pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I'm aiming for 29, one more than last year.
Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread
- Thread starter Pickman's model
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
1. malcolm tozer (ed. ), "bright the vision: public school missions from the victorian age" (portscatho: sunnyrest, 2023)
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "Wrong Place Wrong Time" - Gillian McAllister. Really, really, enjoyed this, great story, strong characters. Excellent
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
If we're including books read in part, then:
1/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (First Hypotheses)
Still finding it hard going but my stupid pride won't let me give up reading the same book twice so I think I'm going to take a break, then come back and tackle Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class, then have another break, and then do the postscript and appendix, which should be a doddle. And if I can get through that maybe it'll be time to reattempt Briefing for a Descent into Hell.
Now gonna try starting John Fowles - The Collector. Kidnappy novel that I don't think you need to have read Capital to understand.
1/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (First Hypotheses)
Still finding it hard going but my stupid pride won't let me give up reading the same book twice so I think I'm going to take a break, then come back and tackle Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class, then have another break, and then do the postscript and appendix, which should be a doddle. And if I can get through that maybe it'll be time to reattempt Briefing for a Descent into Hell.
Now gonna try starting John Fowles - The Collector. Kidnappy novel that I don't think you need to have read Capital to understand.
Is there no footnote in volume 2 about ransoms?
braindancer
not for long
Last year was a dud for reading for me. I'd participated in this thread for donkey's years but phased out in Spring last year. I feel like my reading mojo may be returning so I'm going to for 20 this year....
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Wow I thought I would have got through more Pratchett than that on my own, may have read it pre-finding this thread though as usually do a full go through each year. Think the Doyle may be all mine tho.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I am off for 30 again. This year I hope that as soon as I hit it, I won't stop reading again for a month. I started on a book that is okay, but hardly brilliant, and I want to finish it before starting on any of the far more interesting looking books. This may be a mistake.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
I just realised I tracked my first book before posting my target 
I'm aiming for 45 again but will also include some of the comic books I haven't bothered to track in previous years. Basically if it has an entry on Goodreads I'll include it here.
I'm aiming for 45 again but will also include some of the comic books I haven't bothered to track in previous years. Basically if it has an entry on Goodreads I'll include it here.
PTK
Paul Kegan
I'd forgotten that I bought the Tronti book a couple of years ago. Thanks for mentioning it. I may try to give it a go, but I am not sure if it would be worth it.
"Briefing for a Descent into Hell" I read when I was about 16, and had no problem with it, but I could read any fiction in those days, and am now about 50 years older, and some fiction I just cannot read.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
there are elements of the plot which only make complete sense if you have a good understanding of the alienation marx outlines in 'the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844'
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's entirely up to you how you define a book, but if your comics have either an isbn or an issn then they're definitely in thereI just realised I tracked my first book before posting my target
zedr
new but not *that* new
enjoyed seeing all the lists of books from last years thread. tried to write my own but realised I'd forgotten a bunch of things I'd read in the early part of the year so this is in part for my memory as much as anything else.
gonna try for 24//two a month but that's probably going to be a bit of a stretch tbh.
gonna try for 24//two a month but that's probably going to be a bit of a stretch tbh.
1/20 Simple Fire: Selected Short Stories - George Mackay Brown
2/20 The Bone Shard War - Andrea Stewart
It's not so essential here, with road access from this island to the library over in Kirkwall, but as a separate reading-related goal I'm going to try and start using the library bus when it comes around. The service isn't at risk afaik but it can't hurt to support it nonetheless.
2/20 The Bone Shard War - Andrea Stewart
It's not so essential here, with road access from this island to the library over in Kirkwall, but as a separate reading-related goal I'm going to try and start using the library bus when it comes around. The service isn't at risk afaik but it can't hurt to support it nonetheless.
kalmatthew
Lurker Extrodinaire
2/60 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
PTK
Paul Kegan
I like good science fiction, but I could never get into Lessing's Canopus in Argos SF novels.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Nice, I finished a book!
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
2/29 The Whale Tattoo – Jon Ransom
1/29 There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
1/29 There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Been a fair while since I read it but I was just recommending it to someone the other week, is it as good as I remember it being?
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Yeah. I really enjoyed it. Lots of fun.
Aiming for 50 this year 
1/50 The State of Capitalism by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
A fairly broad look at the challenges facing capitalism in the wake of the pandemic crisis. Little focus on class struggle except for a few vague references as seems to be usual for these kind of books, I think there would have been plenty of scope for it especially around productivity which already figures prominently. Where the book is strong is on financialised capital - banks and shadow banks, world money and US hegemony and its growing rivalry with China. The chapter on the EU was probably more than was warranted but it’s to be expected from Lapavitsas and it was still interesting. Lapavitsas and co write very clearly and accessibly written which is always a plus, it made a good follow up to Roberts and Carchedi's Capitalism in the 21st Century and Adam Tooze's Crashed.
1/50 The State of Capitalism by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
A fairly broad look at the challenges facing capitalism in the wake of the pandemic crisis. Little focus on class struggle except for a few vague references as seems to be usual for these kind of books, I think there would have been plenty of scope for it especially around productivity which already figures prominently. Where the book is strong is on financialised capital - banks and shadow banks, world money and US hegemony and its growing rivalry with China. The chapter on the EU was probably more than was warranted but it’s to be expected from Lapavitsas and it was still interesting. Lapavitsas and co write very clearly and accessibly written which is always a plus, it made a good follow up to Roberts and Carchedi's Capitalism in the 21st Century and Adam Tooze's Crashed.
Jennaonthebeach
What would Picard do?
I've lost my Kindle, dammit!
kalmatthew
Lurker Extrodinaire
3/60 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
