Joan Didion - The White Album (re-read)
3/30 Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
4/30 Joan Didion - After Henry (another re-read, first published in UK as Sentimental Journeys)
5/30 Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
6/30 Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (re-read)
7/30 Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (re-read)
8/30 Joan Didion - South and West
9/30 Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
10/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing the Police
11/30 Jane Holgate - Arise
12/30 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (re-read)
13/30 12 Rules for What/Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - Post-Internet Far Right
14/30 Brad Logan & John Gentile - Architects of Self-Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack
15/30 Emily Nagoski - Come As You Are
16/30 Barney Farmer - Park by the River
17/30 Nina Power - What Do Men Want?
18/30 Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy (re-read)
As mentioned above, this is perhaps a more interesting book about men and what they want than Power's. There's a wonderful selection of covers for it:
(this is the edition I have btw)
Can only imagine what readers made of it if they judged the book by its cover and then found that one of the stories is about a man sitting in a fascist prison cell waiting to be executed in the morning. Title story is about a woman deciding whether to leave her husband, also one about a woman married to a man with what we would probably now describe as advanced schizophrenia, a very contemporary-feeling story about a man with ambitions to be a mass shooter, and the longest and perhaps the standout is about the childhood and adolescence of a boy who grows up to become a fascist. All very hot'n'sexy stuff, obv. Definitely worth a read, anyway.
Next up, starting Agustín Guillamón - Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona. Hard to beat that for a more precisely-focused history book. An interesting time for me to read this one, it's a useful reminder that no matter how much we all might like to think that we'd be Jaime Balius, if put to the test perhaps we'd all end up as Diego Santillan or Jacinto Toryho and have historians calling us useless twats when we're dead. Guillamón ends the introduction by giving his home address in case readers have any criticisms, I'm not sure if that's so we can write him letters or for the benefit of any readers who might want to go round his house and shout through the letterbox?
2/30 Joan Didion - The White Album (re-read)
3/30 Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
4/30 Joan Didion - After Henry (another re-read, first published in UK as Sentimental Journeys)
5/30 Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
6/30 Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (re-read)
7/30 Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (re-read)
8/30 Joan Didion - South and West
9/30 Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
10/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing the Police
11/30 Jane Holgate - Arise
12/30 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (re-read)
13/30 12 Rules for What/Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - Post-Internet Far Right
14/30 Brad Logan & John Gentile - Architects of Self-Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack
15/30 Emily Nagoski - Come As You Are
16/30 Barney Farmer - Park by the River
17/30 Nina Power - What Do Men Want?
18/30 Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy (re-read)
As mentioned above, this is perhaps a more interesting book about men and what they want than Power's. There's a wonderful selection of covers for it:
(this is the edition I have btw)
Next up, starting Agustín Guillamón - Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona. Hard to beat that for a more precisely-focused history book. An interesting time for me to read this one, it's a useful reminder that no matter how much we all might like to think that we'd be Jaime Balius, if put to the test perhaps we'd all end up as Diego Santillan or Jacinto Toryho and have historians calling us useless twats when we're dead. Guillamón ends the introduction by giving his home address in case readers have any criticisms, I'm not sure if that's so we can write him letters or for the benefit of any readers who might want to go round his house and shout through the letterbox?
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
1/9 Pain & Prejudice, Gabrielle Jackson
2/9 A brief history of humankind, Harari
3/9 Pride & Prejudice
4/9 Destiny disrupted - a history of the world through Islamic eyes, Tamsin Ansary
5/9 Robinson Crusoe
6/9 Putin's People, Catherine Belton. Nothing I didn't already "know" but now in a lot more detail. 2021 so feels like Belton thought at this point that the annexation of Crimea is the worst thing Putin will ever do.
2/9 A brief history of humankind, Harari
3/9 Pride & Prejudice
4/9 Destiny disrupted - a history of the world through Islamic eyes, Tamsin Ansary
5/9 Robinson Crusoe
6/9 Putin's People, Catherine Belton. Nothing I didn't already "know" but now in a lot more detail. 2021 so feels like Belton thought at this point that the annexation of Crimea is the worst thing Putin will ever do.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75. The Story of England - Michael Wood .
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
18/75 One Shot - Lee Child
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
18/75 One Shot - Lee Child
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Not a fan of Lee Child then?
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Started reading him after the TV series , they are formulaic, ridiculous but somehow more-ishNot a fan of Lee Child then?
StanleyBlack
Member
1/20? Dreiser, Theodore (1900); Pizer, Donald, Editor. Sister Carrie: an authoritative text backgrounds and sources criticism. Second edition c1991. New York: WW Norton & Company (0393960420) Finished January 2022.
2/20? Dalrymple, Theodore. Life at the bottom: the worldview that makes the underclass. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c2001 (1566635055) Finished February 2022.
Been a bit slow in updating my list... .
3/20? Gissing, George (1886); Coustillas, Pierre, Editor. Demos, a story of English socialism. Hardback of 1897 reprinted edition published in 1972 as No. 10 in the series, Society and the Victorians. Hassocks, nr. Brighton: The Harvester Press Limited. (0901759201) Finished March 2022
I really like George Gissing. Everyone's heard of New Grub Street but no one ever talks about his other books. In this one a socialist (think Owenite) falsely inherits some money and starts to build a 'new town'. As ever with Gissing, it ends badly for all involved.
4/20? Serrailler, Ian (1956) The silver sword. Paperback reprint published in 1971. Harmondsworth: A Puffin Book, published by Penguin Books (140301461) Finished March 2022
5/20? Zindel, Paul (1968) The pigman. Hardback reprint published in the New Windmill Series 1973. London: Heinemann Educational Books (0435121596) Finished April 2022
Rescued these YA titles from the bin at work. I'd never heard of The Pigman but a colleague informed me that it was a 'big' book in schools during the 1970s.
6/20? Gissing, George (1893); introduced by Frank Swinnerton. The odd women. Hardback c1968 published as no. 10 of The Doughty Library. London: Anthony Blond (218515081) Finished 29 April 2022
More Gissing. This time is proto-feminism and the 'sadness' of middle class women's lives. As ever, main character dies at the end.
2/20? Dalrymple, Theodore. Life at the bottom: the worldview that makes the underclass. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, c2001 (1566635055) Finished February 2022.
Been a bit slow in updating my list... .
3/20? Gissing, George (1886); Coustillas, Pierre, Editor. Demos, a story of English socialism. Hardback of 1897 reprinted edition published in 1972 as No. 10 in the series, Society and the Victorians. Hassocks, nr. Brighton: The Harvester Press Limited. (0901759201) Finished March 2022
I really like George Gissing. Everyone's heard of New Grub Street but no one ever talks about his other books. In this one a socialist (think Owenite) falsely inherits some money and starts to build a 'new town'. As ever with Gissing, it ends badly for all involved.
4/20? Serrailler, Ian (1956) The silver sword. Paperback reprint published in 1971. Harmondsworth: A Puffin Book, published by Penguin Books (140301461) Finished March 2022
5/20? Zindel, Paul (1968) The pigman. Hardback reprint published in the New Windmill Series 1973. London: Heinemann Educational Books (0435121596) Finished April 2022
Rescued these YA titles from the bin at work. I'd never heard of The Pigman but a colleague informed me that it was a 'big' book in schools during the 1970s.
6/20? Gissing, George (1893); introduced by Frank Swinnerton. The odd women. Hardback c1968 published as no. 10 of The Doughty Library. London: Anthony Blond (218515081) Finished 29 April 2022
More Gissing. This time is proto-feminism and the 'sadness' of middle class women's lives. As ever, main character dies at the end.
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surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
1/29 J.M. Barrie and The Lost Boys - Andrew Birkin
2/29 Windswept & Interesting - Billy Connolly
3/29 Substance - Inside New Order - Peter Hook
4/29 The History Of England Volume 1 - Peter Ackroyd **
5/29 Ulysses - A Reader's Odyssey - Daniel Mulhall
6/29 High Noon - The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of An American Classic - Glen Frankel
7/29 The Moon's A Balloon - David Niven **
8/29 Bring On The Empty Horses - David Niven **
9/29 Jack London - An American Life - Earle Labor
10/29 Five Came Back -A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War - Mark Harris
11/29 Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
12/29 Steve McQueen - The Biography - Marc Eliot
** Re - read
2/29 Windswept & Interesting - Billy Connolly
3/29 Substance - Inside New Order - Peter Hook
4/29 The History Of England Volume 1 - Peter Ackroyd **
5/29 Ulysses - A Reader's Odyssey - Daniel Mulhall
6/29 High Noon - The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of An American Classic - Glen Frankel
7/29 The Moon's A Balloon - David Niven **
8/29 Bring On The Empty Horses - David Niven **
9/29 Jack London - An American Life - Earle Labor
10/29 Five Came Back -A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War - Mark Harris
11/29 Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
12/29 Steve McQueen - The Biography - Marc Eliot
** Re - read
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "The Thursday Murder Club" - Richard Osman.
2. "The Woman in the Window" - A. J. Finn.
3. "Snow" by John Banville
4. "The Lies You Told" - Harriet Tyce
5. "A Gift for the Dying" - MJ Arlidge
6. "One by One" - Ruth Ware
7. "The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways" - a British Library publication edited by Mike Ashley.
8. "The House of Ashes" - Stuart Neville
9. "Lies" - TM Logan.
10. "The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill" - C. S. Robertson.
11. "I See You" - Clare Mackintosh. I didn't always enjoy the writing in this but the story was interesting
2. "The Woman in the Window" - A. J. Finn.
3. "Snow" by John Banville
4. "The Lies You Told" - Harriet Tyce
5. "A Gift for the Dying" - MJ Arlidge
6. "One by One" - Ruth Ware
7. "The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways" - a British Library publication edited by Mike Ashley.
8. "The House of Ashes" - Stuart Neville
9. "Lies" - TM Logan.
10. "The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill" - C. S. Robertson.
11. "I See You" - Clare Mackintosh. I didn't always enjoy the writing in this but the story was interesting
petee
no gods, no malarkey
3/9, Maximov Bolshevism: Promises and Reality. a pamphlet, the beginning and end are a blaze of rhetoric, but the middle, where Maximov quotes Lenin against himself on the matter of bureaucracy,, is quite good.
3/10. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - mythic homerotic lovestory, set during the Trojan war. Got a little bit of grit in my eye when he finds his body. "Pity the land that needs heroes."
4/10. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. A dystopian science fiction story about humanity, love and loneliness. Humanism at its best. Should read more by him. Only read the Remains of the Day.
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Wouldn't really say The Silver Sword is YA -- we read it in primary school. Would really like to re-read it as an adult I think.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
1/29 Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
6/29 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
Well-written but very academic study of sex from a socialist, feminist perspective. Lots of stuff I didn’t know much about. I liked how she analysed all perspectives with a critical eye rather than sticking to one ‘side’.
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
6/29 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
Well-written but very academic study of sex from a socialist, feminist perspective. Lots of stuff I didn’t know much about. I liked how she analysed all perspectives with a critical eye rather than sticking to one ‘side’.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
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