Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
1/30 David Peace - The Damned Utd
2/30 I, Partridge We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
3/30 No Way Down by Graham Bowley.
4/30 Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
5/30 Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
6/30 The Dead House by Harry Bingham
7/30 Underground Airline by Ben Winters
8/30 Who they was by Gabriel Krause
9/30 The Last - Hanna Jameson
10/30 The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman.
11/30 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
12/30 The Unfolding by AM Homes Holy crap! What a good book. It's set just after the 2008 US election and covers some people who wouldn't be popular here, very rich republicans, annoyed that American democracy is threatened by Obama's socialist agenda. Also there's a family drama.
At times the republicans' discussions seem to have no core , but the book is compelling, horrifying and completely plausible. It'll probably be in my top five books of the year
Started and abandoned so far are
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso An unhappy childhood in a small town
Wish You Well by David Baldacci NYC kids come to understand small town charm
2/30 I, Partridge We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
3/30 No Way Down by Graham Bowley.
4/30 Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
5/30 Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
6/30 The Dead House by Harry Bingham
7/30 Underground Airline by Ben Winters
8/30 Who they was by Gabriel Krause
9/30 The Last - Hanna Jameson
10/30 The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman.
11/30 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
12/30 The Unfolding by AM Homes Holy crap! What a good book. It's set just after the 2008 US election and covers some people who wouldn't be popular here, very rich republicans, annoyed that American democracy is threatened by Obama's socialist agenda. Also there's a family drama.
At times the republicans' discussions seem to have no core , but the book is compelling, horrifying and completely plausible. It'll probably be in my top five books of the year
Started and abandoned so far are
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso An unhappy childhood in a small town
Wish You Well by David Baldacci NYC kids come to understand small town charm
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PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
Monthly substack read. Wish I hadn't bothered.
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
Monthly substack read. Wish I hadn't bothered.
shifting gears
Well-Known Member
1/30 - Philip K. Dick - Valis
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
4/30 - Dan Charnas - Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
5/30 - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
6/30 - Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
Pretty epic read on the colonisation of Mars, spanning a 50-year period or so… now debating whether to read the similarly huge sequels but might just do one a year or something…
Next up: something short!
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
4/30 - Dan Charnas - Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
5/30 - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
6/30 - Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
Pretty epic read on the colonisation of Mars, spanning a 50-year period or so… now debating whether to read the similarly huge sequels but might just do one a year or something…
Next up: something short!
35. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors, Asha Bandele - absolutely riveting account by one of the people who setup BLM, basically read it cover to cover in one go.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
1/45 Connie Willis - The Best of...
2/45 Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
3/45 Tony Horwitz - Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
4/45 Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Urine Test
5/45 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
6/45 K.J. Parker - How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It
7/45 Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
8/45 John Williams (Ed.) - Wales Half Welsh
9/45 Issac Asimov - Nightfall and Other Stories
10/45 Norman Wybron - The Chartists of Blaenau Gwent
11/45 Deborah Madison - Vegetable Literacy
12/45 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
13/45 Devon Price - Laziness Does Not Exist
14/45 Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
15/45 Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays
16/45 Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower
17/45 Andy Greenberg - Sandworm
18/45 Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents
Equally good, but possibly even grimmer than the Parable of the Sower. Had to go back and check the publication date when the Christian theocratic new presidents inauguration speech aimed to "Make America great again". Butler called it 30 years ago.
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
A lovely story about a girls relationship with her mum and neighbours. Genuinely laughing out loud a some parts. I checked out Nadin afterwards to see if there was anything else, only to find out she wrote policy for, and was a special advisor to Tony Blair. I'm glad I didn't know this before I picked the book up but don't let it put you off.
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Reasonable history, though the last 30 years seemed rushed and a bit bitty
2/45 Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
3/45 Tony Horwitz - Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
4/45 Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Urine Test
5/45 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
6/45 K.J. Parker - How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It
7/45 Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
8/45 John Williams (Ed.) - Wales Half Welsh
9/45 Issac Asimov - Nightfall and Other Stories
10/45 Norman Wybron - The Chartists of Blaenau Gwent
11/45 Deborah Madison - Vegetable Literacy
12/45 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
13/45 Devon Price - Laziness Does Not Exist
14/45 Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
15/45 Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays
16/45 Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower
17/45 Andy Greenberg - Sandworm
18/45 Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Talents
Equally good, but possibly even grimmer than the Parable of the Sower. Had to go back and check the publication date when the Christian theocratic new presidents inauguration speech aimed to "Make America great again". Butler called it 30 years ago.
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
A lovely story about a girls relationship with her mum and neighbours. Genuinely laughing out loud a some parts. I checked out Nadin afterwards to see if there was anything else, only to find out she wrote policy for, and was a special advisor to Tony Blair. I'm glad I didn't know this before I picked the book up but don't let it put you off.
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Reasonable history, though the last 30 years seemed rushed and a bit bitty
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "Wrong Place Wrong Time" - Gillian McAllister.
2. "The Scarlet Papers" - Matthew Richardson
3. "The Year of the Locust" - Terry Hayes
4. "Kill for Me: Kill for You" - Steve Cavanagh
5"The One" - John Marrs
6. "Her Last Move" - John Marrs
7. "Rock, Paper, Scissors" -Alice Fenney
8. "Anna O" - Matthew Blake
9. 'My Name Is Nobody" - Matthew Richardson. Excellent spy thriller
2. "The Scarlet Papers" - Matthew Richardson
3. "The Year of the Locust" - Terry Hayes
4. "Kill for Me: Kill for You" - Steve Cavanagh
5"The One" - John Marrs
6. "Her Last Move" - John Marrs
7. "Rock, Paper, Scissors" -Alice Fenney
8. "Anna O" - Matthew Blake
9. 'My Name Is Nobody" - Matthew Richardson. Excellent spy thriller
Me76
Not very good lurker
hc - hard copy
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google
1/50 Face, Benjamin Zephaniah- hc
2/50 My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh - dl
3/50 Tin Toys Trilogy, Ursula Holden - g
4/50 Famished, Meghan O'Flynn - g
5/50 Mystery Girl, Kenneth Rosenberg - k
6/50 The Last Single Girl, Bria Quinlan - k
7/50 White Fang, Jack London - dl
8/50 One Last Step, Sarah Sutton- k
9/50 The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
10/50 The Humans, Matt Haig - dl
11/50 Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll- dl
12/50 See Jane Run, Joy Fielding - dl
This is awful. Please don't read it. Over written, repetitive, shit twist, crap ending.
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google
1/50 Face, Benjamin Zephaniah- hc
2/50 My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh - dl
3/50 Tin Toys Trilogy, Ursula Holden - g
4/50 Famished, Meghan O'Flynn - g
5/50 Mystery Girl, Kenneth Rosenberg - k
6/50 The Last Single Girl, Bria Quinlan - k
7/50 White Fang, Jack London - dl
8/50 One Last Step, Sarah Sutton- k
9/50 The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
10/50 The Humans, Matt Haig - dl
11/50 Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll- dl
12/50 See Jane Run, Joy Fielding - dl
This is awful. Please don't read it. Over written, repetitive, shit twist, crap ending.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Loved it.
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Loved it.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
5/24 Pavlos Roufos - A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and other Disasters
Another installment in the Brooklyn Rail "Field Notes" series that I have wanged on about previously. This is less autobiographical/novelistic than the others ones I have read. It is an excellent, quite technical but also quite readable account of the Greek crisis of the noughties. Mainly about the Greek government, Pasok, Troika, Syriza EU etc rather than the protests etc.
Another installment in the Brooklyn Rail "Field Notes" series that I have wanged on about previously. This is less autobiographical/novelistic than the others ones I have read. It is an excellent, quite technical but also quite readable account of the Greek crisis of the noughties. Mainly about the Greek government, Pasok, Troika, Syriza EU etc rather than the protests etc.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
11/29 The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (reread)
10/29 Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
Very different types of books from 50’s London and 60’s San Francisco…both very good. Lonely Londoners was even better than I remembered it.
9/29 Possession – AS Byatt
8/29 User - Bruce Benderson
7/29 Crush – Richard Siken
6/29 And Then He Sang a Lullaby – Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
5/29 Iracema – José de Alencar
4/29 The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
3/29 Where I Was From – Joan Didion
2/29 The Whale Tattoo – Jon Ransom
1/29 There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
10/29 Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
Very different types of books from 50’s London and 60’s San Francisco…both very good. Lonely Londoners was even better than I remembered it.
9/29 Possession – AS Byatt
8/29 User - Bruce Benderson
7/29 Crush – Richard Siken
6/29 And Then He Sang a Lullaby – Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
5/29 Iracema – José de Alencar
4/29 The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
3/29 Where I Was From – Joan Didion
2/29 The Whale Tattoo – Jon Ransom
1/29 There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
The cock and ball torture made me feel a bit queasy but it is a very funny book.Art school orgy is brilliant
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
6/24 Gilles Dauve & Francois Martin - The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
Reread of the ultra-left classic. Made more sense this time.
Reread of the ultra-left classic. Made more sense this time.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
That was quite shockingThe cock and ball torture made me feel a bit queasy but it is a very funny book.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/52 - Liz Nugent - Strange Sally Diamond
2/52 - Zadie Smith - NW
3/52 - Val McDermid - Past Lying
4/52 - S.A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
5/52 - Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
6/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones
7/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
8/52 - Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt (BC)
9/52 - Graham Norton - Holding
10/52 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
11/52 - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
12/52 - Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
13/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Dying Fall
14/52 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth (re-read)
15/52 - Doris Lessing - A Perfect Marriage (Martha Quest 2)
2/52 - Zadie Smith - NW
3/52 - Val McDermid - Past Lying
4/52 - S.A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
5/52 - Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
6/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones
7/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
8/52 - Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt (BC)
9/52 - Graham Norton - Holding
10/52 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
11/52 - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
12/52 - Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
13/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Dying Fall
14/52 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth (re-read)
15/52 - Doris Lessing - A Perfect Marriage (Martha Quest 2)
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27/45 Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27/45 Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
36. Sean Willson, Dark Nebula vol 1. Fairly generic SF from a StoryBundle titled "Galactic Mysteries". I will probably read the rest of the trilogy but wouldn't press them on anyone.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27/45 Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28/45 John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9/45 Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10/45 Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11/45 Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12/45 Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13/45 Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14/45 David Lodge - Changing Places
15/45 Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16/45 CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17/45 David Lodge - Small World
18/45 David Lodge - Nice Work
19/45 Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20/45 Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21/45 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22/45 Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23/45 Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24/45 Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25/45 Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27/45 Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28/45 John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
37. Sean Willson, Dark Nebula vol 2. (of 3). Even more generic wandering around in sensawunda stuff. One of the spaceships is called "The Fountainhead". I may not bother with book 3.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
1/19 Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
2/19 Charlie Allison - No Harmless Power
3/19 Andrew Kurkov - Grey Bees
4/19 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
2/19 Charlie Allison - No Harmless Power
3/19 Andrew Kurkov - Grey Bees
4/19 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
zedr
new but not *that* new
1/24 Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
2/24 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (audio book)
3/24 Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (audio book)
4/24 The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (reread, audio book)
5/24 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Really enjoyed this. Big revolutionary sci fi book. Has taken me ages to get thru tho so might wait a bit before trying the next two books.
2/24 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (audio book)
3/24 Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (audio book)
4/24 The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (reread, audio book)
5/24 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Really enjoyed this. Big revolutionary sci fi book. Has taken me ages to get thru tho so might wait a bit before trying the next two books.
shifting gears
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I just finished this myself! And said very similar a few posts up
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new but not *that* new
I also need something short now! got a few half finished non fictions things I'm tempted to read but lots of RM felt non fiction. was constantly looking up Mars' geography!I just finished this myself! And said very similar a few posts up
shifting gears
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He def did his research, proper hard sci-fi that
Finally got around to reading it last week. I loved Donuts & am just discovering through the book a lot of his other stuff. Saw the book in Rough Trade a couple of years ago & made a note to myself that I needed to track that book down.
Spot on description you give there, SG.
shifting gears
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I also entered the Dill-Arena with Donuts but then realised just how much of the 90’s stuff I used to love he’d produced
One thing that stuck with me from the book was that Questlove from The Roots (no slouch on the drums!) thought Dilla was one of the great drummers of all time, despite him playing everything on a drum machine
38. Hannah Mathewson, Wayward. Sequel to Witherward which I enjoyed. This one was also good but not as excellent. Feels like there will be a book 3 which I will read.
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new but not *that* new
1/24 Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
2/24 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (audio book)
3/24 Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (audio book)
4/24 The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (reread, audio book)
5/24 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6/24 Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie (audio book)
Thought I'd give ite a go as I like murder mystery but have never read any AC before. This was rubbish. Very weird politics, a bunch of racist tropes, all the characters were dull, twists were obvious and pointless. Assume it can't all be like this but cba to find out.
2/24 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (audio book)
3/24 Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (audio book)
4/24 The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (reread, audio book)
5/24 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6/24 Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie (audio book)
Thought I'd give ite a go as I like murder mystery but have never read any AC before. This was rubbish. Very weird politics, a bunch of racist tropes, all the characters were dull, twists were obvious and pointless. Assume it can't all be like this but cba to find out.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
1/30 David Peace - The Damned Utd
2/30 I, Partridge We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
3/30 No Way Down by Graham Bowley.
4/30 Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
5/30 Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
6/30 The Dead House by Harry Bingham
7/30 Underground Airline by Ben Winters
8/30 Who they was by Gabriel Krause
9/30 The Last - Hanna Jameson
10/30 The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman.
11/30 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
12/30 The Unfolding by AM Homes
13/30 Clothes, music, boys by Viv Albertine
It's been much recommended on here and I can see why. You don't have to be a fan of The Slits to enjoy the book. Just read it.
2/30 I, Partridge We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
3/30 No Way Down by Graham Bowley.
4/30 Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
5/30 Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
6/30 The Dead House by Harry Bingham
7/30 Underground Airline by Ben Winters
8/30 Who they was by Gabriel Krause
9/30 The Last - Hanna Jameson
10/30 The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman.
11/30 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
12/30 The Unfolding by AM Homes
13/30 Clothes, music, boys by Viv Albertine
It's been much recommended on here and I can see why. You don't have to be a fan of The Slits to enjoy the book. Just read it.
