Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
That sounds like its going right to the top of my list
Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread
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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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless (Audio book)
I thought I'd read all the HHGTTG when I was a kid and following Ska's thread on the audio books, I thought I might listen to this one again as I couldn't really remember it. Turns out I'd never read it, which was why I couldn't remember it.
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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless (Audio book)
I thought I'd read all the HHGTTG when I was a kid and following Ska's thread on the audio books, I thought I might listen to this one again as I couldn't really remember it. Turns out I'd never read it, which was why I couldn't remember it.
44. Foxglove Station
45. Rajnar Vajra - Dr Alien - three long stories about a psychiatrist working with aliens in a space opera universe. Some humour
46. Ben Aaronovitch, Hanging Tree.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
1/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (First Hypotheses)
1/45 John Fowles - The Collector
2/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class)
2/45 Claire Dederer - Monsters
3/3-3/45 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Postscript and Appendix)
4/45 Josh Davidson and Eric King (eds) - Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
5/45 Charlie Squire - Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (Un-) Belonging in Europe
6/45 Alasdair Gray - 1982, Janine
7/45 Isaac Rose - The Rentier City
8/45 Gemma Fairclough - Bear Season
9/45 PG Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves
Was visiting my parents for the weekend, a nice idle read to accompany lying around my parents' house.
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Bit heavier. I've still not read the Dickens book about the magician so dunno how it compares, and didn't realise until afterwards that it's what Uriah Heep is from, cos the Uriah Heep character is called something else in this. Pretty good, very readable for how bleak it is I suppose.
Now on Willa Cather - My Antonia. Earlier this year someone lent me 1982, Janine, a book I've been meaning to get around to reading for years, and My Antonia by Willa Cather, a book that I don't think I have ever consciously felt any desire to read (although it does crop up briefly in the Dederer book above). Having now read one full book by Willa Cather and a decent chunk of My Antonia, I feel pretty confident in saying that I do not get Willa Cather.
1/45 John Fowles - The Collector
2/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class)
2/45 Claire Dederer - Monsters
3/3-3/45 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Postscript and Appendix)
4/45 Josh Davidson and Eric King (eds) - Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
5/45 Charlie Squire - Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (Un-) Belonging in Europe
6/45 Alasdair Gray - 1982, Janine
7/45 Isaac Rose - The Rentier City
8/45 Gemma Fairclough - Bear Season
9/45 PG Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves
Was visiting my parents for the weekend, a nice idle read to accompany lying around my parents' house.
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Bit heavier. I've still not read the Dickens book about the magician so dunno how it compares, and didn't realise until afterwards that it's what Uriah Heep is from, cos the Uriah Heep character is called something else in this. Pretty good, very readable for how bleak it is I suppose.
Now on Willa Cather - My Antonia. Earlier this year someone lent me 1982, Janine, a book I've been meaning to get around to reading for years, and My Antonia by Willa Cather, a book that I don't think I have ever consciously felt any desire to read (although it does crop up briefly in the Dederer book above). Having now read one full book by Willa Cather and a decent chunk of My Antonia, I feel pretty confident in saying that I do not get Willa Cather.
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
29/45 Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30/45 Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
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
29/45 Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30/45 Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
1/19 Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism?
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
Book about various signs natural and otherwise on,in or around water. Rivers, puddles, steams etc. Whether it is finding water by the types of flowers growing or navigating at sea by ripples or the stars it is very interesting for the kind of tuss who keeps a tide timetable (or two) in their pocket.
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
Book about various signs natural and otherwise on,in or around water. Rivers, puddles, steams etc. Whether it is finding water by the types of flowers growing or navigating at sea by ripples or the stars it is very interesting for the kind of tuss who keeps a tide timetable (or two) in their pocket.
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)
16/52 - Clare Chambers - In a Good Light
17/52 - Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (re-read)
18/52 - Doug Johnstone - A Dark Matter
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)
16/52 - Clare Chambers - In a Good Light
17/52 - Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (re-read)
18/52 - Doug Johnstone - A Dark Matter
47. Ben Aaranovitch. Lies Sleeping.
(really need a break from these but...)
braindancer
not for long
1/20 - The Book of Koli - M.R.Carey
2/20 - Lessons - Ian McEwan
3/20 - The Rise of Koli - M.R. Carey
4/20 - The Fall of Koli - M.R. Carey
5/20 - Foster - Claire Keegan
6/20 - Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2/20 - Lessons - Ian McEwan
3/20 - The Rise of Koli - M.R. Carey
4/20 - The Fall of Koli - M.R. Carey
5/20 - Foster - Claire Keegan
6/20 - Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
48. False Value.
49. Amongst our Weapons.
OK, there's a book of short stories I'm also reading, and there are some novellas, but hopefully I've mostly put Ben Aaronovitch to one side for the moment...
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I have this mental image of an old family retainer offering you a drink on a tray and saying "your martini, young master Hitmouse"
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
13/29 Family Meal – Bryan Washington
A gay novel set in Houston since I left…a great book.
12/29 Mona of the Manor – Armistead Maupin
11/29 The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (reread)
10/29 Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
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
A gay novel set in Houston since I left…a great book.
12/29 Mona of the Manor – Armistead Maupin
11/29 The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (reread)
10/29 Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
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
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
is it the radio programme? I'd quite like to hear Peter Jones again
nogojones
spelling is overrated
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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
23/45 Detlef Singer - Garden Birds of Britain & Europe
Detlef and I clearly have very different gardens. I've never seen a swan in mine, and herring gulls don't even get a mention. Big fail.
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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
23/45 Detlef Singer - Garden Birds of Britain & Europe
Detlef and I clearly have very different gardens. I've never seen a swan in mine, and herring gulls don't even get a mention. Big fail.
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50. Martha Wells - The Book of Ile-Rien 1, The Element of Fire. Fantasy novel in an interesting world, close up politics of an attempted coup with magic and Fae. Reminded me a lot of John M Ford's unfinished book Aspects, similar feel somehow.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
1/36 Diaries 1980–1988: Halfway to Hollywood – The Film Years by Michael Palin
2/36 The Bingo Hall Detectives by Jonathan Whitelaw
3/36 Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth (Audiobook)
4/36 Heart of Dart-ness: Bullseyes, Boozers and Modern Britain by Ned Boulting
5/36 Pulp’s This is Hardcore by Jane Savidge
6/36 Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
7/36 Keeffe Plays: 1: Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway), Barbarians (Killing Time, Abide with Me, in the City) by Barrie Keefe
Barrie Keefe's best known for writing the screenplay for The Long Good Friday but his Play For Today, Gotcha, is just as good and deserves a wider audience.
2/36 The Bingo Hall Detectives by Jonathan Whitelaw
3/36 Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth (Audiobook)
4/36 Heart of Dart-ness: Bullseyes, Boozers and Modern Britain by Ned Boulting
5/36 Pulp’s This is Hardcore by Jane Savidge
6/36 Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
7/36 Keeffe Plays: 1: Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway), Barbarians (Killing Time, Abide with Me, in the City) by Barrie Keefe
Barrie Keefe's best known for writing the screenplay for The Long Good Friday but his Play For Today, Gotcha, is just as good and deserves a wider audience.
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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
23/45 Detlef Singer - Garden Birds of Britain & Europe
24/45 Charles C. Mann - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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
19/45 Joanna Nadin - The Queen of Bloody Everything
20/45 Lucy Inglis - Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
21/45 Frank Kitson - Low Intensity Operations
22/45 Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
23/45 Detlef Singer - Garden Birds of Britain & Europe
24/45 Charles C. Mann - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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
29/45 Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30/45 Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31/45 Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32/45 Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33/45 Terry Pratchett - Jingo
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
29/45 Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30/45 Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31/45 Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32/45 Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33/45 Terry Pratchett - Jingo
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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
6/24 Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie (audio book)
7/24 Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky (audiobook)
8/24 Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
9/24 The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville
fun little novella tho i know fuck all about surrealism which might have helped a bit. didn't enjoy it as much as all his other hits ive read.
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)
7/24 Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky (audiobook)
8/24 Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
9/24 The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville
fun little novella tho i know fuck all about surrealism which might have helped a bit. didn't enjoy it as much as all his other hits ive read.
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
14/30 Misery by Stephen King
15/30 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray When it started I feared it may be a twee Aga saga in small town Ireland. But it turned into a fantastic read about families and secrets . Highly recommended
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
14/30 Misery by Stephen King
15/30 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray When it started I feared it may be a twee Aga saga in small town Ireland. But it turned into a fantastic read about families and secrets . Highly recommended
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1/19 Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism?
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
10/19 Sybille Steinbacher - Auschwitz: A history
A short history of Auschwitz focusing mainly on the camps but a fair bit on the town and surrounding areas. It starts with a short history of the area including its Jewish population then details the changes after the German invasion and the development of the camps and the crimes committed there. It then goes a into various trials of the participants after the war and a brief outline of some of the arguments of deniers then points. A good read and despite the subject and bring horrifying in its own right not as harrowing as something like Primo Levi's If this is a man.
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
10/19 Sybille Steinbacher - Auschwitz: A history
A short history of Auschwitz focusing mainly on the camps but a fair bit on the town and surrounding areas. It starts with a short history of the area including its Jewish population then details the changes after the German invasion and the development of the camps and the crimes committed there. It then goes a into various trials of the participants after the war and a brief outline of some of the arguments of deniers then points. A good read and despite the subject and bring horrifying in its own right not as harrowing as something like Primo Levi's If this is a man.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1. Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2. John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3. Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5. Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6. Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7. Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9. Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10. Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12. Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13. Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14. David Lodge - Changing Places
15. Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16. CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17. David Lodge - Small World
18. David Lodge - Nice Work
19. Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20. Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21. Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22. Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23. Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24. Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25. Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27. Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28. John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
29. Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30. Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31. Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32. Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33. Terry Pratchett - Jingo
34. Huey Morgan - Rebel Heroes: The Renegades of Music and Why We Still Need Them (audiobook)
2. John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3. Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5. Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6. Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7. Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9. Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10. Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12. Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13. Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14. David Lodge - Changing Places
15. Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16. CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17. David Lodge - Small World
18. David Lodge - Nice Work
19. Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20. Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21. Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22. Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23. Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24. Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25. Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27. Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28. John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
29. Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30. Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31. Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32. Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33. Terry Pratchett - Jingo
34. Huey Morgan - Rebel Heroes: The Renegades of Music and Why We Still Need Them (audiobook)
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
1 The Long Good-Bye : Raymond Chandler (reread)
2 The Last Coyote : Michael Connelly
3 Suttree : Cormac McCarthy (reread)
4 The Christmas Gift : Ernest Hemingway
5 Outback : Patricia Wolf
6 The Medici Murders : David Hewson
7 Light in August : William Faulkner
8 Under Earth : Chris Gooch
9 The Journey of Crazy Horse : J M Marshall III
10 Blitzed : Norman Ohler
11 The Bone Readers : Jacob Ross
12 Red Wind : Raymond Chandler
13 The Clan of the Cave Bear : Jean M. Auel
14 The Player of Games : Iain M. Banks (reread)
15 Elon Musk : Ashlee Vance
16 Coasting: A Private Journey : Jonathan Raban
17 Old Glory down the Mississippi: Jonathan Raban
18 Slow Road to San Francisco : David Reynolds
19 The Trouble with Peace : Joe Abercrombie
20 Pryor Convictions : Richard Pryor
21 The Lost Years : W W Johnstone,J A Johnstone
22 My Family and Other Animals : Gerald Durrell
23 Canoeing The Congo : Phil Harwood
24 The Glass Pearls : Emeric Pressburger
2 The Last Coyote : Michael Connelly
3 Suttree : Cormac McCarthy (reread)
4 The Christmas Gift : Ernest Hemingway
5 Outback : Patricia Wolf
6 The Medici Murders : David Hewson
7 Light in August : William Faulkner
8 Under Earth : Chris Gooch
9 The Journey of Crazy Horse : J M Marshall III
10 Blitzed : Norman Ohler
11 The Bone Readers : Jacob Ross
12 Red Wind : Raymond Chandler
13 The Clan of the Cave Bear : Jean M. Auel
14 The Player of Games : Iain M. Banks (reread)
15 Elon Musk : Ashlee Vance
16 Coasting: A Private Journey : Jonathan Raban
17 Old Glory down the Mississippi: Jonathan Raban
18 Slow Road to San Francisco : David Reynolds
19 The Trouble with Peace : Joe Abercrombie
20 Pryor Convictions : Richard Pryor
21 The Lost Years : W W Johnstone,J A Johnstone
22 My Family and Other Animals : Gerald Durrell
23 Canoeing The Congo : Phil Harwood
24 The Glass Pearls : Emeric Pressburger
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
13/50 Panic, Jeff Abbot - hc
14/50 Anatomy of a Soldier, Harry Parker - g
15/50 Serena, Ron Rash - dl
16/50 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid - dl
Loved both of these. Evelyn Hugo slightly more, but both brilliant.
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
13/50 Panic, Jeff Abbot - hc
14/50 Anatomy of a Soldier, Harry Parker - g
15/50 Serena, Ron Rash - dl
16/50 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid - dl
Loved both of these. Evelyn Hugo slightly more, but both brilliant.
53. Martha Wells, Books of Ile-Rien 2: The Death of the Necromancer. Different in feel to the first one and set quite a lot later in fantasy world history, it's a revenge/underworld tale that kept me engaged to the end. Would read again. In fact, I see there is also a trilogy set in the same world and I'll go look those out.
1/50 The State of Capitalism by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
2/50 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
3/50 The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
4/50 Army of Lovers by K.M. Soehnlein
5/50 Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
6/50 Sanditon by Jane Austen
7/50 Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
8/50 Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
9/50 A Long Time Dead by Samara Berger
10/50 Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century by George Katsiaficas
11/50 Maigret at Picratt’s by Georges Simenon
12/50 Matrix by Lauren Groff
13/50 Persuasion by Jane Austen
14/50 The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
15/50 Hôtel Splendid by Marie Redonnet
16/50 Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
17/50 The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Excellent portrait of the ships used in the Atlantic slave trade both in terms of the architecture of transportation, control and torture, and also as the stage of the struggle between enslaved and their captors as well as between crews and their captains.
2/50 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
3/50 The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
4/50 Army of Lovers by K.M. Soehnlein
5/50 Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
6/50 Sanditon by Jane Austen
7/50 Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
8/50 Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
9/50 A Long Time Dead by Samara Berger
10/50 Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century by George Katsiaficas
11/50 Maigret at Picratt’s by Georges Simenon
12/50 Matrix by Lauren Groff
13/50 Persuasion by Jane Austen
14/50 The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
15/50 Hôtel Splendid by Marie Redonnet
16/50 Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
17/50 The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Excellent portrait of the ships used in the Atlantic slave trade both in terms of the architecture of transportation, control and torture, and also as the stage of the struggle between enslaved and their captors as well as between crews and their captains.
