No I do parallel reading. Usually there are a few non fiction sitting part read. I try not to leave fiction unread but there are a few of those...
Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread
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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
26 The Book of Koli : M. R. Carey
27 The Klondike Stampede : Tappan Adney
28 Desert Solitaire : Edward Abbey
29 The Escape Artist : J Freedland
30 All the Pretty Horses : Cormac McCarthy(reread)
31 Island of the Lost : Joan Druett
32 The Sins of the Fathers : Lawrence Block
33 Blood River : Tim Butcher
34 Deep Water : Emma Bamford
35 The Orchard Keeper : Cormac McCarthy
36 Rainbow's End : Lauren St. John
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
26 The Book of Koli : M. R. Carey
27 The Klondike Stampede : Tappan Adney
28 Desert Solitaire : Edward Abbey
29 The Escape Artist : J Freedland
30 All the Pretty Horses : Cormac McCarthy(reread)
31 Island of the Lost : Joan Druett
32 The Sins of the Fathers : Lawrence Block
33 Blood River : Tim Butcher
34 Deep Water : Emma Bamford
35 The Orchard Keeper : Cormac McCarthy
36 Rainbow's End : Lauren St. John
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Gay romance set in late 50s New York. This one isn’t so concerned with secrecy although it is inevitably a theme, instead it is more focused on trusting people with knowing and I thought it explored that well and sometimes in an unexpected way. Less successful was the class tension trope which it never really commits to and was mainly set up so a minor problem later in the book could be magicked away with money. Other than that I liked it.
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
I started this early in the year and found it annoying and a bit too studenty or something and I gave up on it very quickly. It begins with a quote from Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value which must be unique for a novel but probably made me inclined to dislike it from the start. Anyway I picked it up again and although to be fair there was a few glimpses of something almost good at least enough that I made it to the end, it was still disappointing.
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
Gay romance set in late 50s New York. This one isn’t so concerned with secrecy although it is inevitably a theme, instead it is more focused on trusting people with knowing and I thought it explored that well and sometimes in an unexpected way. Less successful was the class tension trope which it never really commits to and was mainly set up so a minor problem later in the book could be magicked away with money. Other than that I liked it.
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
I started this early in the year and found it annoying and a bit too studenty or something and I gave up on it very quickly. It begins with a quote from Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value which must be unique for a novel but probably made me inclined to dislike it from the start. Anyway I picked it up again and although to be fair there was a few glimpses of something almost good at least enough that I made it to the end, it was still disappointing.
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
25/45 Elizabeth Nelson - The British Counter-culture 1966-73: A Study of the Underground Press
26/45 Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
27/45 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
28/45 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest
29/45 Harsha Walia - Border and Rule
30/45 Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees
31/45 Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
She fair hands it to Bernstein. Remember those days when people believed reforms might happen?
32/45 Lauren Berlant - On the Inconvenience of Other People
My inner misanthrope made me pick this up because of the title alone. It nearly put me off reading. I'd read a paragraph, check the dictionary for the words I'd never heard of before, re-read it a couple of times to check my dyslexic brain hadn't transposed words and still be no clearer about what she was wittering on about. There were moments of beautiful writing, but 80% was impenetrable to my clearly thick skull.
33/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Well... at least I understood what he was going on about. The kindest thing I can say is... it was of it's time. I can't see myself reading anything else by him.
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
25/45 Elizabeth Nelson - The British Counter-culture 1966-73: A Study of the Underground Press
26/45 Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
27/45 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
28/45 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest
29/45 Harsha Walia - Border and Rule
30/45 Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees
31/45 Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
She fair hands it to Bernstein. Remember those days when people believed reforms might happen?
32/45 Lauren Berlant - On the Inconvenience of Other People
My inner misanthrope made me pick this up because of the title alone. It nearly put me off reading. I'd read a paragraph, check the dictionary for the words I'd never heard of before, re-read it a couple of times to check my dyslexic brain hadn't transposed words and still be no clearer about what she was wittering on about. There were moments of beautiful writing, but 80% was impenetrable to my clearly thick skull.
33/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Well... at least I understood what he was going on about. The kindest thing I can say is... it was of it's time. I can't see myself reading anything else by him.
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
31/50 BFFs by Anahit Behrooz
Short discussion of depictions of female friendship in films and literature. Not much to it but quite nice and thoughtful.
32/50 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
Even though I’ve not had a high success rate with new gothic I somehow seem to have permanently convinced myself I will like them every time. In this case I was a bit put off by the bad title but my over optimism about these type of novels paid off because I gave it a go and it was actually really good. It heavily features ghosts without being much of a ghost story more of a fatalistic and morbidly twisted love story. It made effective use of a post-imperial Dutch setting to bring colonialism and racism into the blood and decay of gothic (although if anything I would have liked it to be tied in more) and overall I felt like it developed the power and atmosphere of place more thoroughly than most new gothic. A nice sort of surprise this one.
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
31/50 BFFs by Anahit Behrooz
Short discussion of depictions of female friendship in films and literature. Not much to it but quite nice and thoughtful.
32/50 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
Even though I’ve not had a high success rate with new gothic I somehow seem to have permanently convinced myself I will like them every time. In this case I was a bit put off by the bad title but my over optimism about these type of novels paid off because I gave it a go and it was actually really good. It heavily features ghosts without being much of a ghost story more of a fatalistic and morbidly twisted love story. It made effective use of a post-imperial Dutch setting to bring colonialism and racism into the blood and decay of gothic (although if anything I would have liked it to be tied in more) and overall I felt like it developed the power and atmosphere of place more thoroughly than most new gothic. A nice sort of surprise this one.
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imposs1904
Thread Killa'
nogojones
spelling is overrated
It's urban, so pretty fucking oldFFS, how old do you think we are?
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
And you'd be right.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I mean, it's easier to guess when you have posters who put the year of their birth in their usernames.FFS, how old do you think we are?
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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood - badly written police thriller. Not 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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood - badly written police thriller. Not recommended
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
10/24 Richard Norris - Strange Things Are Happening: Adventures in Music
Norris grew up in St Albans, same as me - but is five years older. He also, like me, spent a fair bit of time knocking about with Genesis P-Orridge in the late 80s and early 90s. I met him briefly at an acid house night in our home town and he was very lovely to a bug-eyed teenage me. So I was always going to read this, but I think it really works as a book on its own two feet. The early chapters are a nice account of youth and becoming obssessed with music, followed by early small-town bands and their petty feuds. Then a walloping account of early acid house parties and music and the adventures begin. Norris meets Soft Cell's Dave Ball via Genesis P-O and they form The Grid together and have their novely pop hit "Swamp Thing" which I never liked, as well as their incredible first album which I would recommend to anyone. This is followed by the usual bollocks of hob knobbing with celebrities and drugs (which is done with a warm self-deprecation). The closing sections are nicely reflective and a return to the magic of music with some outstanding new projects in the psych / dub / drone genres. A fun read - good for holidays I reckon! Wild cover art on the book also...
Norris grew up in St Albans, same as me - but is five years older. He also, like me, spent a fair bit of time knocking about with Genesis P-Orridge in the late 80s and early 90s. I met him briefly at an acid house night in our home town and he was very lovely to a bug-eyed teenage me. So I was always going to read this, but I think it really works as a book on its own two feet. The early chapters are a nice account of youth and becoming obssessed with music, followed by early small-town bands and their petty feuds. Then a walloping account of early acid house parties and music and the adventures begin. Norris meets Soft Cell's Dave Ball via Genesis P-O and they form The Grid together and have their novely pop hit "Swamp Thing" which I never liked, as well as their incredible first album which I would recommend to anyone. This is followed by the usual bollocks of hob knobbing with celebrities and drugs (which is done with a warm self-deprecation). The closing sections are nicely reflective and a return to the magic of music with some outstanding new projects in the psych / dub / drone genres. A fun read - good for holidays I reckon! Wild cover art on the book also...
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
11/24 Daniel Poyner (ed) - Autonomy: The cover designs of Anarchy 1961-1970
Mainly this is the actual cover designs of the London-based monthly anarchist journal edited by Colin Ward. And they are very lovely and mainly designed by Rufus Segar. The artwork is bookended by some pretty good articles contextualising the era in which the journal was produced and a nice interview with Segar himself.
Mainly this is the actual cover designs of the London-based monthly anarchist journal edited by Colin Ward. And they are very lovely and mainly designed by Rufus Segar. The artwork is bookended by some pretty good articles contextualising the era in which the journal was produced and a nice interview with Segar himself.
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
10. "The Drift" - CJ Tudor
11. "The Other People" - C.J. Tudor
12. "The Marriage Act" - John Marrs
13. "Strung" - Per Jacobson
14. "Conviction" - Jack Jordan
15. "No One Saw A Thing" - Andrea Marr. Excellent thriller, really devoured this.
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
10. "The Drift" - CJ Tudor
11. "The Other People" - C.J. Tudor
12. "The Marriage Act" - John Marrs
13. "Strung" - Per Jacobson
14. "Conviction" - Jack Jordan
15. "No One Saw A Thing" - Andrea Marr. Excellent thriller, really devoured this.
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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
26/30 A death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger. When the writer was a child in Boston in the 1960s, a local woman called Bessie Goldberg was strangled. A man was arrested shortly after and convicted, Some time later, a builder who'd been working on Junger's house was arrested and confessed to being the Boston strangler. The book investigates who actually killed Bessie Goldberg.
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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
26/30 A death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger. When the writer was a child in Boston in the 1960s, a local woman called Bessie Goldberg was strangled. A man was arrested shortly after and convicted, Some time later, a builder who'd been working on Junger's house was arrested and confessed to being the Boston strangler. The book investigates who actually killed Bessie Goldberg.
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
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
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
11/45 Willa Cather - My Antonia
12/45 Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
13/45 Richard Wright - Native Son
14/45 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
15/45 John Berger and Jean Mohr - Another Way of Telling
16/45 Tao Lin - Leave Society
17/45 Miranda July - All Fours
18/45 Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
19/45 Hilary White - Holes
20/45 Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
Fantastically bonkers book, one of those novels where pretty much every character is off their rocker and has now idea why they're doing anything. Made me think of perhaps a less dark Shirley Jackson, or a gayer, less dark Flannery O'Connor where I'm nearly sure it's not trying to teach me a cryptic lesson about Catholicism, or maybe John Kennedy Toole? Having now read the introduction, it compares it to Carson McCullers and Djuna Barnes, but I've not read them. Oh, and one of the two protagonists is called Miss Goering, which is certainly a choice, especially for a book published in 1943. Full of dialogue like "This lady here was saying that after all it did nobody any harm to relax and have a lovely time." "Perhaps it does more harm than anything else to date to have a lovely time." and "I don't get much enjoyment out of anything but thinking my own thoughts, anyway." "I just hate thinking mine, Frank".
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
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
11/45 Willa Cather - My Antonia
12/45 Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
13/45 Richard Wright - Native Son
14/45 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
15/45 John Berger and Jean Mohr - Another Way of Telling
16/45 Tao Lin - Leave Society
17/45 Miranda July - All Fours
18/45 Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
19/45 Hilary White - Holes
20/45 Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
Fantastically bonkers book, one of those novels where pretty much every character is off their rocker and has now idea why they're doing anything. Made me think of perhaps a less dark Shirley Jackson, or a gayer, less dark Flannery O'Connor where I'm nearly sure it's not trying to teach me a cryptic lesson about Catholicism, or maybe John Kennedy Toole? Having now read the introduction, it compares it to Carson McCullers and Djuna Barnes, but I've not read them. Oh, and one of the two protagonists is called Miss Goering, which is certainly a choice, especially for a book published in 1943. Full of dialogue like "This lady here was saying that after all it did nobody any harm to relax and have a lovely time." "Perhaps it does more harm than anything else to date to have a lovely time." and "I don't get much enjoyment out of anything but thinking my own thoughts, anyway." "I just hate thinking mine, Frank".
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/60 Silent Prey - John Sandford.
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
1/30 - Lexie Conyngham - Tomb for an Eagle
2/30 - Michael Eaton - B*llocks -A Word on Trial
3/30 - Paul Simpson - Revolutionary Spirit
4/30 - Joe Thomas - Red Menace
5/30 - Daniel Clowes - Monica
6/30 - Will Sergeant - Echoes
7/30 - Wu Ming - 54
8/30 - Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl, my life as a feminist punk
9/30 - Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudon
10/30 - Volodomyr Ishchenko - Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
11/30 - Dan Kavanagh - Duffy
12/30 - Samantha Schweblin - Little Eyes
13/30 - Tabitha Stanmore - Cunning Folk: Life in the Age of Practical Magic
14/30 - Nathalie Olah - Bad Taste
15/30 - Luke Haines - Freaks Out! Weirdos, Misfits & Deviants - The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock 'n' Roll
16/30 - Willy Vlautin - The Horse
The Delines/Richmond Fontaine singer writes another cheery novel about a guy who just loves playing the guitar, but is, in every other way, a complete fuck up. And a horse.*
17/30 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Silver Nitrate
Mexican horror movies and nazi occultists abound in this fun novel about the search for a long lost film and the powers it might contain.
*A horse features in the novel as well. The man isn't a horse.
2/30 - Michael Eaton - B*llocks -A Word on Trial
3/30 - Paul Simpson - Revolutionary Spirit
4/30 - Joe Thomas - Red Menace
5/30 - Daniel Clowes - Monica
6/30 - Will Sergeant - Echoes
7/30 - Wu Ming - 54
8/30 - Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl, my life as a feminist punk
9/30 - Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudon
10/30 - Volodomyr Ishchenko - Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
11/30 - Dan Kavanagh - Duffy
12/30 - Samantha Schweblin - Little Eyes
13/30 - Tabitha Stanmore - Cunning Folk: Life in the Age of Practical Magic
14/30 - Nathalie Olah - Bad Taste
15/30 - Luke Haines - Freaks Out! Weirdos, Misfits & Deviants - The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock 'n' Roll
16/30 - Willy Vlautin - The Horse
The Delines/Richmond Fontaine singer writes another cheery novel about a guy who just loves playing the guitar, but is, in every other way, a complete fuck up. And a horse.*
17/30 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Silver Nitrate
Mexican horror movies and nazi occultists abound in this fun novel about the search for a long lost film and the powers it might contain.
*A horse features in the novel as well. The man isn't a horse.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Vlautin and his horses. What's he like?
Wonderful writer. Sadly, I can't get into his music.
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
31/50 BFFs by Anahit Behrooz
32/50 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
33/50 Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
Two young women go on a jolly to a small imaginary fascist statelet in interwar Europe. A bit odd and archly funny. I’m not really sure what to make of this one although it was entertaining enough, the one thing I am sure of is Aickman was much too obsessed with what all the female characters are wearing.
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
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
31/50 BFFs by Anahit Behrooz
32/50 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
33/50 Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
Two young women go on a jolly to a small imaginary fascist statelet in interwar Europe. A bit odd and archly funny. I’m not really sure what to make of this one although it was entertaining enough, the one thing I am sure of is Aickman was much too obsessed with what all the female characters are wearing.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Oh, I really liked the sitcom about about a man who is both a complete fuck up, and a horse, so would definitely have read a novel that was on similar lines.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
1/31 Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
2/31 Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé
3/31 Buying Time - Wolfgang Streeck
4/31 Too Late to Awaken - Slavoj Zizek
5/31 Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
6/31 2023 A Trilogy - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
7/31 The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
8/31 The Long '68 - Richard Vinen
9/31 The State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
10/31 Goldmund and Narcisuss - Herman Hesse
I've fallen behind a bit will catch up.
I'm about to finish 11/31 NW - Zadie Smith (excellent) in the next 24 hours.
I've also started 'La guerra del fin del mundo' - Mario Vargas Llosa - Spanish version of what I presume is originally a Portuguese language book.
I've bought The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster - which was my favourite book as a child and eager to see if it's as good as I remember it.
On Beauty - the third and final Zadie Smith book I'll read this year just arrived, and Excession, the next Culture book by Iain M. Banks is on its way. i'll probably squeeze one or two more of his in by the end of the year.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Vargas Llosa from Peru, so it'd be weird if they translated a Spanish language into Portuguese and then back into Spanish . . . but if it's more overtime for literary translators, why not?
Despite Vargas Llosa's shitty politics, I love his novels.
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
25/45 Elizabeth Nelson - The British Counter-culture 1966-73: A Study of the Underground Press
26/45 Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
27/45 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
28/45 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest
29/45 Harsha Walia - Border and Rule
30/45 Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees
31/45 Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
32/45 Lauren Berlant - On the Inconvenience of Other People
33/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
34/45 Viktor Haynes & Olga Semyonova Ed. - Workers Against the Gulag
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
25/45 Elizabeth Nelson - The British Counter-culture 1966-73: A Study of the Underground Press
26/45 Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
27/45 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
28/45 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest
29/45 Harsha Walia - Border and Rule
30/45 Elif Shafak - The Island of Missing Trees
31/45 Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
32/45 Lauren Berlant - On the Inconvenience of Other People
33/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
34/45 Viktor Haynes & Olga Semyonova Ed. - Workers Against the Gulag
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Reviewed in the June 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard . . . by a bloke who lived in Moscow as a Communist Youth International representative in the 1920s.
Harry Young in Moscow
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Most of it was just lists of workers who were sent to psychiatric hospitals for complaining about their manager, but there were also some pretty grim eyewitness accounts of the Novocherkassk strikes and massacre.
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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
26/30 A death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
27/30 Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel. It's a ten years after follow up to Every Day is Mother's Day. I prefer her contemporary novels to her historical ones.
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
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
26/30 A death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
27/30 Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel. It's a ten years after follow up to Every Day is Mother's Day. I prefer her contemporary novels to her historical ones.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Check out the graun today
‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing
‘It was a smash in loads of countries. When we played it at London’s Ministry of Sound club, there was a girl staring at Roger’s banjo like she’d never seen one before’
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
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
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
11/45 Willa Cather - My Antonia
12/45 Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
13/45 Richard Wright - Native Son
14/45 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
15/45 John Berger and Jean Mohr - Another Way of Telling
16/45 Tao Lin - Leave Society
17/45 Miranda July - All Fours
18/45 Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
19/45 Hilary White - Holes
20/45 Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
21/45 Jane Huffman - Public Abstract
Really expanding my knowledge of books by writers called Jane this month. This one barely counts as a book though, cos it's poetry so it's mostly just a load of line breaks. Not the sort of poetry I'm most familiar with, I think I mostly know less structured stuff whereas Huffman seems to be more into odes and sestinas and haibun and the like, very formal. Not sure how much of it works for me, maybe some of it would be better heard out loud? And some bits of it are definitely good, I always feel that if you're not that bothered either way about most of something and then some bits are definitely good then it counts as a win overall.
Proably gonna go for Alexander Billet - Shake the City next.
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
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
11/45 Willa Cather - My Antonia
12/45 Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
13/45 Richard Wright - Native Son
14/45 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
15/45 John Berger and Jean Mohr - Another Way of Telling
16/45 Tao Lin - Leave Society
17/45 Miranda July - All Fours
18/45 Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
19/45 Hilary White - Holes
20/45 Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
21/45 Jane Huffman - Public Abstract
Really expanding my knowledge of books by writers called Jane this month. This one barely counts as a book though, cos it's poetry so it's mostly just a load of line breaks. Not the sort of poetry I'm most familiar with, I think I mostly know less structured stuff whereas Huffman seems to be more into odes and sestinas and haibun and the like, very formal. Not sure how much of it works for me, maybe some of it would be better heard out loud? And some bits of it are definitely good, I always feel that if you're not that bothered either way about most of something and then some bits are definitely good then it counts as a win overall.
Proably gonna go for Alexander Billet - Shake the City next.
