muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
I guess if I want to read more books, the trick is to read shorter books?
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
Like any collection of short stories, some are better than others, but I pretty much enjoyed all of these. Possibly helped that half of them were set within a mile of here
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
Like any collection of short stories, some are better than others, but I pretty much enjoyed all of these. Possibly helped that half of them were set within a mile of here
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
2/29 Stewart Home (ed) - Denizen of the Dead: The Horrors of Clarendon Court
Thoroughly enjoyable anthology of horror short stories, all set in a real luxury block of flats in Golden Lane on the border of Islington and the City of London. The book can be seen as part of the anti-gentrification campaign against both Taylor Wimpey (who demolished a council block to create 99 luxury flats) and the new super rich residents, many of whom are Chinese or from Hong Kong.
There is a good combination of overt violent horror and more covert unease - of things not being quite right amongst the hallways and uninhabitated "ghost flats". This is matched with the overt references to local community activism and covert occult battles against the forces of capital.
There are some big hitters in here from the world of avant garde fiction, like Tom McCarthy, Chris Petit, John King, Bridget Penney and Steve Finbow as well as Stewart Home himself. I was especially taken with Richard Marsh's murderous contribution which includes Amadeo Bordiga-quoting Chinese Communist Sex-Witches. This is a surprising addition to Marsh's oeuvre, as he died in 1915.
Thoroughly enjoyable anthology of horror short stories, all set in a real luxury block of flats in Golden Lane on the border of Islington and the City of London. The book can be seen as part of the anti-gentrification campaign against both Taylor Wimpey (who demolished a council block to create 99 luxury flats) and the new super rich residents, many of whom are Chinese or from Hong Kong.
There is a good combination of overt violent horror and more covert unease - of things not being quite right amongst the hallways and uninhabitated "ghost flats". This is matched with the overt references to local community activism and covert occult battles against the forces of capital.
There are some big hitters in here from the world of avant garde fiction, like Tom McCarthy, Chris Petit, John King, Bridget Penney and Steve Finbow as well as Stewart Home himself. I was especially taken with Richard Marsh's murderous contribution which includes Amadeo Bordiga-quoting Chinese Communist Sex-Witches. This is a surprising addition to Marsh's oeuvre, as he died in 1915.
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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
Bought it for my daughter but would be rude not to read it. Added a little to the TV story in traditional Target fashion. Enjoyable enough.
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
Bought it for my daughter but would be rude not to read it. Added a little to the TV story in traditional Target fashion. Enjoyable enough.
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PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/45 Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2/45 John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3/45 Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4/45 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5/45 Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6/45 Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7/45 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8/45 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
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
kalmatthew
Lurker Extrodinaire
9/60 From the Forest - LE Moddesit Jr
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
Excellent book. I was going to say easily the best book I've read all year, but then thinking about it I did really like the Collector as well. Thoughtful post-MeToo literary memoir/"autobiography of the audience" grappling with the ways that an artist's biography affects the reception of their work, very well-written and interesting. It's expanded from a 2017 essay where she misquotes Walter Benjamin, in the book she repeats the original misquotation, and then adds a note saying that further investigation shows that a different translation captures it better, so I can now forgive her for that particular monstrosity. Probably the best pairing of Guy Debord and Kanye West I've ever seen, also influenced by Fisher and so on. Would definitely recommend.
Next, on to
3/3-3/45 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Postscript and Appendix)
1/45 John Fowles - The Collector
2/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class)
2/45 Claire Dederer - Monsters
Excellent book. I was going to say easily the best book I've read all year, but then thinking about it I did really like the Collector as well. Thoughtful post-MeToo literary memoir/"autobiography of the audience" grappling with the ways that an artist's biography affects the reception of their work, very well-written and interesting. It's expanded from a 2017 essay where she misquotes Walter Benjamin, in the book she repeats the original misquotation, and then adds a note saying that further investigation shows that a different translation captures it better, so I can now forgive her for that particular monstrosity. Probably the best pairing of Guy Debord and Kanye West I've ever seen, also influenced by Fisher and so on. Would definitely recommend.
Next, on to
3/3-3/45 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Postscript and Appendix)
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
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
1. Glass and Gardens. A Solarpunk Anthology.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice - felt like he was trying a bit hard at times but a few gags landed.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice - felt like he was trying a bit hard at times but a few gags landed.
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
2/52 - Zadie Smith - NW
3/52 - Val McDermid - Past Lying
4/52 - S.A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
5/52 - Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
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
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
shifting gears
Well-Known Member
1/30 - Philip K. Dick - Valis
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
1. Glass and Gardens. A Solarpunk Anthology.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice
14. Seth Godin - All Marketers Tell Stories (revised All Marketers Are Liars) - short and not bad book on storytelling in marketing.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice
14. Seth Godin - All Marketers Tell Stories (revised All Marketers Are Liars) - short and not bad book on storytelling in marketing.
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
A fragmented, raw journey of a young Turkish woman through the suffocating regimented atmosphere of nationalism and militarism, the disorientation and trauma of mental illness and its abusive 'treatments', the emptiness and dissatisfactions of life across various European capitals and the men who inhabit them but also the defiance and pleasure she finds/takes. Packs a lot in a very very short book while remaining impressively cohesive, I thought it was excellent.
6/50 Sanditon by Jane Austen
Unfinished final novel (plus a couple of other bits), undoubtedly would've been great as it is more just interesting. Funny and irritating characters.
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
A fragmented, raw journey of a young Turkish woman through the suffocating regimented atmosphere of nationalism and militarism, the disorientation and trauma of mental illness and its abusive 'treatments', the emptiness and dissatisfactions of life across various European capitals and the men who inhabit them but also the defiance and pleasure she finds/takes. Packs a lot in a very very short book while remaining impressively cohesive, I thought it was excellent.
6/50 Sanditon by Jane Austen
Unfinished final novel (plus a couple of other bits), undoubtedly would've been great as it is more just interesting. Funny and irritating characters.
1. Glass and Gardens. A Solarpunk Anthology.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice
14. Seth Godin - All Marketers Tell Stories
15. Stephanie Burgis - Thornbound - woman opens magic school, politics and fae interfere.
16. Rachel Pollack - The Beatrix Gates - mix of fiction and nonfiction focussed on trans experience, judaism and tarot.
2. Made to Order - Robots and Revolution.
3. Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner.
4.The Social Brain - Camilleri, Rockey, Dunbar
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow
6. T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea
7. Melissa Yi - The Italian School for Assassins
8. Matthew Hughes - The Other
9. KJ Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
10. Ian McDonald - Hopeland
11. Michael Moorcock - The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
12. Genevieve Cogman - Scarlet
13. Tom Holt - The Outsorcerers Apprentice
14. Seth Godin - All Marketers Tell Stories
15. Stephanie Burgis - Thornbound - woman opens magic school, politics and fae interfere.
16. Rachel Pollack - The Beatrix Gates - mix of fiction and nonfiction focussed on trans experience, judaism and tarot.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I've not started it yet, but IU have just taken possession of Red Menace, the second part of Joe Thomas' United Kingdom trilogy about police spies, anti-fascists and punk in Hackney. Were you interviewed for this one as well, Fozzie Bear ?
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I just started that too and am off the launch tomorrow. It’s good!
I wasn’t interviewed for either but he used a lot of my radical history of Hackney stuff (like a lot) for both. The author has been very effusive about thanking me which is nice.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
My January round up is still on one finished book.
Have two more on the go but life has been hectic so not settled in to finish them.
Have two more on the go but life has been hectic so not settled in to finish them.
| Manga/Manhwa | Country | Start | End | Total |
| At The North Fort, Happy Days That I Spend With Everyone! | JP | 1 | 31 | 31 |
| I Spoiled The Kuudere Next To Me And Gave Her The Key To My Home - | JP | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| My Big Sister Is Love Youkai | JP | 1 | 31 | 31 |
| Spiderman: Octopus Girl | JP | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| I'm getting married to the girl I hate in class | JP | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| My mom earned a contract marrige | KR | 1 | 48 | 48 |
| My sister is a superstar | CN | 1 | 69 | 69 |
| My dog becomes a human | JP | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| Reincarnation of business woman at school | CN | 1 | 181 | 181 |
| 100 year old top chef | KR | 1 | 47 | 47 |
| Welcome to cheap resturant of outcast! | JP | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Mato seihei no slave | JP | 1 | 34 | 34 |
| Magan to dangan wo tsukatte isekai wo buchinuku! | JP | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| is it odd that I became an adventurer even if I graduated from the witchcraft instuture | JP | 1 | 51 | 51 |
| Isekai Walking | JP | 10 | 52 | 43 |
| I the invincible willain master with my apprentices | CN | 1 | 70 | 70 |
| Champignon no majo | JP | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Umeko-chan wa koishiteru | JP | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| The strong man from the mental hospital | CN | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| A saint who was adopted by the grand duke | KR | 1 | 33 | 33 |
| Leave me along I want to enjoy my cheat life with my familier | JP | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Goblins Night | KR | 1 | 19 | 19 |
| Warrior Grandpa and Grandmaster daughter | KR | 1 | 24 | 24 |
| Interpreter of the Outer Gods | CN | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Only I Can Speak the Ancient Language of Magic | KR | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| The Ghostly Doctor | CN | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| I’m Only a Stepmother, But My Daughter is Just So Cute! | KR | 1 | 55 | 55 |
| The Skeleton Becomes a Cat Dad | KR | 1 | 44 | 44 |
| Endo and Kobayashi’s Live Commentary on the Villainess | JP | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Princess of doom | KR | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Heavenly Demon Bakery | KR | 1 | 42 | 42 |
| The Strongest Florist | KR | 1 | 68 | 68 |
| The Fish I Missed Was Big, but I Caught Another Fish Was Too Big | JP | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Dreamland Adventure | CN | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox | KR | 0 | 24 | 25 |
| Kung Fu Beauty | CN | 1 | 62 | 62 |
| I Raised My Younger Sister Beautifully | KR | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Nanomachine | KR | 1 | 51 | 51 |
| The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You | JP | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| A Story About A Hero Exterminating A Dragon-Class Beautiful Girl Demon Queen, Who Has Very Low Self-Esteem, With Love! | JP | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| How to live at the max level | KR | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| underworld restaurant | KR | 1 | 34 | 34 |
| Being Targeted By Hyena-Chan | JP | 1 | 29 | 29 |
| DOUBLE HELIX BLOSSOM | JP | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Seirei-Tachi No Rakuen To Risou No Isekai Seikatsu | JP | 1 | 61 | 61 |
| Mezase Gouka Kyakusen!! | JP | 1 | 36 | 36 |
| Hazure Skill [Nigeru] De Ore Wa Kyokugen-Tei Level No Mama Saikyou Wo Mezasu | JP | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Soara And The Monster's House | JP | 1 | 19 | 19 |
| The Shut-In Lady Is An Understanding Sacred Beast Caretaker | JP | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Radiation House | JP | 1 | 83 | 83 |
| The Frontier Alchemist | JP | 1 | 26 | 26 |
| The Son Of A Dragon! Mommy Is A Criminal | CN | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Ume To Momo No Futsuu No Kurashi | JP | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Skeleton Double | JP | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Seiryaku Kekkon Wa Otakoi No Hajimari | JP | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| I Used To Be A Disqualified Daughter Of The Duke | JP | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Yakyuujou De Itadakimasu | JP | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Mitsuba-Kun Wa Aniyome-San To | JP | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| My School Desk - The Demon! | JP | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| I Upgrade By Rewarding Apprentices | CN | 1 | 65 | 65 |
| Governess Nazuna-San | JP | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| As A Virtuous Middle-Aged Man, My New Life Was Confirmed To Be Sss Rank | JP | 1 | 76 | 76 |
| Isekai De Haishin Katsudou Wo Shitara Tairyou No Yandere Shinja Wo Umidashite Shimatta Ken | JP | 1 | 21 | 21 |
| Tsuyoshi | JP | 1 | 75 | 75 |
| level up doctor | KR | 1 | 99 | 99 |
| A Gate Opened on my First Day as a Politician | KR | 1 | 9 | 9 |
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.
Read to me by my daughter. Passed a few weeks. She enjoyed. Modern kids dealing with mythological gods.
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
Read to me by my daughter. Passed a few weeks. She enjoyed. Modern kids dealing with mythological gods.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Are you going to try to do all five?
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
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
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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)
Definitely the most fun/readable bit, deals much more with actual history than the more abstract economic stuff that makes up most of the proper text. Especially the 2009 appendix, which is a look back at 1960s operaismo and what came after it. It does still feel wild that a lot of the main book's text was originally published as articles in Classe Operaia, which as I understand it was meant to be an outward-looking agitational magazine sold at factories and so on. Next up, starting
4/45 Josh Davidson and Eric King (eds) - Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
Big book of lots of prisoner/ex-prisoner interviews.
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)
Definitely the most fun/readable bit, deals much more with actual history than the more abstract economic stuff that makes up most of the proper text. Especially the 2009 appendix, which is a look back at 1960s operaismo and what came after it. It does still feel wild that a lot of the main book's text was originally published as articles in Classe Operaia, which as I understand it was meant to be an outward-looking agitational magazine sold at factories and so on. Next up, starting
4/45 Josh Davidson and Eric King (eds) - Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
Big book of lots of prisoner/ex-prisoner interviews.
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
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
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
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
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. I really wanted to enjoy this as I liked his previous novel but it was like he got two separate ideas and rather than develop them both he welded them together. Plus some of the dialogue was so stilted. People just don't talk like that. There were some exciting action sequences but at I've 650 pages it's too long and to boring.
2. "The Scarlet Papers" - Matthew Richardson
3. "The Year of the Locust" - Terry Hayes. I really wanted to enjoy this as I liked his previous novel but it was like he got two separate ideas and rather than develop them both he welded them together. Plus some of the dialogue was so stilted. People just don't talk like that. There were some exciting action sequences but at I've 650 pages it's too long and to boring.
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
1/39 "Goodbye Again - The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore" - Edited by William Cook
2/39 " Me Cheeta" - James Lever **
3/39 "I, Fatty" - Jerry Stahl **
4/39 "Every Man for Himself and God Against All - A Memoir" - Werner Herzog
** Re- Read
2/39 " Me Cheeta" - James Lever **
3/39 "I, Fatty" - Jerry Stahl **
4/39 "Every Man for Himself and God Against All - A Memoir" - Werner Herzog
** Re- Read
